Hello, I'm Agatha
Thrash, a staff physician
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at Uchee Pines Institute...
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This is a place where we
train medical missionaries
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to deal with a lot of
different kinds of things.
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We have a program for
you today about a potpourri
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of things having to do
with the skin, with the mouth,
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with the gums, and with
infections, and so we hope that
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you will be with us
and enjoy our program.
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Welcome to "Help
Yourself to Health"
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with Dr. Agatha Thrash
of Uchee Pines Institute
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And now, here's
your host, Dr. Thrash
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A tooth is a very
common thing but it is most
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marvelously engineered.
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Do you know that a
tooth is set in a socket...
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that if you should
happen to injure that tooth
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or get it loose, we can,
if it isn't separated already
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from its nerve, we can just
push it back up into the socket
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and then, if we will
not chew on it for a while,
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it will actually
grow back into its place
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and be just a
nice, normal tooth.
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So, we can always hope
if we have a loosened tooth,
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that it doesn't get
broken from its nerve.
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The tooth has the
nerve on the interior,
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then on the outside of
that, there is another casing
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...and then out on the
outside, there's another casing
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called enamel... this is
the white part of the tooth
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...the part that shows and
the part that we hope is white.
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That makes us have a
very nice, beautiful smile...
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having white teeth.
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I'm so glad the Lord
didn't make us with black teeth,
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or purple
teeth... even blue teeth...
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I'm not too sorry
to have blue eyes,
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but I wouldn't want blue teeth.
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I think the Lord knew
just how to make us in an
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artistically-designed
whole, so that we would
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look very pleasing.
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I think human
beings look very nice.
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Now, in addition to
the tooth and its socket,
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we have gums... and
gums are also a very nice
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part of the smile, but gums
can sometimes get afflicted.
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And Don Miller, who is
a Lifestyle counselor at
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Uchee Pines, is going to
talk with you about some of
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these things having
to do with the mouth,
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and I can guess from
what I see in your hand,
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that you're going to be talking
about the throat as well...
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I am going to do that...
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So, tell us what
you have for us... Okay
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You know, the teeth
are so very important...
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As a matter of fact, they
sort of related or correlated
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people growing old
sooner with the lack of teeth.
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As we get older,
we lose our teeth...
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We don't chew
our food as well and
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we seem to get older a
little bit sooner it seems.
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So we need to take
good care of these teeth.
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I've known many
people in their 80s and 90s
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and even in their 100s, with
all of their teeth still intact
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because they've taken
good care of their teeth.
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Dr. Thrash mentioned the gums...
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We can get an inflammation,
a bleeding of the gums,
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and even a receding of the gums.
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When we start seeing
that particular problem,
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we realize that if we
don't arrest it there,
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it's going to get a whole
lot worse later into something
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called periodontal gum disease.
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So what we want to do, is take
care of our gums and our teeth.
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Some simple things...
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1. Our mothers hopefully
have been telling us this
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all of our lives...
Take good care of your teeth.
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Brush your teeth every day.
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Now, there are some important
points about brushing your teeth
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I know that years ago, when
I first went into the military,
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they taught us how
to brush our teeth.
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And basically, you took
that toothbrush and you put that
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that thing in your fist
and you stuck that thing back
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in your head and
you went back and forth,
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and you scrubbed, and
you scrubbed and you scrubbed
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And I was good at taking orders
and so I scrubbed and I scrubbed
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and I scrubbed until I
pretty much wore the enamel away
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from the place on
the top of my teeth
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just where it gets into
the gums, where now I have
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that particular problem.
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But we should be doing
more of a sweeping motion
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I've brought my
toothbrush with me today
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...and a couple of
recommendations about your
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toothbrush, I'm not
going to recommend a brand,
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or a shape, or a color, but
I do recommend soft bristles.
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And if you have sensitive
teeth, you have this problem
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and you're getting
ready to brush your teeth,
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I suggest you take
your toothbrush, and you
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soak the bristles in hot
water which will soften them up
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just a little bit more
before you brush your teeth.
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Now I, once... okay, if
hot water is going to make them
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soft, boiling water
will make them softer...
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So I once did that, I
put them in boiling water...
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Don't do that... it
looks like your toothbrush is
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having a bad hair day.
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You've got to leave that
one... have a bad hair day
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It looks as if
it's flattened out.
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But see, I've had this
toothbrush a long time...
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and we shouldn't do that.
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When they start
looking like this thing,
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we need to get a new
toothbrush. A new tooth brush!
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So... remind me to
get a new toothbrush.
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But, I'm sort of fond of this.
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As a matter of fact,
they've got these new things...
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they're colored at the end...
when the color fades away,
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it means it's time to
replace the toothbrush.
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It's a good marketing
thing, if nothing else.
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But we should brush our teeth
DOWN with the grain of the tooth
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Put the edge of the
toothbrush up near the gums,
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do a little sweeping motion...
a little back-and-forth motion
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to get up underneath
the gums and then SWEEP DOWN
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And, we don't stop there.
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It's good then to do
some dental flossing.
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People have a lot of bad breath.
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And I have found a real good
way to determine if you have
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bad breath or not...
because you can do this all day
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No... smells great... well, all
you're smelling is your hand!
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You're not smelling your breath.
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But if you take something
like a... they have these little
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toothpicks with brushes.
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It's called a tooth...
I forget what it's called
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It's something like a toothbrush
but it's a little toothpick
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thing with a little
brushy end on the end
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...stick that between
your teeth, twirl it once,
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bring it out and smell it!
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That's what your
breath smells like.
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I'm sure you'll stand
closer to your toothpaste
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the next time
you brush your teeth.
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But we need to keep our teeth
clean inside and all around them
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We also need to keep
our mouths well-hydrated.
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We have to realize that
our teeth... even our teeth
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about 10% fluid content.
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Which means that
there is some fluid inside
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in the pulp of our teeth.
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If we are not drinking enough
water, eating a lot of sweets,
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or fat, we are clogging up this
very minute capillary system
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Therefore, we are closing
off the nutrient pipeline
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to the tooth, and if we do that,
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we're going to start
having a weakened tooth.
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And when we weaken the tooth,
it is now open for assault
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from an outside invader.
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The plaque building up
because we don't brush properly
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the tooth itself becoming
weak because we're drinking
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2 cups of water a day and
eating gummy bears all day
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We need to find a way
to keep our teeth healthy
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inside and out... so we do
something simple like that.
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But if you already have
the bleeding of the gums,
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there are a few
things you can do...
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1. You should rinse
your mouth out quite often.
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If you have a
Waterpik, that's fine.
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Use your Waterpik
in-between your teeth,
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and up around the gums
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And then you might want to take
a little bit of goldenseal herb
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Now, it's bitter as all get-out
but it's a very nice herb
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You put a little bit
on your moistened finger,
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and massage it
up into your gums.
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You can also use baking soda...
massage that up into your gums
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But then I would recommend
after that, you rinse your mouth
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and you spit it out because
you don't want the baking soda
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inside your body...
You want it basically
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helping with this particular
problem with your teeth.
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And then you have to increase
your diet with raw foods
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and good fruits, vegetables,
whole grains, nuts and seeds.
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This is a diet that's made for
us to keep our bodies healthy.
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And I want to recommend to you,
mothers, and even to you young
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children who are
listening, who really say...
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"I want to present my
TEETH... even my TEETH
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living sacrifices to the Lord.
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We find that if a
child is not introduced to
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refined carbohydrates in
the form of sugar before they're
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11 years of age... OFTEN, they
NEVER have to face carious teeth
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in their whole lives...
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and all the other
problems that go along with it.
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So, let's say you
have the first one...
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You've got the bleeding gums,
and you do not take care of it
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Your next step is
pyorrhea... which basically is
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that infection has gone
down to the tooth socket
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right down to the bone.
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Now we're in serious
situation, so many times
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I'm afraid that the
treatment of choice is to take
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all the teeth out.
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But if you can get it before
the teeth start getting loose
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in their sockets, I recommend
large doses of charcoal.
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I've had people mix
up a paste of charcoal,
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put it on their toothbrush,
get it all on their toothbrush,
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go up there and they
pack it between their teeth
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up around their gums, all
in their mouth at nighttime
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and then they leave
it there all night long.
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The charcoal will be adsorbing
the infection, will be helping
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with the
inflammation, and I have seen
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when the teeth are just barely
getting started being loosened,
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the whole process reversed.
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And so you put a lot of
charcoal in your mouth...
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I would go then
also with the goldenseal.
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I would go with the baking
soda with hydrogen peroxide
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massaged into the
teeth, all around the teeth...
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and, of course, rinse
your mouth out afterwards
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...Flossing your teeth.
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Flossing the teeth,
you'll find the first few times,
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if you're not used to flossing,
the first few times you floss
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you're going to get blood.
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But the more you do that,
you sort of toughen up the gums
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...you toughen up the teeth
and that very toughening action,
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is going to help you
avoid your appointment...
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And many of us have appointments
with periodontal gum disease
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just because of the fact
that we're not practicing
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good, oral hygiene.
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So let's say we've taken
care of the gum problems...
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We're brushing our teeth
well... We're eating good food.
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We're staying away
from refined carbohydrates.
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We're staying away from
free fats, and so we've got a
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good circulatory system.
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The Bible says "the
life is in the blood. "
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We've got good
life, but for some reason,
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we've gotten in a way of
a germ, a virus or something
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and we've gotten a sore throat.
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What can we do
for a sore throat?
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Some very simple things...
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1. We can gargle with
salt water, or just warm water.
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Warm water will help... Salt
water just a little bit better
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What I like to do if I have
a sore throat, is I'll take a
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charcoal tablet.
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I'll take usually 2
to 4 of them at nighttime
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before I go to bed.
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I'll put them back
between my cheek and my gums
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before sticking down in there
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and work them
down there real good.
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They're not going to
jump down your throat.
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They're not going to
fall out on your pillow.
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They'll just stay
there all night long,
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but as you sleep, and you're
salivating the whole night long,
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you're going to be putting a
small trickle of charcoal down
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your throat and that itself,
will take up inflammation.
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You can also do
something that we'd like to call
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a "horse collar"... if
you're hoarse, or you've got a
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sore throat, you can
take something as simple as a
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horse collar, which is nothing
more than a piece of felt
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It's made quite nicely.
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Our students
made a number of these
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at Uchee Pines a few years ago.
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We put these in cold
water and then wring it out
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and then wrap this
horse collar around your neck
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And then once it
around your neck,
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you take a heavier
piece of material...
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...this one's been made
very nice with Velcro...
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We put that around the neck
on top of wet felt and it will
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hold it in place...
we do that overnight.
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This is bringing... it
started off cold but immediately
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it starts bringing heat into
the area... which is going to
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fight the infection.
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It's going to bring heat...
It's going to bring nutrients...
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It's going to bring oxygen...
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It's going to bring ALL
the things that we need...
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And I have found many times,
that this simple treatment
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alone, will
shortstop a sore throat.
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So let's say
you've got the sore throat
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first thing in the morning...
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You don't want to
walk around with this thing
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around your neck... well, get
yourself a turtleneck sweater
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...put the turtleneck sweater
on in place of this outside one
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and put this underneath, and
you'll be fighting a sore throat
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all day long and no
one will ever be the wiser.
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There's
something else we can do...
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and I'm going to
ask Melissa Thrash and
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Shannon Jenkins to come
and we're going demonstrate,
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or they're going to demonstrate
something simple like
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a hot foot bath... which
is a marvelous treatment for
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sore throats, head congestion
and lots of other things...
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So, I'm going to turn
it over to you, Melissa...
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Okay, Shannon will
you get up on the table...
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Okay, first what you're going
to do is, you're going to get a
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basin of warm water...
not really not right now,
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just maybe 100-101 degrees,
so it won't burn anybody.
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And first test to see if
the patient can handle the water
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by putting their
heels in the water,
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and if it's okay,
then you can put their feet
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all the way into the water,
and you're going to want to
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start warming the water up.
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So you can put their feet
over to one side of the basin,
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and you can add warm
water until the water is maybe
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106-110 degrees depending on how
hot they can handle the water
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And you're going to leave the
feet in the basin of hot water
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for maybe 1/2 an hour, and you
can check the water temperature
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by a little bath thermometer
like this... to make sure that
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you know that you're
not getting it too hot
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Where do you buy
these little thermometers?
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I can tell you where I
bought this one... Okay
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...at a drugstore...
You can also get these at
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at health food stores,
and sometimes at feed stores
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indoor/outdoor thermometers,
and they can be very nicely used
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This thermometer is very helpful
to check your temperature.
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But then as you
did it for Shannon,
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just making it warm at first,
and then building it up so
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that it's hot,
that's a good method too...
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without using a thermometer. Yes
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Often it's really nice to
keep them well-hydrated by
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giving them water to drink
and by keeping their head cool
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...that will help
them not get a headache
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Some people tend to
get headaches from this.
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And when you're done,
what you're going to do is
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you're going to lift
their feet up out of the water
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and you're going to pour some
ice cold water over their feet
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Oh boy! Yeah... it
will feel very shocking.
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And then have a towel ready
underneath, so that you can
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friction their feet
dry when you're done
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Now the friction draws
more blood into the feet...
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That's right... And
you want to draw the blood
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into the feet so that it
makes a sort of pumping action
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away from the
throat, down to the feet,
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then the throat gets a
little irritated again and
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draws it back and puts it
back down, and so it sort of is
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going like this... all the time
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A man named "Kellogg"
checked the temperature
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under one of these
horse collars and found that
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the temperature was going
up and down all night long
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while the person
was doing this...
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And after a friction
rub, after a hot foot bath,
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this makes most people
feel very good in the throat
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They may even feel, right
away, that the sore throat
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is much better...
and indeed it is healing.
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So thank you very
much... You're welcome.
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That was a very
good demonstration.
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So simple to do... even
noticed that even fully dressed,
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Shannon could just have run
into the bathroom, put her feet
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in the bathtub with the
water just coming into the
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bathtub or with the
basin set in the bathtub
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and it would have
been just as effective.
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And so, we can do
this within minutes
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...we can already have
the hot foot bath in motion
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Now something else we can
do for ourselves in the home
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is something with
this little zapper...
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These zappers can be
purchased from most any
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sporting goods places where
they sell materials for hiking
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and being out in the wild
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And this one is just
a very simple thing...
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It creates its own spark
and it sparks over and over
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so it doesn't have to
depend on batteries or anything.
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There's a little punch-down
at one end, so that you can
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make the spark.
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So I will show you
how this spark goes.
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And I'm hoping that
you will be able to see it.
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It just makes a little
spark... see that little spark
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It just keeps generating
a spark, and you can just
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continue to make it spark, and
it will spark right on and on.
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And so, if you have a
spider bite, or a fire ant bite,
00:16:55.44\00:16:59.47
or even a snake bite,
any kind of venomous bite
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that you have, you can
just put this right on the skin
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and it doesn't really
hurt, so you just do this but,
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you can notice that it does
make a little jump in my finger
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See how it really
makes a little spark...
00:17:17.52\00:17:22.57
just as static electricity will.
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And so, for
something like a spider bite,
00:17:25.24\00:17:28.68
you might put this spark
on it for 20, 30, 40 times
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For a fire ant bite, sometimes
I will get 10 or 20 at one time.
00:17:34.14\00:17:39.44
And so I just treat them
all with about 15 or 20 zaps
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and then many times, I will
not even get the little sterile
00:17:44.40\00:17:48.86
abscess that comes from
the venom that these little
00:17:48.89\00:17:53.77
creatures like to
inject into your skin.
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They're not very pleasant
people... the little ants.
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They may once have been
when the Bible spoke of these
00:18:01.43\00:18:04.54
little people, but
they are no longer pleasant,
00:18:04.57\00:18:06.82
not the fire ants!
00:18:06.85\00:18:08.02
Now another thing that
is a venomous bite that
00:18:08.03\00:18:11.08
you need to be
prepared for in the home,
00:18:11.11\00:18:12.87
if you live in a place
that's infested with snakes
00:18:12.90\00:18:16.89
is a snakebite kit.
00:18:16.92\00:18:18.91
Now, we so rarely ever
see a snake at Uchee Pines,
00:18:18.94\00:18:21.90
it's almost a call all
the neighbors to come to see
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But we do have
snakebite kits and I have 2 here
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And these snakebite kits
come with the instructions
00:18:30.89\00:18:34.69
in them... it's simply
an extractor like this...
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And this works somewhat
like a syringe that you just
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pull back like that.
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And it has various
sizes of extractors,
00:18:43.23\00:18:48.72
and I will use
the very largest one,
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but if you have a smaller area,
you could use the smaller size
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So you just fix the
little extractor cup like this
00:18:55.62\00:18:59.69
and put it on the area
where the snake has bitten
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and then you just
pull back like this,
00:19:04.07\00:19:06.37
and it has quite a
good bit of suction.
00:19:06.40\00:19:08.95
So you get about
30 cc of suction here,
00:19:08.98\00:19:12.82
and if you could hold it
against the skin and do that,
00:19:12.85\00:19:16.81
you could see that it would,
indeed, make quite a suction
00:19:16.84\00:19:20.73
for the person and
some people like to cut,
00:19:20.74\00:19:24.78
but I've told that
that is not very much help.
00:19:24.81\00:19:27.73
So what I think might
be helpful is to do this
00:19:27.76\00:19:30.78
little suction and pull the
venom back out into the skin
00:19:30.81\00:19:35.07
and then zap it.
00:19:35.10\00:19:36.08
Now they have not
only this kind of zapper,
00:19:36.11\00:19:38.55
but bigger ones too and
the bigger ones can be used to
00:19:38.58\00:19:42.47
zap a snakebite.
00:19:42.50\00:19:44.23
And what I would do, is to
zap it while you're on the way
00:19:44.26\00:19:47.79
to getting professional help...
00:19:47.82\00:19:50.43
Because, of course,
with anything as serious as a
00:19:50.46\00:19:54.01
seriously venomous snakebite,
you will need professional help.
00:19:54.04\00:19:59.20
This is definitely
first aid for that.
00:19:59.23\00:20:01.12
Now for something like a fire
ant bite of course you could use
00:20:01.15\00:20:04.24
this and feel
that it was definitive.
00:20:04.27\00:20:06.45
Now here, I have
something else...
00:20:06.48\00:20:09.84
This is a fluid that
you can make easily from
00:20:09.87\00:20:15.31
just vinegar and
myrrh and calendula
00:20:15.34\00:20:19.19
It is for afflictions
of the nails, and also for
00:20:19.22\00:20:25.05
skin infections with a fungus.
00:20:25.08\00:20:27.74
And it just gives a little
fluid like this, and you just
00:20:27.77\00:20:32.14
squirt something like
this and just smear that
00:20:32.17\00:20:37.05
on the place where the
person has some kind of fungus
00:20:37.08\00:20:41.08
growth, and they will, if
you do that several times a day,
00:20:41.11\00:20:44.80
the first day and then
twice a day thereafter,
00:20:44.83\00:20:47.11
usually if it's on a
protected part of the body,
00:20:47.14\00:20:51.26
such as on the
back, or even on the feet,
00:20:51.29\00:20:54.16
then twice a day
is probably enough.
00:20:54.19\00:20:57.42
And something like
vinegar, calendula and myrrh
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will do fine.
00:21:01.44\00:21:02.46
If you'd like a recipe for
that, if you will check into
00:21:02.49\00:21:06.63
our website at www. 3ABN.org
00:21:06.66\00:21:13.18
the website for 3ABN will
have a link to Uchee Pines
00:21:13.21\00:21:20.53
website and you can find
the recipe of how to make that.
00:21:20.56\00:21:28.63
Now some people have a
problem with dry mouth...
00:21:28.66\00:21:32.48
And for that, they can get
some kind of lubricating jelly
00:21:32.49\00:21:35.63
such as this... which
you can buy at a pharmacy
00:21:35.66\00:21:38.98
And just a little bit of it
on the finger and rubbed on the
00:21:39.01\00:21:42.75
tongue, can often give
the person several hours
00:21:42.78\00:21:47.57
of freedom from the
really unpleasant sensation
00:21:47.60\00:21:52.45
of being
uncomfortably dry in the mouth.
00:21:52.49\00:21:56.69
Now, at this time,
Don Miller is going to
00:21:56.73\00:22:00.90
talk with you again
about some of this potpourri
00:22:00.93\00:22:05.36
of small remedies. Don Miller
00:22:05.39\00:22:08.31
I want to
re-visit, just for a minute,
00:22:08.34\00:22:09.99
your
serpentarium... Okay? All right
00:22:10.02\00:22:11.68
The snakes! It was interesting,
I was in Zambia some time ago
00:22:11.71\00:22:17.22
and they were telling me that,
you know, we're really having
00:22:17.25\00:22:20.69
a lot of black mambas
and cobras right now...
00:22:20.72\00:22:22.81
and, of course,
the first thought is...
00:22:22.84\00:22:24.51
"Oh, those are some
pretty serious snakes!"
00:22:24.54\00:22:27.17
To comfort me, they
said, "No problem, we've got
00:22:27.20\00:22:30.81
lots of charcoal on hand. "
00:22:30.84\00:22:32.33
So that's one
treatment for snakebites that I
00:22:32.36\00:22:35.27
really agree with.
00:22:35.30\00:22:36.52
They did tell me that
there was no antivenin there,
00:22:36.55\00:22:39.78
and if someone did
get bitten by a snake,
00:22:39.81\00:22:41.94
and there were no
zappers, or bloodsuckers...
00:22:41.97\00:22:44.89
these other types of
things, we would apply
00:22:44.92\00:22:47.61
heavy charcoal poultices or
complete charcoal immersions
00:22:47.62\00:22:51.17
and then transport them
to a hospital, or a clinic
00:22:51.20\00:22:54.56
where they would
have the antivenin,
00:22:54.59\00:22:56.46
and that is very good
treatment that I would choose.
00:22:56.49\00:23:00.63
Other things you
find, around the home,
00:23:00.66\00:23:03.38
you find down the street,
you find around the world,
00:23:03.39\00:23:05.58
for things like wounds and
infections... we all get them.
00:23:05.61\00:23:08.59
Sometimes we cut our
finger, we step on something
00:23:08.62\00:23:11.56
and we've got a
wound... What do you do?
00:23:11.59\00:23:13.46
I would recommend that each
one of you find an organization
00:23:13.47\00:23:18.12
in your community that presents
a good first aid course.
00:23:18.15\00:23:21.65
I know the American Red Cross...
00:23:21.68\00:23:22.91
I'm an American Red Cross
first aid and CPR instructor.
00:23:22.94\00:23:27.03
How to do these simple things...
00:23:27.06\00:23:29.05
But there are some
really basic things.
00:23:29.08\00:23:31.09
1. If you've wounded yourself,
if you make sure that you
00:23:31.12\00:23:34.40
remove yourself from the
area where you wounded yourself,
00:23:34.43\00:23:37.37
the possibility exists that you
will continue wounding yourself.
00:23:37.40\00:23:42.28
I once cut off the tips of
my fingers with a table saw
00:23:42.31\00:23:45.55
and the first thing I did
was to turn off the table saw.
00:23:45.58\00:23:48.88
And get away from that
table saw because, you know,
00:23:48.91\00:23:51.52
if you get woozy
and you fall down,
00:23:51.55\00:23:52.82
you might really have a
problem on your hands...
00:23:52.85\00:23:55.08
besides the fact that you're
missing a couple of digits.
00:23:55.11\00:23:57.58
And so, those are the nice
things to do... is watch the
00:23:57.61\00:24:01.52
area and make sure you're
not going to re-injure yourself.
00:24:01.55\00:24:03.61
2. You've got to
protect your wounded area,
00:24:03.64\00:24:06.17
and you've got to
clean your wounded area.
00:24:06.20\00:24:08.29
And, the best way to do
that is with flushing water.
00:24:08.30\00:24:11.60
Get the water in
there and flush it out.
00:24:11.63\00:24:13.71
If you can get some hydrogen
peroxide, that's also very good.
00:24:13.74\00:24:16.95
It's good to do it
under pressure sometimes.
00:24:16.96\00:24:19.44
If you can have a bulb
syringe, you can sit there and
00:24:19.47\00:24:22.57
jet it in there... a Waterpik
00:24:22.60\00:24:25.04
I've used something as
simple as a water bottle.
00:24:25.07\00:24:28.07
Just take the water
bottle with water in there,
00:24:28.10\00:24:29.97
and turn it upside-down
and just squeeze real hard
00:24:30.00\00:24:32.24
to get a good jet of
water in the wound to clean it.
00:24:32.27\00:24:35.69
...Because
cleaning is fundamental.
00:24:35.72\00:24:37.96
What I would do, then, if
I had it, I would apply some
00:24:37.99\00:24:41.03
tea tree oil to a
dry, sterile dressing.
00:24:41.06\00:24:44.34
And if I don't have
that, I'd put, first of all,
00:24:44.37\00:24:47.26
just a dry, sterile
dressing over my wound
00:24:47.29\00:24:50.67
to protect it from outside
pathogens because quite frankly,
00:24:50.70\00:24:55.04
this is our first line of
defense against infection.
00:24:55.07\00:24:58.01
It's our skin.. I'm
thankful for my skin,
00:24:58.04\00:25:00.48
but as soon as I violate
this skin, as soon as I open
00:25:00.51\00:25:03.80
the skin up, everything
around wants to get in there
00:25:03.83\00:25:06.60
and mess up my body...
00:25:06.63\00:25:08.15
so we want to protect
it as soon as possible.
00:25:08.18\00:25:10.68
We want to make sure we
are changing the dressing
00:25:10.71\00:25:13.47
at least on a daily basis.
00:25:13.50\00:25:15.52
And, once it's starting to heal,
00:25:15.55\00:25:18.58
if you happen to
get an infection,
00:25:18.61\00:25:20.17
I will slap a charcoal poultice
on that thing in no time
00:25:20.20\00:25:23.62
because a charcoal poultice
will help take up infections.
00:25:23.65\00:25:26.46
And so you keep it
sterile, you keep it clean,
00:25:26.49\00:25:30.11
you keep it protected.
00:25:30.14\00:25:31.42
And what I like to do sometimes,
when the sun is shining,
00:25:31.45\00:25:34.20
I like to expose it
to the sunshine, because
00:25:34.23\00:25:37.03
the sunlight has a natural
effect on killing bacteria
00:25:37.06\00:25:41.96
and other types of pathogens
that may be on our skin
00:25:41.99\00:25:44.53
...So we want to get that
in there, and we want to keep
00:25:44.56\00:25:46.84
ourselves well-hydrated
and eat very healthfully,
00:25:46.85\00:25:50.33
because as soon as we
violate this part of our body,
00:25:50.36\00:25:52.85
we're open to have things
going all through our body
00:25:52.88\00:25:55.73
So, if we keep our body strong,
our immune system is going
00:25:55.76\00:25:58.67
right there... stay away from
sugar, stay away from sweets
00:25:58.70\00:26:01.55
so that our immune
system is operating 100%,
00:26:01.58\00:26:03.96
and we should
pretty much be able to
00:26:03.99\00:26:06.46
get away from this problem.
00:26:06.49\00:26:07.83
And, there are other
nice herbs... we can put some
00:26:07.87\00:26:10.60
goldenseal; we can
put some Echinacea on it
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poultices... we
can use some aloe vera
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Simple things... God
has given us simple things
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and I suggest we go out
there and use those things
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and we might be a whole lot
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better for the
exercise, Dr. Thrash
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Yes, those are
certainly very good suggestions.
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One more thing
that I might mention...
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and that is the
use of something like
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petroleum jelly for eczema.
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I think it's one of the
very best treatments for that
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and all you have to do is
just to take a little lump
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of petroleum jelly
such as this and some water
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and usually this can be
done right after you have washed
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your hands and your hands
are still wet with the water
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of washing your hand
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And then, you just put
this there and with a motion
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like this, as
rapidly as you can do,
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you make sort of a milk...
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You see, this
looks a trifle milky.
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And then it's spread
on the area where you have
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the eczema, in the
direction of the skin lines
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Now you know the
skin lines go across here
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In other parts of the body,
they take another direction
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but whichever direction they
go, you always put it in the
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direction of the skin lines...
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Because if you pull like
this, then you may open up
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these little skin
lines, and with eczema,
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that can cause a problem.
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Because the opening
up of the skin lines
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is what keeps eczema going.
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It may not have caused
it, but it does keep it going.
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Now I hope from this potpourri
of things of small remedies,
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that you can get the idea
that our Heavenly Father has
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provided for us in
many different ways,
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and every day, we should
thank the Lord for all these
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very simple remedies.
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