Now I realize I can't make you
a physician in one short program
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But I can tell you a lot
of things that can help you
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with non-serious illnesses that
afflict the vast majority of
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mankind at one time or other.
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So, I hope you'll stay with us
and we'll discuss some of these
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on this 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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Most people, if you ask
them about common illnesses,
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they will immediately
tell you that a headache
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is probably the
commonest illness.
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And it is one of
the very common ones...
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It's probably not
THE most common one,
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but it's common
enough that any understanding
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of simple remedies and
illnesses and how you deal with
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these at home
should be discussed.
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So I'd like to start
talking with you about
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headaches with the
simple recurring headaches
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that a lot of people get.
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They occur today...
They were there yesterday...
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They had a headache
or 2 the day before...
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And so the headache can
be something that keeps on
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coming, and
they've had it for years.
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Now #1... If you've
had a headache for years,
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it probably is due
to some kind of allergy,
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...or some kind
of skeletal problem.
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That skeletal problem may
be something with your neck.
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It may be poor neck posture.
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You should learn to have
the best neck posture possible
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and, essentially that
means having the cheekbone
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right over the collarbone.
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Now, putting the
cheekbone over the collarbone
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isn't difficult, but it
may be almost impossible
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for you to tell
yourself whether your cheekbone
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is right over your collarbone.
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So how do you tell?
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You have someone
stand to your side,
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and just tell you when
you have achieved that...
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Then try to
visualize in your mind
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just what kind of
muscles are needed to keep that
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just in that way and do that.
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That is called the
"neutral position of the head. "
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And for a lot of people
who have headaches because of
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neck problems, that
will be sufficient to handle
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that little problem.
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Now, the next
probably most common cause...
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In fact, it may be even
the first most common cause
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of recurring headaches, is
a sensitivity to something.
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Often that is
something in the environment.
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It may be
something in your house...
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House dust, or something
that comes off the drapes,
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or that comes off the walls,
or from masonry in your home.
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Whatever it is, it's something
that you're being exposed to
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all the time, and with that
exposure comes a sensitivity
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that eventually
gives you a headache.
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Now, headaches can be intense,
or they can be quite mild.
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They can be associated with
a sinusitis, or an inflammation
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of the sinuses which
are behind the forehead and
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behind the cheekbones...
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Those are important
sinuses that can be inflamed
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to make you have a headache.
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Sinusitis is, unless you prove
that it's due to something else,
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you should always consider that
it's due to a food sensitivity.
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It may be also associated
with some environmental thing
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such as pollens, or
fumes that come into your home
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from a nearby industry...
can be associated with those,
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but most of the time, it's food.
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That means that you can
control that by simply finding
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the food to which you're
sensitive and removing that
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from your diet.
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Now how do you determine that?
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Get a list of foods that
most people are sensitive to
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in the United States, or
whatever country you live in
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...the diet is different there
than in other parts of the world
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and so wherever you
are, get that list of foods
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from an
allergist, or from a library,
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and simply remove
those foods from your diet.
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You may think...
"Well, if I remove tomatoes,
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and milk, and cheese, and
coffee, and citrus fruits,
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and apples,
bananas, legumes, nuts...
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If I remove all
those... that is my entire diet.
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What will I eat, if I
don't eat those things?
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Well, the interesting thing
is that we become sensitive
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to those foods that we
have a repeated exposure to,
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especially those
things that we eat every day.
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So, go to the market,
look at those foods that are
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available... buy those things
that you don't customarily eat
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and make your menus from that.
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Now if you find that after
you have eliminated all that
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group of foods that you
have been eating, customarily,
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day by day, and your
headache has gone away,
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then you know that
you have hit pay dirt.
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So then, you can start
adding back one food at a time
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every 5 to 7 days until
your headache returns...
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And once it does, then you
know that thing you added last
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is one of those things
causing your headaches.
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Now I talked with you
about simple sinus headaches,
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or sensitivity headaches,
or recurring headaches...
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These are very common,
and a lot of people have them.
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But there is another kind
of headache called "migraine"
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And, of course,
everyone is familiar with that,
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and Dr. Don Miller is
going to talk with you about
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migraines at this time.
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Dr. Thrash, I don't know
what you're talking about...
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Headaches... you
don't get headaches?
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I'm one of the lucky ones!
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Not lucky, I'm blessed.
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I don't get headaches.
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But, I've known people
who are completely debilitated
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by headaches.
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Migraine, as Dr.
Thrash has mentioned,
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comes from a Greek
word, "hemicrania,"
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which means "half a head"
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Sometimes you feel like your
whole head wants to be taken off
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But usually a migraine headache
is in one-half of your head.
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Sometimes, it's the front
half... either the forehead,
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the temples, the eyes, the jaw
area in extremely intense pain.
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Now, there are
other types of headaches
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that you might
get confused with,
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but you look at the
duration, and the other symptoms
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that come with
that type of a headache.
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There's a tension headache...
usually it lasts from
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4 to 24 hours...
Not such a severe pain,
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and it's just caused by tension.
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There is a terrible headache
called a "cluster headache"
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This one can last
between 60 and 90 minutes
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but it will
come over and over...
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It comes in clusters and
this might last for years.
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They say that this is probably
the worse headache that there is
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But the migraine headache
will last from 4 to 72 hours,
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and it will be a severe
pain but often with other
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types of symptoms.
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There will be, often, nausea
because the pain is so bad
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it causes a person
to become nauseous.
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There's also sometimes
watery eyes or running nose.
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And these are things
that when you have those
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along with the
headache, you figure...
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"I have a migraine headache. "
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If you have a migraine headache,
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you know you have
migraine headaches.
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Now Dr. Thrash has mentioned
the sensitivity to the foods
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and one of the main
causes of migraine headaches
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is that very
thing... sensitivity to foods.
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And, I'll just mention
a few of the major foods
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that will be extremely easy...
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I say that because I'm
not addicted to these things,
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extremely easy to get
rid of out of your diet.
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One is, coffee, or
the cola beverages,
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or the caffeine beverages.
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These things will
produce migraine headaches.
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Another one is cheese.
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Cheese has a
particular property that will
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precipitate a migraine headache.
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Another one is chocolate.
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Now I've talked
about addictive...
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Chocolate is an
addictive substance...
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So when people eat chocolate,
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they've got to
have their chocolate.
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And this gets so bad,
that a person, even though
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a meal with cheese, or
chocolate will bring on
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a migraine headache,
they'll continue to use
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those offending items,
and then take some type of a
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medication to, hopefully,
get rid of the headache.
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...Not a good thing to do.
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Another thing that can
cause a migraine headache
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is low blood sugar...
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And if a person wakes up in
the morning with a headache,
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what they should do
right away, is drink some
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type of fruit juice.
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Get a little bit more
glucose into the blood,
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raise the blood sugar.
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If the headache goes away,
you realize your problem is
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low blood sugar.
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People are
sometimes photosensitive.
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Lights! They come out
into the bright lights,
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and that can
precipitate a migraine headache.
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A person who is apt to
get that type of a headache
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should wear a
shaded brow, sunglasses...
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Stay in the shade, especially
when the sun is in its zenith
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in the
brightest time of the day.
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Stay out of the sunshine.
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A person who's
retaining too much water
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can have a migraine headache.
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You have so much
interstitial pressure
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that it can cause
the migraine headache...
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And so what you
want to do there... is
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take some type of...
and I would recommend,
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natural diuretics... Something
as simple as watermelon.
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In the
summertime, eat watermelon.
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When you're
eating the watermelon...
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My grandmother once
told me, the reason why
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watermelons had so
many seeds, is because
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God didn't want
you to eat it too fast.
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But it's also there, because
he wanted us to have some
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natural diuretics.
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So you save all your
summer watermelon seeds,
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dry them, and
then in the wintertime,
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you can grind them up
and make watermelon seed tea
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an excellent type of a diuretic.
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You can also use corn silk tea.
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So in the summertime,
when you're out there
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shucking your corn,
you eat the delicious corn,
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which is also a diuretic,
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but you take all that
silk, and you dry it...
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Pulverize it, put it in a jar,
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and save that for
your wintertime diuretic.
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A nice, natural diuretic.
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And so, too much water
can cause you to diereses.
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Now, an important point,
when you are going to get
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a migraine headache, you will
have what's called an "aura"
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Sort of like a
person with epilepsy,
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the first stage is aura.
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When you feel that aura,
usually it's about a day before,
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and there are a few
things that will happen
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in a person's experience.
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#1. They become a
little bit more moody.
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Now some people are
moody all the time...
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But when they know they're
having migraine headaches,
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and they know that every
time I'm going to get a migraine
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headache, I get
moody the day before...
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Or, your 5 senses become
a little bit more extreme,
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or there are some strange
actions in your 5 senses.
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Just before the
migraine comes on,
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it could be some type
of flashes in the eyes,
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in the mind,
some sparkling lights.
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When you have the
aura, that's the time
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to start
fighting that headache...
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Don't wait until
you have the headache.
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What I would recommend,
you feel that aura coming on...
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intense outdoor exercise!
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Now if you're photosensitive,
go ahead and put your hat on,
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put your shades on.
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Get outside, or anywhere
you can, and do intense exercise
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...That itself might waylay the
onset of your migraine headache.
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There are some
other things you can do
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once the headache has arrived.
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As soon as it's there, or even
as you feel it just coming on,
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...many people wait
until something is full-blown
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before they start
doing something about it.
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I am thankful for auras.
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We all have auras... Let's say
if you're going to get a cold,
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you all know when
you're going to get a cold.
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You feel that
tickle in the throat...
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that little
headache over here...
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You start
fighting it right then.
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SO... you've got
that migraine coming on,
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go to a dark room, lie
down, put on an ice cap.
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That could help.
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You could also... and this has
been around for about 120 years,
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a hot enema at the
onset of a migraine headache,
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will help to
shorten the duration of this
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particular headache.
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You could also put a
cold compress behind the neck,
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and a hot compress
over the facial area.
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This will help with
the migraine headache.
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So these are some
very simple things.
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But again, watch the
diet, watch those food items.
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We should all keep food diaries.
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It's not just headaches
that would be affected by
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a food sensitivity.
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It could be other
types of allergies.
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So, if you are prone to
anything that comes in sort of a
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sporadic basis,
try to find out...
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What is it that
causing this problem?
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I recommend you
keep a food diary.
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And you say, "Man,
every time I eat potatoes...
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I knew someone like this...
every time she ate potatoes,
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she got really tired.
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Well potatoes, make her tired.
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If those things that
are going to cause you
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to get a migraine
headache, are in your dietary,
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get rid of them forever.
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So those are some simple things
about migraines, Dr. Thrash.
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Maybe they'll help somebody?
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Those are very good things, too.
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I especially
like that hot enema.
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That's a very good
remedy for a migraine.
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Now there are some VERY
serious things that can cause
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migraines, or can
cause headaches, and one of
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those is a stroke.
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Sometimes a stroke can begin
with a ruptured blood vessel.
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And if it does, then the person
may start getting a headache.
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It can be explosive, as with
the rupture of a berry aneurysm
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Or, it can be very
subtle and begin very subtly
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with a little
leakage from a capillary,
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or from a little blood vessel
that gets weak in the wall
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and begins to leak.
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If the headache mounts,
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you've never had a
headache like that before,
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and it gets worse and
worse, and finally is blinding,
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and you're in the
age group for a stroke,
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and you may have some
other precipitating factors that
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make you think you
might have had a stroke.
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If so, that may
be the cause of a
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once-in-a-lifetime
type of stroke.
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This is not the recurring
headache that everybody
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has had for years, or decades
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they've continued
to experience those.
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This is a sudden and intense...
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the onset may be a little subtle
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But the suddenness of it,
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and the unexpectedness of it,
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is that that can identify a
headache as being stroke origin.
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Now another thing
that can cause a headache,
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that's new, not one
that's been going on for years,
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is a cancer inside the
head, or some kind of tumor.
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It may be a benign
tumor inside the head,
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but as it expands, then it
can cause the head not to have
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enough room for
all of its organ,
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and that then makes pressure
on very sensitive tissues
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And that can cause
a serious headache.
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If your headaches
have had recent onset,
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and you're unaware of anything
that could have precipitated it,
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then, of course, you
should think along those lines.
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Now, some of the headaches
that we have talked about,
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have not been
common, have not been simple,
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nor nonserious, but
have been serious headaches
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But now, we want to go to
something that's very common
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not serious at all USUALLY.
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And that's the common cold.
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Occasionally, it can be serious.
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It can leave serious sequelae,
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but most of the time,
it's not of much importance,
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except the
inconvenience of of having it.
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And, Dr. Don Miller, is going
to talk with you about colds.
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Now I'm going to say
something rather radical,
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"A cold is a cure for a
prediseased condition. "
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Basically, we get colds
normally because we are rundown.
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We allow
ourselves to be rundown.
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We're living in
the 21st century now,
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and we're so busy with
all these different things,
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we don't get our rest,
we don't get our exercise,
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we don't drink our water,
we don't eat the right foods
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We get ourselves
rundown, and the body says,
00:16:56.79\00:16:59.51
"Hey, we gotta make
this person slow down,
00:16:59.54\00:17:01.91
so this is what we'll do...
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We're going to sit
there and turn on the nose...
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we're going to turn on the eyes,
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We're going to turn on
all these different things
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and make this person feel like
they just can't move anymore. "
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They're going to lay
down, and the body is going to
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catch up with where they are.
00:17:13.77\00:17:15.02
So again, a cold is
just a warning that your body
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is just going into a position
where you don't want it to be
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And again, I've
already talked about the aura
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When you first
feel the cold coming on,
00:17:26.54\00:17:29.22
although a cold will
come on extremely quickly.
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The body says,
"That's it, we're going to
00:17:31.34\00:17:34.35
make this person
stop this thing. "
00:17:34.38\00:17:36.03
But if you feel
that first inkling,
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that's when you got
to sit there and say,
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"I've got to rest. "
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A number of years ago,
I was giving a lecture,
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and I was talking about
certain herbal preparations
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which are good for colds
and the flu, and whatever else
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And I was also talking
about the laws of health.
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So I gave the talk
about the laws of health,
00:17:54.82\00:17:56.97
and then I gave the
talk about the herbs,
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and I had recommended a
certain herbal preparation
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make it into a tea if
you feel a cold coming on,
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or have a cold.
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A few months later, I was giving
this lecture in another state
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and at the end of the lecture...
it was the same lecture
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A woman raised
her hand and she said,
00:18:12.11\00:18:13.84
"You know I was in your
audience the last time you
00:18:13.87\00:18:15.69
gave this lecture over
there in the other state,
00:18:15.72\00:18:17.39
and you talked
about these things,
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and I felt a cold
coming on, and I drank your tea
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and it DIDN'T work. "
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And I thought, "Just who I need
in my audience... this lady. "
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But then the Lord said, "Well,
ask her a few questions. "
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And I said, "Well ma'am,
are you drinking your water?"
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"I don't like water. "
"Are you eating the right food?"
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"Well, you know,
it's Christmas time. "
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It was around
Christmastime of the year,
00:18:36.97\00:18:38.38
and it's all that
good, sweetie stuff.
00:18:38.41\00:18:39.97
"How about getting your rest?"
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You talk about rest
this time of the year.
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I'm so busy packing and
shopping... all these things.
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I went down all the laws
of health... keeping none
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and expected one cup of tea
to take care of her problem.
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It won't do it.
00:18:51.96\00:18:53.08
So what we want
to do is be careful.
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Now usually a cold is
going to manifest itself
00:18:55.42\00:18:57.79
in the respiratory
tract... a runny nose,
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mucus production...
certain things like this
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Now, what's the difference
between a cold and the flu?
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It's interesting or
is important to know
00:19:10.70\00:19:12.95
because the flu can be
life-threatening as we all know.
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The 1918-1919
flu epidemic killed
00:19:15.69\00:19:18.88
20 million people
around the world...
00:19:18.92\00:19:21.08
And we're looking at,
perhaps, one of these days
00:19:21.12\00:19:23.10
very soon, having
another such occasion
00:19:23.13\00:19:26.13
because we're getting more
and more different types of flu.
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But what's the difference
between a flu and a cold?
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One, is the fever.
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Normally, a flu has a fever...
00:19:34.99\00:19:37.30
A cold does not have a fever.
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Achiness and body pain normally
that's not so much in the flu,
00:19:39.48\00:19:47.26
but it's more
common in the cold.
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Headache... very
common with the flu
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Uncommon in the cold.
00:19:54.85\00:19:56.80
Fatigue...
extreme fatigue in the flu
00:19:56.83\00:20:00.87
In the cold more of a moderation
in those different things.
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And in the flu, you're
going to have a cough...
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Usually not a cough in the cold.
00:20:06.97\00:20:09.46
And so we can take
care of it that way
00:20:09.49\00:20:11.11
as finding out the difference
between those 2 different things
00:20:11.14\00:20:13.59
What can you do about the cold?
00:20:13.60\00:20:16.88
Simple... #1 Rest
00:20:16.91\00:20:19.52
Drink plenty of fluids.
00:20:19.55\00:20:21.20
You've heard the old saying,
"Feed a fever, starve a cold. "
00:20:21.23\00:20:25.32
Basically, during a cold, you
should not be doing much eating,
00:20:25.35\00:20:28.27
but drinking lots of fluids.
00:20:28.30\00:20:29.72
Try to get yourself rehydrated.
00:20:29.75\00:20:31.97
Most of us, and I
won't just say most of us,
00:20:32.00\00:20:35.18
most people in the world
are chronically dehydrated.
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We need to get ourselves
rehydrated during that time.
00:20:38.31\00:20:41.12
We need to get plenty
of rest during that time,
00:20:41.15\00:20:43.97
and take care of our bodies.
00:20:44.00\00:20:46.12
We can also do things
like salt-water gargles.
00:20:46.15\00:20:50.62
I like doing, at
the onset of a cold,
00:20:50.65\00:20:53.90
doing what's called
a "nasal irrigation"
00:20:53.93\00:20:56.13
Basically taking some saline
which is basically a pint of
00:20:56.16\00:21:00.18
water, usually warm water,
about the body temperature
00:21:00.21\00:21:03.25
with a teaspoon of salt
stirred in until it's dissolved
00:21:03.28\00:21:06.25
And then I basically
just snort that into my
00:21:06.28\00:21:09.63
nasal passages...
the whole pint of water.
00:21:09.66\00:21:12.42
It's not the most
pleasant thing to do,
00:21:12.45\00:21:14.05
and certainly not probably a
pleasant thing to see being done
00:21:14.08\00:21:17.23
But you do it in the
privacy of your bathroom
00:21:17.24\00:21:19.66
and this will clean out
your mucous linings of your
00:21:19.67\00:21:23.25
nasal passages, and it
will give you better breathing
00:21:23.28\00:21:26.46
and this is a nice way.
00:21:26.49\00:21:27.69
As a matter of fact,
it's a good thing to do.
00:21:27.70\00:21:29.99
I've heard this suggested,
and I'd recommend it...
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At the beginning of flu
season before you even have
00:21:32.07\00:21:35.36
a cold, DO a nasal irrigation.
00:21:35.39\00:21:38.34
And do one, perhaps once a week.
00:21:38.35\00:21:40.40
I have another friend of
mine who recommends what he does
00:21:40.43\00:21:44.33
when he feels a
cold first coming on.
00:21:44.36\00:21:46.48
He'll squeeze a lemon, and then,
I don't know how he does this
00:21:46.51\00:21:49.81
...He'll put the lemon juice
in his mouth, and lean back
00:21:49.84\00:21:53.00
and allow the lemon juice just
to hang there on his throat.
00:21:53.03\00:21:56.08
Now when he has to
swallow, he just leans forward,
00:21:56.89\00:21:58.85
swallows, not swallowing the
lemon juice, and goes back again
00:21:58.88\00:22:02.42
allowing that to be
back there about 20 minutes
00:22:02.45\00:22:05.42
Now that's a long time to have
that lemon juice on the throat
00:22:05.45\00:22:07.99
But is very, very
healing for the body.
00:22:08.69\00:22:11.69
You can be
fighting those diseases.
00:22:11.72\00:22:13.53
You know, God has
given us some special organs
00:22:13.56\00:22:16.66
in the body to watch
over us and to protect us from
00:22:16.69\00:22:19.41
the onslaught of these diseases
00:22:19.44\00:22:21.77
And one is the
things called the tonsils.
00:22:21.80\00:22:24.06
Now, my tonsils are probably
in some pathologist's jar
00:22:24.09\00:22:27.25
and they've been
there over 50 years.
00:22:27.28\00:22:29.30
They find that people
who have had tonsillectomies
00:22:29.33\00:22:33.51
have more
problems with the throat,
00:22:33.54\00:22:36.37
and with the esophagus.
00:22:36.38\00:22:38.39
And so we want to
take care of the tonsils
00:22:38.42\00:22:40.32
We do that by the lemon
juice, by salt water gargles,
00:22:40.35\00:22:45.33
by keeping the neck warm.
00:22:45.36\00:22:47.21
But more than anything
else, when you start to
00:22:47.24\00:22:49.78
feel the cold coming on,
you're run down, start resting
00:22:49.81\00:22:52.88
take care of yourself, and you
probably won't have it very long
00:22:52.92\00:22:55.53
Usually the cold is going to
be as long as it's going to be.
00:22:55.56\00:22:58.14
Don't go out
and take an aspirin.
00:22:58.17\00:22:59.59
They have found that
people who take aspirin
00:22:59.62\00:23:01.51
with colds, will have
more severe complications,
00:23:01.54\00:23:06.63
have more complications,
and a longer duration.
00:23:06.66\00:23:09.94
What they're going to
benefit by is a momentary
00:23:09.97\00:23:14.03
and a short-term
cessation of the symptom
00:23:14.06\00:23:17.19
they took the tablet for.
00:23:17.22\00:23:19.30
Stay away from the
tablets, get back to nature.
00:23:19.34\00:23:21.88
Let God take care of you,
00:23:21.91\00:23:22.98
and He's an EXTREMELY
good Doctor, Dr. Thrash.
00:23:23.01\00:23:25.80
Yes He is... He's the GREAT
Physician, and the One that
00:23:25.83\00:23:28.86
we can count on to be our
Physician when we're sick.
00:23:28.90\00:23:31.90
I'd like to just say a
few words about the flu...
00:23:32.25\00:23:36.02
as Dr. Miller mentioned,
it can be life-threatening
00:23:36.03\00:23:40.95
because of the fact
that it's much more serious.
00:23:40.98\00:23:44.54
It's caused by a
variety of viruses.
00:23:44.57\00:23:47.11
You'll hear of
the Hone Kong flu,
00:23:47.14\00:23:49.90
and the Asian
flu, and the swine flu.
00:23:49.93\00:23:51.68
There are a number of
viruses... all of them distinct
00:23:51.72\00:23:54.41
But the treatment is
essentially the same in the home
00:23:54.44\00:23:58.04
Those things that you
would treat a cold with...
00:23:58.07\00:24:01.21
good diet, light
diet, maybe even juices...
00:24:01.22\00:24:05.81
those can be used,
and keeping the body warm,
00:24:05.84\00:24:09.35
making sure the temperature
of the room is perfect
00:24:09.38\00:24:13.26
for the person...
that can be helpful.
00:24:13.29\00:24:15.58
And then, hot baths... as long
as the person is able to do them
00:24:15.61\00:24:19.76
Hot baths, and then when they're
not, the use of fomentations
00:24:19.79\00:24:23.41
in the bed... that
can be very helpful
00:24:23.44\00:24:26.17
with the hot
foot bath, or without.
00:24:26.20\00:24:27.80
All of these types of remedies
are discussed in our book
00:24:27.83\00:24:33.04
called, "Home Remedies. "
00:24:33.07\00:24:34.74
And the treatment of
a flu can be successful
00:24:34.77\00:24:37.99
in your home as many
of you can attest to.
00:24:38.02\00:24:41.51
You've had it happen just with
those simple things that you do.
00:24:41.54\00:24:44.95
Avoid the nonsteroidal
anti-inflammatory agents
00:24:44.98\00:24:49.34
such as Tylenol, and others.
00:24:49.37\00:24:52.43
And make certain that
you don't knock the props out
00:24:52.46\00:24:55.66
from under your
immune system with those.
00:24:55.69\00:24:58.75
Now, you may have had
a nosebleed in the past
00:24:58.78\00:25:04.10
and if you have, it
may have just baffled you.
00:25:04.13\00:25:06.83
Dr. Miller is going to
talk with you a bit about
00:25:06.86\00:25:08.96
what you can do
for the nosebleed.
00:25:08.99\00:25:11.21
You know, they are
pretty common in children.
00:25:11.24\00:25:13.98
I have had my fair share of
the ones when I was a child.
00:25:14.01\00:25:16.65
Usually, a child's
nosebleed is caused by
00:25:16.68\00:25:19.82
some type of trauma in the nose.
00:25:19.86\00:25:21.66
And, what I would recommend is
to not put a child on the spot
00:25:21.70\00:25:27.22
What you want to do, if
a child has a nosebleed,
00:25:27.25\00:25:30.18
you say, "Well, what we need
to do is look in your eyes and
00:25:30.21\00:25:32.22
have them"... and
you do it for them...
00:25:32.25\00:25:33.78
Put your fingers up on
your eyes, and just pull down
00:25:33.81\00:25:36.19
a little bit and have them
do that, and when you're doing
00:25:36.22\00:25:38.10
that, under the idea that
they're thinking you're looking
00:25:38.13\00:25:41.23
in their eyes, look
at their fingertips.
00:25:41.26\00:25:43.28
You'll normally notice
whether one of the fingertips
00:25:43.29\00:25:45.85
has a little bit
of blood under it,
00:25:45.88\00:25:47.12
and you know the reason for the
nosebleed then is because they
00:25:47.15\00:25:50.02
have traumatized their
nose by picking their nose.
00:25:50.05\00:25:52.99
And so, that's a very
common reason for the nosebleed.
00:25:53.02\00:25:56.53
Another one can be dryness.
00:25:56.56\00:25:58.43
I seem to get this a
lot if I'm in a dry area.
00:25:58.46\00:26:01.71
What we have to do
there is make sure the air
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around us is more humidified.
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I have a wood stove in
my home and I always have a
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pot of water on top, boiling
to keep the area humidified.
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It can be a very big
danger, for older people
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who are taking some
type of blood thinner.
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Even the "aspirin a
day, keeps the stroke away"
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type of a thing,
because people who take these
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types of items
will become bleeders.
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And, they get a trauma, they get
some type of high blood pressure
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They get a nosebleed, and
sometimes it has a hard time
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stopping... So
how can you stop them?
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One way... what you want
to do is, you want to sit down
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and you want to lean
back but keep your head
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leaning forward...
Don't lean your head back
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because then your
blood will go down
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into your throat
and you'll swallow it.
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You want to sort of lean forward
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and then just take, just a
piece of cotton, or a piece of
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tissue, and moisten it.
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Place it in the nose, and
then squeeze your nose shut
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for just a short
period of time...
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not hard, just squeezing
it for a short period of time
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And then gently remove it.
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Sometimes removing it
will pull a clot loose,
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so you want to replace
it, and again squeeze it.
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You can try ice on the face.
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That sometimes will do.
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Sometimes if
it's a really bad one,
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place the arms
in contrast baths...
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hot water and then cold
water, hot water, cold water
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This is derivative... it
will the blood down into the
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periphery and keep it
from being so much up here
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in this part of the body.
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Simple things you
can do for a nosebleed.
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First thing you want
to do is just make sure
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you're not getting them again...
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the trauma, picking at
noses, blowing too hard,
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high blood pressure... things
we need to look at, Dr. Thrash
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Well, I'm certain that we have
not made you into physicians
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in this short period...
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But we do hope that
you're better equipped
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to handle those common
things that happen in every
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home every day.
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