Physicians should be teachers.
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In fact, that's
what the word means.
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"Doctor" means a teacher.
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And I'm very happy that I can
be both a doctor and a teacher.
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It's such a privilege to teach
a person how to take care of
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this most marvelous of ALL
machinery... the human body.
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So I hope you will stay
with us, and I hope you will
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learn something.
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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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Now it's true that the
physician should be a teacher,
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but it's also true that the
patient should be a learner!
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And it's the responsibility
of the patient to learn how
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to take care of
this body temple.
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It's a most MARVELOUS mechanism.
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The person will never have
about his self, about his home
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all the equipment
that he has, vehicles,
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motorized equipment, computers,
whatever the person might have
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NOTHING even approaches the
complexity of the human body.
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Now as we study the
human body, we come to know
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about some of the
marvels of the human body.
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It's made up of
millions of small units,
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each of which is a miracle!
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Sometimes I tell my
evolutionists friends
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that they don't have
alveoli in their lungs,
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or they don't have
nephrons in their kidneys,
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or they don't even have teeth...
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because in my
estimation, it would have taken
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another 25 billion
years just to work out teeth
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And the evolutionists'
estimate isn't but about
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4.5 billion that this
earth has been in existence.
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So I know they
couldn't possibly have those
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precious things of equipment
that our Creator made for us.
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And turned it out
before He ever put us in charge
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of the human body.
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Let's just study the
human tooth for a moment.
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The tooth is not just
a solid bridge of bone
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across the upper and
the lower parts of the jaws,
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but are built of
individual units.
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So that if something
happens to one, you've still got
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maybe 31 left.
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And, if something
happens to another,
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you've still got 30 left...
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And that's plenty
adequate to do one's chewing.
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A lot of people lose
their wisdom teeth early in life
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because they don't come
in in the correct place,
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or they point in
a wrong direction.
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Sometimes, a wisdom
tooth will point at the tooth
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that's right next to
it, and cause an erosion
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in that tooth which
eventually makes a cavity,
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which then forms an abscess,
and the person loses 2 teeth;
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a wisdom tooth, and
the tooth next to it.
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So, we lose 4 teeth immediately,
but we still have enough to
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do plenty of
chewing... that's not a problem!
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But as we go through
life, sometimes people lose
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another tooth here,
and another tooth there
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So finally they're
just snaggletoothed
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and don't have enough teeth
left to be able to chew properly
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The amount of chewing
that we do, to some degree,
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determines how long
we're going to live.
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And, therefore,
when we have a toothache,
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immediately, we are concerned.
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Am I going to lose that tooth
that I have the toothache in?
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So let's talk just a little
bit how you can understand
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about a toothache.
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When a toothache comes,
it's often a sudden pain
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in the tooth, or it
may, at times, develop
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over a number of
days, or even weeks,
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so that you feel a
little tenderness in the tooth,
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or when you drink
something that's cold, a tooth
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or more than one tooth hurts...
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Or when you eat something
sweet, that tooth hurts.
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If cold and sweets are
the things that make the tooth
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have pain, then it's
probably just a carious tooth
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that just requires that you
get a filling, or a replacement
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of an existing filling.
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Now if you understand
that about sweet and cold,
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and the superficiality
of that kind of pain,
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then you're prepared
to understand what kind of
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infection or
involvement of the tooth
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could involve the pulp itself.
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Now the pulp is the place
where the nerve is located
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and if it's heat
that causes your pain,
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then the pulp is
probably involved with it
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and you can make a
diagnosis of a more serious
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tooth involvement.
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Such a tooth is going to require
specialized care from a dentist
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most of the time.
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But, there are some
things that you can do
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even for a
bombed-out tooth that's very
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carious but does
not yet involve the pulp
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Such a tooth, if you
change the environment
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of the mouth, and make
it so that the conditions
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that encourage cavities...
that those conditions
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have gone, then it's very
likely that you could just
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keep that bombed-out tooth...
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that very serious
affection of a tooth
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that results in
a definite cavity.
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If you take care of it,
there are dentists who will
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tell you that you can
make a scar on that tooth
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and refinish
that bombed-out area.
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Now it's not nice, white enamel
as you had in the beginning.
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It will look very
dark, in fact, almost black,
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but it will be a very
hard repair... a hard scar
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on that tooth and
that's very helpful to know.
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But of course, the best
thing is to get it filled,
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and have a complete
restoration of the tooth.
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Let's say you wake up
in the middle of the night,
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and you have a
SERIOUS toothache...
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Is there anything
that you can do immediately
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so that you don't
have to pay the extra fee
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of calling a dentist out of bed
at night to attend your tooth?
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There are a number of things...
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and most of them
are quite effective.
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The first thing to do is to
make a little charcoal compress
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Get a little piece of
paper towel, maybe a square
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about an inch
or 2 inches square,
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hold it in the hand, and put
some charcoal paste right there.
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You'll put that on a spoon then,
shift it so that it goes onto
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a spoon... then you can
just maneuver it to the place
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where you have the
painful tooth, and bite down
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on it... hold the
charcoal paste in place
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And often with a few minutes,
the toothache has gone away.
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Another thing that
you can use is clove oil.
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Clove oil smells very
nice, and if you put a little
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on a Q-tip, or on a toothpick,
and just put it right up
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next to the tooth, and on
the gum, around the tooth,
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and in-between the tooth...
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you can get a very good
relief of pain right away.
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Now, an abscess can occur
in a tooth, and in that case
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the tooth will feel as
if it's about an inch longer
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than all the other
teeth in your mouth,
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and that's one of the diagnostic
clues that you can have
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that you've got an
abscess of a tooth.
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Also, if you just press on
the area where the tooth is,
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that you think
might be abscessed,
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and if it's very
painful, then that's probably
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an abscessed tooth.
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If you tap on the
tooth, and that gives you pain,
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that's probably
an abscessed tooth.
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But let's say you can tap
on all the teeth on that side,
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that's probably not
an abscessed tooth...
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that's probably a maxillary
sinusitis up here in the
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maxillary sinuses.
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And so, you don't have to
go to the dentist for that
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most of the time, you
just treat the sinusitis.
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And so applying heat, and
then alternating with cold
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every 3 minutes or so,
that can be very helpful.
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Or a mouthwash... if you
use a mouthwash that's warm
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but not hot if
it's an abscessed tooth,
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or a toothache
that involves the pulp,
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just use warm water with salt
in it... quite a lot of salt.
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Salt is a bit of an astringent
and that will help you
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with a tooth
that's giving you pain.
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Or, you can use
turmeric in the warm water.
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Turmeric is an
anti-inflammatory agent
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and will act as
an anti-inflammatory
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agent in the mouth.
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You can swallow
some of the turmeric.
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Use a teaspoonful of
the turmeric to a glass
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of warm water, and
use it as a mouthwash
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And, you can spit out
most of it, but about half of a
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teaspoonful...
you can swallow that
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as an anti-inflammatory
agent that works internally.
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So those are a few
things that you can know about
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how to handle a toothache.
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Keep a little clove
oil on hand all the time
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just for such an emergency.
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Now, there are a lot
of other things about the
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head and neck that
give us some difficulty,
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and I think that Dr. Miller
is all prepared to give us some
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instruction on how to
take care of an ear problem.
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Is that correct?
That's right, ear problems.
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You know, the ears are located
quite closely to the teeth
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and sometimes it's hard to
tell the difference between
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...is this a
toothache, or an earache?
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And there is a very simple test.
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Just take the earlobe and give
a good, firm tug on the ear.
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If it increases the pain,
you probably have an earache.
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If it does not
increase the pain,
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you probably have a toothache.
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All right, now you've
located it ... it's an earache
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Now you take the top of
the ear, and just wiggle it.
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If it is an external earache,
it will give you a lot of pain.
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If it does not increase
the pain, it is probably
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an earache in the
middle part of your ear...
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so those are nice things to do.
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I was in the country of
Zambia one time teaching
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natural remedies to a
group of students there
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and they loved to go
out into the community
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and try to find
somebody who had problems.
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They had all kinds of
problems they could find.
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They found a little
girl who was in constant
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24/7 pain, and her ear
was completely infected.
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Pus was running
out of the canal.
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There were large holes.
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There was a hole behind her ear.
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There were holes
all around her ear.
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The child was
absolutely miserable.
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Her parents had taken
this child to every doctor,
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every clinic, every
hospital that they could within
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the area where they live.
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And that's as far
away as the capital Lusaka
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all in that area.
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And, much like the
woman there in the Bible,
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the child did not grow
better, but rather grew worse.
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And, also, her parents had
spent everything that they had
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and they were ones that
lived in a rather nice house.
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They were now
having to sell this house
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to move to a mud hut
just to pay the bills.
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Well, my students
found this little girl.
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And, they came back and said...
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"What can we do?"
Well, what CAN you do?
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Here we are out there
in the middle of Africa
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Well, we did what we
could with what we had.
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We put together
a number of herbs.
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I took some oil.
I took some garlic.
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I had brought with me
some goldenseal powder...
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sort of cheating there...
but I had some goldenseal powder
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But they had lots of herbs
growing in an herb garden there
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Took a number of
things, made an ointment,
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added some charcoal to it,
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and then had the
mother irrigate the ear
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Dr. Thrash has
mentioned in another program how
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she likes to have bulb syringes.
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I had taken with me
on this particular trip,
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20 bulb syringes.
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I recommend if you're going
to travel in a foreign country
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especially in a third world
country, you take bulb syringes
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...extremely versatile
in many different areas.
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I had the mother
irrigate the ear.
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As a matter of fact, my
students did it first...
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getting out some of the pus.
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And then we applied some of
this ointment that we had made
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into the ear canal, and then put
a piece of cotton in the ear.
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That would be all day
long, and then all night long,
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we put a charcoal poultice...
taught the mother how to do it
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Put a charcoal
poultice over the ear.
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Now the child, because of
the pain and the irritation,
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was always scratching
which really made it worse.
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So we had her put little socks
on her hands so she could not
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scratch as well,
and within a week,
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the sores were
completely scabbed over
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She was completely
out of pain, and she was
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doing quite well.
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And it cost nothing.
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Even if she had
had to pay for it,
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it wouldn't have
cost more than $5
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And so we can see,
God has some simple ways
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to take care of the ear.
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Earaches are extremely bad.
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We had a woman call
Uchee Pines some years ago
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when Dr. Calvin Thrash
was still alive, and she said,
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"My daughter, she just
has all the time, earaches,
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and throat infections
and she's been scheduled to
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have her tonsils taken
out, her adenoids taken out,
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and tubes to be put into
her ears... What can we do?"
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And, Dr. Calvin,
sage man that he was,
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he said, "Ma'am, I'm not
going to ask you whether your
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daughter is on dairy products
because I know she is. "
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"Take her off
the dairy products. "
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And then give her some
garlic, give her some Echinacea,
00:14:01.98\00:14:04.81
a few natural antibiotics.
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Within a week, she
was completely well.
00:14:06.67\00:14:08.45
Well the mother took
the daughter back to her
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pediatrician, and the
pediatrician examined her
00:14:12.08\00:14:14.82
and said, "Well, you're doing
fine. The medications worked. "
00:14:14.85\00:14:17.16
And the mother said,
"I didn't give her the
00:14:17.19\00:14:19.09
medications. I just got
her off the dairy products. "
00:14:19.12\00:14:21.41
And the doctor says...
"That would have worked too. "
00:14:21.44\00:14:25.77
And the mother thought,
"You were going to do all
00:14:25.80\00:14:29.09
these surgeries and that
would have worked," and so
00:14:29.12\00:14:31.03
she took her daughter on out of
there, and her daughter did fine
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She's now a grown
woman, married, has a child...
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doing quite well.
00:14:36.53\00:14:37.81
And so, often our ear problems
are caused by sensitivities to
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foods... and the #1 food
sensitivity in the entire world
00:14:42.46\00:14:45.98
is dairy products.
00:14:46.01\00:14:47.41
If you have a child
who has throat infections,
00:14:47.44\00:14:50.23
ear infections... get
them off of all forms of dairy
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You got to really look at
the labels... all forms of dairy
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And if it stays
gone for about a week,
00:14:56.34\00:14:59.43
off the dairy and you
don't have any cessation of
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of symptoms, maybe
that wasn't your problem.
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But I can almost guarantee
that dairy is going to have
00:15:04.33\00:15:07.44
some type of deleterious
effect upon your health.
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And so, staying away
from it might do you better.
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There are other things
you can do for an earache.
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And I like to...
Sometimes a person has an
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earache, you take an ice
cube, and you have them just
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lay their head over and let the
ice water drip into their ears.
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For some people,
that's all they need.
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For other people, it will
drive them through the roof!
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For that person,
you put warm air...
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and you might take a hair dryer,
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stand back about 2 feet,
and just let that warm air
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head towards the ear.
00:15:36.65\00:15:37.80
Sometimes just putting a
heating lamp just outside
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the ear and letting
the heat get on the ear
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is very good for an earache.
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You could also take an
onion, and bake the onion
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until it's soft,
and just place the onion
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over the ear area, and strap
that on the head. That's good.
00:15:50.73\00:15:53.42
A charcoal poultice will
work very nicely for some people
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in the ears when they
have the ear infection.
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Another problem
we have with ears,
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and I'm afraid this
is probably pretty common
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...is impacted wax.
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You know the old way they used
to... the old mussel loader guns
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They'd sit there and
they'd pour some stuff in it
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and they'd ram it down...
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Well, that's what
many people do with
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a Q-tip... they reach in
there, and they poke around
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and what they often
do, they start pushing wax
00:16:19.86\00:16:23.12
pushing wax back there.
00:16:23.15\00:16:24.96
It wasn't too long
ago, I received a phone call
00:16:24.99\00:16:27.30
that someone was going
to come visit Uchee Pines
00:16:27.33\00:16:30.67
and they wanted
their ears cleaned out.
00:16:30.68\00:16:32.89
I said, "Fine, no
problem, I like doing that. "
00:16:32.90\00:16:35.61
So the person arrived that day,
00:16:35.64\00:16:38.03
and I figure, "Well, since they
wanted their ears cleaned out,
00:16:38.06\00:16:40.91
I'll just start cleaning
it, and then I'll look later.
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I could have gone
ahead and used an otoscope,
00:16:43.23\00:16:45.83
and looked in
there and looked at it.
00:16:45.86\00:16:46.94
I'm glad I did not
because I probably would have
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been pretty freaked-out
with what I was seeing.
00:16:48.64\00:16:51.97
Anyway, what I
used was a Waterpik.
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And a Waterpik comes
with a special attachment
00:16:56.22\00:16:58.47
...you can buy a
special attachment,
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that you put on the end
of a Waterpik and then you
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put it up, and you
always whenever you do an
00:17:03.27\00:17:05.99
irrigation of the
ear, you shoot up.
00:17:06.02\00:17:08.66
The ear canal goes
down, but you shoot up because
00:17:08.69\00:17:11.01
you don't want to
shoot the eardrum itself.
00:17:11.02\00:17:13.64
And I started working
around, and I was holding,
00:17:13.67\00:17:17.04
while I was doing this, a
kidney dish outside the ear
00:17:17.07\00:17:20.87
What I basically do is, I
have the patient hold this
00:17:20.90\00:17:23.40
next to their ear, and
then I'll also have them
00:17:23.43\00:17:25.75
holding a towel to
pick up the excess water...
00:17:25.78\00:17:28.36
And I was just playing
around on the inside of the ear
00:17:28.39\00:17:32.15
and things started to
come out. A lot of things!
00:17:32.18\00:17:35.02
And so I stopped and I
went and dumped that and
00:17:35.05\00:17:36.83
refilled the water in
the bowl of the Waterpik
00:17:36.84\00:17:40.87
and I did it
again, and I did it again,
00:17:40.90\00:17:43.42
and I did it again...
And then all of a sudden
00:17:43.45\00:17:46.39
appearing right on
the outside of the ear
00:17:46.42\00:17:49.32
was a LARGE glob of something...
00:17:49.35\00:17:51.51
And I thought, "I don't
know what I just got done
00:17:51.55\00:17:53.44
washing this guy's brains out!
00:17:53.47\00:17:54.85
I don't know what
the problem was. "
00:17:54.88\00:17:56.12
This man had SO MUCH wax,
and other things in his ear
00:17:56.15\00:18:01.44
I'm surprised
he had any hearing.
00:18:01.47\00:18:03.21
As a matter of
fact, that was his problem
00:18:03.24\00:18:04.62
He could not
hear out of that ear.
00:18:04.63\00:18:06.45
I had another
patient the same way.
00:18:06.48\00:18:08.81
I irrigated, probably for a
half an hour, on each of these
00:18:08.84\00:18:12.36
ears and got a copious
amount of ear wax and other
00:18:12.37\00:18:15.92
particulates out of their ears.
00:18:15.95\00:18:17.50
When that happens, the ear
is going to be very sensitive.
00:18:17.51\00:18:20.82
And it also might be a
little bit prone towards some
00:18:20.85\00:18:23.90
type of an infections or
leastwise fungal infections.
00:18:23.93\00:18:27.48
And so what I did was, I
mixed a little bit of vinegar
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about 3 parts of
vinegar, with 1 part of alcohol
00:18:30.59\00:18:33.93
and I had him tip his head over
and I poured it into the ear
00:18:33.94\00:18:38.05
and then I shook it.
00:18:38.08\00:18:39.43
You always take the top
of the ear and you shake it.
00:18:39.44\00:18:42.05
That straightens
out the ear canal
00:18:42.08\00:18:43.60
...letting all that
liquid get down in there
00:18:43.63\00:18:45.81
the vinegar being antifungal,
the alcohol being a drying agent
00:18:45.84\00:18:50.99
and an astringent agent,
as Dr. Thrash has mentioned.
00:18:51.02\00:18:53.76
Then just had them
pour that back out.
00:18:53.79\00:18:56.45
And they were completely
well with that particular
00:18:56.48\00:18:59.25
simple treatment.
00:18:59.26\00:19:01.38
Now there is another way
of doing an ear irrigation
00:19:01.41\00:19:04.94
and again, that's why you should
always have a bulb syringe
00:19:04.97\00:19:08.69
Now, they make
different types of bulb syringes
00:19:08.72\00:19:11.06
...some with a much more
streamlined nozzle on it,
00:19:11.09\00:19:16.88
some with a big bulb
for doing nasal irrigations.
00:19:16.91\00:19:20.13
But, this is the one I Like
to use for an ear irrigation.
00:19:20.16\00:19:23.87
And I'm going to have
Justina come forward and sort of
00:19:23.90\00:19:26.61
demonstrate on her how you
would do an ear irrigation.
00:19:26.64\00:19:30.96
I'm going to have you
step on this side, Justina.
00:19:30.99\00:19:32.65
Now basically, you
get the person involved
00:19:32.68\00:19:36.34
in their particular treatment.
00:19:36.38\00:19:37.59
You know, there are certain
things that exacerbate pain,
00:19:37.62\00:19:40.92
and one is helplessness.
00:19:40.95\00:19:42.33
If you can get the patient
involved in their treatment,
00:19:42.36\00:19:45.65
you're going to have them
have a little bit less pain
00:19:45.68\00:19:48.87
and trepidation about...
"What's this guy doing?"
00:19:48.90\00:19:51.11
Now they are part of the action.
00:19:51.14\00:19:53.02
And so, Justina, I'm
going to have you just hold this
00:19:53.05\00:19:55.52
just below your ear,
and the towel, again, is to
00:19:55.55\00:19:58.78
pick up the excess water
because water will come out.
00:19:58.81\00:20:01.62
Now what you want to
do is you want to put
00:20:01.65\00:20:04.29
water in here
about body temperature.
00:20:04.30\00:20:06.82
Cold water can
make an upset stomach.
00:20:06.85\00:20:09.68
It can make them very dizzy.
00:20:09.71\00:20:11.05
So you want to put
just warm water in here
00:20:11.06\00:20:14.02
And I try as much as possible
to expel all of the water
00:20:14.05\00:20:19.90
out of it and get it
down to just water and no air.
00:20:19.93\00:20:24.82
And then what we do is,
I grab the top of the ear
00:20:24.85\00:20:28.78
and I pull it up, and
now that I've got just water
00:20:28.81\00:20:34.06
to the very surface, I
put this thing inside the ear
00:20:34.09\00:20:37.77
...hold your thing down
just a little bit further...
00:20:37.80\00:20:40.67
so that I can shoot upwards.
00:20:40.70\00:20:43.38
And I SLOWLY, SLOWLY, increase
the water, rather than just
00:20:43.41\00:20:48.94
You don't want to just
squirt it in there because
00:20:48.97\00:20:51.90
that would make
you both unhappy.
00:20:51.93\00:20:53.64
You play it around, you
play it around the side,
00:20:53.67\00:20:57.67
you play it around the top
00:20:57.70\00:20:59.15
And as you do this,
you're going to find some
00:20:59.18\00:21:01.41
particulate matter coming out.
00:21:01.44\00:21:02.87
You keep on playing this,
00:21:02.91\00:21:04.89
every once in a while,
you have to refill the bulb.
00:21:04.92\00:21:06.57
I like to have a container of
water that's full of warm water
00:21:06.61\00:21:09.21
Put my bulb syringe
completely down in there
00:21:09.24\00:21:11.74
and then let it refill so that
it's filled up to the very top
00:21:11.75\00:21:16.70
...go back up, and continue
playing around until you've
00:21:16.73\00:21:20.82
completely clean it out.
00:21:20.85\00:21:22.14
You can go to a store
and buy some very inexpensive
00:21:22.17\00:21:27.79
otoscopes, and these otoscopes
are good for looking in the ear
00:21:27.82\00:21:31.90
making sure you've gotten
everything that's in there.
00:21:31.93\00:21:33.84
And then again, I
would recommend you put some
00:21:33.87\00:21:36.02
alcohol, some vinegar
in there to take care.
00:21:36.05\00:21:38.37
Now the vinegar is good for...
00:21:38.40\00:21:39.64
Let's say Justina had
been swimming in a lake or a
00:21:39.67\00:21:42.54
swimming pool and got,
what we call, "swimmers ear"
00:21:42.57\00:21:44.86
Always, the best
treatment for swimmer's ear is
00:21:44.89\00:21:47.99
vinegar in the ear.
00:21:48.02\00:21:49.74
So what you basically do
is you have them put them
00:21:49.77\00:21:51.79
put their head to the
side, you put vinegar in the ear
00:21:51.82\00:21:54.61
let them hold it there
for a while, dump it out
00:21:54.64\00:21:57.51
and that will pretty much
kill the fungal infection...
00:21:57.54\00:22:00.53
And that's a nice thing
to have done... Dr. Thrash
00:22:00.56\00:22:03.12
Thank you, Justina.
00:22:03.15\00:22:04.61
Well I like very much
these simple things that are so
00:22:04.64\00:22:08.21
relieving for a lot of
people for so many things.
00:22:08.24\00:22:11.34
Now, I want to talk with
you just a moment about where
00:22:11.37\00:22:16.41
the water is going.
00:22:16.44\00:22:17.65
Sometimes people think,
"Well, they must be washing
00:22:17.68\00:22:21.51
around on the inside of the
ear, way up in the internal ear,
00:22:21.54\00:22:25.82
or the middle ear,
or maybe even they're
00:22:25.85\00:22:28.47
as far down as the brain.
00:22:28.50\00:22:30.64
But I'd like to draw a
little diagram so that you will
00:22:30.67\00:22:33.35
see just where the water is
going when you irrigate the ear
00:22:33.38\00:22:37.21
And really, for an
eardrum that's intact,
00:22:37.22\00:22:41.42
the water is only going to
go, actually what we might even
00:22:41.45\00:22:46.22
think of as being
the outside of the body.
00:22:46.25\00:22:49.74
But if we say that this
is the ear, then here is the
00:22:49.77\00:22:56.26
canal like this, and let me
point this a little bit better
00:22:56.29\00:23:03.53
this way so that
it goes up this way...
00:23:03.56\00:23:08.67
And at the end of this
is the tympanic membrane
00:23:08.70\00:23:13.53
or the eardrum.
00:23:13.54\00:23:15.19
And this, of course, is
open to the outside so when you
00:23:15.22\00:23:18.39
put the bulb syringe in, you
direct the stream upward a bit
00:23:18.42\00:23:25.65
and that encourages the entire
external ear to get the fluid.
00:23:25.68\00:23:34.17
And in this way,
whatever may be there,
00:23:34.20\00:23:36.77
whether it's bugs,
or some kind of debris,
00:23:36.80\00:23:40.98
or whether it's the ear wax...
00:23:41.01\00:23:42.77
Whatever it may be,
that will enable you
00:23:42.78\00:23:46.57
to get rid of it nicely.
00:23:46.60\00:23:47.79
Now another thing
that's a good thing to know how
00:23:47.82\00:23:51.76
to deal with is a sore throat.
00:23:51.79\00:23:53.95
Gargles for a sore
throat can be very helpful.
00:23:53.96\00:23:56.69
Hot gargles with just
plain table salt in it,
00:23:56.72\00:24:00.23
or it can be
goldenseal tea made very strong
00:24:00.26\00:24:03.22
...or some other
kind of astringent tea
00:24:03.25\00:24:06.31
can be used and that
soothes and heals the tonsils
00:24:06.32\00:24:10.71
and the back of the throat.
00:24:10.74\00:24:11.85
Now another thing that we
find people often suffering from
00:24:11.88\00:24:16.78
is acute sinusitis...
00:24:16.81\00:24:18.44
And it often occurs
right across the cheekbones,
00:24:18.47\00:24:21.19
and right across the
upper part of the eyebrows
00:24:21.22\00:24:25.22
and the mid
portion of the forehead.
00:24:25.25\00:24:27.40
Acute sinusitis in
contradistinction to
00:24:27.43\00:24:31.17
chronic sinusitis,
which is usually caused by a
00:24:31.20\00:24:34.39
food sensitivity.
00:24:34.42\00:24:35.57
Acute sinusitis can be
caused by either a virus,
00:24:35.58\00:24:39.16
or by a germ such
as a streptococcus that
00:24:39.19\00:24:42.82
gives you an
infection in the sinuses.
00:24:42.85\00:24:46.38
The same kind of thing
that causes the sore throat.
00:24:46.41\00:24:49.22
For that, hot
compresses to the face can be
00:24:49.25\00:24:53.59
very relieving of the pain
and can also heal the person.
00:24:53.62\00:24:58.70
To sit in a tub of hot
water, will sometimes just
00:24:58.71\00:25:03.05
almost instantly cause
a relief of that pressure
00:25:03.08\00:25:06.77
and discomfort, the
pain, the gripping discomfort
00:25:06.80\00:25:12.15
in the sinuses.
00:25:12.18\00:25:13.70
Now, there are certain
ways to eat that have principles
00:25:13.73\00:25:17.90
involved in those, and
there are several principles
00:25:17.93\00:25:22.24
that you can learn that will
help you to know how to eat.
00:25:22.27\00:25:25.22
Dr. Don Miller will tell
you something about these
00:25:25.25\00:25:29.69
4 principles on how to eat.
00:25:29.70\00:25:32.74
These are very simple
and I think you need to
00:25:32.77\00:25:34.86
write these down and make sure
you follow them at all times.
00:25:34.89\00:25:37.30
The first one is
choose your food carefully.
00:25:37.33\00:25:40.89
Now what does that mean?
00:25:40.92\00:25:42.27
It means you don't go
to the store, and go to the
00:25:42.30\00:25:44.58
bargain table and
get the stuff that's all
00:25:44.61\00:25:46.35
shrink-wrapped in
cellophane because it's sort of
00:25:46.38\00:25:48.98
bad on the other side.
00:25:49.01\00:25:50.36
If it's bad on the other
side, it's bad all over...
00:25:50.39\00:25:52.65
Don't take that. You
choose your food carefully
00:25:52.68\00:25:55.55
every time you go shopping.
00:25:55.58\00:25:57.00
Does that mean buy
all organic produce?
00:25:57.03\00:25:59.87
It doesn't mean
that... if you can't afford it.
00:25:59.90\00:26:01.67
You get the BEST you can
buy for the money that you have.
00:26:01.70\00:26:04.52
You try to stay away
from things in bags and boxes
00:26:04.55\00:26:07.75
and even cans...
because they always
00:26:07.78\00:26:09.82
got things in
there, whether it's salt...
00:26:09.85\00:26:12.16
there's going to be
sugar, preservatives,
00:26:12.19\00:26:13.77
all kinds of strange things.
00:26:13.80\00:26:15.07
Eat as fresh as you can.
00:26:15.10\00:26:16.47
Second point... Prepare your
food as carefully as you can.
00:26:16.50\00:26:21.09
The first point in
preparation is WASH IT.
00:26:21.12\00:26:23.46
You wash your grapes.
You wash your bananas.
00:26:23.49\00:26:25.64
You wash your
carrots. You wash everything
00:26:25.67\00:26:28.25
before you put
it into your body.
00:26:28.28\00:26:29.73
And then you
prepare it healthfully...
00:26:29.76\00:26:32.19
You don't sit there
and cook it to death.
00:26:32.22\00:26:33.63
You don't put lots of
salt, sugar, oil on it.
00:26:33.66\00:26:36.09
You prepare it as
carefully as possible.
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The third step... very
simple. You ask God to bless it.
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If you've done
point 1 and point 2,
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He WILL indeed do
His part... in point 3
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And the third
step is... just eat it,
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quit worrying about
it... because if you think it's
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going to hurt
you, it probably will.
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And so we realize that
if you sit down with a meal
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and you've done
all that you can,
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and you've asked God to
do all that He's willing
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to do, you can eat that food...
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and the Bible says there
in Mark the 16th chapter...
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"If you take any deadly
thing, it will not harm you. "
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And I believe that's the
promise for these last days
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when everything
around us wants to harm us.
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God wants to take care of
us, and so let's just listen
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to His simple ways and He'll
teach us... Right, Dr. Thrash?
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Yes, that's a
very important thing
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that you can always count on.
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If you're careful in
doing what your part is,
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our Heavenly Father
has pledged Himself to be
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responsible for His part.
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We cannot keep
ourselves healthy...
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We cannot be the ones
who decide how strong we
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come into this world,
but we can be the ones
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who determine how well
we take care of the body.
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And to take care of
it means that you bring
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into the body only
fresh and pure things
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as well as you are able.
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Fresh air, fresh
sunshine, fresh things that have
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to do with the
feeding of the mind.
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Everything
fresh, clean and pure,
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and God will bless you!
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