I'm constantly amazed
as I go from place to place
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to find the number of remedies
that people tell me about.
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Remedies that
sometimes are rather strange,
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but sometimes they are
very interesting, very common,
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using something
that is inexpensive
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and very easy to obtain.
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Charcoal is one
of those remedies
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and while I've known about
charcoal for several decades,
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I constantly find people who
are using it in different ways.
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We would like to tell you some
of these ways that we have found
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to use charcoal, and we
hope this will be of help to you
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We hope you will stay
with us during this program.
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Welcome to Help Yourself To
Health with Dr. Agatha Thrash.
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of Uchee Pines Institute, and
now here is you host Dr. Thrash.
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Charcoal is not
only inexpensive,
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it just lasts forever,
you can put it in storage,
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and it just never goes bad.
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In fact if you
keep it nice and dry
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you keep it away from various
things that it might absorb
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it should be an heirloom,
and you can pass it down
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to your children.
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But there are some things that
make charcoal not a very good
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thing for us, and the fact
that it is messy and black,
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is one of those things.
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Dr. Don Miller is going to
talk with us a little bit about
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some of the things
having to do with the
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acquisition of charcoal.
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What can you tell us
about this thing with charcoal,
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did you just suddenly find out
about it on your own one day?
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- No I heard it from a
pharmaceutical company.
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- I'm sure.
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- No it wasn't from a
pharmaceutical company.
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I believe that the great
pharmacist, the great doctor,
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the great
physician, the Great Creator,
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puts something in nature,
knowing the condition that we
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would be in towards
the end of the days.
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Not just the end of the days,
we've been using this treatment
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for hundreds and
thousands of years.
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I believe that God has placed
something special in charcoal
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that we can use for
many, many different things.
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It's extremely available.
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I hate my home with wood, I've
got a stand alone fireplace,
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I put my wood in, I
damp it down at night time.
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In the morning I open it
up, and if I leave it down, like
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before I left on this
trip, I had a nice fire going,
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damped it down, when I
go back and open it up,
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I'm going to have charcoal,
nice pieces of charcoal
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in my fireplace.
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I can do it in other ways,
and I'll tell you how to make
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charcoal a little bit later.
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But it's also readily
available in other places.
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No matter where
I go in the world,
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I find there's charcoal there,
especially in the developing
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countries, in Africa, in
India, that's how they cook.
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You will find people selling
charcoal for the very purpose
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of cooking, but
this good charcoal.
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In America you wouldn't
want to go to the store and buy
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some charcoal briquettes
because they've got fillers,
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and things to
help them burn better,
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but you just
buy this charcoal...
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I was treating a man
in India one time with it,
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and it worked very very nicely.
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You know when we have
all these forest fires,
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in different parts of the
world, we've had many here
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in the United States, that
charcoal can be very helpful
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in other things.
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I heard of a case not long
ago, of them taking the trees
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that had been charred by the
fires, and had a lot of charcoal
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laying around, and started
piling it at the base of other
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trees in other areas, that were
dying from some unknown reason,
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acid rain, some type
of a blight, and they find
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that the charcoal piled
around the base of the tree,
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is restoring them to health.
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So God gave us charcoal,
not just for the benefit of man,
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but for all of his nature.
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It is a very
very nice treatment.
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Whereas we are not going to
talk about 101 treatments today
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because there is a
whole lot more than that.
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There are many, many
more and we're going to talk
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about some of these, Dr.
Thrash do you have some more?
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- Well I have one thing
that I would like to say
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about the drawbacks of charcoal.
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When I talk about drugs, I
have some drawbacks that are
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sometimes even life
threatening, but apart from
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an accident when you might fall
face down in charcoal powder,
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there aren't a lot of
drawbacks that are threatening
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to your health.
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But there are some drawbacks
in the use of charcoal,
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one is that of
mixing it with water.
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When you try to mix
charcoal with water,
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you find that it is an
extremely light powder,
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even getting from the
canister into a glass of water
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sometimes gives
you a lot of problems.
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You may spill a little bit
on the way, or you may have
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some problem in stirring
it up, as you begin to stir
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if you stir to fast,
it's going to be all over,
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because it is
such a light powder,
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it just becomes
airborne immediately.
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In order to make it more
easily mixable with water,
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just mix something like flax
seed with it, or some Sorbitol
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with it, it is sometimes mixed
with Sorbitol in emergency rooms
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to make patients
who are poisoned,
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find it more acceptable.
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But if you mix it with
that, you can much more easily
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stir it up, but one of
the best ways to mix it
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is to put it with the water
in a little jar with a screw cap
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put it on quite tightly and
just shake it back and forth
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this way, and it will
much more get easily wet.
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It's the getting of
it wet, that's the thing
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it's certainly not
a good wetting agent.
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Another of it's
drawbacks is that children
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don't tend to like it.
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They don't like the
fact that it is black,
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they don't like the fact that it
has a consistency in the mouth
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that they don't like.
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But for small children, you
are trying to get one to take
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the charcoal, they
simply look at it and decide
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"that's not for me. "
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So then ensues a
struggle with the mother,
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but if you will
just call Grandmother,
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Grandmothers know
how to get children
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to take charcoal, or
any other kind of thing
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they don't want to take down.
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It generally means that
you need to hold the head still
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and that can be
done by putting both arms
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right above the ears, and
fixing the head with that,
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in fact with a child
you can bring their forearms
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over the head, and
that fixes the head,
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so that they can't move.
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One person can usually do that
with the head fixed in that way.
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Then another person
holds the body down,
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and Grandmother
stirs the charcoal,
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and puts it by the
spoonful into the child's mouth.
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For a little older child, if
they are accustomed to drinking
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things from a straw, if
you've got an opaque container
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of some kind, and
you put a straw in it,
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and put a cover on it so that
they can't see that it's black
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and unpleasant looking,
hand it to them and tell them
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to drink this down, now if
you've got a little fruit juice
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mixed with it, that will often
make it much more acceptable
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to the child.
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These are some things
that will help to relieve
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these not very good
ways of handling charcoal.
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But so far as any
drawbacks in the body,
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the only one that we have
really, is that it does slow
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down the bowels a
little, so that a bowel movement
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is a little more
sluggish than is normal.
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Some people will try
to get over that drawback
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by mixing a little magnesium
sulfate, or Epsom salts
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with it, and in this way
make it so that the person
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can get it through
the intestinal tract
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a little quicker.
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Unfortunately with the Epsom
salts, you mix it with water,
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and then it doesn't taste good.
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So you've got two
things that are unpleasant,
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the charcoal,
and the Epsom salts.
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You can just put the Epsom
salts on the back of the tongue,
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swallow that down with
a little water, and then
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drink the charcoal in the water.
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Don't let it enter your
mind that you can take that
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charcoal powder just dry.
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It can be done, but it requires
a determination to do it,
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and you can only take it
in very small quantities.
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One time I was in Mexico, and
needed to take some charcoal,
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for a little food
poisoning that I had gotten,
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and I managed to get
some down dry by taking
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very small quantities
and mixing it with saliva,
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and then swallowing it down.
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But most of the time remember
that charcoal needs to be mixed
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with a goodly quantity of water.
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The more water you have,
the easier it is to pass through
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the intestinal tract.
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Now Don Miller is going
to talk to you about another
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of the wonderful
properties of charcoal,
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just wonderful properties,
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and that's it's deodorizing
properties, Dr. Miller.
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- Thank you. You
know we were going to
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Ukraine, I think it
was 1995 Dr. Thrash,
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a small team from Uchee Pines,
we left one morning is a van,
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we had our food with us,
and we drove all the way up to
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Washington area, we spent
the night and left the next day.
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What we are going to
do is leave the van there,
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and then I would come
back a couple of months later
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and drive the van back,
they would have come back
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a month and a half
earlier than I did.
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Made a mistake,
when I took the van...,
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someone else
drove us to the airport,
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so they could take
the van back to an area,
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I still had my cooler in
the van, with food in it.
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We left for Ukraine as I
remember, around the 14th
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of June, I got back
the very end of August.
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I get into the van,
I open up my cooler,
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and you can imagine what
it was like for the cooler
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to be sitting
through the hot summer months
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in Washington area, in
Maryland, the northern Virginia
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area for that period of time.
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It was putrid, inside
that cooler, I had to dump it
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and put the lid right
back on, it smelled so bad.
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I took it home I scrubbed it,
I used all kinds of cleaners,
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nothing I could do
would get that smell,
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that smell had permeated
the plastic, completely filling
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this cooler with the smell.
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Finally I got the
idea, and I got a container,
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and I dumped some
charcoal in it, I sat it down
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in the bottom of the
cooler, put the lid on,
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and left it there
for quite some time.
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After that was
done, I took the lid off,
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I took the charcoal out,
and the cooler smelled perfectly
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normal again.
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I do this every once in
awhile, and now when I travel
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with my cooler, I
will take a salt shaker
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I will put some charcoal in
the salt shaker, put the lid on
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and I will place
this in the cooler,
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just to take up any
smells that might be emanating
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from the foods, so
that I don't have anything
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that cross
contaminates as far as smells,
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that's a very nice idea.
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I meant to mention
earlier when I was talking about
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the divine
properties of charcoal,
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God has made it in
such a way that it takes up
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just the bad guys.
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In saying that, one of the
other drawbacks that Dr. Thrash
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did not mention in charcoal,
is that it will take up
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medications, because it
recognizes these things as
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foreign poisons in the body,
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so if you are taking
blood pressure medications
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which are synthetic
somehow, rather than taking
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a natural product, the charcoal
will take up that medication.
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The same thing
for heart medication,
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the same thing for
medicine for epilepsy
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and so if you are going
to be taking medications,
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and you receive some
type of a food poisoning,
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we're not saying
don't take charcoal,
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but you might want to
take it at least two hours
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or the time it takes for
the drug that you are taking
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to be absorbed by your body,
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and then you want to take the
charcoal so that it can absorb
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the properties of whatever
is giving your stomach upset,
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your food
poisoning, or whatever.
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One time I was in Dr. Thrash's
office there at Uchee Pines,
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I had been working
underneath the office
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shoring up part of the
floor that for some reason,
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was starting to sag, I
came back out, and left it open.
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Well some days later I
came by and said uh oh,
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I left the door open, so
I put a piece of something
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in front of that, and put
some weight up against it,
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to keep animals
from going in there.
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The trouble was, I did
not check underneath there
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to make sure that an
animal had not already
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gone underneath there.
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Well, about two weeks
later, Dr. Thrash's son,
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who's office was also in this
building, started complaining
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about a pretty bad smell,
and I knew what had happened
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so I said Cal,
don't you worry about it,
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it's my fault I'll do it.
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I went underneath there and a
wild animal had been underneath
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there and had
expired, thankfully on top
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of a piece of roofing,
so I was able to drag it out
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but it still smelled absolutely
horrible just to get underneath
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there, I didn't
want to smell it,
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so I took a piece of cloth
I sprinkled charcoal on it,
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I rolled it up and I
placed it as a mask over my nose
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so I really couldn't
smell while I was under there.
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Then I went back under
after I had the animal out,
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took a jar of charcoal,
and just sort of threw it,
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just sort of whoosh, this
big black cloud over the area
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where the animal was, and the
next day you could not smell it.
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It's a great absorptive
of odors that are in the air,
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so if you have any smelly area,
I suggest you take a salt shaker
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with charcoal and keep
it in your refrigerator.
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If you have a child that
always keeps his smelly sneakers
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in the closet, put a
container of charcoal in there,
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it will take up these odors,
any place that you have an odor
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problem it will
take up the odor.
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How about bad breath,
take a toothbrush, get it wet,
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dip it in some
charcoal, brush your teeth,
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again it will take up the
odors that are in your mouth,
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and then rather than
spitting it out, swallow it,
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if you have any other
problems going down the line
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it will help take up things
that are causing bad odors,
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so I think one of the
great properties Dr. Thrash,
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of charcoal is the
fact that it absorbs odors.
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- Yes, and I was just looking
at the great list of things
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that are already known
that charcoal takes up,
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we have this little
book called RX Charcoal,
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which is the
clinical uses of charcoal,
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and on certain occasions
it is necessary to find out
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just what can be
absorbed by charcoal.
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I was just looking
here and I found two columns
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here of chemicals that
can be taken up by charcoal.
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The very first one on the list
is acetaminophen or Tylenol.
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People often take Tylenol
enough to become intoxicated
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with it, and when they
do the treatment of choice
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probably is that of charcoal
because it so readily takes up
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Tylenol.
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But then a lot of other
things narcotics and arsenic,
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aspirin, barbiturates just a
host of things can be taken up
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by charcoal.
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Even a while after you
have taken a poisonous substance
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charcoal can still take it
up from the intestinal tract,
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in some instances.
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I would like to draw on the
board for you a little diagram
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that will help you to see
how it is, that charcoal helps
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with the taking up of
things that are already
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in your blood stream.
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Let's just say that this
represents an intestinal villas
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for you, here it is like this,
it's in your intestinal tract,
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and on the inside, there are all
manner of little blood vessels
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that supply blood to the
area, to take up anything
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that's inside
the intestinal tract.
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This is a normal
pattern for the way that
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an intestinal tract looks.
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Now if you have charcoal,
and I will just represent it
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as this blue line here, you have
taken it and the granules are
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passing by in the
intestinal tract, this is where
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the food is going by,
and here is the wall of the
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intestinal tract here,
as the charcoal goes by
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of course things
that are in the blood,
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not only is the blood taking up
things that are going this way,
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but the blood is
also oozing out this way.
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So it usually comes
out from the blood stream,
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makes a circle around,
comes back in having picked up
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something that was
in the intestinal tract,
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nutrients, or
drugs, or whatever.
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So if you have charcoal
here when this transit is made
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from the bloodstream to the
outside, to go back in again,
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whatever is in the
blood, can then be taken up
00:17:54.97\00:17:58.40
by the charcoal.
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Essentially you can
call this a mini dialysis,
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so a person who has
taken some kind of poison
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or drug even hours ago, when
the person takes the charcoal,
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it will still
remove from the blood,
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a lot of the
poisonous substance.
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This is the kind of thing
that we find in what we call
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the micro dialysis
function of charcoal.
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You might wonder, is
it possible for me to make
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charcoal myself in my own home.
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Dr. Miller mentioned the
fact that it could be made
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in the forest, or it
could be made in his wood stove
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but is there another way
that you can make charcoal?
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- Well, I'm going to say
yes, and I'm going to say
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about two ways, a
good way and a bad way.
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One, you can sit there and
put your toast in your toaster
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and turn it all the way
up until it becomes black,
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and you've made what
you think is charcoal,
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don't eat it,
don't eat scorched food,
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that is carcinogenic
because it produces properties
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when you scorch proteins
and carbohydrates, and minerals
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which are not healthy, but you
can very easily make charcoal.
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We are going to go
back over the board
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I've erased the intestinal
tract here, and we're going
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to do a very
simple illustration.
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What you do is you
go out in your back yard
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and you dig a
hole, how big of a hole?
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How much charcoal do you want?
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I like to dig a rather large
hole, and then inside the hole
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I will stick some wood, you
want to get some fresh wood,
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you don't want to get
wood that has been treated,
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green wood, treated green wood,
painted wood, shellacked wood,
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you want to get wild wood, and
you want to get it rather dry
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you don't want to get
wood that you just broke off
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of a tree because it's going
to have a hard time burning.
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Then you fill this
hole up with the wood,
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and then you set it on
fire, get a good fire burning,
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I mean a really good
fire burning, until you have
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a good layer of hot
coals at the bottom,
00:19:56.74\00:19:59.19
still fire going, and you
build a fire up until you have a
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blazing fire going
well consuming the wood.
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If you keep it going, it
will completely consume or
00:20:05.83\00:20:08.35
almost
completely consume the wood.
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When you know that you have this
wood extremely well ignited,
00:20:10.42\00:20:14.06
not just burning a little
bit, but really going well,
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what you want to do is
find some type of covering
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to cover this hole with.
00:20:21.18\00:20:23.57
You can use a piece of
tin, a hood of an old car,
00:20:23.60\00:20:27.22
something that will
cover the hole completely
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to block off the air.
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Then what I will normally
do, is I will pile the dirt
00:20:31.86\00:20:36.23
that I took out of the
hole, on top of this thing,
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it will sort of insulate
it, and keep the heat inside.
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You need three
things to have a fire:
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One you need fuel, you've
got your fuel in your wood.
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You also need oxygen,
and you had that in there
00:20:50.01\00:20:54.63
when you started the fire.
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You also need heat, which you
got when you started the fire.
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As your wood is in there, it
will start to consume the oxygen
00:20:59.43\00:21:03.99
quite frankly, do it quite
quickly, but the heat is so high
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it will still continue
to eat away at the wood
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I would leave it here for
at least a day, if not two days
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depending on how big your fire
was, at the end of this time,
00:21:13.39\00:21:16.71
you come out and you
lift up this piece of metal
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and just throw
everything to the side,
00:21:19.39\00:21:20.63
and inside you should
have some very nice charcoal.
00:21:20.66\00:21:24.07
It should be very
light, the lighter the better,
00:21:24.10\00:21:26.24
because that means that
it is more fully consumed.
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Often you will find pieces in
there that still have white wood
00:21:28.24\00:21:33.59
inside, just take the outside,
but you don't want to get
00:21:33.62\00:21:36.60
down where it is sort of
hard to have to dig it off,
00:21:36.63\00:21:38.44
you want stuff that
is pure light charcoal.
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You take this,
you put it in a jar...
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It's important that
you put it into a jar,
00:21:44.09\00:21:46.11
because of the fact that
charcoal is so absorptive
00:21:46.14\00:21:50.27
that it will
start taking up odors,
00:21:50.30\00:21:52.63
and start taking up things
as soon as you take the lid off.
00:21:52.66\00:21:55.76
You want to put it inside
a jar, put a lid on tightly,
00:21:55.79\00:21:59.03
and save all of its
surface area for the time when
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you are going to need
it for some other event,
00:22:03.28\00:22:05.43
like a gastrointestinal
event, like a mouth...,
00:22:05.46\00:22:08.50
whatever you want to use it for.
00:22:08.53\00:22:10.02
You can powder at the
first, or you can sit there and
00:22:10.05\00:22:13.91
powder it later on,
whatever you want to do.
00:22:13.94\00:22:15.94
Powder it when you need
it, powder it right away,
00:22:15.97\00:22:18.84
I would powder it right away
00:22:18.87\00:22:20.92
because you might
need something...,
00:22:20.95\00:22:22.31
When it's time for charcoal,
you need it right away.
00:22:22.34\00:22:24.92
So Dr. Thrash, I know
you've had times when you needed
00:22:24.95\00:22:27.67
charcoal right now and it's
good to have it ready to go.
00:22:27.70\00:22:30.38
- I always have charcoal on
hand, charcoal is so needed,
00:22:30.41\00:22:35.41
and you need it right now.
00:22:35.44\00:22:37.15
Poison Control Centers, are
listed in the book that we wrote
00:22:37.18\00:22:42.34
on the clinical uses of
charcoal, and all of the
00:22:42.37\00:22:45.66
Regional Poison Control
Centers in the United States,
00:22:45.69\00:22:49.61
are listed here
in this little book.
00:22:49.64\00:22:52.52
There are seven of
those, seven states, that have
00:22:52.55\00:22:55.71
Regional Poison Control Centers.
00:22:55.74\00:22:58.08
When I need to talk
with poison control,
00:22:58.11\00:23:00.54
I usually call the
regional center rather than
00:23:00.57\00:23:03.67
some of the local
centers, because they are often
00:23:03.70\00:23:07.12
better manned, and you can get
better information from that.
00:23:07.15\00:23:10.36
I mentioned that acetaminophen
the treatment of choice
00:23:10.39\00:23:15.95
for that was charcoal,
but if you call a local
00:23:15.98\00:23:19.83
Poison Control
Center, they may tell you,
00:23:19.86\00:23:22.15
that there is a drug
that is better for it,
00:23:22.18\00:23:24.47
and that's Mucomyst, so I don't
usually call the local ones,
00:23:24.50\00:23:28.48
but I call the regional
ones, I don't want my patient
00:23:28.51\00:23:31.65
to have to buy a drug
if I can get by with it,
00:23:31.68\00:23:34.40
if charcoal is just as
good and it is so inexpensive
00:23:34.43\00:23:37.00
that we should go
that route if we can.
00:23:37.03\00:23:39.52
Now for other things,
it's the treatment of choice,
00:23:39.55\00:23:43.10
like nausea and
vomiting and diarrhea,
00:23:43.13\00:23:45.38
the treatment of
choice is always charcoal
00:23:45.41\00:23:48.72
as a first aid measure,
then later you may have to go
00:23:48.75\00:23:52.67
to something else.
00:23:52.70\00:23:53.73
There are also odors
that develop in the mouth
00:23:53.76\00:23:56.85
because of one reason
or other and Dr. Miller
00:23:56.88\00:24:00.76
is going to
mention some of these now.
00:24:00.79\00:24:02.60
- Very easy to
take care of those too.
00:24:02.63\00:24:04.91
Again, you take some charcoal...
00:24:04.94\00:24:07.52
You can do it two ways,
you can just take charcoal,
00:24:07.55\00:24:09.71
wet your toothbrush, put it in
the powder, and bush your teeth.
00:24:09.74\00:24:13.29
If you go to the store now
days, and you've got a whole new
00:24:13.32\00:24:17.51
panorama of
tooth whitening agents,
00:24:17.54\00:24:20.38
you can make these
different things you can put
00:24:20.41\00:24:23.71
in your teeth, put it in there
and leave it there for so long,
00:24:23.74\00:24:26.11
put strips on your teeth.
00:24:26.14\00:24:27.16
Why don't you just brush
your teeth with charcoal?
00:24:27.19\00:24:29.54
Quite frankly
while you are doing it,
00:24:29.57\00:24:31.77
it doesn't look
like you are doing much
00:24:31.80\00:24:32.97
for whitening your teeth,
00:24:33.00\00:24:34.07
but it is a tooth whitener.
00:24:34.10\00:24:35.58
It is very mildly abrasive,
it can clean your teeth
00:24:35.61\00:24:39.24
quite nicely.
00:24:39.27\00:24:40.30
Another way you can do
it is, take some charcoal,
00:24:40.33\00:24:43.34
mix it with some
water, to make a little paste
00:24:43.37\00:24:46.33
and you can put that on
there just like toothpaste,
00:24:46.36\00:24:48.42
and you can brush your teeth.
00:24:48.45\00:24:49.99
Besides the whitening
effect, because the charcoal
00:24:50.02\00:24:52.89
is absorbing odors,
it can do very nicely
00:24:52.92\00:24:56.49
in taking up any odors
that are in your mouth,
00:24:56.52\00:24:58.77
any pockets of
infection, you would want
00:24:58.80\00:25:02.27
to do this if you have
an infection in your mouth.
00:25:02.30\00:25:05.25
Brush your teeth
at night with charcoal
00:25:05.28\00:25:07.70
and then don't spit it
out, leave it in your mouth.
00:25:07.73\00:25:10.22
Leave a large amount
of the paste down between
00:25:10.25\00:25:14.11
the cheeks and the
gums, up above and below,
00:25:14.14\00:25:17.26
and during the night
that will be pulling out.
00:25:17.29\00:25:19.56
If you have any
types of problems like this
00:25:19.59\00:25:22.14
infection in your jaws,
it's going to cause some odor.
00:25:22.17\00:25:26.77
Smelling between the teeth,
if you have any decomposing
00:25:26.80\00:25:29.92
things between your teeth.
00:25:29.95\00:25:31.21
There's a good way to find
out pretty much what your breath
00:25:31.24\00:25:33.92
smells like, you can't
sit there and go whoosh,
00:25:33.95\00:25:36.19
some people
breathe into their hand,
00:25:36.22\00:25:37.82
all you are
smelling is your hand.
00:25:37.85\00:25:39.07
Get yourself a pine needle,
a tooth pick, a brush pick,
00:25:39.10\00:25:45.40
or even a piece of your dental
floss, floss between the tooth
00:25:45.43\00:25:49.45
bring it out and then smell it,
00:25:49.48\00:25:50.89
that's what your
breath smells like.
00:25:50.92\00:25:52.34
If it smells bad,
charcoal outside will help
00:25:52.37\00:25:56.00
take up that odor.
00:25:56.03\00:25:57.08
It will also help you with
any type of throat infections,
00:25:57.11\00:26:00.34
and any types of
problems back in your throat,
00:26:00.37\00:26:02.58
that could also be
causing some dis-odor.
00:26:02.61\00:26:04.91
So put this in your
mouth and it will help clean up
00:26:04.94\00:26:09.68
the infections, it will
help clear out the problems,
00:26:09.71\00:26:11.84
whiten the teeth, and
then swallow the whole thing
00:26:11.87\00:26:14.37
in the morning, you have
a good transit time marker,
00:26:14.40\00:26:16.68
clean out your
system, see if you have any
00:26:16.71\00:26:18.93
problems down there.
00:26:18.97\00:26:20.16
Some nice things
to do with charcoal,
00:26:20.20\00:26:21.81
there's probably a whole
lot more you can do in the mouth
00:26:21.84\00:26:24.33
but that should be
enough for right now,
00:26:24.36\00:26:25.80
that's a mouthful for right now.
00:26:25.83\00:26:27.03
- Those are very good tips
on what to do with charcoal
00:26:27.06\00:26:29.83
and the mouth, you can
also swallow it as a detoxifying
00:26:29.86\00:26:34.03
agent if you think that
you might have encountered
00:26:34.06\00:26:37.51
some kind of toxin, and it will
take up most kinds of toxins
00:26:37.54\00:26:42.51
it just absorbs it and
takes it out of the body
00:26:42.54\00:26:45.04
in a harmless way.
00:26:45.07\00:26:46.19
We learned one time a
use for charcoal, in a very
00:26:46.22\00:26:49.92
accidental way.
00:26:49.95\00:26:51.06
We had a baby
born at Uchee Pines
00:26:51.09\00:26:55.50
that developed very shortly
the jaundice of the new born.
00:26:55.53\00:26:59.45
The little
family were very poor,
00:26:59.48\00:27:02.59
they didn't have the money for
all the exchange transfusions
00:27:02.62\00:27:07.21
and the testing
that needed to be done.
00:27:07.24\00:27:10.30
But I felt that I could
not handle the case unless
00:27:10.33\00:27:13.26
I could get a lab test every
six hours, so we were going in
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every six hours, finally the
mother said don't you have any
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thing here at this place
that has natural remedies
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that can help my baby,
she wept when she said it
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well honey the only thing
that I can think of to try
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is charcoal, and that
day we learned something,
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because the moment she
started giving the baby charcoal
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that very moment, the
lab tests started correcting,
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and we didn't have to
do the exchange transfusion
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on the baby, it was
later that we learned
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that standard medicine had
also learned that little trick.
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Wonderful medicine Charcoal.
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