A number of years ago I
graduated from medical school
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expected that through the drugs
and surgery that I had learned
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to use well in medical school
and then subsequently in my
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training, I though that disease
would respond to all these
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things, and that I needed
never to be looking anywhere
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else for any kind of remedy,
apart from that, that I learned
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in medical school.
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Four years of intensive training
made me feel pretty confident
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that all the diseases that
were known, we knew a remedy
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for them except for a certain
handful that we had not yet
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discovered how to treat those
but I was certain that before
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to long we would.
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So it came as somewhat of
a surprise to me that when I
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went into practice, people
weren't cured as well as I
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thought they should be, so we
began to think about some other
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kind of remedy, and I remember
the discussion that my husband
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and I had, there must be some
other way to treat people than
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just the allopathic types,
in investigating we found that
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yes indeed,
there a lot of those.
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Maybe some of you have
had the same kind of thought
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how does medicine stack up with
some of remedies that there are?
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Maybe you would like to
join us for this program because
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we intend to discuss how
some of us became interested in
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natural remedies, what we
might call physiologic remedies,
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we hope you will join us.
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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 is
your host Dr. Thrash.
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Now I have with me
today two people who are from
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very different backgrounds,
I would like to introduce them
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to you now, one is
Justina Thomas, and the other is
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Donald Miller, Justina is a
young woman, and Donald is a
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middle aged man, and so you
can see that right off there
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are some big
differences between these two.
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Justina where did you
grow up, where were you born,
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how did you get where you are?
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- I was born if Ft. Worth, Texas
and then my family moved to
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Lincoln, Nebraska, and I
grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska,
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right close to the college.
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- I see, have you always lived
in those two places in Texas
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or in Lincoln, or have
you somewhere else also?
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After Lincoln we moved
to Michigan and for the last
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four years I've lived
there. - Near a college?
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- Yes actually!
Andrews University.
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- Your family have been closely
associated with two universities
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then, one in Lincoln,
Nebraska, and one in Michigan.
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How did you grow up, did you
go to the usual public schools,
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or just what kind of
schooling have you had?
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Well I started out in a little
grade school it's one room
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all the way from first thru
seventh and then I did opposite
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of what most people do,
and I home schooled through
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high school. - I
see home schooled
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all the way through high school.
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- Yes! - Now you went to regular
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school, was it a public
school or a church school?
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- It was a church school!
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- One room school, few students!
- Yeah! I think 27 or less!
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- How many
teachers did you have?
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- There was two teachers! -
Two teachers, so each one had
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about 13 or 14 students, pretty
high student to teacher ratio.
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And then you were in home
school, was that a one to one
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ratio, or were there others, do
you have brothers and sisters?
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- I do, for me that
was a one to two ratio!
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- One to two! - Myself
and my younger brother!
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- I see! Now how many
children are in your family?
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- There are eight in my
family! - Eight in your family!
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Oh, and I understand
that you have a twin!
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- Yes! - That's a
bit of a distinction!
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- Yes! - So I'm
sure that growing up
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in a small school, two students
in the school, principally gave
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you a lot of teacher attention,
you had both experiences
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church school and home school,
which did you like the best?
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- I would say probably the home
school because you can dive into
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more what you are interested in,
I got to learn to ride horses
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and the opportunity was
much less when I was in school.
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- Oh yes! I guess so, they
don't usually have horses in
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grammar school. - Right!
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- What about, did you
have a garden at your house?
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- We did, in Lincoln we lived
in the city, but my step dad
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loved to garden so he pulled
up all the plants, the flowers
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and he planted tomatoes and
peppers, so we had just around
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the house. - He
plowed up the lawn and
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planted vegetables. - Yep!
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- Well that sounds
very innovative, what about
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in Michigan, did you have an
opportunity for a garden there?
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- In Michigan we
didn't have a garden.
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- You didn't have a
garden, and lived in a town!
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- Yes! - I see!
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Were you required to
do chores as you grew up?
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- Oh yes, lots of them! -
I see, How did you come to
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know the Lord? - I
guess for me partially
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you could say from me
growing up with my family!
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But for me one day sticks
in my head and I remember I was
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scrubbing the floor downstairs
at the bottom of the stairs
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and I was doing it very self
righteously because my brothers
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were out playing and I was
the only one working, so I was
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scrubbing this floor and
my step mom called me upstairs
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and I can't remember exactly
what the conversation was about
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but I remember that the Lord
really impressed me that I was
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a sinner and that I
really needed a Saviour,
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and so I asked her, well, what
do I do, and she repeated to me
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if we confess our sins He
is faithful and just to forgive
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us our sins and to cleanse
us from all unrighteousness,
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so we prayed and I
asked Jesus into my life.
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- That's very good, it
sounds as if you had a very good
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experience there
with your step mother.
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Now it seems that home
schooling, gardening, and
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home remedies go together,
did you practice home remedies
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in your home?
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- A little, to the
best of our ability.
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- Do you remember any
that you've practiced?
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- I did whenever I got a
sore throat my mom used to put a
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wash cloth around my throat
and I would sleep with it.
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- I see, well that's a good
remedy, actually the home remedy
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of putting a heating compress
around the throat, it's a very
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physiological remedy, one
that can do a lot of good for a
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sore throat, even for a cough
put the cloth around the neck,
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a heating compress around
the neck, the wash cloth with
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something around it to keep
it from evaporating, and then
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bind it on with a bandage,
let it stay on overnight
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then you will find that the
next morning you will have a
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much nicer throat than you
would have had if you had not
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used that very
nice physiologic remedy.
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Now I like to call the remedies
physiologic because they are
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based on physiologic principles.
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Don Miller, where were you born?
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I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio.
- Cincinnati, did you grow up
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there? - I grew up
in Cincinnati, Ohio!
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- Home schooled? - No,
no, no, I was one of those
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that went to school at five
years like everyone else did
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and we're told that some
boys especially should not go to
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school that early, I
remember distinctly my first day
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of schools in Kindergarten.
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In my school, it was
Oakley Elementary, it was a huge
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cavernous school there in
the Oakley suburb of Cincinnati,
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and there were two
kindergartens, one on one side
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it had windows all the
way around one side, it had a
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playground right outside,
it was a beautiful, beautiful
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dwelling, the other one
was way down in the basement
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next to the cafeteria, I
was assigned to the college prep
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kindergarten as it were, and
I remember that day walking in,
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my mother walked me to the
school, let me off at the door,
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and here I was the first
time away from my mother,
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away from my grandmother
and my great grandmother who I
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grew up with, and this
big lady walks up and she says
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what's your name?
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I looked up and my mouth fell
open and I couldn't say a word,
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and it wasn't to long
before they took me by the hand
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and led me down to the other
side of the building into the
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other kindergarten class,
and I believe that act marked me
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for the rest of my schooling
because I never liked school.
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Did not like school!
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- It's amazing that you
have gone on and on and on
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in school until now
you have a doctorate.
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But let me learn a
little bit more about schooling,
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you never had a
day of home schooling?
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- I can't remember a
day! - What about a garden?
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- Well, you know if I was home
schooled at all it was maybe
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if I got sick my grandmother
might have read to me, but
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at a certain point in my life
we bought a farm, we had a home
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in the city, and my grandmother
and greet grandmother lived
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on this farm where we had a
huge garden, and I did do a lot
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of gardening in the
summer time when I went up there
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and I loved the farm, I think
children should be out free as
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lambs in the gardens and in
the fields and that's where I
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loved it the best.
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- Yes! Now what
about home remedies?
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As I mentioned home schooling,
home remedies, and doing chores
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and gardening, they
seem to go together.
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You didn't have the
home schooling, only part of
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your life did you have
the garden, did you have the
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home remedies?
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- Well I can remember
when I had a bad sore throat,
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my mother would paint my throat
with iodine, that was a natural
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simple treatment back
then, I don't remember any other
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natural treatments in my young
life, just grin and bear it.
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- When you grew up did you have
any kind of military training?
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- Any type of military training!
I spent my entire adult life
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institutionalized.
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After college I joined
the Marine Corp, and I spent
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14 years in the Marine
Corp, three years enlisted,
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11 years officer, got out, I
spent one year in a small farm
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in Missouri, and then I
came to Uchee Pines, so I spent
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a lot of time in the Marine Corp
which I really attribute to why
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I am in pretty good shape now,
because you are very active.
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The more you are active as a
young person, the better it's
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going to protect you as an
older person, so I am thankful
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for that one part or
experience in the military.
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- That's good! What
about how did you become
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interested in natural remedies
then if you didn't have a lot
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when you were growing up?
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- Ok, when I was stationed in my
last duty station Cherry Point,
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North Carolina, I had
come back into the church,
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I was basically raised in
the church, left the church for
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a long period of time, came
back in when I came back from
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over seas in 75, in Key West,
Florida, I had a pastor and his
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wife who had just come to
that church, Pastor and Sister
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Zill and they loved me
into the church, I spent every
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afternoon on Sabbath in their
home up to the evening time.
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That's where I got my first
natural treatments, I had a
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bad cold one time and
Sister Zill 20 hot fomentations
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on my chest and back.
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She had been 20 years in
India and that's what they did
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over there, but when I
got to my last duty station
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Cherry Point, North Carolina,
I met another family in the
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church that were interested
in natural remedies...
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My mother went to a seminar
in her church in Cincinnati and
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there was a lady that came
to the church giving a seminar
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by the name of
Dr. Agatha Thrash.
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- Oh! - Yes! And
my mother always buys
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a stack of books, and she
sent me some of the books,
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one was Home Remedies, well I
look at this book and I shared
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it with my friend, this book
Home Remedies, and we thought
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well! let's do these things,
and then we got the wild idea
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let's have Dr. Thrash
come to our church, and
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it's interesting she
was on the tour at the time,
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and we called Uchee
Pines, and the word was passed
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to Dr. Thrash, yes! we can come
down we have a two day opening!
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Well I was out of the Marine
Corps by then, so I was out in
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Missouri but my friend found
out that you all have simple
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remedies in preventive medicine
seminars, and so two months
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after the Marine
Corp, you used to have a
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Christmas seminar, I was
at Uchee Pines December 1984,
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at a Simple Remedies of
Preventive Medicine Seminar.
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- Did anything ever happen when
you were growing up, or at any
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time in your life that
made it so that you could say,
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I developed an interest in the
human body and it's illnesses
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and how to treat it, did
anything of that nature ever
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direct your thoughts towards
eventually going in to this
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kind of work?
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- It's funny Dr. Thrash, I
was always interested in Anatomy
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and Physiology as a child,
I used to like to play with
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modeling clay, and I
would make little human beings
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out of modeling clay, with
all the little organs in there,
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and then I would put them
all together, and then I would
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open them up and I
would do operations.
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I had a teddy bear, I remember
getting a teddy bear as a
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young child, my poor teddy bear,
had surgical scars all over it.
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I like to do..., now this
is really natural remedies,
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maybe replacing some stuffing
is a natural remedy, but I was
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interested in these types of
things, but beyond that I really
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can't say that I had a
whole lot of interest in really
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natural things, I was sort of
into the tincture of cold steel.
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- Justina, did anything in
your life make it so that you
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developed in things medical?
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- Umm! For me I am kind of
like Don Miller, I always liked
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medical things that I would
learn, for natural remedies
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for me the thing that
really solidified it in my mind
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was when I was in Guyana
and I got to watch the people
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that would come to the clinic,
and we would treat them mostly
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worms and headache, but once
in awhile they would come in
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needing suturing. - I see!
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- And when I finished that I
felt really like this is what I
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want to do. -
Who did the suturing,
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did you have a physician there?
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- No there was a nurse!
- And she did the suturing?
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- She did the suturing! -
Really! Well you know it this
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country nurses don't do
suturing, you think she did a
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good job? - Yeah!
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- So a person may not need
especially to be graduated from
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a medical school and put the
M.D. after the name to be able
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to do some of these
procedures, is that correct?
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- Yes! That's
correct! - I believe that too,
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I think that while physicians
have been specially trained in
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this, we can train other people
in field situations, we need
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people trained so that a person
who is sick or injured need not
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suffer endlessly without some
kind of help that nurses and
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physical therapists, and
people who have been trained as
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Lifestyle Counselors, that all
of these kinds of people can be
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trained to do very
simple procedures that otherwise
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would not be done, or not be
done well, so I think we should
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train people to do these
procedures well so that they
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could go to any mission station
in the world and do a really
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quality work.
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How did you become interested
in the student program
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at Uchee Pines?
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- I was coming back to the
states from Guyana and thinking
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about where am I going to
go and to what place to get
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schooling, and different
members of my family had your
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book, so we heard of Uchee Pines
and so we just looked them up
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on the internet and learned
about the student program
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that way. - I see!
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How long have you
been at Uchee Pines now?
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- I think about
a year and a half!
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- A year and a half, you have
taken the lifestyle educator
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course, and the lifestyle
counselor course, and I was
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one of your teachers in both
of those courses, as we have
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been very happy to
have you as a student.
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Dr. Miller did you come
to Uchee Pines as a student?
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- No! No, it's funny, I came
to Uchee Pines as a result of a
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call to Uchee Pines, my friend
who was from North Carolina
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came to the same seminar,
he stayed on staff a year later
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he talked with the
administrator, the administrator
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gave me a call to come work
in public affairs and so I was
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working in public affairs
and my mindset was always,
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I don't have the time to take
a year off to take the course.
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The Lord is coming soon, there
is to much to do, I am going to
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do this work, but I kept hearing
the students coming and giving
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testimonies in front of our
assemblies about the wonderful
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experience with their patients
and all that they were doing
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and I was sitting there drooling
almost, thinking oh! I want this
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experience, and after three
years I decided I am going to
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take a year off, and of course
that was about 16 years ago
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that I took the year off
and took the course and I will
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be forever grateful to
take that year off and to study
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natural remedies that I
can be able to be a benefit to
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people right now
all around the world.
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- When you first
heard of natural remedies,
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I heard you
mention something about
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the cold steel and
doing these little operations.
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Did you believe from the start
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that natural
remedies would really work?
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- No! You know natural remedies
take us a little bit of faith
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to begin with, when you learn
a treatment you will receive
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I believe and opportunity
shortly thereafter to use that
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treatment and if you don't you
will loose it, but it's using
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the treatments over and over
again that really gives you an
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unbelievable profound
belief in these treatments,
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and I have had them work
on myself, as a matter of fact
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I let them work on me first.
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If I have a problem, I use
a natural remedy, when I see
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the unbelievable results
of the treatment it makes it
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in my mind a sure thing.
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When I was in the military,
if you get a cold you go to the
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dispensary and you ask for a
cold pack, now at Uchee Pines
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if you ask for a cold
pack, you'll get a bag of ice
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or something like this, a cold
fomentation, a cold sits bath
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or something.
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There is a bag of Cepacol
and aspirin and other things
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like this, and so I like
the simple remedies, having used
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them, and I have seen
miraculous results in using
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God's simple remedies, and
I am totally and completely
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convinced and convicted.
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- Justina how about you did
you look at natural remedies
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an you think,
well these will work?
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Was that your attitude also?
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No, I would say I was a doubter
until I saw them work on myself
00:19:51.68\00:19:59.45
and on others. - I
see, what cured your doubts,
00:19:59.48\00:20:02.91
was there some special remedy
that you had for a sickness
00:20:02.94\00:20:06.69
that worked?
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Do you remember any special
case of sickness that you had
00:20:07.70\00:20:13.17
and you had a
remedy work for you?
00:20:13.20\00:20:15.59
- I know I was sick once at
Uchee Pines and the girls were
00:20:15.62\00:20:21.63
like oh yes, let's work on
you, so they loaded me into the
00:20:21.66\00:20:26.86
bathtub for a fever treatment
and I remember I was kind of
00:20:26.89\00:20:31.40
surprised that it actually
worked and I didn't ever get
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really sick. - Yes!
That was my experience
00:20:34.97\00:20:38.13
too, I had no faith in it,
I really felt that we ought to
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do these remedies, because
they at least would not do any
00:20:43.28\00:20:46.63
harm, and you could support
the patient's psychologically
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until they just naturally got
well, but I don't know that I
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really understood, I
didn't understand that they were
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physiologic from the beginning,
but very shortly I began to
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recognize that they are based
on firm physiologic principles.
00:21:02.25\00:21:06.22
So I got out my physiology
books that I had had in
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medical school, I had
always loved physiology,
00:21:10.75\00:21:13.65
but it was mainly the
physics that I liked of it,
00:21:13.68\00:21:16.17
it was not the clinical
application of physiology.
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So I got out these books
and began to pour through them
00:21:18.93\00:21:22.47
again and study just how blood
vessels respond to such things
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as heat, and pressure,
and massage, and also how the
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chemistry of the body
responds to herbal remedies,
00:21:33.85\00:21:36.86
and it wasn't long before I
had firm faith in the simple
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remedies, just as firm faith
as I ever had, even in my most
00:21:42.67\00:21:48.67
adoring phase of loving
medicine, I have gotten so that
00:21:48.70\00:21:53.50
I have that same intense
faith in the simple remedies.
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Now we have graduation
once a year at Uchee Pines,
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we don't call it graduation,
we call it a dedication,
00:22:03.47\00:22:06.39
do you know why we
do that Dr. Miller?
00:22:06.42\00:22:09.74
- Well you know graduation
is not a bad term, basically
00:22:09.77\00:22:12.91
it probably comes through
something that graduates,
00:22:12.94\00:22:15.93
you go from one level to the
next level and truly graduation
00:22:15.96\00:22:20.39
is that, we've gone from one
level to the next but when we
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train our people it's not just
an academic training or even a
00:22:24.46\00:22:27.70
training in Anatomy and
Physiology and natural remedies
00:22:27.73\00:22:30.25
it's a holistic training where
we train the spiritual person
00:22:30.28\00:22:34.23
and mental person and social
person and the physical person
00:22:34.26\00:22:37.80
so we have classes in each
one of these facets, and so when
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they get done we're setting
them aside for a special work.
00:22:41.80\00:22:46.03
We believe that God
needs medical missionaries
00:22:46.06\00:22:48.33
in the last days and rather
than say of you're graduated,
00:22:48.36\00:22:51.67
move the tassel to the
other side, here's your paper
00:22:51.70\00:22:53.93
go to the other side of the
line, we have them come forward
00:22:53.96\00:22:57.77
and they kneel and the elders
come forward and lay their hands
00:22:57.80\00:23:00.92
upon them and we have a
dedication, dedicating them to a
00:23:00.95\00:23:04.07
work ahead of them because
there is a big work to do
00:23:04.10\00:23:06.42
all around the world, and we
have students from all around
00:23:06.45\00:23:09.20
the world who have come
to Uchee Pines, and right now
00:23:09.23\00:23:11.49
we have workers all over
the world and we dedicate them
00:23:11.52\00:23:14.89
setting them aside as something
special, so that's basically
00:23:14.92\00:23:19.33
why we do this Dr. Thrash.
00:23:19.36\00:23:20.87
- What are some of the places
in the world that Uchee Pines
00:23:20.90\00:23:24.94
has missionaries
practicing right now?
00:23:24.97\00:23:26.91
- Oh Wow! That's a tough
question to take off the top
00:23:26.94\00:23:30.70
of my head, we've got
them in Switzerland, France,
00:23:30.73\00:23:35.04
we're talking about graduates
from Uchee Pines, or people
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who have been trained by people
from Uchee Pines, we've got
00:23:38.05\00:23:40.40
them in Russia, Ukraine, Africa,
we've got them in the Far East,
00:23:40.43\00:23:46.02
Japan, Korea, India, matter of
fact your granddaughters right
00:23:46.05\00:23:50.85
now are practicing in India.
- Right now they are right there
00:23:50.88\00:23:54.00
in India, they went through
the Tsunami a few hundred
00:23:54.03\00:23:59.32
miles away, we were glad
for that, we have them also in
00:23:59.35\00:24:02.90
Nepal, and northern and southern
India, and South America,
00:24:02.93\00:24:10.56
and all over the Orient.
00:24:10.59\00:24:13.15
- I think every
where but Antarctica.
00:24:13.18\00:24:14.66
- Yes, and we have
sent missionaries there on
00:24:14.69\00:24:18.77
brief missions, no not
to Antarctica, yes, Arctic.
00:24:18.80\00:24:23.20
What are some of the ways
that our graduates find to work
00:24:23.23\00:24:29.77
when they leave Uchee Pines?
00:24:29.80\00:24:31.23
- It's a creative process,
there are calls all the time
00:24:31.26\00:24:35.62
of people needing, you know this
Macedonian call is out there,
00:24:35.65\00:24:39.11
now we have some missionaries,
some graduates from Uchee Pines
00:24:39.14\00:24:42.88
who have gone with Adventist
Frontier Missions and they are
00:24:42.91\00:24:47.25
serving right now, and have
served with Adventist Frontier
00:24:47.28\00:24:49.72
Missions, so that's a
ready place to take people up.
00:24:49.75\00:24:52.73
We have had our graduates go
to other institutions that we
00:24:52.76\00:24:55.50
are associated with, and
we have helped to establish,
00:24:55.53\00:24:59.18
there are a couple in Ukraine,
and we are working on a third
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one in Ukraine, we've got
places in France and all around
00:25:04.09\00:25:08.11
the world and so basically
these places, Uchee Pines is
00:25:08.14\00:25:11.85
always needing qualified workers
and so many times we absorb
00:25:11.88\00:25:15.47
them into ourselves.
00:25:15.50\00:25:16.60
But many times as people
coming from a foreign country
00:25:16.63\00:25:19.53
getting the training and going
home to help their own people.
00:25:19.56\00:25:23.02
We've got people go back
into regular jobs, but they are
00:25:23.05\00:25:26.46
trained to do home to
home- work, we've got people who
00:25:26.49\00:25:30.27
work in Sanitariums
and help start Sanitariums,
00:25:30.30\00:25:33.02
we had one person come for
a seminar, you might remember
00:25:33.05\00:25:36.98
Phil Brewer a number of years
ago came for a two week seminar
00:25:37.01\00:25:39.41
went home and started a
Sanitarium in British Colombia.
00:25:39.44\00:25:42.12
- Yes, it functioned for
many years, until he retired.
00:25:42.15\00:25:46.01
Yes, they did a wonderful
work there, any overseas places
00:25:46.04\00:25:50.73
that your have been to that
were started by Uchee Pines?
00:25:50.76\00:25:53.42
- Well I remember there was
a place called Nash Dom in the
00:25:53.45\00:25:56.56
little village of Naviabyhoti?
in Ukraine, that I was there
00:25:56.59\00:26:02.10
and I worked training the
workers who worked in there
00:26:02.13\00:26:04.73
and helped finish the building
and when it opened a couple of
00:26:04.76\00:26:07.89
winters ago, it was opened with
people who had been trained by
00:26:07.92\00:26:13.00
Uchee Pines, there was
some Uchee Piners and other
00:26:13.03\00:26:14.99
institutions, Wildwood is
involved in this, Koriukivka
00:26:15.02\00:26:19.45
down near the city of Nikolaev
was basically started by
00:26:19.48\00:26:22.43
a doctor who... One
of the people who started
00:26:22.46\00:26:25.28
it who came into the knowledge
of this through a seminar that
00:26:25.31\00:26:28.26
we gave in Ukraine in 1995,
Riverside Farms, there is a
00:26:28.29\00:26:34.62
Sanitarium being built, it might
be built by now called Riverview
00:26:34.65\00:26:39.17
I've gone over there and trained
the workers there, the students
00:26:39.20\00:26:42.83
there and so that's just a
very few of them, so there are
00:26:42.86\00:26:46.95
institutions literally all
around the world that we've got
00:26:46.98\00:26:50.09
our fingerprints on.
00:26:50.12\00:26:51.17
- Yes! And there are also some
home institutions where a person
00:26:51.20\00:26:55.94
who has been trained at
Uchee Pines will take in to
00:26:55.97\00:26:59.91
her or his home, a patient
or two and do what they can
00:26:59.94\00:27:05.92
for the patient, we
have one of these in New York
00:27:05.95\00:27:09.73
and one in California,
we have one in Colorado,
00:27:09.76\00:27:13.13
there are some all over, many
that I am not even remembering.
00:27:13.16\00:27:17.65
We have one in Puerto Rico
that's functioning today just
00:27:17.68\00:27:21.95
a person trained at Uchee Pines
decided to take people into
00:27:21.98\00:27:27.02
their own homes and do a quality
work there, the same kind of
00:27:27.05\00:27:32.09
thing that we do at Uchee Pines.
00:27:32.12\00:27:34.20
We have a person in
Jamaica, many people in Jamaica,
00:27:34.23\00:27:38.74
who are doing
this same kind of work.
00:27:38.77\00:27:40.95
It's a really wonderful work,
we are thankful to be in this
00:27:40.98\00:27:45.11
work, it's a solid work,
a substantive work, and it's
00:27:45.14\00:27:49.51
especially blessed by
God, we love being there,
00:27:49.54\00:27:52.75
we hope that you will come and
visit us at Uchee Pines any time
00:27:52.78\00:27:55.98
you have the urge.
00:27:56.01\00:27:57.21