Participants: Agatha Thrash (Host), Don Miller
Series Code: HYTH
Program Code: HYTH000216
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00:01 If you were to stand by in most doctors offices today
00:04 and listen to the presenting complaint of the patient 00:08 you would find that in many instances, 00:12 maybe the majority of times, the patient would say 00:15 I have an allergy doctor, is there something you can do 00:19 for me. 00:20 Well there are some things that can be done 00:22 for people with allergies, and we would like to talk 00:24 about some of these issues in this program, 00:27 so we hope you will be with us during it. 00:48 Welcome to Help Yourself to Health with Dr. Agatha Thrash, 00:52 of Uchee Pines Institute, and now here is your host, 00:56 Dr. Thrash. 00:57 A host of disorders are associated with a sensitivity 01:04 or an allergy. 01:06 There are a number of these that if you will pay very close 01:11 attention to some very common things, 01:13 very simple things, you will find that your ability 01:19 to live successfully in life with good health 01:22 and being happy, will be very much better 01:26 than if you didn't know these very simple things. 01:29 Such as overweight, being a sensitivity 01:33 or allergic reaction. 01:35 Not everybody is agreeing with that statement but 01:40 there are enough people I think, who have proven that 01:44 one of the reasons why they are overweight is 01:47 because they are addicted to a food. 01:50 Now an addiction to a food almost always means that 01:53 the person has a sensitivity to that food. 01:56 Let us say that a person just loves sweets, 02:01 they are so into sweets that they would rather die 02:07 than not have their sweet things for their meals. 02:10 You take the sweet things away, say for three months 02:14 and they never even think of them again, 02:17 unless they see them. 02:19 When they see them, then they remember ah! 02:22 I used to be addicted to that, and they want to have it again. 02:26 Just like with drug addiction, which is also to some degree 02:30 a sensitivity a capturing of the immune system 02:34 so that the immune system becomes unable to resist 02:39 or to tell the mind that it should resist 02:42 that particular drug. 02:44 So if you know someone who is overweight, 02:48 or you yourself struggle with a weight problem 02:51 try eliminating some of those favorite foods 02:55 that you have, that food that you think, 02:57 I just couldn't live happily without this food. 03:00 Eliminate that and see if that simple thing does not 03:03 make it so you can live happily in life. 03:07 Don't forget that there are so many foods 03:10 that you will not go hungry and you will not come to 03:13 not enjoy your food. 03:15 If you lived in one country as compared to living in another 03:21 you would find that often you would love the foods 03:26 served in that country. 03:27 If you moved to another country you adopt their lifestyle, 03:31 their diet, you will find that you love the food 03:34 served in that country, maybe after a little 03:37 adjustment period. 03:39 So give yourself the opportunity to get rid of those foods 03:42 to which you are sensitive or to which you are allergic 03:46 and see if that doesn't help you with your weight. 03:48 Now I have Dr. Don Miller with me today, 03:51 and he is going to talk about a very prominent 03:55 fortunately not highly common disease called Asthma. 04:01 Dr. Miller tell us about asthma. 04:03 Well it may not be highly common, but it's becoming 04:06 more common in the last decade, and it's gone up by 04:08 one third, it's a major problem for people who have it 04:12 and it's becoming a major problem in really 04:15 developed countries. 04:16 It is not so much of a problem in countries 04:18 that are not developed, because there are certain things 04:20 about asthma that are going to be, causing asthma 04:26 in lifestyle. 04:27 Now there are two types of asthma, 04:28 we'll start with intrinsic, and there's extrinsic. 04:31 The extrinsic is basically from an outside source, 04:34 it could be from a pollutant of some sort, from pollen, 04:38 from animal dander, from the food that you eat. 04:40 Then there's intrinsic asthma which could be caused by 04:44 emotional upset, infection, exercise, cold breeze 04:50 in the face, various things can cause it, 04:52 but basically has nothing to do with an allergic reaction 04:56 to something else. 04:57 But we're going to see that both of them basically have 04:59 the same reaction on the body. 05:01 It's going to cause a swelling of the bronchial tree, 05:05 basically a muscle tightening of the little bronchi 05:09 through which the air travels, plus the mucous becomes thicker 05:12 in there, and the person has a hard time exhaling. 05:15 They can inhale pretty well ok, but it's exhaling 05:19 where they get their problem. 05:21 There are a few things we can do for a person who has asthma, 05:26 and one is we need to lower what we call the 05:29 allergy threshold, because 80% of the people are extrinsic 05:34 asthmatics. 05:36 It basically means that something from the outside, 05:39 they are allergic to something out there, 05:40 so what we want to do is lower that threshold. 05:44 We have various thresholds that we go through in life. 05:48 We have a thing called the pain threshold, some people 05:50 just looking at something painful makes them hurt. 05:55 I remember when I was a child, when the doctors used to make 05:58 home calls, and I would be sick and he would come in, 06:00 and always, it seemed like his favorite thing was to open 06:04 up that big black bag and pull out that big long needle. 06:08 As soon as I saw the needle I hurt, I mean I started crying 06:11 because I knew it was going to hurt me, and so that is 06:14 a threshold, some people's threshold is very high, 06:16 and they can take a lot. 06:17 Same thing with allergies, there are some people who, 06:22 it's a blessing from God, that their immune system is 06:25 so strong, their bodies are so strong that they aren't 06:28 allergic to very many things. 06:30 I have always fallen in that class, now as you get older 06:33 you start to loose some of this immunity. 06:36 This takes something like poison ivy, 06:38 I've never been allergic to that stuff, and foods, 06:41 I don't know of anything that I am allergic to. 06:43 So we need to lower though if we are allergic to things, 06:48 allergic threshold, if you are allergic to dust, and 06:51 to animal dander, and to cockroaches, the little dander 06:55 that they live along, that's one of the big causes that 06:59 as a matter of fact they find that many children growing up 07:01 in areas where there's lots of cockroaches have Asthma 07:04 and they are tracing it to all those little black things 07:06 you see in your closets. 07:08 That can be a very prolific cause of the asthma in children. 07:13 So we lower that threshold as much as possible. 07:16 There are a few other things we can do: 07:18 One is we need to stay well hydrated. 07:21 Mucous is in our lungs on purpose, it covers the 07:25 little cilia and basically we breathe something in 07:28 that got past the hairs in our nose and all the protections 07:31 and it gets down in to our lungs, it sticks to this mucous 07:34 and the cilia is always sweeping it up and we end up 07:38 either expectorating it, spitting it out, 07:40 or we swallow these different things. 07:42 But it can become very, very thick, and we need to drink 07:46 plenty of water to keep it from getting so thick. 07:49 Another thing that we can do if a person has asthma 07:52 is teach them how to play a wind instrument. 07:55 Blowing causes some back pressure and it causes the 08:00 bronchial tree to sort of expand a little bit, 08:04 and so somebody who is learning to play the trumpet 08:07 or the tuba, or some type of instrument, 08:08 get them a set of bagpipes, that will really open it up, 08:12 it will open up that bronchial tree. 08:15 Let's say somebody's getting ready to have an asthma attack 08:20 put their lips to their hand, and have a very small hole 08:26 in your fist and blow very hard, that gives some 08:31 back pressure and can expand it, or have them 08:34 blow up a balloon, or blow through a straw. 08:37 A person who has asthma needs to learn how to 08:40 breathe deeply, and should practice drawing air 08:45 through the nose, and blowing it out through 08:48 pursed lips, and see how long they can blow it out 08:53 and they need to make sure that they are completely 08:55 exhaling all the air they have in there. 08:57 This is going to give you some good lung health anyway. 08:59 It will help to keep those muscles that surround 09:02 the bronchi strong and supple and keep them expanding out. 09:06 There's other things we can do, garlic is probably bar-none 09:12 the best herb that you can take for an asthma person 09:15 and especially an asthma attack. 09:17 So when going into an asthma attack, have somebody make them 09:21 a cup of garlic tea. 09:23 Just take some hot water, chop up a couple of garlic in there, 09:26 put in the water stir it up, and have them drink it. 09:29 Now often, and that's all you have is water and garlic 09:32 often that will cause the gag response and sometimes 09:36 to the point of throwing up. 09:37 Now if you have ever regurgitated, ever thrown up 09:39 you know what happens when you do, once it's all out 09:42 you are going to find that you have a runny nose, 09:44 and watery eyes. 09:45 This is a reaction the body goes through, 09:48 which is a perfect reaction for somebody who is having 09:51 an asthma attack. 09:52 Throwing up loosens up the secretions of the lungs 09:56 and of the body, and allows things to flow more freely. 09:59 The nice thing about garlic, and you'll find this out just 10:03 take a piece of garlic, and when after you've eaten it, 10:06 when do you first know, or somebody else first know 10:09 that you've eaten it, it's expressed through the mouth. 10:13 So as you take the garlic, it expresses itself through 10:17 the lungs which is what you are smelling 10:19 when a person breathes out 10:21 and so it's very good for the lungs. 10:23 Another very good herb is mullein, M-U-L-L-E-I-N. 10:28 The person should be drinking Mullein tea if they are having 10:31 an asthma attack, another thing and excellent treatment 10:35 for someone having an asthma attack, we give you two simple 10:37 treatments: 1. You apply hot to the back of the neck, 10:42 and hot to the chest, at the same time, 10:47 but the very best one, and I heard a doctor talking about 10:48 this one time, and her son was an asthmatic, 10:51 and he was having a severe asthma attack, to the point 10:54 she could no longer pick up lung sounds in his breathing, 10:58 he was getting some air in there, 10:59 but he was in serious condition. 11:01 She laid him down on the bed with his head hanging over, 11:05 put a basin on the floor under his head, and the got a gallon 11:09 of cold water, held it about two feet above his head, 11:13 and slowly poured it so it hit the nape of his neck, 11:17 because his head was hanging down, it ran over 11:19 the back of the head, down over the forehead, 11:22 and into the basin on the floor. 11:24 Pouring it slowly so it took between sixty and ninety seconds 11:29 for this water to be completely poured out of this gallon jug, 11:33 and it reversed the asthmatic attack. 11:37 So simple things that you can do 11:39 if you are having an asthma attack. 11:41 It is a serious problem, some people even die of an 11:45 asthma attack, and so know what to do, get the garlic out, 11:47 do the cold water, do the fomentations, 11:50 open up that bronchial tree, blow in your hand, 11:52 and send a prayer upstairs, and Dr. Thrash I've seen 11:56 this happen, and I've seen it work for people. 11:58 Yes, we're very confident that these things can help. 12:02 One of the things that has increased the death rate 12:07 from asthma, the standard people feel that the main thing 12:14 has been the increase in the great variety of drugs 12:18 used for asthma. 12:19 Not necessarily that asthma is getting so much worse, 12:24 intrinsically, but it's being treated in ways that 12:29 put such a stress on the body that, that can be the thing 12:33 that increases the death rate. 12:34 There are ways that you can test yourself for allergies, 12:38 one of the best ways is elimination and challenge diet. 12:42 There is another one called the pulse test, 12:46 I don't know if it works or not, it seems to work but, 12:49 it may not work for you. 12:51 Here is the way that it's done, you will see immediately 12:54 why it's not so popular. 12:55 A person sits for ten minutes and is at rest before 13:00 they begin their "meal," and the meal is going to be 13:04 of just one item, so after the ten minutes are up, 13:09 then with a stop watch preferably, but if not, 13:12 for one full minute using a watch with a second hand, 13:15 test what the pulse rate is and write it down. 13:20 Then the single food is eaten, the whole meal is made 13:24 of that single food, nothing else. 13:27 Then at fifteen minutes after beginning eating that food, 13:31 take the pulse again, using preferably a stop watch, 13:35 then at thirty minutes, then at sixty minutes. 13:38 Then the person's pulse rates, all three of these, 13:46 are checked to see if there is an elevation in the pulse rate. 13:51 If there is an elevation of more than ten points, 13:56 then that food is one that probably is causing you to have 14:02 an allergy to it. 14:03 Now there are so many things that can interfere, 14:06 if you get excited during the meal, if somebody comes 14:09 to visit during the meal, if you have to get up and 14:12 get something for someone else during the meal, 14:16 then that's going to make you so that you're not in the 14:18 resting state. 14:20 Most people will not be very happy to learn that they 14:24 can only have one food at a meal, and if they check 14:28 themselves in this way, they only want to do one of these 14:31 per week, well that stretches it out quite a long time. 14:34 The elimination and challenge diet is the one that I use 14:37 almost all of the time, and it's very simple to use, 14:40 maybe not any more acceptable to the patient. 14:44 Well I guess it is a good bit more acceptable 14:48 than the pulse test, eating only a single food. 14:51 But what happens is that a list of foods that are known 14:54 to be allergenic types of foods. 14:57 They of course begin with dairy products, 14:59 since that's the food that causes more allergies 15:03 and disabilities, than any other food that we eat. 15:06 It causes 60% of them, hands down. 15:09 Then the second one is coffee, tea, colas, and chocolate. 15:13 Then the third is citrus foods and juices, 15:15 and so forth, you can get a list of them from any allergist 15:19 who is practicing today, or you can get one from a library 15:23 or from the internet. 15:24 You can also get it from our web site, which you can 15:28 obtain by simply logging on to 3abn. org and then 15:33 you find Uchee Pines and click on that ucheepines. org 15:38 and we will be happy to provide that for you. 15:41 Then once the symptoms of the allergy have gone away 15:48 then the person starts adding back a food, one every 15:52 five to seven days, until you run across a food that makes 15:56 your symptoms come back. 15:57 Once the symptom comes back, then you start making 16:00 a list and wait until the symptom..., you eliminate 16:05 whatever food it was that caused it, 16:06 then wait until your symptoms have gone, add another 16:10 food back, and you keep on doing this until you have 16:14 discovered all those foods that cause you to have a problem. 16:17 We find this to be the most reliable and essentially 16:22 the most simple way of finding those foods to which 16:26 one is allergic. 16:27 Now always somebody asks well I want to find those foods 16:32 that I'm allergic to, that I can take a shot, so that I 16:34 won't have it any more. 16:35 If you know a shot like that, that's good, but most people 16:42 are not able to find such a shot. 16:45 Avoidance is still the very most important remedy 16:52 for allergies, so until you know some better method 16:57 then the safest..., we don't know about the safety 17:00 of these shots, the safest method, and also that one 17:04 that is most likely to bring you success is the elimination 17:08 and challenge diet. 17:10 Now Dr. Miller is going to talk about the subject of hay fever 17:14 which is another very common cause of allergies. 17:17 It is a common cause of allergies, 17:19 I would say at the onset, it's not so much to do with hay, 17:22 and it's not so much to do with fever. 17:23 It can have to do with hay, because hay produces pollen, 17:30 produces dust, but fever is not usually one of the symptoms. 17:34 You've got a reddening of the eyes, you've got running 17:36 of the nose, you've got itching and scratching, 17:38 and sneezing and dripping, and it's just not a very good 17:42 experience, and some people really suffer 17:44 with this particular problem, 17:46 it's really an allergic rhinitis, 17:50 it's something happening in the nose, and it's normally caused 17:53 by pollens or molds that are in the air. 17:57 I've know people who have walked into basements 17:59 that were completely moldy and gotten an attack 18:02 just from taking one breath in the basement, 18:04 we got to be careful where we're at. 18:05 It's often seasonal, and what seasons? 18:10 It's usually going to be in the spring and in the fall 18:12 when the pollens are most likely to be in the air. 18:16 Living down in Alabama where we are, 18:18 in the spring time, our cars will be yellow 18:22 puddles will be yellow with the pollen coming from the 18:24 pine trees, and people who are allergic to that particular 18:28 pollen, have a miserable time for that two or three week 18:32 period of time, and then it's gone. 18:34 Now the person seems to have this problem all the time 18:38 then it could be another cause, it could be related to 18:41 some food that they are eating, it could be related to something 18:45 that they have in their home, like an animal, or other things 18:48 like this. 18:49 So what they need to do is to try to fare it out, 18:51 if you have hay fever, what we call hay fever 18:54 all the time, find out what it is, it could be the feathers 18:57 in your pillow, it could be the dust on your floor, 19:00 find out what these things are and eliminate them. 19:03 I've already talked about the allergy threshold, 19:06 find out what yours is. 19:08 Now the thing about the allergy threshold, is our immune systems 19:12 are able to endure so much, and the stronger we make our 19:16 immune system, the less we're going to have the 19:18 allergic reactions to foods and other things 19:21 in our environment, because you are not going to be able 19:23 to avoid dust, you are not going to be able to avoid pollen 19:26 unless you live in a bubble, and I don't recommend that 19:29 as a good place to live. 19:30 You are out in the world, learn how to get your body well, 19:33 but there are some simple things that you can do 19:36 for this thing. 19:37 Now ragweed is 75% responsible for hay fevers, 19:43 so during ragweed season maybe it is best to try to stay 19:47 upwind of the ragweed, although it's going to be all over 19:50 the place, in many places that you are. 19:53 Emotions can also precipitate a hay fever reaction, 19:59 and so try to keep your emotions under control. 20:02 You know we worry about things and we fret about things, 20:05 and we get angry about things, we need to learn 20:07 to just sit there and just rest in the Lord, and say Lord, 20:10 I can't handle this problem it's much to big with me, 20:13 He says come unto me, all ye that labored and heavy laden 20:16 and I will give you rest from your worries, your cares, 20:19 your troubles, your angers, He says I will take all of these 20:21 on Myself, you just take my yoke, and I think these are good 20:24 suggestions that you can do. 20:26 You need to be on a good diet, and that's without 20:30 saying if you are on a good healthy diet, 20:32 we strengthen our immune system, we strengthen our bodies 20:35 to be able to ward off some of these viscous attacks 20:39 by our environments today. 20:41 Grape seed extract, a very good remedy that you take 20:47 it's a thing that you can buy in a health food store 20:50 it has a lot of bioflavonoids and anti-allergenic properties 20:55 in there, and what they do is strengthen the cell walls 20:59 of your basophiles and your mast cells, now these 21:02 are the ones when they burst open, they release 21:04 allergic chemicals. 21:05 If we could strengthen those cells, we won't have so much 21:09 of an allergic reaction, so grape seed extract 21:11 is very, very good, for someone who has these problems 21:14 and I recommend that if you are getting ready to suffer 21:16 with it, or are suffering with it, give it a try, 21:19 it can't hurt to try it. 21:20 Garlic, extremely good for congestion, 21:24 you can take garlic tea, you can just chop it up and eat it, 21:27 however you want to take it, 21:28 it will help with allergic reactions. 21:30 Drink plenty of water, get plenty of exercise, 21:33 and if you are having a particularly bad attack, 21:36 try a hot foot bath, putting your feet in hot water 21:38 will sit there by just derivation, 21:41 draw blood down from the upper part of the body, 21:45 relieving congestion in the face and your nose area 21:49 and in the chest, and you can find some good results 21:52 just from something as simple as a hot foot bath. 21:55 I like God's simple remedies Dr. Thrash. 21:57 Yes, there not only simple, but there inexpensive. 21:59 One of the problems that we associate with an allergy is 22:03 that of Eczema 22:04 It often comes on the hands so that the entire hand, 22:07 the back of the hand and the front of the hand, 22:09 or the palm of the hand, may be involved in it 22:13 and it starts out with tiny little cracks in the skin, 22:17 that follow the skin lines as well on the palm, 22:22 as on the backside, and these little cracks can be 22:25 widened by scratching, and they are itchy. 22:28 So the person scratches, that widens the little cracks, 22:32 and then you get a red rash too, and the little cracks 22:36 may actually become oblivious to the little cracks 22:42 because they have been buried in the rash 22:46 that comes following it. 22:48 So you don't really realize that what you have done 22:50 has caused the rash. 22:52 So here is what you must do, if the Eczema on the hands 22:58 is caused by something you are contacting every day 23:03 such as dish water, or cleaning agents, or just water with 23:09 the things with the purifying agents in it that come from 23:13 the municipal water supply where you get your water. 23:16 These things can cause an Eczema in some people, 23:19 so if they keep the hands covered with Vaseline 23:24 that will help to a large degree to get rid of the Eczema. 23:30 This is one of the treatments of choice when you have 23:33 the Eczema with these..., sometimes they will weep 23:36 in these little cracks, so take a lump of Vaseline, 23:41 just about the size of a large bean, 23:44 put that in the hand, and then wet the hand with 23:48 a little water, and then rub it around like that, 23:51 and it takes a good bit of effort to do that, because 23:54 friction develops, once you try to emulsify 23:57 with the water, and so your hands don't slide 24:03 as nicely as they do with a hand lotion. 24:06 Once you have made an emulsion, which will look sort of milky 24:09 on the hands, then you smooth that over the hands 24:14 in the direction of the skin lines, 24:16 not against the skin lines, which would open up these 24:20 little cracks again, so you need to be careful 24:23 about that point. 24:24 Then there are some things that you can take 24:27 in the way of supplements, Bee Pollen is one of those, 24:31 Ashwagandha is one of the things that you can take 24:34 that can be very helpful, Quercitin which is common 24:38 in onions, very good constituent in onions 24:41 that can also be very helpful. 24:44 Of course Stinging Nettle, one of the herbs we always use 24:50 for any kind of allergy, for hay fever, 24:52 for any allergy, for an addiction, such as an addiction 24:58 to foods or whatever. 25:00 We always use Stinging Nettle, that's probably when you hear 25:05 allergy, immediately you should think Stinging Nettle. 25:09 Then Cat's Claw and coleus, a number of herbs that can be 25:13 used for Eczema. 25:16 Painful menstruation is thought to be due to a food sensitivity 25:23 so you should give it a try, and see if you find that, 25:27 that is a factor in that person's painful menstruation. 25:33 Dr. Miller do you have any other thing you would like to share 25:37 on the whole topic of allergies? 25:39 Well, we were talking about thing that I really have never 25:41 had problem with, one of which is poison ivy, 25:44 poison oak, or poison sumac, I'm not allergic 25:47 to these things, so if you have it, call me over 25:49 I'll pull it off the trees, I'll pull it out of your gardens 25:52 because it just doesn't affect me, but for some people 25:54 like my mother, if she is down wind from where they, 25:57 are burning it, she'll get poison ivy. 26:00 It's got this volatile oil that gets on to the skin, 26:04 and it can cause an extreme allergic reaction 26:07 to a human body. 26:08 Animals don't get it, but this is another problem 26:11 your dog or your cat is out there playing, and it comes home 26:14 and you pet the dog or cat, the oil is on the dog or 26:17 the cat skin, you get it on your skin, and now you have it, 26:21 that's a major problem. 26:22 Now for everything noxious out there, I believe that 26:25 God has a solution, right in the area, if you find where 26:29 poison ivy is growing and you know that you have come in 26:31 contact with it, there is usually in the area some 26:34 Jewel Weed or some Virginia Creeper, you just take this, 26:38 and take some of the leaves and crush them 26:40 up in your hands, and rub some of the moisture from 26:44 these leaves over the area where you have come in contact. 26:47 Now you want to if you have been in contact with poison ivy 26:50 and you are allergic to it, wash yourself right away. 26:53 You can use some basically yellow detergent is very good, 26:58 some good detergent and you flush your skin, wash it well 27:02 flush it well, it is very nice for that. 27:05 Sometimes we get the itching, you don't want to scratch it, 27:08 you can use oatmeal baths, put oatmeal in a sock 27:11 and put it in water and sort of dab that on there. 27:13 Saline on cloths wrapped around there is very good, 27:16 Aloe Vera is astringent that is very good, 27:19 you can make some golden seal paste is very good. 27:22 A few simple things you can do, but I guess the best 27:25 thing you do Dr. Thrash is don't get it, 27:27 and if you have it near your home, get rid of it 27:29 and you won't have the problem. 27:30 Avoidance is again one of the best ways to deal with 27:35 an allergy, another thing is to make certain that your home 27:40 is free from all of these kinds of allergenic substances 27:44 as well as you can make it. 27:46 Our divine designer has also designed nature so that 27:51 it can be our helpers in these things, and I hope you will 27:54 learn to love our Heavenly Father more because of the 27:57 study on allergies. |
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