Hello! We breathe so frequently
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we don't think anything about
it, it never crosses our mind
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until something happens
to the nose or the throat,
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or the lungs, and
then we know that we have a
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respiratory tree.
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It's not just
lungs, it's a whole tree,
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we'll be talking about
things that can go wrong,
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and we hope that we can
tell you a lot of things to do
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about things that can go
wrong with the respiratory tree,
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we hope that you will
join us for the program.
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Welcome to Help
Yourself to Health,
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with Dr. Agatha Thrash
of Uchee Pines Institute,
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and now here is
your host Dr. Thrash.
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I think that stopping
of the breathing process
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is one of the most frightening
that we have, probably even more
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frightening than pain in the
chest, which we think might be
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a heart attack.
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When we can't get air into the
the nose, or we can't open up
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the lungs properly,
that can cause real anxiety.
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So we will be talking about
a few things that can help us
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to know just what to do when
we have these kinds of things,
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and what things we should not
do so that the respiratory tree
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can act the best.
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So I would like to invite you
to come with me while we make
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some of these explanations,
and I have asked Rhonda Clark
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to come with me and give some
talk about just how we can think
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about one kind of
problem, Rhonda how are you?
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- I'm fine.
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- Welcome to our program today,
and you are going to talk about
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a very umm, it's not an
unusual thing, but it has an
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unusual name.
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- It does, we will
be talking today about
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Lady Windermere's Syndrome.
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- Lady Windermere.
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- Lady Windermere is the name
of a person who was a character
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in a play written by Oscar
Wilde, a Victorian Era Play,
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and she was most fastidious,
and that is why her name
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was particularly
chosen for this condition,
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because it is most frequently
seen in individuals who
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habitually suppress the cough.
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It is a bacterial infection
and it's formal name is
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micro-bacterium avium complex,
and that micro-bacterium
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might make you think,
oh, that's the same bacteria
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that causes tuberculosis.
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It is in the same family
but not nearly as serious
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a condition.
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Lady Windermere Syndrome
is found most commonly in
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thin post-menopausal
women who are non-smokers,
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it also can occur in
men who have underlying
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respiratory disease, or
in men who have occupations
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that put them frequently
in contact with water vapor.
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It's interesting that water
vapor seems to be the thing
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that is the avenue in which
the bacteria enters the lungs,
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this bacteria is found in soil
and water, animals carry it,
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it's found in milk, but
it's most commonly believed to
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be water vapor, such as people
might inhale from a humidifier,
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a hot tub, or an
occupation where they are around
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water vapor, that causes
the bacteria to enter the lungs.
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You might imagine Dr. Thrash
that one of the most important
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parts of treating this
syndrome is healthy deep
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coughing, and making sure
that our respiratory tract
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is as healthful as possible.
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- Yes, breathing
deeply encourages blood flow
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to the lungs and to the bronchi
and that keeps the healthy.
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- Yes! In the presence of fresh
country air, fresh air that
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isn't filled with pollution
the cilia, the little hair like
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structures that line our
respiratory tract are able
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to work more efficiently,
so deep breathing of fresh air
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is one part of
healing this syndrome.
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Another part is very
logical, avoid the source of the
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water vapor, otherwise some of
the treatments that we will be
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demonstrating on the
show today may be of benefit.
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There are simple home remedies
that can help relieve the
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chest congestion, if
you are familiar with simple
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home remedies, you may
know that chest fomentations
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would be very in order for this.
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Inhalation treatments of
antibiotic herbs may be of
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of benefit, and taking
antibiotic herbs such as
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Echinacea, Golden Seal,
garlic would also be of benefit
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in helping to treat the this
interestingly named condition.
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- Garlic! Is
garlic good for the lungs?
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- Oh, garlic is
excellent for the lungs.
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- Ok, there are a couple
of reasons that I can think:
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One is that it keeps
other people from being to close
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to you, who might have some
kind of germ that you might get.
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- Uh hu!
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- But another is, the reason
that people don't want to come
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near you if you have
been eating to much garlic,
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and that is that the garlic
is excreted through the lungs.
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Is there something about
garlic itself that makes it so
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that it is good
for germs in the lungs?
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- It has several properties
that are beneficial in this way,
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garlic is amazing in that
it fights against bacteria,
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viruses, all types of
pathogens and as it is excreted
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from the lungs, it does
help break apart congestion,
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relieving things that
can freely be expressed,
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and it helps us get rid of
that bacteria down in the lungs.
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- So that would be good also
for asthma then, wouldn't it?
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- Indeed! Yes!
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- An acute attack of
asthma can be nicely treated
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with the garlic.
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- Yes!
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- Well, thank you so
much, I appreciate knowing about
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the Lady Windermere's Syndrome,
I will try to remember that.
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Lady Windermere, and
it's a micro-bacterium.
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- Yes! - Thank you so much.
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- You're welcome.
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- Now another thing that we will
talk about is a sore throat,
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with a sore throat the biggest
problem is the pain that one has
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with swallowing, and I have
asked Cal Thrash to show to us
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something about the sore throat,
and Cal, you are home based at
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Uchee Pines, is that
right? - That's correct!
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- Are you a long
time resident there?
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- Oh yes! I was there
from the beginning, 1970.
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- From 1970, and
what do you do there now?
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- I am the president, which
means that no one really knows
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what I do.
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- You do anything from
janitorial to talking on
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the phone to anybody who calls.
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- Seriously the usual things
are the administrative duties,
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and I teach in some of the
classes that we have there also.
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- So you teach, if they
need a preacher, you preach,
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if they need a janitor
you do janitoring work.
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- Mow the lawn,
do a little bit more.
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- Alright, and today you
are going to do something else,
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you are going to tell us about
how to put on a heating compress
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and cure a sore throat.
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- Well the theory behind a
heating compress is very simple
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actually, the action that
you want to do is to heat up
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the throat, and the
reason why you want to do that
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is to bring blood flow
into the throat area so that
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the blood can then
assist the immune system in
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taking the sore throat
away, and of course that's
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a very simple thing, but
because our throats are exposed
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most of the time,
it is difficult to do,
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and so I've asked
Arianna Hartsfield if she would
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come over here and then we
can explain exactly how we are
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going to do the
heating compress.
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The heating compress is...
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- Arianna Hartsfield is one of
our elementary school students.
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- You remember Mom when my kids
were young, your grandchildren,
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that they made
these as a school project,
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and they called
them horse collars,
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- horse
collars, I remember those
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- for when you are
really horse they use them.
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- They sell these
as a school project.
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- The action of cold on
the skin is of course to cool,
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but the reaction of the
body to the cold is to heat up
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the area, and that's
of course what we want,
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so we have wet this strip down
a little bit with cold water
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and then we put it on the neck,
is that a little bit on the
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chilly side? - Um hum!
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Ok, but it starts to
heat up quite quickly,
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and then we cover that
with this thin strip of plastic
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which keeps the heat in and
also keeps the moisture from
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evaporating to quickly,
and then we cover all of this
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with a cloth that is nice
material that keeps the heat in,
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just what we want to do.
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This can be wool or it can
be cotton, but something thick
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is good, and then we take
a safety pin and pin it up
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on the side, now I'm not
going to pin you Arianna, but
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it makes it easy to stay,
you want to keep this in that
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position for several
hours and then afterwards,
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you want to remove the safety
pin very carefully and take the
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whole procedure back off
again, then when we take it off
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what we want to do is
close off the pores because
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by this time the throat will
have heated up quite nicely,
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and then you will take a cold
cloth, which we will simulate
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this being in lukewarm
water actually, and then go over
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the neck again, rubbing to
try to keep the pores closed off
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and take a dried
cloth, and dry it as well.
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And that basically is the
heating compress treatment.
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I remember my own personal
experience with this was when
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I was not a whole lot
younger than you Arianna,
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and I had a really good
experience where I had caught
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the sore throat
right at the beginning,
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where you need to
catch it if at all possible.
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What we did was we took the
little thin strip of material
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and actually dipped it in
the cold water then put it in
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the freezer for about 10 minutes
which made it nice and stiff,
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and I don't recommend
that you necessarily do that
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you don't have to, but it
certainly increased the thrill
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of the experience considerably
and then we put that on
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and by the next morning,
this was in the evening when
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that happened, but by the
next morning my sore throat
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was gone, and I didn't
have any more symptoms from that
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sore throat so
that was very nice,
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I was happy that such a
simple treatment as a heating
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compress could
take away a sore throat.
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- Yes, it is amazing
that such a simple thing as
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increasing the blood
flow to the throat can benefit
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the deeper tissues, but that's
a part of the reflexive action
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that we have from blood vessels,
that when you do something to
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the blood vessels of
the skin on the outside,
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you will reflexively manage
some dilation and increase
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in circulation in the tissues
and structures that are beneath
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the skin in that area.
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I believe that the Lord
specially gave us that nice
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vascular reflexive device so
that we could apply heat or cold
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to a tissue to effect treatment
down below, and I would like to
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show you some of the structure
of the anatomy of the entire
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respiratory tree so that
you can see how complex this is.
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And for this I have some
charts, and if we could just
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take a look at
this area right here.
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This is the place
where we have the sinuses,
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these are air cells that make
for a sounding board for the
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voice and also make the head
a lot lighter because they are
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light weight, then what
people don't often think of is
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a part of the respiratory
tree but it really is,
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this is the ear, the external
ear as you can see this is
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labeled outer ear, all
the way down to the ear drum,
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from the ear drum to this
area back here you can recognize
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the semi-circular canals and
the cochlea, this area to the
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semi-circular canals
is called the middle ear,
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and that's where earaches
usually have their beginning.
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Then the inner ear consists
of the semi-circular canals
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and the cochlea, with the
cochlea we are able to hear
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various notes, in fact we
can hear from the tiniest notes
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which actually cause a
vibration of tiny nerve fibers
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which are at the thin end
of the cochlea and we hear
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very low notes right
over here in the broader end
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of the cochlea.
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And the semi-circular canals
are arranged is such a way
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that you cannot move
your head in any direction
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without setting up a current
in the direction that you just
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moved your head.
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If there are nerve cells in
there you can easily see how
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we could sense the direction
that we have moved the head
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and that is of course very true.
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There are nerve cells, thousands
of them inside this fluid filled
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tube, all of them are fluid
filled and also richly endowed
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with nerves, and that helps
us to know where we are standing
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or which direction we have moved
the head, just where all parts
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of the body might be.
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In the middle ear we
have of course the eardrum
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the ossicle's, the hammer,
anvil, and stirrup which you are
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very familiar with from
fifth grade health classes,
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and then we have... this
is an air filled space which
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connects with the Eustachian
tube on the back of the throat.
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Now the back of the throat
is where we sense the little
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bubble, if you have ever been
aware of the little bubble that
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comes out or tries to go
back in when you go up or down
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in an airplane, if you
are aware you will feel that
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little bubble when the
ears begin to pop, that appears
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at the back of the oropharynx,
back up in behind the palate.
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Well that's because the
Eustachian tube has lost some
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air as the airplane has gone up
and the pressure has gone down,
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that means that there is
more pressure in the middle ear
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than here and the
little bubble comes out.
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The real problem comes when
you go back down, air needs to
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come back in
through the Eustachian tube,
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but it doesn't go back
in as easily as it comes out
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and that may cause
you to have an earache.
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Now here we have greater
detail, here we see that the
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auditory canal, which is from
the outer ear all the way down
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to the middle ear, the
eardrum separates the ear canal
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from the middle ear, and the
bony structures which you can
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see here have been eroded away
by nature to accommodate the
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cochlea where we hear,
and the semi-circular canals
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where we have balance.
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Here again we see the sinuses
with the semi-circular canals
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and the cochlea almost
shown behind the cheek,
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and that is where they are
located in the petrous portion
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here of he wings
of the sphenoid bone.
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So we have the ear, the
auditory canal, and all of this
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as you can see, then
here we have the nose,
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interesting portion of
the nose is what is called the
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turbinates, these are
fleshy mounds inside the nose
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which when we breathe in through
the nose, these are all moist
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and have mucous on them so
that anything, any contaminant
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in the air that we
breathe in will stick to these
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mucous surfaces and will
also the air will be warmed
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and air conditioned, moisturized
before it goes down into
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the lung where the major portion
of the benefits of air will be.
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Here we see another
aspect of the nasal turbinates
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right here, very nicely
created an all wise designer
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who knew just what to do to
make the air that we breathe in
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the very most useful to
us, because moist and warm air
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can be exchanged in the
lungs better than dry cold air.
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And just to say a little
word to my evolutionist friends
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I suspect you would think
that another several billion
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years would be required just
to develop just this one thing
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the nasal turbinates, and
if there were nothing else
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than these nasal turbinates
that would make me believe in a
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divine designer, this
one thing would do it.
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Of course I have
mentioned a dozen things already
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just in the respiratory
tree that are marvels of
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divine engineering, what a
marvelous piece of equipment
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we have been entrusted with,
and it does not belong to us,
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entrusted is the proper
word it belongs to our Creator.
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Now we have also the throat
which we can examine with a
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hand mirror, and then we
have the epiglottis which
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we cannot see, and the vocal
folds also which we cannot see.
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This structure is called
the larynx and this the glottis
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then we come to the
lungs, another marvel of
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divine engineering is
the ribs, they slant downward
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so that they are attached
in the back to the vertebrae
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and then they slant downward,
that's so when we elevate them
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that spreads the
diameter of the chest.
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Don't you agree that that is
a marvel of divine engineering.
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As the chest is expanded the
lungs inflate, and that brings
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not only air in but blood
as well, now when we have a
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deep inspiration, here is
the diaphragm, and the abdominal
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contents are down here,
when the diaphragm goes down
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to help to inflate the
lungs this massages the
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abdominal contents, and makes
the abdominal contents so that
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they are benefited
by the massaging action.
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So as we see the very
anatomy of the lungs themselves
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and the respiratory tree, we
are led to marvel at how much
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we have been beloved
by a divine designer.
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I have just an ordinary
hand mirror in which one can use
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to just open the mouth
and look right in and see the
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tonsils and the throat
that we can treat with the
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heating compress.
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Now I have asked Dr. Donald
Miller to assist me with showing
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some of the things that we
can show that are so practical
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in treating the
respiratory tree.
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What do you have
for us Dr. Miller?
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Well this is one little thing
it is called the bulb syringe
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and wherever I go
I like to carry some.
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I went to Africa one time
with 20, because depending on
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how you use it, it's
a one person operation.
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Although if I do it for
certain operations, like we are
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going to do today
with an ear irrigation,
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as long as you protect
the tip and do not suck any of
00:21:17.04\00:21:20.39
the contents back into it,
then I say it's pretty well
00:21:20.42\00:21:22.84
safe to use, but we are
going to do an ear irrigation
00:21:22.87\00:21:26.56
on Arianna, just
sort of a dry run.
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I'm sure she's going to
be very happy it's a dry run,
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rather than a wet run and have
water pouring all over the area,
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we're going to sit
her down in this chair...
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There are a few things
you need to do, one you need
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to protect the area, and
so I'm going to put a towel
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over her shoulder and neck
area, to keep from getting water
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now matter how close you
hold the bowl to the head
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it's still going
to leak some water.
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We will use just a
regular household container but,
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I like to use what we call a
kidney dish, which is sort of
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curved which fits up against
the head and holds it nicely,
00:22:03.71\00:22:06.99
and then you put it
there and it's very important
00:22:07.02\00:22:10.44
when you treat somebody
to get them involved in the
00:22:10.47\00:22:13.93
treatment process,
the more they are involved
00:22:13.96\00:22:16.12
the less they are
going to be afraid of it.
00:22:16.15\00:22:18.72
It's like you are examining
a person who is extremely
00:22:18.75\00:22:21.42
ticklish and every time you
touch them they start to giggle,
00:22:21.45\00:22:24.29
well if you put their hand
on top of your hand and touch it
00:22:24.32\00:22:28.47
normally they won't
giggle because they are a part
00:22:28.50\00:22:30.80
of the process, and it's
very hard to tickle yourself.
00:22:30.83\00:22:33.37
And so getting Arianna involved
in the process of holding the
00:22:33.40\00:22:38.04
container rather than me
trying to do this and balance
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everything gets her
concentrating making sure that
00:22:40.54\00:22:43.18
she is holding it tight
enough against her head.
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Then I take the bulb syringe,
we need to use warm water
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cold water is going
to throw the balance off,
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hot water might scald the ear,
you use basically tepid water,
00:22:52.72\00:22:56.44
body temperature water, it
doesn't have to have any saline
00:22:56.47\00:23:00.77
in it, sometimes you
might want to put a little bit
00:23:00.80\00:23:02.49
of saline or salt into the
water to help it break down
00:23:02.52\00:23:05.83
what's in there.
00:23:05.86\00:23:06.83
If a person's ear
is really impacted,
00:23:06.84\00:23:09.10
it's got a lot of things in
there I first like to put some
00:23:09.13\00:23:12.41
ear drops into the ear.
00:23:12.44\00:23:13.87
What ear drops?
00:23:13.90\00:23:14.99
I usually will take some oil,
heat up the oil just slightly
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like putting the bottle of
oil in warm water until it gets
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slightly warm and maybe
mixing that with a little bit of
00:23:22.23\00:23:25.59
of vinegar or a little bit
of alcohol, drop it into the ear
00:23:25.62\00:23:28.76
put some cotton in there to
hold it for just a short period
00:23:28.79\00:23:31.17
of time, and then remove
the cotton, and then do your ear
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irrigation.
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What you do for the ear
irrigation, is you bring the
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water, well I just say
I've got my water in this jar
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you try to fill the bulb
with water as much as possible
00:23:43.14\00:23:46.39
you don't want to sit
there and put air into the ear
00:23:46.42\00:23:49.55
but you bring as much
as you think that you can,
00:23:49.58\00:23:51.29
when you think you've
got it you bring it out
00:23:51.32\00:23:54.00
and then I like to express it
until water starts coming out,
00:23:54.03\00:23:58.61
so I know I'm not going
to puff water into the ear
00:23:58.64\00:24:01.54
and then I take the ear,
and I pull it a little bit up
00:24:01.57\00:24:05.96
and out and backwards and
try to straighten out that ear
00:24:05.99\00:24:09.25
canal, and then, let me get
this a little lower Arianna,
00:24:09.28\00:24:13.66
and then I try to shoot at
an angle, you don't want to
00:24:13.69\00:24:17.17
sit there and put it
right in the ear and "whampo"
00:24:17.20\00:24:19.31
you go right up
there against the ear drum.
00:24:19.34\00:24:21.33
What you want to do is
sort of play around the inside,
00:24:21.36\00:24:24.62
you don't want to go in
very far, sometimes I will take
00:24:24.65\00:24:26.65
my finger and put it at a
certain point, because I know
00:24:26.68\00:24:29.80
that the eardrum is
not going to be that deep,
00:24:29.83\00:24:31.21
and then go ahead and insert
it into the ear and then slowly
00:24:31.24\00:24:35.62
start pushing with my
thumb and then playing around
00:24:35.65\00:24:39.73
the inside of the ear and
watching what might be coming
00:24:39.76\00:24:43.84
out into the bowl.
00:24:43.87\00:24:45.30
I have done this with some
people and have gotten large
00:24:45.33\00:24:49.17
amount I wish I had kept
all the particulate to show
00:24:49.20\00:24:51.93
the person how much was in
there, and so what I like to do
00:24:51.96\00:24:54.78
is take the container
once I have some of the water
00:24:54.81\00:24:57.27
and pour it through a
piece of gauze, and hold that
00:24:57.30\00:24:59.52
particulate, put it back in
there and then go in for the
00:24:59.55\00:25:03.47
second try.
00:25:03.50\00:25:04.67
Get some more water into
your bulb syringe and again
00:25:04.70\00:25:09.28
play around the inside
working, so it is sort of
00:25:09.31\00:25:14.34
going inside and sweeping
whatever might be attaching
00:25:14.37\00:25:17.19
to the walls and sweeping it
out and it comes back out if you
00:25:17.22\00:25:20.59
put this to far in, it
might block it from coming out.
00:25:20.62\00:25:23.38
You don't need it to be
in very far because you are
00:25:23.41\00:25:25.72
putting a stream of water
in there, a slight stream,
00:25:25.75\00:25:28.47
but a stream none the
less, which will help the wax
00:25:28.50\00:25:33.10
the bugs, whatever might be
in there to come out into your
00:25:33.13\00:25:36.43
container... and I once had
a person come to Uchee Pines
00:25:36.46\00:25:40.20
who had lost their
hearing just about,
00:25:40.23\00:25:43.27
they said I can't hear any more,
I did not use a bulb syringe,
00:25:43.30\00:25:47.61
I like to use a water
pik with an ear applicator,
00:25:47.64\00:25:51.04
it's a long wand, and I
probably worked on this young
00:25:51.07\00:25:54.32
man's ear for a half hour
and took out what appeared to be
00:25:54.35\00:25:58.86
at least a half a teaspoon
full of strange looking things
00:25:58.89\00:26:02.20
Dr. Thrash, I was
amazed he could hear at all.
00:26:02.23\00:26:04.09
But he was amazed
that he could hear again.
00:26:04.12\00:26:06.88
- They are so grateful,
especially old people who
00:26:06.91\00:26:09.45
have been deaf for a
month they think their hearing
00:26:09.48\00:26:12.00
is gone and you wash things
out of the ear, a lot of wax and
00:26:12.03\00:26:17.19
they hear again.
00:26:17.22\00:26:18.19
- And sometimes little
bugs come out, this is amazing
00:26:18.21\00:26:20.93
what got in there.
00:26:20.96\00:26:21.93
- Now you mentioned that
you could mess up the balance
00:26:21.94\00:26:24.85
by having it to hot
or to cold, why is that?
00:26:24.88\00:26:27.99
- You get different blood flows
and nerves are going to react
00:26:28.02\00:26:31.70
you are going to have some
constrictions, some vacillation
00:26:31.73\00:26:34.00
and the ear likes to protect
itself, and so those little
00:26:34.03\00:26:38.85
bones are going to sit there
and be affected by the cold
00:26:38.88\00:26:42.59
and all of a sudden, the
inner ear that you talked about
00:26:42.62\00:26:46.16
that's going to
be affected by...
00:26:46.19\00:26:47.73
- Semi-circular canals
are right there aren't they?
00:26:47.76\00:26:50.42
- All of a sudden you have
vertigo and you are falling
00:26:50.45\00:26:52.13
out of the chair, and we have
to watch Arianna so she doesn't
00:26:52.16\00:26:54.13
beat her head on the floor.
00:26:54.16\00:26:55.29
- Very good, well that's most
useful, especially in old people
00:26:55.32\00:27:00.83
with ear wax and in
young people with bugs.
00:27:00.86\00:27:04.78
- Yep! Absolutely!
00:27:04.81\00:27:05.89
- Well thank you so
much I appreciate that.
00:27:05.92\00:27:08.49
- Thank you Arianna.
00:27:08.52\00:27:09.73
- Now these simple
things that we have shown you
00:27:09.76\00:27:14.82
using very simple household
things can be so important
00:27:14.85\00:27:18.71
to the proper functioning
of the respiratory tree.
00:27:18.74\00:27:22.73
When you have a cough or
a cold you want to be sure
00:27:22.76\00:27:26.66
the material is allowed to
have free access to the body
00:27:26.69\00:27:31.45
because that's the cleansing
and healing fluid that the body
00:27:31.48\00:27:35.64
has to make it so that it can
properly carry out it's function
00:27:35.67\00:27:40.53
of maintenance and healing.
00:27:40.56\00:27:42.56
Now I hope that our discussion
here not only of the structure
00:27:42.59\00:27:48.97
but also of the very simple
things that God has provided
00:27:49.00\00:27:53.55
will help you to love God more.
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