Participants: Agatha Thrash (Host), Calvin Thrash, Don Miller, Rhonda Clark
Series Code: HYTH
Program Code: HYTH000230
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00:01 Hello! We breathe so frequently
00:04 we don't think anything about it, it never crosses our mind 00:08 until something happens to the nose or the throat, 00:12 or the lungs, and then we know that we have a 00:16 respiratory tree. 00:17 It's not just lungs, it's a whole tree, 00:20 we'll be talking about things that can go wrong, 00:23 and we hope that we can tell you a lot of things to do 00:27 about things that can go wrong with the respiratory tree, 00:30 we hope that you will join us for the program. 00:52 Welcome to Help Yourself to Health, 00:54 with Dr. Agatha Thrash of Uchee Pines Institute, 00:57 and now here is your host Dr. Thrash. 01:01 I think that stopping of the breathing process 01:07 is one of the most frightening that we have, probably even more 01:11 frightening than pain in the chest, which we think might be 01:14 a heart attack. 01:16 When we can't get air into the the nose, or we can't open up 01:20 the lungs properly, that can cause real anxiety. 01:25 So we will be talking about a few things that can help us 01:30 to know just what to do when we have these kinds of things, 01:34 and what things we should not do so that the respiratory tree 01:39 can act the best. 01:40 So I would like to invite you to come with me while we make 01:44 some of these explanations, and I have asked Rhonda Clark 01:49 to come with me and give some talk about just how we can think 01:56 about one kind of problem, Rhonda how are you? 02:00 - I'm fine. 02:01 - Welcome to our program today, and you are going to talk about 02:04 a very umm, it's not an unusual thing, but it has an 02:09 unusual name. 02:10 - It does, we will be talking today about 02:12 Lady Windermere's Syndrome. 02:14 - Lady Windermere. 02:15 - Lady Windermere is the name of a person who was a character 02:19 in a play written by Oscar Wilde, a Victorian Era Play, 02:22 and she was most fastidious, and that is why her name 02:26 was particularly chosen for this condition, 02:28 because it is most frequently seen in individuals who 02:31 habitually suppress the cough. 02:34 It is a bacterial infection and it's formal name is 02:38 micro-bacterium avium complex, and that micro-bacterium 02:43 might make you think, oh, that's the same bacteria 02:46 that causes tuberculosis. 02:48 It is in the same family but not nearly as serious 02:51 a condition. 02:53 Lady Windermere Syndrome is found most commonly in 02:58 thin post-menopausal women who are non-smokers, 03:02 it also can occur in men who have underlying 03:05 respiratory disease, or in men who have occupations 03:09 that put them frequently in contact with water vapor. 03:12 It's interesting that water vapor seems to be the thing 03:16 that is the avenue in which the bacteria enters the lungs, 03:20 this bacteria is found in soil and water, animals carry it, 03:25 it's found in milk, but it's most commonly believed to 03:28 be water vapor, such as people might inhale from a humidifier, 03:32 a hot tub, or an occupation where they are around 03:35 water vapor, that causes the bacteria to enter the lungs. 03:38 You might imagine Dr. Thrash that one of the most important 03:41 parts of treating this syndrome is healthy deep 03:45 coughing, and making sure that our respiratory tract 03:49 is as healthful as possible. 03:51 - Yes, breathing deeply encourages blood flow 03:55 to the lungs and to the bronchi and that keeps the healthy. 03:58 - Yes! In the presence of fresh country air, fresh air that 04:03 isn't filled with pollution the cilia, the little hair like 04:07 structures that line our respiratory tract are able 04:10 to work more efficiently, so deep breathing of fresh air 04:13 is one part of healing this syndrome. 04:15 Another part is very logical, avoid the source of the 04:19 water vapor, otherwise some of the treatments that we will be 04:24 demonstrating on the show today may be of benefit. 04:26 There are simple home remedies that can help relieve the 04:31 chest congestion, if you are familiar with simple 04:34 home remedies, you may know that chest fomentations 04:36 would be very in order for this. 04:39 Inhalation treatments of antibiotic herbs may be of 04:42 of benefit, and taking antibiotic herbs such as 04:45 Echinacea, Golden Seal, garlic would also be of benefit 04:49 in helping to treat the this interestingly named condition. 04:53 - Garlic! Is garlic good for the lungs? 04:56 - Oh, garlic is excellent for the lungs. 04:58 - Ok, there are a couple of reasons that I can think: 05:01 One is that it keeps other people from being to close 05:04 to you, who might have some kind of germ that you might get. 05:07 - Uh hu! 05:09 - But another is, the reason that people don't want to come 05:13 near you if you have been eating to much garlic, 05:15 and that is that the garlic is excreted through the lungs. 05:19 Is there something about garlic itself that makes it so 05:23 that it is good for germs in the lungs? 05:25 - It has several properties that are beneficial in this way, 05:29 garlic is amazing in that it fights against bacteria, 05:32 viruses, all types of pathogens and as it is excreted 05:37 from the lungs, it does help break apart congestion, 05:40 relieving things that can freely be expressed, 05:44 and it helps us get rid of that bacteria down in the lungs. 05:47 - So that would be good also for asthma then, wouldn't it? 05:50 - Indeed! Yes! 05:51 - An acute attack of asthma can be nicely treated 05:55 with the garlic. 05:56 - Yes! 05:57 - Well, thank you so much, I appreciate knowing about 06:00 the Lady Windermere's Syndrome, I will try to remember that. 06:05 Lady Windermere, and it's a micro-bacterium. 06:09 - Yes! - Thank you so much. 06:10 - You're welcome. 06:11 - Now another thing that we will talk about is a sore throat, 06:16 with a sore throat the biggest problem is the pain that one has 06:23 with swallowing, and I have asked Cal Thrash to show to us 06:28 something about the sore throat, and Cal, you are home based at 06:35 Uchee Pines, is that right? - That's correct! 06:36 - Are you a long time resident there? 06:39 - Oh yes! I was there from the beginning, 1970. 06:43 - From 1970, and what do you do there now? 06:47 - I am the president, which means that no one really knows 06:50 what I do. 06:51 - You do anything from janitorial to talking on 06:54 the phone to anybody who calls. 06:56 - Seriously the usual things are the administrative duties, 06:59 and I teach in some of the classes that we have there also. 07:02 - So you teach, if they need a preacher, you preach, 07:06 if they need a janitor you do janitoring work. 07:09 - Mow the lawn, do a little bit more. 07:11 - Alright, and today you are going to do something else, 07:16 you are going to tell us about how to put on a heating compress 07:21 and cure a sore throat. 07:23 - Well the theory behind a heating compress is very simple 07:28 actually, the action that you want to do is to heat up 07:32 the throat, and the reason why you want to do that 07:36 is to bring blood flow into the throat area so that 07:40 the blood can then assist the immune system in 07:44 taking the sore throat away, and of course that's 07:47 a very simple thing, but because our throats are exposed 07:51 most of the time, it is difficult to do, 07:54 and so I've asked Arianna Hartsfield if she would 07:57 come over here and then we can explain exactly how we are 08:00 going to do the heating compress. 08:03 The heating compress is... 08:05 - Arianna Hartsfield is one of our elementary school students. 08:08 - You remember Mom when my kids were young, your grandchildren, 08:13 that they made these as a school project, 08:16 and they called them horse collars, 08:18 - horse collars, I remember those 08:19 - for when you are really horse they use them. 08:20 - They sell these as a school project. 08:23 - The action of cold on the skin is of course to cool, 08:28 but the reaction of the body to the cold is to heat up 08:33 the area, and that's of course what we want, 08:35 so we have wet this strip down a little bit with cold water 08:40 and then we put it on the neck, is that a little bit on the 08:43 chilly side? - Um hum! 08:45 Ok, but it starts to heat up quite quickly, 08:49 and then we cover that with this thin strip of plastic 08:53 which keeps the heat in and also keeps the moisture from 08:58 evaporating to quickly, and then we cover all of this 09:03 with a cloth that is nice material that keeps the heat in, 09:09 just what we want to do. 09:11 This can be wool or it can be cotton, but something thick 09:17 is good, and then we take a safety pin and pin it up 09:22 on the side, now I'm not going to pin you Arianna, but 09:25 it makes it easy to stay, you want to keep this in that 09:29 position for several hours and then afterwards, 09:33 you want to remove the safety pin very carefully and take the 09:37 whole procedure back off again, then when we take it off 09:40 what we want to do is close off the pores because 09:44 by this time the throat will have heated up quite nicely, 09:48 and then you will take a cold cloth, which we will simulate 09:56 this being in lukewarm water actually, and then go over 10:01 the neck again, rubbing to try to keep the pores closed off 10:08 and take a dried cloth, and dry it as well. 10:11 And that basically is the heating compress treatment. 10:15 I remember my own personal experience with this was when 10:18 I was not a whole lot younger than you Arianna, 10:21 and I had a really good experience where I had caught 10:25 the sore throat right at the beginning, 10:27 where you need to catch it if at all possible. 10:29 What we did was we took the little thin strip of material 10:33 and actually dipped it in the cold water then put it in 10:36 the freezer for about 10 minutes which made it nice and stiff, 10:39 and I don't recommend that you necessarily do that 10:42 you don't have to, but it certainly increased the thrill 10:45 of the experience considerably and then we put that on 10:48 and by the next morning, this was in the evening when 10:51 that happened, but by the next morning my sore throat 10:54 was gone, and I didn't have any more symptoms from that 10:57 sore throat so that was very nice, 10:59 I was happy that such a simple treatment as a heating 11:03 compress could take away a sore throat. 11:06 - Yes, it is amazing that such a simple thing as 11:11 increasing the blood flow to the throat can benefit 11:15 the deeper tissues, but that's a part of the reflexive action 11:19 that we have from blood vessels, that when you do something to 11:24 the blood vessels of the skin on the outside, 11:27 you will reflexively manage some dilation and increase 11:33 in circulation in the tissues and structures that are beneath 11:38 the skin in that area. 11:40 I believe that the Lord specially gave us that nice 11:45 vascular reflexive device so that we could apply heat or cold 11:52 to a tissue to effect treatment down below, and I would like to 11:57 show you some of the structure of the anatomy of the entire 12:02 respiratory tree so that you can see how complex this is. 12:05 And for this I have some charts, and if we could just 12:09 take a look at this area right here. 12:14 This is the place where we have the sinuses, 12:19 these are air cells that make for a sounding board for the 12:26 voice and also make the head a lot lighter because they are 12:30 light weight, then what people don't often think of is 12:35 a part of the respiratory tree but it really is, 12:38 this is the ear, the external ear as you can see this is 12:43 labeled outer ear, all the way down to the ear drum, 12:47 from the ear drum to this area back here you can recognize 12:53 the semi-circular canals and the cochlea, this area to the 12:59 semi-circular canals is called the middle ear, 13:02 and that's where earaches usually have their beginning. 13:07 Then the inner ear consists of the semi-circular canals 13:12 and the cochlea, with the cochlea we are able to hear 13:17 various notes, in fact we can hear from the tiniest notes 13:22 which actually cause a vibration of tiny nerve fibers 13:27 which are at the thin end of the cochlea and we hear 13:32 very low notes right over here in the broader end 13:37 of the cochlea. 13:39 And the semi-circular canals are arranged is such a way 13:43 that you cannot move your head in any direction 13:46 without setting up a current in the direction that you just 13:50 moved your head. 13:51 If there are nerve cells in there you can easily see how 13:55 we could sense the direction that we have moved the head 13:59 and that is of course very true. 14:01 There are nerve cells, thousands of them inside this fluid filled 14:08 tube, all of them are fluid filled and also richly endowed 14:13 with nerves, and that helps us to know where we are standing 14:18 or which direction we have moved the head, just where all parts 14:22 of the body might be. 14:23 In the middle ear we have of course the eardrum 14:27 the ossicle's, the hammer, anvil, and stirrup which you are 14:32 very familiar with from fifth grade health classes, 14:34 and then we have... this is an air filled space which 14:39 connects with the Eustachian tube on the back of the throat. 14:43 Now the back of the throat is where we sense the little 14:49 bubble, if you have ever been aware of the little bubble that 14:53 comes out or tries to go back in when you go up or down 14:58 in an airplane, if you are aware you will feel that 15:03 little bubble when the ears begin to pop, that appears 15:07 at the back of the oropharynx, back up in behind the palate. 15:14 Well that's because the Eustachian tube has lost some 15:18 air as the airplane has gone up and the pressure has gone down, 15:23 that means that there is more pressure in the middle ear 15:26 than here and the little bubble comes out. 15:29 The real problem comes when you go back down, air needs to 15:34 come back in through the Eustachian tube, 15:36 but it doesn't go back in as easily as it comes out 15:40 and that may cause you to have an earache. 15:41 Now here we have greater detail, here we see that the 15:46 auditory canal, which is from the outer ear all the way down 15:53 to the middle ear, the eardrum separates the ear canal 15:58 from the middle ear, and the bony structures which you can 16:02 see here have been eroded away by nature to accommodate the 16:10 cochlea where we hear, and the semi-circular canals 16:13 where we have balance. 16:15 Here again we see the sinuses with the semi-circular canals 16:22 and the cochlea almost shown behind the cheek, 16:26 and that is where they are located in the petrous portion 16:31 here of he wings of the sphenoid bone. 16:37 So we have the ear, the auditory canal, and all of this 16:42 as you can see, then here we have the nose, 16:46 interesting portion of the nose is what is called the 16:51 turbinates, these are fleshy mounds inside the nose 16:56 which when we breathe in through the nose, these are all moist 17:01 and have mucous on them so that anything, any contaminant 17:07 in the air that we breathe in will stick to these 17:11 mucous surfaces and will also the air will be warmed 17:16 and air conditioned, moisturized before it goes down into 17:23 the lung where the major portion of the benefits of air will be. 17:30 Here we see another aspect of the nasal turbinates 17:34 right here, very nicely created an all wise designer 17:42 who knew just what to do to make the air that we breathe in 17:46 the very most useful to us, because moist and warm air 17:51 can be exchanged in the lungs better than dry cold air. 17:58 And just to say a little word to my evolutionist friends 18:06 I suspect you would think that another several billion 18:10 years would be required just to develop just this one thing 18:15 the nasal turbinates, and if there were nothing else 18:19 than these nasal turbinates that would make me believe in a 18:24 divine designer, this one thing would do it. 18:28 Of course I have mentioned a dozen things already 18:31 just in the respiratory tree that are marvels of 18:36 divine engineering, what a marvelous piece of equipment 18:41 we have been entrusted with, and it does not belong to us, 18:44 entrusted is the proper word it belongs to our Creator. 18:49 Now we have also the throat which we can examine with a 18:54 hand mirror, and then we have the epiglottis which 18:59 we cannot see, and the vocal folds also which we cannot see. 19:05 This structure is called the larynx and this the glottis 19:09 then we come to the lungs, another marvel of 19:15 divine engineering is the ribs, they slant downward 19:20 so that they are attached in the back to the vertebrae 19:24 and then they slant downward, that's so when we elevate them 19:28 that spreads the diameter of the chest. 19:33 Don't you agree that that is a marvel of divine engineering. 19:37 As the chest is expanded the lungs inflate, and that brings 19:45 not only air in but blood as well, now when we have a 19:50 deep inspiration, here is the diaphragm, and the abdominal 19:55 contents are down here, when the diaphragm goes down 20:00 to help to inflate the lungs this massages the 20:06 abdominal contents, and makes the abdominal contents so that 20:10 they are benefited by the massaging action. 20:15 So as we see the very anatomy of the lungs themselves 20:21 and the respiratory tree, we are led to marvel at how much 20:27 we have been beloved by a divine designer. 20:30 I have just an ordinary hand mirror in which one can use 20:35 to just open the mouth and look right in and see the 20:39 tonsils and the throat that we can treat with the 20:43 heating compress. 20:44 Now I have asked Dr. Donald Miller to assist me with showing 20:50 some of the things that we can show that are so practical 20:54 in treating the respiratory tree. 20:58 What do you have for us Dr. Miller? 21:00 Well this is one little thing it is called the bulb syringe 21:03 and wherever I go I like to carry some. 21:05 I went to Africa one time with 20, because depending on 21:09 how you use it, it's a one person operation. 21:11 Although if I do it for certain operations, like we are 21:14 going to do today with an ear irrigation, 21:17 as long as you protect the tip and do not suck any of 21:20 the contents back into it, then I say it's pretty well 21:22 safe to use, but we are going to do an ear irrigation 21:26 on Arianna, just sort of a dry run. 21:28 I'm sure she's going to be very happy it's a dry run, 21:31 rather than a wet run and have water pouring all over the area, 21:36 we're going to sit her down in this chair... 21:39 There are a few things you need to do, one you need 21:44 to protect the area, and so I'm going to put a towel 21:49 over her shoulder and neck area, to keep from getting water 21:53 now matter how close you hold the bowl to the head 21:56 it's still going to leak some water. 21:57 We will use just a regular household container but, 22:01 I like to use what we call a kidney dish, which is sort of 22:03 curved which fits up against the head and holds it nicely, 22:07 and then you put it there and it's very important 22:10 when you treat somebody to get them involved in the 22:13 treatment process, the more they are involved 22:16 the less they are going to be afraid of it. 22:18 It's like you are examining a person who is extremely 22:21 ticklish and every time you touch them they start to giggle, 22:24 well if you put their hand on top of your hand and touch it 22:28 normally they won't giggle because they are a part 22:30 of the process, and it's very hard to tickle yourself. 22:33 And so getting Arianna involved in the process of holding the 22:38 container rather than me trying to do this and balance 22:40 everything gets her concentrating making sure that 22:43 she is holding it tight enough against her head. 22:45 Then I take the bulb syringe, we need to use warm water 22:50 cold water is going to throw the balance off, 22:52 hot water might scald the ear, you use basically tepid water, 22:56 body temperature water, it doesn't have to have any saline 23:00 in it, sometimes you might want to put a little bit 23:02 of saline or salt into the water to help it break down 23:05 what's in there. 23:06 If a person's ear is really impacted, 23:09 it's got a lot of things in there I first like to put some 23:12 ear drops into the ear. 23:13 What ear drops? 23:15 I usually will take some oil, heat up the oil just slightly 23:18 like putting the bottle of oil in warm water until it gets 23:22 slightly warm and maybe mixing that with a little bit of 23:25 of vinegar or a little bit of alcohol, drop it into the ear 23:28 put some cotton in there to hold it for just a short period 23:31 of time, and then remove the cotton, and then do your ear 23:34 irrigation. 23:35 What you do for the ear irrigation, is you bring the 23:39 water, well I just say I've got my water in this jar 23:43 you try to fill the bulb with water as much as possible 23:46 you don't want to sit there and put air into the ear 23:49 but you bring as much as you think that you can, 23:51 when you think you've got it you bring it out 23:54 and then I like to express it until water starts coming out, 23:58 so I know I'm not going to puff water into the ear 24:01 and then I take the ear, and I pull it a little bit up 24:05 and out and backwards and try to straighten out that ear 24:09 canal, and then, let me get this a little lower Arianna, 24:13 and then I try to shoot at an angle, you don't want to 24:17 sit there and put it right in the ear and "whampo" 24:19 you go right up there against the ear drum. 24:21 What you want to do is sort of play around the inside, 24:24 you don't want to go in very far, sometimes I will take 24:26 my finger and put it at a certain point, because I know 24:29 that the eardrum is not going to be that deep, 24:31 and then go ahead and insert it into the ear and then slowly 24:35 start pushing with my thumb and then playing around 24:39 the inside of the ear and watching what might be coming 24:43 out into the bowl. 24:45 I have done this with some people and have gotten large 24:49 amount I wish I had kept all the particulate to show 24:51 the person how much was in there, and so what I like to do 24:54 is take the container once I have some of the water 24:57 and pour it through a piece of gauze, and hold that 24:59 particulate, put it back in there and then go in for the 25:03 second try. 25:04 Get some more water into your bulb syringe and again 25:09 play around the inside working, so it is sort of 25:14 going inside and sweeping whatever might be attaching 25:17 to the walls and sweeping it out and it comes back out if you 25:20 put this to far in, it might block it from coming out. 25:23 You don't need it to be in very far because you are 25:25 putting a stream of water in there, a slight stream, 25:28 but a stream none the less, which will help the wax 25:33 the bugs, whatever might be in there to come out into your 25:36 container... and I once had a person come to Uchee Pines 25:40 who had lost their hearing just about, 25:43 they said I can't hear any more, I did not use a bulb syringe, 25:47 I like to use a water pik with an ear applicator, 25:51 it's a long wand, and I probably worked on this young 25:54 man's ear for a half hour and took out what appeared to be 25:58 at least a half a teaspoon full of strange looking things 26:02 Dr. Thrash, I was amazed he could hear at all. 26:04 But he was amazed that he could hear again. 26:06 - They are so grateful, especially old people who 26:09 have been deaf for a month they think their hearing 26:12 is gone and you wash things out of the ear, a lot of wax and 26:17 they hear again. 26:18 - And sometimes little bugs come out, this is amazing 26:20 what got in there. 26:22 - Now you mentioned that you could mess up the balance 26:24 by having it to hot or to cold, why is that? 26:28 - You get different blood flows and nerves are going to react 26:31 you are going to have some constrictions, some vacillation 26:34 and the ear likes to protect itself, and so those little 26:38 bones are going to sit there and be affected by the cold 26:42 and all of a sudden, the inner ear that you talked about 26:46 that's going to be affected by... 26:47 - Semi-circular canals are right there aren't they? 26:50 - All of a sudden you have vertigo and you are falling 26:52 out of the chair, and we have to watch Arianna so she doesn't 26:54 beat her head on the floor. 26:55 - Very good, well that's most useful, especially in old people 27:00 with ear wax and in young people with bugs. 27:04 - Yep! Absolutely! 27:05 - Well thank you so much I appreciate that. 27:08 - Thank you Arianna. 27:09 - Now these simple things that we have shown you 27:14 using very simple household things can be so important 27:18 to the proper functioning of the respiratory tree. 27:22 When you have a cough or a cold you want to be sure 27:26 the material is allowed to have free access to the body 27:31 because that's the cleansing and healing fluid that the body 27:35 has to make it so that it can properly carry out it's function 27:40 of maintenance and healing. 27:42 Now I hope that our discussion here not only of the structure 27:49 but also of the very simple things that God has provided 27:53 will help you to love God more. |
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