Participants: Agatha Thrash (Host), Don Miller, Rhonda Clark
Series Code: HYTH
Program Code: HYTH000240
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00:01 Hello! Home remedies are quite effective and very inexpensive.
00:07 I like that kind of remedy one who has the two very major 00:12 aspects of the healing process in them, in expense and 00:17 effectiveness, so we are going to be talking about 00:19 Home Remedies, I think you will enjoy learning about 00:22 some of these things that can be used for the vast majority 00:27 of ailments that afflict people in their homes today 00:31 so join us for this program. 00:53 Welcome to Help Yourself to Health 00:55 with Dr. Agatha Thrash of Uchee Pines Institute 00:59 and now here is your host Dr. Thrash. 01:02 Not only are home remedies inexpensive, but most anybody 01:11 can do them, and I would like to show you some home remedies 01:14 now that I have found to be quite effective and I enjoy 01:18 very much showing people about these, because I know that 01:23 they will do the work that I need them to do 01:27 and that I can even tell people on the telephone how to do them. 01:31 Let me just show this one to you of how to make a 01:35 fungus fighter. 01:37 Now at Uchee Pines we have some people who make the 01:41 fungus fighter as a cottage industry and sell it. 01:45 They sell it in this kind of bottle with a label on it 01:49 and this kind of bottle is very easy to find, you can come 01:55 by this from an empty bottle that you had something else in 01:59 or you can simply buy one from a department store and 02:03 use that, but let me show you how to make this very nice 02:07 little remedy 02:09 It depends on an herb called Calendula and you can see 02:17 the Calendula flowers here, these are the pedals 02:18 and sometimes you will get the flower heads as well 02:23 these come from a health food store or from an herb shop 02:27 and the little flower, the little plant grows 02:30 in people's gardens and you might even gather some fresh 02:36 and the time to gather them if you do, they are a common 02:40 little plant, in little flower beds. 02:42 They look like marigolds and so you just gather the entire 02:49 head when it is at it's biggest flower point. 02:56 So let me show you how to do this, you measure out one cup 03:01 and put that in a jar such as this, usually a jar with a 03:05 very broad top is the best and then you have about this much 03:14 in the jar, then you need Myrrh. 03:18 Now myrrh comes from overseas generally it's a part of the 03:23 Myrtle plant and you can see that this is a powder and it 03:27 smells quite fragrant I think, I like the smell of it and this 03:33 powder in only one of it's forms, you can also get it as 03:37 a crystalline material or you can get myrrh as a tincture. 03:44 And any way that you use it it is 1. It is two cups of the 03:51 calendula, one quarter cup of the myrrh then pour enough 03:58 vinegar on top of it to fully cover it. 04:03 So let me show you how the myrrh is simply added to the 04:07 same jar that you are going to use... this is a quarter cup 04:11 so it's a quarter the amount of the herb that you use 04:17 in the myrrh, this is added to the jar as you see here 04:23 once that has been added then the next part is the vinegar. 04:27 This can be either white vinegar or it can be brown vinegar 04:31 either way it doesn't matter, the thing that you want 04:35 is that it be at least 3% acidity, this happens to be 5% 04:42 and that is quite good I like the 5%, then you simply cover 04:48 the herbs that you have added there so that the vinegar 04:52 entirely fills the jar, or at least covers the herb, 04:59 and as you can see it's sort of nice to make it near a sink 05:03 because it can be a bit messy especially if you are doing it 05:07 for your first time. 05:08 Then be sure it is all wet and it doesn't matter if you 05:12 have a little extra vinegar because just to let you know 05:17 that vinegar itself is also a fungus fighter, 05:20 and this looks quite nice even when you are making it up 05:24 yet we don't have enough vinegar, so we will continue to 05:29 pour until it is quite liquid and there is some extra space 05:35 above now it's beginning to reach the proper consistency 05:42 but I'll add just a bit more so that you can see how this 05:46 very useful product can be something that you can keep 05:52 easily around your home to fight a fungus with in case 05:57 somebody gets a fungus. 05:59 Now you can see about what the consistency should be 06:04 and if it has flower heads in it that is fine too 06:07 you don't mind a bit if it has flower heads in it. 06:10 Simply cover it, and the reason to cover it is that it has 06:16 a way of giving it's fragrance to your entire kitchen 06:21 and you would be just as happy that you just have food smells 06:25 from the kitchen and not herb smells as well, 06:29 it doesn't smell as if it would be something that you would eat 06:32 but I think it does smell quite fragrant. 06:35 Now once you let it set for two weeks you should stir it 06:42 every day, or if you can't stir it every day then let it set 06:46 for about three weeks, then strain it and you will have a 06:50 product that looks like this. 06:52 Now this product is very helpful for any kind of fungus 06:58 it's even helpful for dandruff which sometimes has a 07:02 superficial fungus as a part of the itching process. 07:06 But it's most effective for athlete's foot and very 07:13 effective for fungus toenail. 07:16 now fungus toenail also has a standard treatment, 07:20 but the medicine in quite toxic, so I don't recommend that 07:24 you take the medicine but rather that you get this because 07:27 it will be just as effective as the medicine. 07:30 Now the treatment time is one year or until the fungus toenail 07:37 has grown all the way out, keep it trimmed all the time 07:40 so that you can tell how much is growing out. 07:43 It starts growing out pink within three or four weeks 07:46 and you are encouraged to keep on with the one year 07:51 of the treatment. 07:52 The reason it takes so long is that that nail is infected 07:56 with the fungus, and this is not a fungicidal, it is only 08:01 an inhibitor of the growth of fungus, so it keeps it from 08:06 growing in the fresh part that is growing out. 08:09 So I hope that will help you when you need a good 08:13 fungus fighter. 08:14 Now I have asked Rhonda Clark to join me today, she is one of 08:19 our colleagues at Uchee Pines, welcome Rhonda! 08:21 - I'm glad to be here. - I see from the equipment 08:24 that you have, that you are going to show us how to treat 08:28 arthritis and arthritic hand. 08:30 - Oh yes! When I was a student at Uchee Pines we were learning 08:33 various treatments, hydro- therapy and other types of 08:35 home remedies and this is one of my very favorites 08:38 it feels wonderful. 08:39 - And it makes the skin feel so nice too. 08:42 - Oh, it does, if you have aching joints in your hand or 08:46 other places on your body, using warm very warm paraffin 08:51 is a lovely treatment I'm going to be demonstrating today 08:54 a paraffin bath, a paraffin treatment for the hand, 08:57 this is so nice if you have arthritic fingers that hurt you 09:01 and I have asked Miss Arianna Hartsfield to come and be 09:05 my patient so I can demonstrate this treatment on her. 09:08 The paraffin treatment is done, and the melted paraffin is put 09:16 in a special container that keeps it at a constant heat 09:20 and the ideal temperature is around 125- 135 degrees 09:26 you can test this yourself if you want to make your own 09:30 paraffin treatment at home. 09:32 An old slow cooker, for example what I have here, 09:36 this would be an example of a slow cooker you might find 09:39 at a yard sale or a good will store, if it has a setting for 09:45 low, which you can see this one has a setting for low 09:48 that I have placed this on, this might be just the right 09:52 temperature, but to be safe use a thermometer that will 09:55 reach at least 150°, and you can keep the paraffin then at a 10:01 safe temperature, 125°-135°. 10:04 The paraffin that is used is just the same type of paraffin 10:07 that we use in canning and you can find that where you buy 10:11 canning supplies but it does need one other ingredient in it 10:14 and that is mineral oil, and a formula that we use, 10:17 it's what I've used in the tub that we will be doing our 10:20 demonstration on today is 5 lbs paraffin and then 10:24 1/2- 1 pint of mineral oil, I want to make sure I give you 10:29 the correct recipe. 10:30 So Arianna if you will raise your sleeve for me... 10:33 The purpose of the treatment as the paraffin gets on the skin 10:38 you'll see it leaves a layer of the paraffin left on the 10:41 skin and that helps not only make it feel very warm when 10:45 it goes on but helps hold in the heat which feels so nice 10:49 on those arthritic joints. 10:50 And the very first dipping.. - You want to be sure that your 10:53 sleeve doesn't get in it because it can leave the sleeve 10:58 permanently oily. 10:59 The first dip down into the paraffin should be rather deep 11:04 so all the way to the bottom and lift it back up and 11:08 let that layer cool, you can see immediately how quickly 11:11 it starts to dry and solidify, and as it begins to dry 11:15 you'll do another dip. 11:17 Does that feel nice and warm there Arianna? 11:20 The goal is to actually build up quite a big hand, 11:27 quite a number of layers of the paraffin, again as they cool 11:31 dip again, and this is where it feels so wonderful 11:36 the heat is just sinking into the hand, into those sore joints 11:41 it just feels so good, we'll do one more dip. 11:45 At home if you are doing this yourself, you will do more dips 11:48 you can see already how her hand is looking much bigger 11:51 but you will do several dips until everything is very well 11:54 coated, it's important not to move as you are doing that 11:58 so that you don't get little cracks and bends in the 12:00 paraffin, you want to keep it intact as you can. 12:03 After this looks as if this last dip has dried a bit 12:07 then you will wrap the hand in a towel to help hold in the 12:11 heat, and so you've got your hand there Arianna 12:14 we'll just wrap it in the towel and then relax and rest 12:20 and let that heat sink in, unfortunately very soon 12:26 you'll find it beginning to cool and you know the treatment 12:29 will be coming to an end and as that happens the paraffin 12:33 comes from the skin so nicely, we'll show here how then you 12:39 just peel the paraffin back off and if you do your hands 12:46 very clean before the treatment, if you wash your hands very well 12:51 before the treatment, this used paraffin can actually be 12:54 just placed right back in to the paraffin wax to continue to be 12:57 reused, recycled so to speak and the hand will feel warm 13:03 you can see that the skin is a little pinker and very soft 13:07 it's a lovely treatment for the skin. 13:10 In addition to arthritis I think this can be used for bursitis, 13:14 strains, aches, pains. 13:16 - Right! It can even be painted on to shoulders and 13:19 other places. - Yeah! Joints that you can't 13:21 reach or dip very easily in this and so, thank you Arianna 13:26 and I thank you Dr. Thrash I appreciated the opportunity 13:28 to tell a little bit about this treatment today. 13:30 - Very good, and while Arianna is here beside me 13:34 I would like show another treatment that Arianna can 13:38 help me with and this is an onion poultice. 13:41 Now the onion poultices can be placed many places, 13:45 one place that the ancients used to use it for is on the chest 13:49 for bronchitis and pneumonia and it can be effectively used 13:54 there is as a way to help with the resolution of pneumonia. 14:00 But I have here an onion material that is just chopped 14:07 onion and I'm going to make a very dainty poultice with 14:09 onion, but most of the time you will two or three onions 14:13 so that you can make for the chest or for the abdomen 14:17 quite a large compress can also be used in infections 14:22 such as ulcers on the legs, diabetic ulcers on the legs. 14:28 These things are very nicely treated with the onion so 14:33 I would like just to show you a nice dainty onion compress 14:39 and we'll just make one here on the top of Arianna's hand 14:43 assuming that she has something like an ulcer, so you just put 14:47 the onion material that has been cooked a bit, 14:50 so you just put it right on the place, would you hold your 14:54 sleeve right there just a little bit and then I can get this 14:59 on without making your clothing smell as if you have been in an 15:05 onion patch. 15:07 Now as soon as you get the onion piled on and it's piled 15:13 on generously, then you just put a cloth over that 15:20 and if you would hold that for me for a moment and then 15:24 you just take a little kitchen plastic, such as this, 15:29 and this is the kind that sticks to itself, which makes a 15:35 very good compress, so if I can get this to come loose 15:41 properly we'll show you the finish of the poultice 15:47 and then it opens like that and then we put around 15:57 the place where you have the compress. 16:00 Now compresses are extremely good but you do need to put a 16:07 bandage on it, so here is a bandage an Ace type, 16:12 and again it's the same kind of thing, it goes on with a bit of 16:18 stickiness, and the sticky plastic wrap and the sticky roll 16:24 bandage is very helpful and it's not put on tight, 16:29 it's just put on just enough to hold the compress in place. 16:36 Now if Arianna had a sore on her hand or any kind of wound 16:45 that had become infected, it's not necessary to put it 16:49 on a fresh wound but if a wound becomes infected then you could 16:53 use the onion poultice like this, and when it is taken off 16:57 the part is simply washed with a cold wash cloth 17:02 and dried and then the part dressed warmly. 17:08 If it's the chest then the chest is dressed very warmly, 17:11 after the compress is taken off. 17:14 Alright Arianna I will let you take that off yourself 17:18 when you get to a convenient place, thank you for helping us 17:23 with this nice poultice. 17:25 Now another thing that I would like to make sure that you know 17:32 about some small remedies that Dr. Donald Miller will be 17:38 talking with you about, and I have asked Dr. Miller to 17:41 join me on the program today, and I see that it looks like 17:47 you have a man's sock there. 17:49 - Yes, you know when you were talking about the onion poultice 17:53 I always think about people thinking well! I won't have any 17:57 of this plastic wrap, I don't have any of the Ace bandages. 18:00 Traveling in other countries you've got to really fly by 18:04 the seat of your pants. - Plastic bags are not even 18:06 available. - Plastic bags are ubiquitous 18:08 they are everywhere, plastic bags, there is no where I go 18:11 that you cannot find a plastic bag. 18:12 - Even in Ukraine. 18:13 - In Ukraine they are everywhere. 18:14 - Really! - Blowing in the wind. 18:16 - First time I went to Ukraine they didn't have plastic bags. 18:19 - This is a whole new world, that was 10 years ago, 18:20 now they're everywhere. 18:22 Any plastic, any plastic at all and then if you don't have an 18:26 Ace bandage, once you've got that whole thing on just pull a 18:29 sock over the whole thing it will cover it nicely, 18:32 if you want the fingers out just cut the end of the sock off 18:33 and you've got everything that you need right there. 18:35 - So you need to cut a little hole over here on the side 18:38 for the thumb. - That's right! 18:39 So we don't feel like you got to have exactly the equipment 18:44 that we are showing you because everything is out there that 18:48 you need, I don't think God is out there to fool us 18:50 if there is a simple remedy there is a way 18:52 that you can use it. 18:53 Now there are a few things that I like to travel with 18:56 one, and I bought this years ago when we were on tour 18:59 up in Washington State, you can see there is still 19:03 a little bit in here, this is peppermint oil. 19:05 - Peppermint oil. - Yep! And you know how many 19:07 uses there are for this. - Oh yes! 19:09 - If someone has a sore throat you might put a little bit in 19:13 water, and let them gargle with the peppermint oil, 19:15 it's also good for the breath. 19:17 It's good for the headache, someone has a headache 19:19 put a little bit on the finger and rub it on the temples 19:22 of the head, that is good for a headache, it's good for 19:26 many many other things, it's good for... 19:29 - May I see it? - Yes! It smells wonderful too. 19:32 - I was just going to check it's authenticity, sure enough. 19:36 - It's pure peppermint oil! - Another very good remedy for 19:41 using this is again you simply wet the finger and lick it off 19:46 for motion sickness. 19:49 - I was going to say the upset stomach, it's very good for 19:51 motion sickness, so I carry this with me for myself or 19:55 anyone else who might need this, it's very nice. 19:57 Another one that I really would not leave home without is 20:00 tea tree oil, it's vital if I get one of these little 20:05 canker sores in my mouth, a little bit of swipe over 20:08 that thing usually for me takes care of it, some people not, 20:10 some people it will. 20:11 If I have a sore throat coming on, a little bit on my 20:14 finger tip, I'll go back and I'll paint my throat with the 20:17 Tea Tree Oil. - Any fastidious person could 20:20 use a Q-tip. - They could, this is my bottle, 20:26 but yes that is right, you know I'm doing it twice, 20:30 I use my index finger for the first one, middle finger 20:34 for the second one, I don't want to re-infect myself. 20:37 I will also use it for any type of a skin problem, 20:40 if I have a bug bite, if I have an abrasion, very very healing 20:43 for the body. 20:45 One I heard of not to long ago was a couple of other oils 20:49 Oregano Oil, and Thyme Oil. 20:53 - Oh yes both very good fragrant oils. 20:56 - Fragrant oils but they are also very good antibiotic oils. 20:59 - Yes! - Matter of fact what I did 21:01 one Christmas is I bought a bunch of these bottles and sent 21:07 a pair to each one of my family members with instruction 21:10 for how to use it and the instructions are very easy. 21:13 If you have a container of water, you can do it in a glass 21:16 but I like a container of water because you have to mix 21:19 this stuff well or the oils are very hot when you 21:22 drink them, I tried this one time in Romania and I just 21:25 gave the students all little cups and they poured the water 21:29 and the oil in these things in there and drank it down 21:31 but the oil was sitting on top, and it set them on fire. 21:34 - Yes! I'm sure. Same thing will happen 21:36 if you use to much of the mint oil. 21:38 - Yes, it will. - But mint oil for pain in the 21:41 abdomen can be really nice, or bloating in the abdomen, 21:44 very nice but if you use much it needs to be diluted. 21:48 - As a matter of fact if you don't have them in oil 21:50 and there is some mint, just chew some mint leaves. 21:52 - Precisely! - It will give you the same 21:53 thing and mint grows in many many... 21:54 and there is many different types of mints. 21:56 So to make this I would put a teaspoon of oil, 22:00 I like to use olive oil myself, and then three drops, 22:04 it doesn't take many, I usually use five for myself, 22:07 about three drops of these oils, put them in the water, 22:10 shake it vigorously, and drink it down. 22:13 - How much water, about a cup? - About a cup, about 8ounces 22:16 it doesn't really matter, the more the merrier sometimes. 22:19 Oregano is know to kill about 25 different viruses. 22:24 - May I see it? - Um hum! 22:25 - Yes, it's very anti-microbial, yes, very fragrant! 22:31 It makes you think when you smell it, that it is a healing 22:37 herb, may I see that one? - Yes, yes, very nice. 22:39 - Oh yes, the thyme oil, thyme is a very good kitchen herb. 22:44 - And keeping these in your suitcases also makes your 22:47 suitcase smell quite nice. 22:49 It is always good to have a nice smelling suitcase. 22:52 One other thing I like to travel with is a little 22:56 container and I'm not advertising products, 22:58 there is many different types this is just an atomizer 23:01 for spraying a saline solution into the nose for a cold 23:06 coming on, I like to do a saline spray if someone else 23:11 is sick in the area, because we realize that this part 23:14 of the body is very protective of us as long as we've 23:17 kept it clean. 23:18 This has a little bit of colloidal silver in it 23:21 which they say has great properties whether it does 23:24 or not I don't know but... 23:25 - Some tests seem to show that the silver salts are very 23:30 effective, we used to use the silver salts when I was in 23:33 Medical School for such a serious illness as syphilis 23:37 and it was quite effective for the syphilis, so we know 23:40 that it does have good anti- microbial qualities. 23:44 So I just do a couple squirts up each nostril with this thing 23:46 and I find that that protects me if not helping to heal me 23:51 for what I might already have, but protect me from 23:53 getting it from somebody else. 23:54 So these simple things that we carry around with us, 23:57 I like to have these with me every where I go. 24:00 - By the way I'll say that the treatment for syphilis is 24:05 probably still best the antibiotic that we have today 24:10 but we certainly did have good results with the silver salts 24:14 when I was in Medical School, but we also know that at the 24:20 same time that we were treating syphilis and gonorrhea with 24:24 silver salts, we also had excellent results with 24:28 hot baths for both syphilis and gonorrhea. 24:32 Both of these germs are extremely sensitive to 24:37 a little heat and a little cooling and so that makes it 24:41 so that they can be very effective. 24:43 Now you were showing me some of the things you carry around 24:49 in your emergency kit. 24:51 - Well you know some of the best things and I've got many 24:55 things in here, I just want to pull this out right here 24:57 I carry a little thing, this is what we have at Uchee Pines 25:00 this little card pack. - Yes, I recognize that. 25:02 That's Dan Duce's program. - No this is our program 25:05 this is the one that we put out for meetings and that we 25:08 sort of give away. 25:09 but in here I made up many Bible promises, and you know 25:15 when you are in a tough situation a Bible promise 25:17 is what you really need, you can be giving yourself a treatment 25:21 but sometimes a treatment is tough like you mentioned 25:23 for syphilis I used to sue hydrotherapy and this was 25:26 long term hydro-therapy with hot temperatures. 25:29 - Very hot temperatures up to 105°. 25:30 - Yes! That's right so Joshua 1:9 Have not I commanded thee 25:33 be strong and of good courage, it comes in handy for people 25:36 like that, and so to have God's Word... 25:38 I have found that there is power in God's word. 25:42 - Healing power! - Very much healing powers! 25:45 - We think of the Word of God as being something that is very 25:49 good for our spiritual health but the Word of God is also 25:54 very powerful for the physical health and when people are 25:57 seriously ill to share the Word of God, share some promises 26:02 to pray with them, this can be very helpful for the individual, 26:07 it's encouraging, it's filled with hope and it makes the 26:11 individual think that you have their best good at heart. 26:14 - I was once lying very sick in Austria and reading through 26:18 the Bible and I came to the most wonderful healing verse, 26:21 I like medical missionary verses, 26:24 it was found in Jeremiah 17:14 26:26 it says: "Heal me O Lord, and I shall be healed, save me 26:31 and I shall be saved." 26:32 - "Amen!" - Two promises, condition is, 26:34 "For Though art my praise." - "Amen!" 26:38 So I find that praising the Lord is such a healing thing 26:42 as we are laying there in our sick bed or our death bed 26:44 if we praise the Lord it's going to make it better. 26:48 - Now you have one more thing that I like and it's right there 26:51 on the table beside you. 26:52 - Yes! - That came out of your kit too 26:54 I know. - I would not travel without 26:57 my charcoal, and I have powder in my suitcase but I will 27:01 carry this with me wherever I am, these are charcoal tablets 27:05 I bought this, as a matter of fact I can't even read it 27:07 to you because it's in Cyrillic but I bought this in Ukraine 27:12 and I just tear off as many as I think I need, 27:15 people say well how many do you take, I say well I take enough. 27:18 - That's the dosage, you take enough. 27:20 - That's right! You can't take to many. 27:22 - Yes, it's not toxic. 27:23 So I like your little kit, I think it's a very good thing 27:28 I carry a kit as well but when I carry charcoal in my suitcase 27:32 I have it double bagged in a zip-lock bag, 27:37 I want to be sure that I don't arrive at my destination 27:40 and have to do laundry the very first thing and still 27:44 forever have dingy clothing. 27:45 Well I hope these simple things that you can see anyone can do 27:50 in their home will be of eternal benefit to you. |
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