Participants: Agatha Thrash (Host), Don Miller, Rhonda Clark
Series Code: HYTH
Program Code: HYTH000241
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00:01 Hello! One thing that I like very much about simple remedies
00:05 is their simplicity. 00:07 I like the fact that even on the telephone I can tell 00:11 a mother what to do for her child, or a husband what to do 00:14 for his wife and expect that they will be able to follow 00:17 these instructions very carefully and get an 00:21 effective result. 00:22 So because of the many things, the many advantages that simple 00:27 remedies have, we hope that you will join us for this 00:30 program because we will be discussing a number 00:33 of simple remedies. 00:55 Welcome to Help Yourself to Health 00:57 with Dr. Agatha Thrash of Uchee Pines Institute, 01:00 and now here is your host Dr. Thrash. 01:06 I suppose there are probably as many remedies as there are 01:14 people who practice them multiplied by 100, 01:17 because everybody knows everybody who uses simple 01:20 remedies knows many, so I would like to show you some 01:24 of the ones that through the years I have learned and I 01:27 always enjoy learning more and from time to time somebody 01:30 will tell me a hundred new remedies and so I have a 01:34 bunch that I would like to show you here. 01:36 One thing is something that you should have in any good home 01:44 remedies kit, or home kit for home remedies, and that's just 01:48 a simple hand mirror. 01:51 Here you can look at things that you cannot see just 01:55 by looking directly at it, you can see on the bottom 01:58 of the foot, you can see on the back, on the bottom, 02:01 on the side, back of the head, and so everybody needs a 02:06 good hand mirror in the home remedies kit. 02:11 Now you need also a number of very simple things, 02:14 some of the oils that we might call fragrances or essence's, 02:20 some of those are really quite good. 02:22 One used for headache is lavender oil, and a little 02:27 cotton pledget wet with lavender oil and pinned to 02:32 the pillowcase can help a headache that one goes to bed 02:36 with at night, and some other oils, one that I like a lot is 02:41 Melissa oil, or also called citronella, and it has a 02:47 citrus smell, and the way to use it is to simply wet the 02:51 finger and then put it on the back behind the ears because 02:56 that's where little insects tend to enjoy being, and around 02:59 the wrists can be put in dabs around. 03:03 This is not related to citrus at all, except that it smells 03:07 like citrus fruit but it's a little herb called Melissa 03:13 and the oil is called Melissa oil. 03:15 Then of course there is Aloe Vera gel and Aloe Vera plants, 03:20 this kind of thing can be purchased at any health food 03:25 store, this is a gel and as you can see it is quite gel like 03:31 and this gel can be rubbed on burns and can be rubbed on 03:36 scrapes and anything that gets infected, 03:40 that's a very good way to use that. 03:43 Now this is wintergreen, oil of wintergreen, it's one of my 03:47 favorite fragrances, I like very much the smell of 03:51 wintergreen and I use this a lot in massage oil. 03:56 Wintergreen has a pain reducing element and if a person has a 04:01 back ache or a hip ache, or a knee ache and you put this in 04:05 some mineral oil with half alcohol so it's half alcohol 04:09 half mineral oil and a few drops of this oil of wintergreen 04:16 that can be so helpful for any kind of pain, 04:20 I like that for the home health kit for use in that way. 04:28 Now a lot of people get that problem that you know about 04:34 called plantar fascitis, and these little heel cups are 04:39 very nice for that. 04:40 A heel cup what we do is to put a persons foot right in 04:47 the heel cup and they simply wear these inside the shoe. 04:51 Now you would think such a simple remedy could it possibly 04:54 be helpful for the serious affliction that I have on the 05:00 bottom of my feet, I don't think such a simple thing 05:03 could help. 05:04 I hear that kind of statement all the time, 05:06 but I can assure you that these can be helpful 05:10 but something that I like probably the very best 05:13 for this kind of affliction is a cayenne extract and I don't 05:20 have any with me and I would not smell of it any way 05:22 because it is the red pepper extract, or cayenne extract 05:26 and it can set your nasal passages on fire when you 05:31 smell it, so you don't want to just go around smelling it. 05:34 But if you have plantar fascitis and it is simply painted on 05:38 the plantar surface of the sole of the foot, 05:43 and if you do it for six times a day for six days then you can 05:49 drop down to two times a day and it often will help you to 05:53 walk comfortably when nothing else will, so I like that 05:56 very much. 05:57 Now I have another thing here to show you and that is how 06:00 to make soy milk, I don't promote any of thee commercial 06:06 soy milks because of the fact that some of them do have 06:11 substances that you cannot trust might be the most 06:15 healthful for you. 06:17 So you can purchase these little soy milk makers and many of them 06:23 work by this process, they simply have a little mesh affair 06:32 that holds the soy beans, and I have here a quarter cup 06:39 of soy beans, and that's the amount that we need to use 06:42 for this kind of equipment. 06:46 This particular one is called a Soy Toy, it's one of the 06:50 earlier ones and there are many of these now and you can 06:55 use any of these that you like, they are very good. 06:58 In fact some are improved over this one and the 07:01 little soy beans are the little round beans 07:05 that you are very familiar with. 07:07 You simply put a quarter of a cup of the soybeans in this 07:12 particular type of equipment, then you can see that it has 07:15 a blender type of blade and this is then put in place 07:23 and the bowl of it can be filled either to the 1300 or 07:30 the 1700 cc position and I don't think you will be able to 07:34 see it but you can tell that the inside is stainless steel 07:38 and it had a little marked off area where one can see the 07:42 place to fill the hopper of it and very nice, it cleans up 07:51 very easily and I like this very much. 07:54 Once you have the water in and you fix this on, it has to 08:01 on in exactly the right way, sometimes I have loaned my 08:05 little soy milk maker to people and they put it on with the 08:08 spout out here, that won't work, it has to go here 08:12 where it has the little connection as you can see there. 08:16 Then you close it down, very simply done, plug it in and 08:22 press start and you are off and running. 08:25 Twenty minutes later or up to 27 minutes, I think this one 08:30 actually requires 27 minutes from the time you press start 08:36 until you are pouring up nice soy milk, it is delicious 08:41 in flavor and it's easy to flavor up or season in any way 08:47 you would like, you could put a sweetener with it, 08:50 you can even start with a juice, don't tell the manufacturer that 08:54 because they don't recommend that I don't think. 08:56 You can even use rice in it to make rice milk, that also 09:01 can be flavored up nicely, you should put a little salt 09:06 in it, usually about a teaspoon full per quart. 09:10 Now with this kind of equipment you can make a product 09:16 very good for the bones, good for the heart, good for the 09:20 arteries, it decelerates the rate at which people age, 09:25 I like that about it. 09:26 It also helps the eyes, it preserves our delicate senses 09:33 into advanced old age, so there are many good things 09:36 about soy, and I'm probably not even mentioning half of the 09:39 good benefits of soy. 09:42 So I recommend that you make your own soy milk, so that you 09:45 get the full benefit of the soy and not just a part of it 09:49 as you might with some kind of commercial product, 09:52 or even get a product that isn't healthful at all, that is 09:57 actually counter productive for the health. 10:01 Now I have asked Rhonda Clark to join me, Rhonda welcome! 10:06 - Thank you! - Rhonda is one of my colleagues 10:09 at Uchee Pines and works with me in lecturing but also works 10:13 as a counselor with our other counseling staff there at 10:17 Uchee Pines, so I am so glad you can be with me today 10:21 and I would like to know what you are going to tell people. 10:24 - Well I wanted to share today a special hydrotherapy type of 10:28 home remedy type of treatment. - Good! 10:30 - It's called a salt glow, and these are becoming popular 10:33 in beauty salons, health spas, as an exfoliating treatment 10:37 which makes the skin very soft and smooth, but there is 10:41 very healthful properties to a salt glow as well. 10:44 - Yes, I like the salt glow for just toning up if you feel a 10:48 little bit tired or under the weather, if you know someone 10:53 who knows how to do a salt glow, just feel marvelous 10:56 it boosts the immune system you get over the cold or the 11:00 flu a lot quicker and I like it a lot. 11:03 I've also seen it used for intractable epilepsy, 11:07 the kind where the person has a seizure and then before 11:11 they can fully awaken from that one, and then they get another 11:14 seizure, and another seizure. 11:16 In a field seizure one time 11:17 when there no physician available anywhere, no drugs, 11:20 nothing available anywhere, we had such a patient, 11:24 so we put the patient in a bath tub and gave a salt glow 11:29 and the patient stopped seizing and we were just thanking 11:33 the Lord, of course we had a team of people in the next room 11:36 praying for the Lord's blessing and I'm sure that the Lord 11:39 gave us His special blessing, and assisted our simple 11:43 treatment with success. 11:44 - Wow! You know I know that another group of patients that 11:49 often can't take a regular hydrotherapy type of treatment 11:52 especially a hot treatment, or diabetic patients, sometimes 11:55 because they've lost the sensation in their extremities 11:58 and so we worry about burning them but also just metabolically 12:02 sometimes the heating treatments that we give at the 12:03 Lifestyle Center increase the metabolism to a point that 12:06 it's difficult for the diabetic body to keep up with that. 12:09 But the salt glow is a wonderful way to increase the circulation 12:12 and in helping the diabetic patient who can't take a 12:15 regular heating treatment. - Yes! 12:17 - So I've invited Miss Arianna Hartsfield to come up and 12:20 if she'll come and join us today she's going to be our 12:22 demonstratee, and let me demonstrate this wonderful 12:26 treatment known as a salt glow. 12:28 The type of salt that you use is a salt glow is important, 12:32 table salt will be to fine and will not give enough of a 12:37 rub or friction to the skin and you certainly don't want 12:40 to use the large rock salt crystals like people have made 12:44 ice cream with or used clear snow and ice off of their 12:47 driveway, that would be to course. 12:50 What we recommend is known as kosher salt or course salt 12:54 and this can be obtained really any place where people do 12:57 canning, pickling, those places sell this type of salt. 13:01 It's a nice medium sized grain of salt, and you'll notice 13:05 as I pour it here in the basin it has a nice large 13:10 crystal size to it, each chunk of the salt is a little big 13:15 more than what you would see that you would sprinkle on 13:17 your food. - Yes, table salt melts and 13:21 dissolves and pretty soon you have no salt you just have 13:25 a solution. - A little saline glow! 13:28 And I've not put as much in the bowl here as you would 13:32 if you would be going to be doing a salt glow on your 13:34 entire body, and that's the intent of the treatment, 13:36 beginning with the extremities and working towards the 13:39 center of the body, towards the heart to begin with the 13:42 rubbing of this salt on to the body and so you might need a 13:46 much larger amount than what I've put in the bowl for our 13:48 demonstration. 13:49 You do want to wet this salt a bit, to have it just wet 13:54 enough to stick to the skin but you don't want it soupy, 13:57 there really will take very little water to moisten this 14:01 bit of salt here for our treatment, just a couple little 14:04 drops of water may be enough, we'll see here. 14:06 And as you mix it with your fingers it actually helps you 14:09 get a better feeling if you have the right consistency 14:13 and this looks, well maybe put a little bit more water 14:16 just enough so that it will stick without... 14:20 you don't want it to wet, you want to keep those salt 14:24 granules as intact as you can because they are what's 14:27 providing the friction, which is the beneficial component 14:30 of this treatment and Arianna if you would raise up a sleeve 14:34 for me we will demonstrate on your arm here the technique. 14:38 I will put a little towel here under us so we try not to get 14:43 to much salt all over everything, 14:45 you want to lay your arm a little bit more over on the 14:50 towel, there we go, and let's turn your hand the 14:52 other way, I think we can see it here on the skin a little bit 14:55 better, you want to take about a teaspoonful, oh thank you 14:58 Dr. Thrash, a teaspoon full or a little bit more 15:02 of the salt into your hand to begin the friction and it 15:08 goes on the skin and you rub rather briskly. 15:10 - Does that feel good? - It might sting just a little 15:13 actually and you want to get more as you run out 15:16 you just get a little more, and when you are doing this on 15:20 yourself in a circular motion like this might be good but 15:23 you want to try to get a nice red glow to the skin, 15:26 we'll do one more time here. - And you need to watch the 15:32 patient and make sure that you haven't taken off the top 15:35 layer of skin. - You can see how her skin is 15:39 pinking up very nicely, it's looking quite pink 15:41 and this is the intent of the treatment, 15:43 it's to be very warming very stimulating and when you are 15:46 doing in on yourself, again you start with your arms 15:48 working up, get your chest and abdomen, if you need any help 15:52 getting your back, you can put some of the salt solution 15:54 in a towel and then scrape along your back, and I guess we can 15:57 start brushing this off, or I also brought this along 16:01 a back brush. 16:03 This is something that you could use to just put down 16:06 into the salt solution itself and really get it full of the 16:10 salt and then can do your own back with this. 16:13 The ending of the treatment is to just rinse off in a 16:17 tepid shower and get all of the salt off of your skin 16:20 and you don't want to leave any of that on your skin at all 16:23 so rinse off well and Miss Hartsfield will be 16:26 rinsing off here as she finishes helping me and then 16:30 rest, it's nice to rest for a bit after the treatment, 16:32 if you can, or you might just have to go on to work so 16:35 if you take it to yourself to help liven up, know that 16:39 it might make you a little sweatier to stimulate you 16:41 enough, don't let that surprise you. 16:43 - It is a stimulatory treatment but then after awhile it is 16:49 relaxing so if you go to work you might fall asleep over your 16:52 keyboard. 16:53 Thank you so much Rhonda! - You are so welcome! 16:57 I appreciate your showing the salt glow it's an important 16:59 treatment, and I like it very much. 17:00 Now I'd like to have Arianna help me with a couple of 17:06 other treatments, one is this lumbar roll which is for 17:13 a very large person, but it can be very helpful. 17:18 If you will hold your arms up I will just put it around and 17:23 it can be just... Maybe I will just go ahead and 17:26 put it all the way around and hold that for me right there, 17:30 and I'll just put this right here and then around to 17:36 this side and the lumbar support should be quite tight 17:44 as you can see here, firmly tight, and that is quite helpful 17:49 and people who are very active who lift things or who are 17:54 lying in bed a long time and they begin to get some 17:58 difficulty because of lying in bed, 18:01 the low back begins to hurt. 18:03 For these individuals if they wear one of these it can be 18:07 very helpful. 18:08 People who have to lye in a hospital bed with the knees up, 18:12 Arianna I need you for another thing so don't go away. 18:15 They have to be with their knees up for a long time and 18:20 the bed is propped up, sometimes they will get a low back pain 18:23 as well. 18:24 Now Arianna I would like to show this little device here 18:30 while this is a massage assistant and it looks as if 18:36 it's a little spider, it's a little thing made of wood 18:40 so if you will turn your back this is so nice. 18:45 Does that feel good Arianna? 18:46 Isn't that nice, this just rubs across sore muscles and 18:52 by the way massage strokes are more for muscle than 18:57 they are for bones so don't get to vigorous with the 19:01 massage stroke that comes across a bone like that. 19:05 You have to be very careful not to do that but to stay 19:08 with the muscles and a person who is not a very big person 19:12 as Arianna is not, they are not very hefty coming down 19:19 across the vertebral spines will not be pleasant for 19:24 such a person so you should go to one side or the other but 19:27 not straight down the spine like this. 19:29 Of course the muscles that are down here and the muscles 19:33 that are on the arms, these can be nicely worked with 19:37 with a very simple thing such as this. 19:41 Thank you so much Arianna, I appreciate your being my helper. 19:45 Now another thing that I like to see in the home health kit 19:51 is an eye wash cup. 19:54 These are available from pharmacies they just have 19:57 a little depression in them such as this and this depression 20:01 can hold several kinds of fluid, saline is one kind of 20:07 fluid that this holds, and the saline is made up with 20:11 one teaspoon of salt to one level pint of water. 20:17 Now a pint is two cups or one half quart, so either way, 20:23 any way you can measure one teaspoon, two cups of water 20:27 and that gives saline. 20:29 Fill the cup with the saline then it is put right against 20:33 the eye in this fashion and while one is bending over 20:36 or up like this, one can bat the eyes multiple times 20:41 and that of course will cause the eye to get washed out, 20:46 it's very good in cases of conjunctivitis, or in cases 20:52 of something getting into the eye, so that can be 20:56 most helpful. 20:57 Now for women I recommend that they get some little device 21:02 such as this, a little bar bell for women and I have two 21:08 of these right at my desk and no matter what I am doing 21:14 at my desk if I am only using one hand then I use the other 21:20 hand if I don't have to concentrate to much with 21:23 this hand, say with writing, I use this just to work my hands 21:30 up and down, but I really like to use both of them. 21:34 So if I am sitting talking with someone on the speaker phone 21:39 then I can be doing all sorts of things with dumb bells and 21:44 they don't have to know that I am doing my exercises 21:48 while I am also talking on the telephone. 21:50 That can be very nice, and of course all sorts of curls 21:53 can be done in this way so just over the head or around 21:58 behind the back, any way that you can find to move the 22:03 dumb bells, this exercises different muscle sets. 22:07 Now another thing that I like to have at my desk for long time 22:13 simple things that I do that don't require to much 22:17 concentration is work with this, so you just work with 22:22 this a bit and again this can be stretched in any one of 22:29 many different ways. 22:30 You can stretch it up and do it on diagonals and this way 22:35 you can put it over the back, and of course it can be done 22:38 this way, you can do it fast or slow, and when you do it 22:45 fast you get a different kind of reaction than you do 22:48 when you do it slowly. 22:49 So in all manner of ways you can do this, even at times 22:54 I have had to watch videos or do some kind of work 23:00 of that nature so I just hook it over my toes and stretch it 23:05 out in that way, one after the other, it's easy to find 23:12 different ways and different muscle groups that can be 23:16 exercised with this kind of thing. 23:19 Another kind of exerciser is this kind of exerciser, 23:24 I'm going to tell you although I don't expect you really to 23:29 believe me that working out with a little hand exerciser 23:35 such as this can help you not to have glaucoma. 23:39 Now glaucoma is an increased pressure inside the eyes 23:46 which can cause blindness so of course it is quite serious 23:50 and when I read this first in a medical journal I thought 23:54 it was the Journal of Medical Association and I thought "Oh" 23:57 the journal has become spiritualistic because 24:01 what about working out with a hand exerciser such as this 24:06 could keep a person from getting glaucoma or could treat the 24:10 glaucoma if you already have it and the idea is that as you 24:16 work out with a hand exerciser such as this, it increases the 24:21 carbon dioxide in the blood, just a little and that relaxes 24:28 the tension inside the eyes. 24:32 Now anything that relaxes the tension in the eyes will also 24:36 relax the blood pressure, so if a person has high blood 24:39 working out with one of these little hand exercisers can be 24:43 very helpful, and so people who do spend a lot of time 24:46 telephoning, when it's not to distracting to do some little 24:53 exercising such as this, one can simply work out with 24:57 the little exerciser such as this in times of 25:01 this kind of stress. 25:02 Now here is another thing that I like to see in people's 25:07 home health kit, and this is a venomous bite kit extractor. 25:13 Now the venomous bite extractor can be used for a number of 25:17 different kinds of venomous bites and the instructions 25:20 usually come with such a kit and you can see this kit 25:25 has a little shaver in it to remove hair, and the hair is 25:34 sometimes in the way of the extractor so the hair may need 25:39 to be removed, so the little razor and then the extractor 25:44 itself with the little cups and here is the largest cup 25:48 which could be used for a small pit viper I suppose and it's 25:54 simply fastened on in this way and then the plunger is pulled 26:01 back, and with this put on the place where the person was 26:06 bitten and then the extractor used to extract the venom 26:16 and it's not difficult at all to use this kind of equipment 26:20 but it can be quite effective. 26:23 Now once you have extracted the venom a lot of people feel 26:28 what I need to do is to cut the area, but that isn't good 26:32 it's not the best thing to do. 26:34 The best thing to do is to use the anti-venom which you can get 26:39 at almost any emergency room where they treat snake bites 26:44 and you can also use charcoal if you have cut the area 26:50 and you put charcoal on a fresh wound you will get a 26:54 tattoo, it is inevitable because the charcoal will become 27:00 enmeshed in the fibrous tissue or the skin of the epidermis 27:05 and it will remain there forever. 27:08 So it's best not to cut but rather to use other things, 27:13 the cutting has not been shown to be effective. 27:16 Then for brown recluse spider bites you can also do an 27:20 extraction if you get to it right away and then put the 27:24 charcoal compresses on or soak the part if it's a part that 27:28 you can put into a charcoal bath, you can put it in a 27:32 charcoal bath and change the charcoal water very frequently. 27:38 We like at first to change it every thirty minutes that 27:40 probably is not necessary but it gives us something to do 27:43 and makes us feel that we are trying our very best to keep 27:47 the person from getting in a major slough from a 27:50 brown recluse spider bite. 27:51 I hope these remedies have been very helpful to you. |
Revised 2014-12-17