Hello! I get pretty excited about 00:00:01.98\00:00:03.08 home remedies because they are simple, they are inexpensive 00:00:03.11\00:00:07.40 and they are very effective, and in addition to all of that 00:00:07.43\00:00:11.00 they are extremely safe. 00:00:11.03\00:00:12.94 It is an unusual thing for someone to get hurt by a 00:00:12.97\00:00:17.27 home remedy, especially if they use those simple things 00:00:17.30\00:00:20.82 that are just about the home at all times, such things as 00:00:20.85\00:00:24.11 pots, and cloths, and water, and heat and cold. 00:00:24.14\00:00:28.77 So if you like to study about home remedies and like to 00:00:28.80\00:00:32.29 learn some new uses for some old things, then we invite you 00:00:32.32\00:00:35.79 to stay with us for this program. 00:00:35.82\00:00:37.67 Welcome to Help Yourself To Health 00:00:57.76\00:01:00.40 with Dr. Agatha Thrash of Uchee Pines Institute, 00:01:00.43\00:01:03.59 and now here is your host Dr. Thrash. 00:01:03.62\00:01:06.72 Not the least of the benefits of home remedies is the 00:01:06.75\00:01:13.17 extreme safety of them, for instance herbs. 00:01:13.20\00:01:18.07 Herbal remedies are incredibly safe for the most part 00:01:18.10\00:01:21.85 there are a few that have some side effects, but almost all 00:01:21.88\00:01:26.33 the side effects that an herb can have, 00:01:26.36\00:01:28.29 the drug that you might use to substitute for the herb 00:01:28.32\00:01:32.73 might have a lot more and a lot more serious effects 00:01:32.76\00:01:38.36 on the human body, so if you do use herbs, the important 00:01:38.39\00:01:41.67 thing is to learn those that are safe and are effective 00:01:41.70\00:01:45.60 and just stay with those that you know about. 00:01:45.63\00:01:48.92 Now herbs don't make up a large part of what we talk about 00:01:48.95\00:01:53.85 but some things that might be classified as herbs 00:01:53.88\00:01:57.47 are such things as charcoal, that can be called an herb. 00:01:57.50\00:02:02.62 But then we can use mild things like catnip tea and 00:02:02.65\00:02:07.79 Valerian root and a wide variety of other herbs, 00:02:07.82\00:02:13.01 so I like the herbs as well they are what could be called 00:02:13.04\00:02:16.45 a home remedy. 00:02:16.48\00:02:17.56 There are many home remedies that require devices, 00:02:17.59\00:02:20.98 such devices as a blender, or a mixer, or a double boiler, 00:02:21.01\00:02:29.06 or a slow cooker, these are also things that may be used 00:02:29.09\00:02:34.72 in home remedies. 00:02:34.75\00:02:35.99 Today I would like to show you a number of these things 00:02:36.02\00:02:39.73 that we have learned through the years can be helpful 00:02:39.76\00:02:43.20 can be very useful in the making of the home remedies. 00:02:43.23\00:02:47.12 So I would like to start with some simple things that 00:02:47.15\00:02:51.92 might be helpful for say a kidney stone, 00:02:51.95\00:02:54.94 and for a kidney stone discussion I will ask my son 00:02:54.97\00:03:00.04 Cal Thrash to join me here so that we can tell about a 00:03:00.07\00:03:06.31 personal experience, Cal welcome to the program! 00:03:06.34\00:03:09.29 - Ok! Thank you! - I'm happy that you could 00:03:09.33\00:03:10.81 be here today, and I'd like to talk a bit about this device. 00:03:10.84\00:03:15.79 I think it may have been this very device that we used when 00:03:15.82\00:03:20.33 we were treating your kidney stones. 00:03:20.36\00:03:22.22 - I was going to say why were you going to ask me about 00:03:22.25\00:03:24.27 a kidney stone, maybe because I've had personal experience 00:03:24.30\00:03:27.70 with it. - Yes! We have treated a 00:03:27.73\00:03:30.84 kidney stone for some time for you. 00:03:30.87\00:03:32.94 Now I'd like to ask you, what do you remember about 00:03:33.11\00:03:37.01 a kidney stone as the worst experience? 00:03:37.04\00:03:39.63 - Oh! It's the pain by all means, in fact the first day 00:03:39.66\00:03:44.35 that I really knew that I had a kidney stone, 00:03:44.38\00:03:46.58 I didn't know what was happening. 00:03:46.61\00:03:48.97 I was talking with someone else we were looking at estimating 00:03:49.00\00:03:51.92 a building, standing there and as he talked I felt myself 00:03:51.95\00:03:55.90 bending over and pretty soon I was down here like this 00:03:55.93\00:03:59.05 and I said you carry on, I think I'm going to go now 00:03:59.08\00:04:01.96 and you could not find a comfortable position 00:04:01.99\00:04:05.34 no matter what it was not... 00:04:05.37\00:04:06.60 - You'd twist to the left and you'd twist to the right. 00:04:06.63\00:04:08.09 - It didn't matter you sit down and stand up 00:04:08.12\00:04:10.36 in fact the only thing that I could do was just to kind of 00:04:10.39\00:04:13.62 pace back and forth in this kind of position, lying down 00:04:13.65\00:04:16.77 didn't work, standing up didn't really feel good, 00:04:16.80\00:04:19.46 it was miserable. - Yes! It's a miserable thing, 00:04:19.50\00:04:23.08 in fact I have spoken with women who have both had a 00:04:23.11\00:04:26.56 kidney stone and a baby, and they say the stone is by far 00:04:26.59\00:04:32.19 the worst of the... - That's what I've heard, 00:04:32.22\00:04:34.33 I've only experienced one of those of course. 00:04:34.36\00:04:37.61 - A woman would never choose to have the pain of a baby a 00:04:37.64\00:04:42.16 second time, but far be it from her to choose a second time for 00:04:42.19\00:04:46.77 a kidney stone. 00:04:46.80\00:04:47.81 - Oh yes! 00:04:47.84\00:04:48.81 - Now when we learned that you had a kidney stone, 00:04:48.82\00:04:52.57 we had it diagnosed by a Urologist down town, 00:04:52.60\00:04:56.35 and do you remember what he said to me? 00:04:56.38\00:04:59.14 - He said you will never pass that stone, it's to big 00:04:59.17\00:05:04.48 it's not going to work, and so we're going to have to do 00:05:04.51\00:05:08.23 something, probably try to go up with a basket and snare it 00:05:08.26\00:05:11.09 or perhaps push it back into the kidney and go for 00:05:11.12\00:05:13.63 lithotripsy, and the lithotripsy of course being at that time 00:05:13.66\00:05:17.30 about $10,000 and my wife said well I think you can 00:05:17.33\00:05:20.75 withstand a lot of pain for $10,000, so that wasn't done. 00:05:20.78\00:05:24.29 - Well considering the fact that the stone was big enough 00:05:24.32\00:05:30.02 that the Urologist after he had studied your case 00:05:30.05\00:05:33.44 said that this stone is to big to pass, and then he said 00:05:33.47\00:05:37.78 it's to big and to far up to snare with a basket. 00:05:37.81\00:05:40.83 - That's right! - So his only treatment was 00:05:40.86\00:05:43.11 lithotripsy. - That's right! 00:05:43.14\00:05:44.56 - So you said let's try for awhile with some 00:05:44.59\00:05:48.65 simple remedies. 00:05:48.68\00:05:49.65 - Right! 00:05:49.66\00:05:50.63 - So let's see if we can remember the number 00:05:50.64\00:05:52.88 of herbs that you used, I remember stone root. 00:05:52.92\00:05:55.57 - Stone root! gravel root, marshmallow root, 00:05:55.60\00:05:59.84 and I believe licorice root, there may have been one 00:05:59.87\00:06:05.12 or two others that I can't remember off the top of my head 00:06:05.15\00:06:08.03 but those were the main ones. 00:06:08.06\00:06:09.95 - I remember one time when you were having a good bit of pain 00:06:09.98\00:06:13.51 that we tried some rather off beat things, 00:06:13.54\00:06:15.91 one thing was a magnet, do you remember that? 00:06:15.94\00:06:19.13 - That's true! - When a man came to Uchee Pines 00:06:19.16\00:06:22.05 and he said have you ever tried a magnet for pain, "NO!" 00:06:22.08\00:06:25.04 well they're using it up at Warm Springs Foundation 00:06:25.07\00:06:28.27 you know, which is the Roosevelt Foundation for Polio, 00:06:28.30\00:06:32.14 back before polio sort of played out. 00:06:32.17\00:06:34.99 Then it became a foundation for the treatment of just 00:06:35.02\00:06:39.94 skeletal diseases, so we thought well if they're using it at 00:06:39.97\00:06:45.34 Warm Springs Foundation, that's a really very steady mainstream 00:06:45.37\00:06:51.88 investigative type of organization, 00:06:51.91\00:06:55.48 if they are using it there it must be pretty good. 00:06:55.51\00:06:57.39 So we used a magnet for you, do you remember if that helped? 00:06:57.42\00:07:00.76 - I couldn't really say if it helped to much, to me it 00:07:00.79\00:07:05.10 seemed like it did but it's very difficult to say 00:07:05.13\00:07:08.03 I can say that probably the thing that helped the quickest 00:07:08.06\00:07:11.41 and almost the most consistently was a very hot bath that 00:07:11.44\00:07:17.05 affected the area where the pain was, which of course was 00:07:17.08\00:07:20.10 generally speaking in your back, and the idea here 00:07:20.13\00:07:24.19 of course is not the same kind of thing that we try to do with 00:07:24.22\00:07:27.75 hot half-bath which is try to raise the temperature. 00:07:27.78\00:07:30.25 The idea is to relax the smooth muscle to relieve the pressure 00:07:30.28\00:07:35.05 on the kidney because the kidney wasn't designed to 00:07:35.08\00:07:37.13 hold the urine, it was another organ for that, so it makes a 00:07:37.16\00:07:42.30 considerable amount of pain that constricts there and then 00:07:42.33\00:07:45.55 and you end out getting pressure there on the ureter 00:07:45.58\00:07:48.63 and so what we did, and I remember that it was a 00:07:48.66\00:07:51.94 nurse anesthetist that told me about this treatment is was 00:07:51.97\00:07:54.50 very effective to try to hang out of the bath tub as much 00:07:54.53\00:07:59.08 as you can but put that area just of the area of your back 00:07:59.11\00:08:02.68 that really hurt the worse into the hot water, 00:08:02.71\00:08:05.07 as hot as you could stand it, and remain there for an hour 00:08:05.10\00:08:09.24 and you kind of have to hang out of the bath tub to stay 00:08:09.27\00:08:12.19 in the hot water, the water is as hot as you can stand it 00:08:12.22\00:08:13.80 for an hour because it's pretty hot. 00:08:13.83\00:08:15.61 - You get to sweating I'm pretty sure even with hanging 00:08:15.64\00:08:18.58 out of the bath tub. - Now the point is that within 00:08:18.61\00:08:20.85 about 10 minutes you'll begin to feel better, in fact 00:08:20.88\00:08:23.88 you'll think hey! the pain is subsiding, I think I can 00:08:23.91\00:08:26.24 get out now. 00:08:26.27\00:08:27.24 Don't do that, you may need to get out to urinate 00:08:27.25\00:08:30.06 because you will feel like you need to urinate pretty 00:08:30.09\00:08:32.04 quickly, as soon as the pressure begins to relieve around the 00:08:32.07\00:08:34.74 stone a little bit. 00:08:34.77\00:08:35.87 - The urine that has collected up above the stone passes 00:08:35.90\00:08:40.04 down into the bladder. - Right! 00:08:40.07\00:08:41.43 - Then you will begin to feel as if you need to urinate. 00:08:41.46\00:08:44.34 - Right! But as soon as you get finished go right back into 00:08:44.37\00:08:47.51 the hot bath, if you don't you are looking for more pain 00:08:47.54\00:08:50.87 and perhaps even trip to the hospital where it may not 00:08:50.90\00:08:54.01 work as well the second time as it did the first time. 00:08:54.04\00:08:57.28 So don't get out when you start feeling a little better 00:08:57.31\00:08:59.82 make sure you stick with it for the whole hour. 00:08:59.85\00:09:01.76 - Yes! I love the hot half-bath it's useful for so many things 00:09:01.79\00:09:05.49 it's useful for the flu and colds and all sorts of 00:09:05.52\00:09:09.26 skeletal problems and as we've just heard it's good for a 00:09:09.29\00:09:12.92 kidney stone. 00:09:12.95\00:09:13.92 Now just briefly I'd like to explain what we did with this 00:09:13.93\00:09:18.14 I don't think this helped at all but somebody told us 00:09:18.17\00:09:21.69 if you'll use a vibrator on the back just over the place 00:09:21.72\00:09:25.47 where the major portion of the pain is, that will help 00:09:25.50\00:09:28.41 so we dutifully did that, and I remember that you drank 00:09:28.44\00:09:32.74 about two quarts of water within about a half an hour. 00:09:32.77\00:09:35.61 I was going to say there was a little bit of preparation 00:09:35.64\00:09:37.63 that was necessary before the massage took place, 00:09:37.66\00:09:41.72 we did I think about as much water as I'd ever had to drink 00:09:41.75\00:09:47.09 in my whole life, all in one sitting. 00:09:47.12\00:09:50.07 - Yes! - It seems like it was something 00:09:50.10\00:09:52.28 to the tune of about four liters or maybe more than that 00:09:52.31\00:09:55.67 I can't remember, as much as I could get down was what we 00:09:55.70\00:09:57.98 tried to do. - Within an hour you had 00:09:58.02\00:09:59.89 more than a gallon. - We had really pumped the 00:09:59.92\00:10:02.74 water in then of course then tried with the... 00:10:02.77\00:10:04.67 - And another thing that we did was magnesium sulfate 00:10:04.70\00:10:07.85 and that is very helpful, that magnesium sulfate will 00:10:07.88\00:10:11.15 help relax the smooth muscle, that's Epsom salts, 00:10:11.18\00:10:13.88 and then we use this vibrator, I don't really think it 00:10:13.91\00:10:18.16 did any good, but it's held on the back and the stone is 00:10:18.19\00:10:23.81 supposed to vibrate down the ureter and pass out 00:10:23.84\00:10:27.36 into the bladder. 00:10:27.39\00:10:28.36 So some remedies that you hear about for a kidney stone 00:10:28.37\00:10:31.73 may be good and some may not be so good, but you may 00:10:31.76\00:10:36.08 want to try ever one, except the one that we think 00:10:36.11\00:10:40.03 really helped Cal the most and that was the one on 00:10:40.06\00:10:43.83 New Year's Day wasn't it. - That's right! 00:10:43.86\00:10:44.98 - On New Year's Day! - A friend of yours came to 00:10:45.01\00:10:46.81 visit I remember. - Right! Big burly guy! 00:10:46.84\00:10:49.78 - And he said you're such a little twerp I could just turn 00:10:49.81\00:10:53.98 you upside down and shake you. 00:10:54.01\00:10:55.37 - That's right, and he did, and he turned me on my head 00:10:55.40\00:10:58.72 and tickled my feet a little bit and I wrenched around 00:10:58.75\00:11:01.60 a little bit and almost immediately I felt like 00:11:01.63\00:11:03.91 I need to go to the bathroom and passed that stone 00:11:03.94\00:11:05.97 almost immediately. 00:11:06.00\00:11:06.97 - Because I can remember you called me and said "Mom 00:11:07.00\00:11:09.02 what would you like as a New Year's Day present?" 00:11:09.05\00:11:10.90 I said nothing could please me more than to see your stone 00:11:10.93\00:11:15.89 he said well I'll show it to you. 00:11:15.92\00:11:17.35 - Yep, I'll show it to you and it was an unusual looking 00:11:17.38\00:11:19.94 little thing too. - Yes it was it was barbed 00:11:19.97\00:11:22.76 and burrs all over it so I can see why the urologist said 00:11:22.80\00:11:27.12 it would never pass, it was to large. 00:11:27.15\00:11:29.56 - Than God it did! - Yes, we certainly were very 00:11:29.59\00:11:33.11 grateful for that. 00:11:33.14\00:11:35.09 Ok! You have anything else that you would like to talk about? 00:11:35.12\00:11:38.19 - Well I thought I would talk a little bit about a sore throat, 00:11:38.22\00:11:40.66 you know we had talked about charcoal before, one thing 00:11:40.69\00:11:44.15 that I like that's very effective for sore throats 00:11:44.18\00:11:46.57 when you are just beginning to get a cold is to use a zinc 00:11:46.60\00:11:50.29 lozenge and as long as you can use the sugar free variety 00:11:50.32\00:11:53.53 and keep it in your mouth and they say only to use one 00:11:53.56\00:11:57.86 maybe every few hours, but if you can stand the little bit of 00:11:57.89\00:12:01.96 stomach upset that comes with zinc it's good to keep 00:12:01.99\00:12:05.93 your throat bathed with that zinc for quite a little while 00:12:06.58\00:12:09.68 and I've actually been able to fight off a sore throat and 00:12:09.71\00:12:12.56 a cold just with that alone and of course being careful 00:12:12.59\00:12:15.73 not to be more chilled and to make sure I'm not eating 00:12:15.76\00:12:20.35 anything that has any more sugar in it, all of those things 00:12:20.38\00:12:23.80 being something that would make you have more likely hood 00:12:23.83\00:12:26.60 to have a cold which is not what you want to do when you're 00:12:26.63\00:12:28.88 just coming down with a sore throat. 00:12:28.91\00:12:30.50 - Precisely! - But one thing that is helpful 00:12:30.53\00:12:32.69 if you do have a sore throat and it doesn't seem to be 00:12:32.72\00:12:36.41 going away, and to help fight the pain and actually to 00:12:36.44\00:12:38.52 help with taking up some of the viruses that are present 00:12:38.55\00:12:43.81 there is to use a charcoal tablet, you have to use these 00:12:43.84\00:12:47.35 old fashioned variety that we have in Uchee Pines. 00:12:47.38\00:12:52.22 The new ones that have come out are designed to dissolve 00:12:52.25\00:12:54.90 very quickly and so they don't actually have the lozenge effect 00:12:54.93\00:12:59.66 but these are hard enough that they will dissolve slowly and 00:12:59.69\00:13:02.84 bathe the throat with the charcoal which of course is 00:13:02.87\00:13:04.66 what you are trying to do, and it really does relieve the pain 00:13:05.08\00:13:08.59 quite well. - Well this kind of tablet 00:13:08.62\00:13:12.00 just fit behind a tooth, couldn't it? 00:13:12.03\00:13:14.49 - It could! - Ok, very good! 00:13:14.52\00:13:16.84 Well I like that treatment for a sore throat, do you ever do 00:13:16.87\00:13:20.94 anything else for a sore throat, the zinc lozenge, the charcoal 00:13:20.97\00:13:23.92 lozenge, do you ever do a gargle? 00:13:23.95\00:13:26.18 - We have recommended gargles in the past quite honestly 00:13:26.21\00:13:31.10 they don't work as well on me as they do on other people. 00:13:31.13\00:13:33.59 - Ok, now I wanted you to mention that because not every 00:13:33.62\00:13:37.63 remedy that we say for one person is going to work 00:13:37.67\00:13:40.15 for everybody. - That's true! 00:13:40.19\00:13:41.29 - So you have to pick and choose what you are going to use and 00:13:41.43\00:13:44.86 find out those remedies that are the best for you. 00:13:44.89\00:13:48.17 - And of course you wouldn't want to leave the subject of 00:13:48.20\00:13:51.55 sore throat without talking about the heating compress 00:13:51.58\00:13:53.71 a little bit. - The heating compress is a 00:13:53.74\00:13:55.15 very good... A cold cloth, then the plastic 00:13:55.18\00:13:59.00 wrap and then a bandage to hold it on. 00:13:59.03\00:14:01.41 - Right! - Yes! We talk about these 00:14:01.44\00:14:03.44 we tell about these and our books on Natural Remedies 00:14:03.47\00:14:06.51 and Home Remedies, both of which can be obtained from an 00:14:06.54\00:14:10.14 ordinary book store or from our book store at Uchee Pines. 00:14:10.17\00:14:13.79 Thank you so much for joining us today on the program. 00:14:13.82\00:14:19.74 Now I would like to have another of my assistants to join me 00:14:19.77\00:14:23.73 Dr. Don Miller and Dr. Miller has a wide experience in 00:14:23.76\00:14:29.98 treating people not only in this country but in various 00:14:30.01\00:14:33.70 parts of the world, Uchee Pines sends him to the far flung 00:14:33.73\00:14:38.43 recesses of the world. 00:14:38.46\00:14:39.98 Dr. Miller what have you learned about soy beans? 00:14:40.01\00:14:44.82 - Ahhh! I've learned one really important thing. 00:14:44.85\00:14:47.70 - What is that? - They become my favorite food! 00:14:47.73\00:14:50.10 - Yes! And its a good food to eat and it's good to the taste, 00:14:50.13\00:14:54.66 is there any other reason why you like it so much? 00:14:54.69\00:14:57.44 - First let me recommend to people how best to eat 00:14:57.47\00:14:59.70 these things, green soybeans steamed with a little bit 00:14:59.73\00:15:03.20 of salt, it's one of the most fantastic flavors, 00:15:03.23\00:15:06.34 I ran into this in Japan. 00:15:06.37\00:15:07.61 Now Japan one of the longest lived people, they live for a 00:15:07.64\00:15:12.77 long time there, very healthy bunch of people and they eat 00:15:12.80\00:15:16.58 a lot of soy. 00:15:16.62\00:15:17.70 Soy has many good products, or many good phytochemicals inside 00:15:17.73\00:15:22.67 this tiny little white bean. 00:15:22.70\00:15:24.58 Now let me say this sometimes it's what we take in to replace 00:15:24.61\00:15:30.70 something else that's our benefit, this has both of the 00:15:30.73\00:15:34.14 benefits, because many people they eat a lot, 00:15:34.17\00:15:37.44 and drink a lot of milk, well if you drink soy milk 00:15:37.47\00:15:39.99 it's replacing dairy milk. 00:15:40.02\00:15:42.01 - Yes! - We know that there are 00:15:42.04\00:15:43.82 five things that are predisposed to prostate cancer: meat, 00:15:43.85\00:15:47.85 milk, eggs, cheese, and being overweight, the first four 00:15:47.88\00:15:52.37 leads to number five, all five lead to prostate problems 00:15:52.40\00:15:56.05 whether it's going to be prostate cancer or just an 00:15:56.08\00:15:59.07 enlarged prostate and so we find if you take something like 00:15:59.10\00:16:02.91 soy and as a replacement its making soy milk which is an 00:16:02.94\00:16:07.20 extremely good food, it's going to give you the replacement 00:16:07.23\00:16:11.56 factor plus there are the phyto- chemicals in there one of them 00:16:11.59\00:16:16.20 is genistein, this has an angio- genesis factor, all tumors 00:16:16.24\00:16:22.51 when you start developing a tumor if it gets large enough 00:16:22.54\00:16:25.21 has to have a blood supply, that's called angio-genesis 00:16:25.24\00:16:28.44 it starts building, we've got these little growth factors 00:16:28.47\00:16:31.24 in our body that causes us to build a blood network 00:16:31.27\00:16:35.63 and this is a good thing if you are working out with weights 00:16:35.66\00:16:38.04 you are building more muscle mass, your body builds more 00:16:38.07\00:16:41.43 blood capillaries to feed those muscles. 00:16:41.46\00:16:44.70 Same thing with the tumor as the tumor grows we get this 00:16:44.73\00:16:48.43 growth of the network of capillaries but this genistein 00:16:48.46\00:16:54.90 in the soy beans stops that process. 00:16:54.93\00:16:58.74 - Anti-angiogenesis factor. - Right! 00:16:58.77\00:17:01.16 And that's extremely important. 00:17:01.20\00:17:03.02 - Yes it is, now about soybeans, you mentioned about milk 00:17:03.05\00:17:07.24 being extremely good, it's very nourishing, 00:17:07.27\00:17:09.57 what would say if I told you that I liked commercial 00:17:09.60\00:17:14.42 soy milks and the sweeter the better. 00:17:14.45\00:17:16.80 - Well there's a few problems with commercial soy milks 00:17:16.83\00:17:20.54 you read the ingredients and they look pretty good and 00:17:20.57\00:17:23.70 for the most part they are totally vegan and that is good 00:17:23.73\00:17:27.68 but there's that one thing down there called carrageenan 00:17:27.71\00:17:29.92 and that is from a seaweed 00:17:29.95\00:17:34.20 but this acts as a glue and it's not 00:17:34.23\00:17:37.51 the most healthy thing in the body either, and so I would 00:17:37.54\00:17:40.99 rather make my own, with just soy. 00:17:41.02\00:17:42.77 - And then of course the sugar and the purified 00:17:42.80\00:17:46.90 protein derivatives and other things and generally speaking 00:17:46.93\00:17:51.18 it's better to make your own soy milk and the soy milk maker 00:17:51.21\00:17:55.19 such as you can see here... A soy milk maker can be obtained 00:17:55.22\00:17:59.49 now I think for under a hundred dollars and if you use soy milk 00:17:59.52\00:18:04.21 a lot, it's money well spent. 00:18:04.24\00:18:07.27 - The nice thing about many of your soy milk makers is 00:18:07.30\00:18:11.34 once you've made the milk, what's left over, 00:18:11.37\00:18:13.59 what do you call that's left over? 00:18:13.62\00:18:14.59 - That's called the okara! - Okara looks like okra. 00:18:14.60\00:18:17.30 - Yes and you can use that in so many ways, you can use it 00:18:17.33\00:18:20.94 in breads and waffles and stews, soups. 00:18:20.97\00:18:23.89 - We got a Japanese woman at Uchee Pines who is a marvel 00:18:23.92\00:18:26.21 with things and she can make pies out of this okara. 00:18:26.24\00:18:29.07 - Oh yes, and another thing that our cook at Uchee Pines 00:18:29.10\00:18:32.98 who is Japanese and does wonders with foods. 00:18:33.01\00:18:35.72 What she has is these soy beans that she gets from 00:18:35.75\00:18:41.76 the Asian markets that are still in the shell and it ends 00:18:41.79\00:18:46.75 with mommy, do you remember the name of that? 00:18:46.78\00:18:48.87 - No I don't! - I can't think of the name 00:18:48.90\00:18:50.96 of it right now but it's a conversation piece in this 00:18:51.00\00:18:54.28 country, so you just take a handful and put that on 00:18:54.31\00:18:58.68 a little plate and serve that to people either hot or cold 00:18:58.71\00:19:02.57 and they are absolutely delightful. 00:19:02.60\00:19:05.79 - Oh, they make me big bags when I'm traveling in Japan 00:19:05.82\00:19:08.43 because they know that this is... 00:19:08.46\00:19:09.88 If you liked cheese back when you used to eat cheese, 00:19:09.91\00:19:13.58 it's got sort of a cheesy flavor and almost a cheesy consistency. 00:19:13.61\00:19:17.60 - Yes! - I you just sit there and bite, 00:19:17.63\00:19:19.17 I just bite them and squeeze them off my mouth. 00:19:19.20\00:19:21.24 - That's the way that people eat them, whether they 00:19:21.27\00:19:22.93 open them up or whether they pop them into the mouth by 00:19:22.96\00:19:26.43 the process of pulling the pod, but at any rate it's soy 00:19:26.46\00:19:31.28 I like very much. - Yes! 00:19:31.31\00:19:32.37 - I appreciate your telling us about soy, thank you so much. 00:19:32.40\00:19:36.49 Now there are many other remedies that we can talk about 00:19:36.52\00:19:42.10 and soy has so many good remedies: anti-cancer, 00:19:42.13\00:19:46.27 anti-osteoporosis, anti- prostate enlargement, 00:19:46.30\00:19:50.42 anti-breast cancer, so many good remedies, 00:19:50.45\00:19:54.06 even if a person already has osteoporosis and they take 00:19:54.09\00:19:57.94 a lot of soy products, just as little as a quarter cup of 00:19:57.97\00:20:02.74 cooked soybeans per day that can be so beneficial for 00:20:02.77\00:20:08.42 osteoporosis that has already developed. 00:20:08.45\00:20:10.96 Now I have asked Rhonda Clark to join me today and I can see 00:20:10.99\00:20:18.71 by what you have, that you have some remedies to show us. 00:20:18.74\00:20:22.58 - Yes, I have a remedy that involves a snorkel 00:20:22.61\00:20:25.02 of all things. - I like to go snorkeling 00:20:25.05\00:20:26.92 in the ocean! 00:20:26.95\00:20:28.16 - Well this is a snorkeling in a basin, and it's one of the 00:20:28.19\00:20:30.67 best treatments for relieving sinus pressure and congestion 00:20:30.70\00:20:34.10 and I've asked our assistant Miss Arianna Hartsfield to come 00:20:34.13\00:20:37.67 and join me today, we're going to be demonstrating a treatment 00:20:37.70\00:20:40.69 known... - Come right up in here! 00:20:40.73\00:20:42.65 Thanks Arianna, a treatment known as a facial contrast bath. 00:20:42.68\00:20:47.38 The principle behind this treatment is to put hot and cold 00:20:47.41\00:20:51.78 alternating water over the entire face, submerging 00:20:51.81\00:20:55.87 all these sinus areas and the nasal passage ways in the water 00:20:55.90\00:20:59.71 to help relieve congestion, bring an influx of circulation 00:20:59.74\00:21:03.94 to the area to help fight the infection, and because the 00:21:03.97\00:21:07.14 treatment takes a little longer period of time that one 00:21:07.17\00:21:09.46 can hold their breath, we use a snorkel. 00:21:09.49\00:21:12.25 Now Arianna will demonstrate how this works for us 00:21:12.28\00:21:17.14 and I wanted to show some of the equipment in addition to the 00:21:17.17\00:21:19.08 snorkel that we use for this treatment. 00:21:19.11\00:21:21.01 On the table here I have placed two basins and at home you need 00:21:21.04\00:21:25.42 nice deep basins or pots, you might even have a sink 00:21:25.45\00:21:29.11 that's deep enough that you can put your face clear down in 00:21:29.14\00:21:31.91 and you want the water not to cover the ears, but to cover 00:21:31.94\00:21:35.40 over the chin up to the bottom of the ears, around the forehead 00:21:35.43\00:21:39.36 the entire face. 00:21:39.39\00:21:40.65 You'll need one for very hot water, as hot as you can take it 00:21:40.68\00:21:45.16 on the face, the other will be cold water, in fact it's nice 00:21:45.19\00:21:48.11 to have some ice cubes floating around in there to make a nice 00:21:48.14\00:21:51.12 contrast between the two. 00:21:51.15\00:21:53.42 You may notice that I have also handily kept a box of Kleenex 00:21:53.45\00:21:57.91 nearby as this treatment goes along you will start having 00:21:57.94\00:22:02.02 secretions coming from your nose and sinuses, 00:22:02.05\00:22:04.85 so it's nice to have some Kleenex handy and then of course 00:22:04.88\00:22:07.46 a towel for finishing the treatment. 00:22:07.49\00:22:09.39 If Arianna will put the snorkel in the mouth, 00:22:09.42\00:22:12.38 the snorkels are easily obtained at any department store, 00:22:12.41\00:22:15.71 I paid just $5.00 for this at a local department store 00:22:15.74\00:22:18.91 there is a place that you bite with you teeth an the lips 00:22:18.94\00:22:21.97 come over just as Arianna is demonstrating, and this is just 00:22:22.00\00:22:25.42 to keep breathing through the mouth during the treatment. 00:22:25.45\00:22:28.43 You begin in the basin with the hot water, and you will see 00:22:28.46\00:22:31.65 Arianna will dip her face clear down into the hot water 00:22:31.68\00:22:33.94 she's breathing through the snorkel, and she will want to 00:22:33.97\00:22:37.61 stay in the hot water for about three minutes, it really goes by 00:22:37.64\00:22:41.39 quickly, next then she will want to without drying off her 00:22:41.42\00:22:45.70 face move right over into the ice water, and as her assistant 00:22:45.73\00:22:51.42 while she is in the ice water, I'll be adding a little more 00:22:51.45\00:22:54.56 hot water to the basin, she'll only be in the ice water for 00:22:54.59\00:22:57.73 thirty seconds, then she'll switch back over into the hot 00:22:57.76\00:23:01.13 and as she's back in the hot I will go ahead and add 00:23:01.16\00:23:04.31 maybe a couple more ice cubes to the cold. 00:23:04.34\00:23:06.70 We'll do five rotations, maybe more, depending how congested 00:23:06.73\00:23:11.38 the sinuses are, how much pain she has, someone says they 00:23:11.41\00:23:14.64 always do seven rotations because seven is the 00:23:14.67\00:23:16.97 perfect number and there is nothing wrong with 00:23:17.00\00:23:18.80 seven rotations. 00:23:18.83\00:23:19.82 Then to finish just have them lift their head a little 00:23:19.85\00:23:23.12 over the basin, they will actually be over the cold 00:23:23.15\00:23:25.24 ice water basin as they finish, lift their head up just 00:23:25.27\00:23:28.90 a little bit, they can remove the snorkel and set it down 00:23:28.93\00:23:31.75 and you are drip, drip, dripping, so here's a towel 00:23:31.78\00:23:34.57 and we'll pat your face, and it's amazing how the secretions 00:23:34.60\00:23:39.08 will begin to flow and you did a good job, thank you. 00:23:39.11\00:23:42.68 Thanks so much... And the relief of the pressure 00:23:42.71\00:23:49.39 in the sinuses is just incredible, this also can help 00:23:49.42\00:23:52.49 clear up an infection of the sinuses because of the 00:23:52.52\00:23:54.89 stimulation it does for the immune system in that area. 00:23:54.92\00:23:57.32 I was really excited to share that with you today! 00:23:57.35\00:24:01.40 - Yes! Thank you so much, I like this treatment very much. 00:24:01.43\00:24:04.18 The thing that is so good is that the entire sinus system 00:24:04.21\00:24:10.10 can be treated all at one time. 00:24:10.13\00:24:12.15 - Yes! - Now I like this treatment 00:24:12.18\00:24:15.68 because it is a treatment for glaucoma, but there are 00:24:15.71\00:24:20.01 other ways that you can work with glaucoma, do you know 00:24:20.04\00:24:23.85 some of these other ways that you would like to share? 00:24:23.88\00:24:25.97 - I do, one thing that is interesting about glaucoma, 00:24:26.00\00:24:28.30 I found this fascinating, when you are drinking water and it's 00:24:28.33\00:24:31.91 very important to drink water, when you have glaucoma 00:24:31.94\00:24:34.62 you should be sure to drink it in sips over the course of day 00:24:34.65\00:24:37.43 rather than in large amounts at once. 00:24:37.46\00:24:39.36 In one study they found that individuals who drank 00:24:39.39\00:24:41.98 a quart of water over 30 min which isn't an especially fast 00:24:42.01\00:24:45.83 rate for me as you try to keep plenty of water going in, 00:24:45.86\00:24:49.07 there was an increase in the intraocular pressure. 00:24:49.10\00:24:51.61 - What do you know! - Very surprising! 00:24:51.64\00:24:53.08 - Do you know if it also increases blood pressure 00:24:53.11\00:24:55.98 to drink a lot of water at one time, did they say anything 00:24:56.01\00:24:59.29 about that? - They didn't, that sounds an 00:24:59.32\00:25:01.44 interesting possibility. - We should do a study 00:25:01.47\00:25:03.87 about that at Uchee Pines. - That sounds very good! 00:25:03.90\00:25:06.83 - Well thank you so much! - Sure! 00:25:06.86\00:25:08.38 - I appreciate your being on the program today. 00:25:08.41\00:25:11.00 - I'm very delighted to be here, thank you! 00:25:11.03\00:25:12.47 - Now there are some other things that I think should be 00:25:12.50\00:25:15.72 in our home health kit, besides some of these that I mentioned, 00:25:15.76\00:25:21.75 and one is a simple magnifying glass so that splinters and 00:25:21.78\00:25:28.08 little lesions can be examined carefully, and one can carefully 00:25:28.11\00:25:34.82 look over the toenails and fingernails to see if anything 00:25:34.85\00:25:39.57 may be growing in some place that it shouldn't grow 00:25:39.60\00:25:43.29 and if we have some kind of mole or other kind of facial 00:25:43.32\00:25:48.89 lesion or lesion on the hands, one may need to have someone 00:25:48.92\00:25:53.28 look at these lesions to see as if they are threatening. 00:25:53.31\00:25:58.44 Now another thing that I use a lot is cayenne extract 00:25:58.47\00:26:04.66 and you can purchase that commercially with a product 00:26:04.69\00:26:09.25 named "Heat." 00:26:09.29\00:26:10.41 Heat doesn't cost a lot, but it has a little applicator 00:26:10.45\00:26:15.50 which is very nice and this has cayenne, and a number of 00:26:15.53\00:26:20.55 other medicinal things in it, and it can be rubbed on places 00:26:20.58\00:26:25.37 where there are chronically painful areas, such as 00:26:25.40\00:26:31.02 chronic back aches, and chronic knee aches, and the bottoms of 00:26:31.05\00:26:35.55 the foot when a person has plantar fascitis, 00:26:35.58\00:26:38.63 now you can make your own but it isn't as nice as having 00:26:38.66\00:26:42.71 something like this which you can commercially get 00:26:42.74\00:26:45.32 for just a little. 00:26:45.35\00:26:46.42 There is also a tube of Zostrix or other cayenne extract which 00:26:46.45\00:26:51.72 you can purchase at a pharmacy that also can be used for the 00:26:51.75\00:26:55.66 very same things, it seems that these commercial things 00:26:55.69\00:26:59.95 are a little more handy than just putting cayenne pepper 00:26:59.98\00:27:05.64 in some rubbing alcohol and dipping a cotton swab in it 00:27:05.67\00:27:11.46 and using that for the back pain, or the knee pain, or the 00:27:11.49\00:27:15.12 plantar fascitis, maybe it's those things we buy and 00:27:15.15\00:27:18.77 have to pay money for, they may be more effective. 00:27:18.80\00:27:22.40 I like to have this kind of device, it's just a scrubber 00:27:22.43\00:27:27.39 for the back for people who have trouble relaxing before 00:27:27.42\00:27:30.92 they go to bed, and if they just scratch the back all over 00:27:30.95\00:27:36.42 with such a device as this, it will often cause them to relax 00:27:36.45\00:27:41.41 and if you got a back ache, it can help a back ache a bit 00:27:41.44\00:27:45.45 and often people can sleep who otherwise might not be able to 00:27:45.48\00:27:50.24 sleep. May the Lord Bless you with 00:27:50.27\00:27:53.17 more simple remedies even than these. 00:27:53.20\00:27:55.60