Hello! I am sure there have
been times when you have looked
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at some little lesion on
your finger or your face or
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some other place in the
body and you have said I wonder
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what that thing is, well I
have some pictures and we have
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some discussion about a variety
of topics, some things that
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you have seen before,
perhaps some things you haven't.
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We hope you will join us in
this program because we think
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that you will learn some things.
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Welcome to Help
Yourself To Health
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with Dr. Agatha Thrash
of Uchee Pines Institute
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and now here is
your host Dr. Thrash.
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There are a number of lesions
that occur inside of the mouth
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that require some special care.
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One of those is the mouth
ulcer which occurs on the tongue
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as an ulcer off on the
side of the tongue, sometimes
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on the inside of the jaw or the
back of the lip and these can be
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most painful and they can
be treated with Golden Seal Tea
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simply swished in the mouth
and swallowed because the tea
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has some anti-microbial
benefits and it also boosts the
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immune system a wee bit.
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But there are other problems
that involve the inside of the
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mouth that I think that
you will enjoy seeing some
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pictures of and also
hearing some discussion about.
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I have asked Rhonda
Clark who is my colleague
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at Uchee Pines to join
me on this subject of the
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geographic tongue, is that
something that one gets from
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traveling a lot?
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- The name geographic
tongue is rather interesting,
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it actually has to do with
the appearance of the tongue.
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I have a graphic that I
have brought with me to show you
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a picture so that you can see
an example of what geographic
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tongue looks like.
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It gets it's name because the
tongue has splotches of white
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and red that can appear
like continents of a world globe
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and it's also know as geographic
tongue because these splotches
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can move and change locations
the areas that are bright red
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can be very sore as you can
see here, they actually look
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a little sore to even look at.
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The whitish areas can appear
like thrush and some people
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may think that they have
thrush or a fungal infection
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in the mouth, when actually if
that area is cultured it won't
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grow anything fungus.
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So this is something
that can be quite painful and
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irritating, there is possibly
a genetic component to this
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condition and another
interesting theory behind what
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causes geographic tongue
is that of a zinc deficiency.
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I wanted to share a case
study of an individual who was
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a student at Uchee Pines
who had geographic tongue
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and several things that he did
in his lifestyle resolved this
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and while we don't know
particularly what it was
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we wanted to share his case.
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He went from eating a lot
of junk food, very salty and
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highly refined, lots of
sugar to eating a healthful
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plant based diet and he
increased his intake of Omega 3
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oils, which we find in walnuts
and flax seed and that in
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conjunction with drinking plenty
of water and switching from a
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traditional conventional
drug store type of toothpaste
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to a natural toothpaste that
had tea tree oil, the geographic
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tongue completely resolved
and he had noticed a normal
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pink healthy looking tongue.
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I understand Dr. Thrash
that you have had good success
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in using a turmeric wash.
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- Yes, turmeric wash is quite
nice, the turmeric wash can be
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used as maybe two or three
teaspoons in about a half of cup
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of warm water, swish the
turmeric in the mouth and then
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of course it's expectorated
because you wouldn't want to
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take that much turmeric at once.
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Turmeric can be a little
irritating to the stomach
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if you take a lot of it,
however turmeric has some
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wonderful anti-inflammatory
properties, so we of course
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want to make certain that
we get all the benefit from the
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anti-inflammatory properties
for a geographic tongue.
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I favor this idea of a
zinc deficiency because we had
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a patient at Uchee Pines
who had a geographic tongue
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off and on for many years,
and then it was discovered about
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20- 25 years ago that taking
zinc lozenges could be good
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for sore throats and
colds and could stop people from
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the progress of an early cold
if you take the zinc lozenge
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early in the course of
your coming down with a cold.
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You can often stop it so
we started telling our patient
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at Uchee Pines that it
would be good if some zinc
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were to be taken for a cold,
after that there was no more
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geographic tongue, so we
were happy that we had learned
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something new that I favor
is one of the possible things
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that could cause
a geographic tongue.
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- Yes! - Very
good, thank you so much
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for telling us about
this interesting disorder,
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I don't know if you can
call it a disease maybe it's a
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deficiency disease,
thank you very much.
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- Glad to be here. -
Now other things that can
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occur in the mouth are gum
boils and those can be nicely
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treated with Aloe Vera,
and I like a little part of the
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stalk of an Aloe Vera or
the blade of an Aloe Vera plant
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just trim the little thorny
parts off and one side of the
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cortex and just lay it against
the place on the gum where there
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can be a need for either a
tooth brush injury or a gum boil
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and it can be very healing.
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Now on the hands probably
warts are among our most
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prominent things that we can
get and especially in children
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so I've asked Cal Thrash if
he would join me today to talk
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about this subject of warts.
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Have you had any
experience Cal with warts?
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- A little bit! -
Welcome to our program
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we hope that you can give
us some information that will
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benefit our
viewers. - Well thank you!
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Warts are not very sightly,
it's an unsightly little problem
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and it's caused by a small
virus, the Papillomas virus
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that gets into the skin and
it can be unsightly and even
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painful at times. -
And it can bleed and those
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little finger like projections
can get knocked off and...
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yes, very painful and very
uncomfortable and unsightly.
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- I got one when I was
about 10 years old, my first
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little wart and of course at
that age that was kind of fun
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but as you get older
it's not so fun any more...
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- Were you handling
frogs was that how you...
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- I'm really not certain how
I got it, they say that's the
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way and I'm sure that probably
I did, but I had just gotten a
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pocket knife for my birthday
and so I think I worry that wart
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right out of there and didn't
have any more problem with it
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but many people
don't have the...
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They can't get them to go
away, they just seem to keep
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going on and on.
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- By the way the idea about the
frogs that's an old wives tale
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that I feel sure, because
little boys do get them more and
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little boys handle frogs more
than little girls but I think...
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- Not today! - I
think it's because
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little boys are more out in
the cold and they often don't
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care to wear gloves
and the skin gets chilled.
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Well any time the skin gets
chilled of course it's going to
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cause a weakening of the immune
system there and so if the
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immune system is weakened
and the virus is right there
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then of course it's prone to
get the virus that's going to
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cause the epidermis to
overgrow and make those little
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finger like
projections that stick up.
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- I kind of wondered
whether washing the hands might
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at least help with the
ones that are around your hands
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but I don't know whether
you could just count on that.
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I suppose that probably keeping
your immune system healthy
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is the best thing.
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- That is a good thing.
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Well how would you treat it?
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- Well of course you can go to
the drugstore and just get the
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little Wart Away or one of
those preparations that has
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sialic acid, but if you
want to treat it with a natural
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remedy there are
several that you can try.
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Some of the ones that are
at the drug store are so strong
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that they cause some irritation
and people have trouble
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with that and don't especially
like it to well so there are
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several herbal preparation
that are actually quite nice
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and you can try them, they
don't work with every person
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and so I would say if you
try one and it doesn't really
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work for you then try another
one and see if it would work.
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- Don't give up with just one.
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- Right! But the first one would
be birch bark and birch bark
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is similar in it's composition
to the white willow bark
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that we use for pain used
as a tea or as ground and also
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you can use white willow bark
if you have the bark available
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that's really the best thing,
you can actually take a little
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piece of the bark and put
it in a square and put it right
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over the (fresh even),
put it right over the wart.
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- And it will bend
right with the wart.
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- Right! It has a thin
enough mark that you can usually
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do that and then cover it with
a band aid or a bandage of some
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sort to hold it in
place, just over night usually
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is all that is necessary
with that but you may have to do
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that several days in a row.
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Then there were some people
that suggested that perhaps
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it would be good to soak that
over a 20 min period and see if
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it would just come out on it's
own, but the bark actually has
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several little compounds
in it but one of which is the
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salicylates that are in and
of course the salicylic acid
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is the thing that the FDA has
approved for removal of warts
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anyway so it is one of
the natural compounds that is
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available in the white willow
bark and also in the birch bark.
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But another one that is common
is Caster Oil, now it's has some
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mixed success and in
some countries it's been used
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a quite bit, but I would
say that if you use Caster Oil
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probably that you would want
to make sure that you repeat it
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several days in a row, maybe
5-7 days, just massage the oil
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right into the warts,
into the area where the wart is
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or you could even put
some in to mix it up with the
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white willow bark and
let that sit for a few days
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and it will make a little
tincture that you can drain off
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and use that as your
oil to do that for the wart.
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There is one that seemed
to be good that was suggested
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for plantar warts, as you
know plantar warts are the ones
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that are on the foot and are
usually in a place that makes
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walking difficult, it makes
it hard for you to get around.
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- Right on the sole of the foot
or in the arch or some other
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bad place where
it's going to be painful.
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- I can't think of a really good
place on the bottom of the foot
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where you could get a wart
but it seems like that's where
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they come and sometimes people
will have these for quite a long
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period of time, they are
very difficult to get rid of
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more so I think than the
ones on other parts of the body
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and so the suggestion was
to get a pineapple and actually
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cut a square of the thin on
one side, of the skin of the
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pineapple and put that against
the plantar wart over night,
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let it sit, now the enzyme
from a fresh pineapple will make
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the inside of your mouth a
little bit irritated, and it may
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irritate the wart as well,
if it does that you may have to
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try something else, one
of the other herbal remedies,
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but that's the idea is
to try to let it eat away
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a little bit at the wart and
then soak the foot here again
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for about 20 minutes and
see whether you might be able
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to get some of that
little graininess out of there
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and you may be able to do
that over several days it might
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be something that would
move that completely out,
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it would
certainly be worth a try.
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- Do you know if
anybody has ever tried papaya?
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- It has been tried
actually the same type of idea,
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the results that I have
seen have not been quite as
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successful as the pineapple
and so you can try papaya
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and here again with herbal
remedies you really have to
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try several if it doesn't work
for you then try another one
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and see if it works for you.
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- Yes, I've noticed that a
lot of simple remedies will work
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for one person and they
just won't work for another.
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- Right! That's true.
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Several other little things
that you can try with warts
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and here again
sometimes they are effective and
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sometimes they are not, but just
depending on your skin type.
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Any type of weed that has a
milky substance like milk weed
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or dandelion even has been used,
or figs, you can take a fig leaf
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and the little milky stuff
that comes out, if you have
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a fig tree in your
yard and we do down south
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we like to grow them.
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Put them on the right side
of the house and you make sure
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they grow big and you can
take one of those fig leafs
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and just smear the milky
substance on the wart and
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many that will take the
wart right out, and the theory
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behind this is that there
are certain properties in this
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milky sap depending on which
on it is, of course there are
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various types of weeds
that have either an orange sap
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or a white sap, or a
yellow sap, that some of these
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properties in the sap are
actually the thing that would
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be an anti-viral type effect
and would make the wart go
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away over some time.
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So you might have to
use it over and over again,
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it's not something you would
want to give up on right away
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so put it on maybe two or three
times a day, you might have to
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use that 5-7 days or even
longer just to see how long
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it would take, but it should
be helpful for it, it may not
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necessarily make it go...
You might have to use another
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remedy to make it go away
but it is certainly something
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that is worth trying.
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- Humm! Very good!
Well thank you so much
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and I hope that these
suggestions can be helpful
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to you and to your
family, thank you Cal.
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Now I have some pictures
that I would like to show you,
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I think that these pictures will
be explanatory in themselves
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and some of them have
nice remedies that can be
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told easily without
any elaborate instruction.
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Now the first picture that you
will see is one that you will
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have very little that you
can do for, you certainly need
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professional help with
this and as early as possible.
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This is a melanoma, you will
notice that it has a lumpiness
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and a bumpiness of the skin
and it also fades out around it
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slightly, giving it
the faded silk appearance.
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Sometimes a melanoma will be
much more prominent than that
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with the fading out of the
melanocytes that are malignant
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and they are migrating
in the skin so they fan out
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around the melanoma.
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That needs to be cut out
widely and with a wide border of
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normal skin, sometimes
even wide enough that the skin
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would need to be grafted.
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Now the next slide that you
see will be another skin lesion
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that you will sometimes
see, this picture shows a little
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patch of skin, with a
little rounded area of reddening
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and some darker parts in
the middle, this is an inflamed
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nevus and it also should
be removed unless you know
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for certain why the
nevus became inflamed,
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(a little mole), and inflamed
moles can be seriously sick
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and they can represent a
malignancy, and of course
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then should be removed.
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Now the next slide you
will see is a slide of a common
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disorder called inertrigo,
children tend to have this
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in surfaces that stick together
a lot or lay together a lot
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such as these surfaces of the
elbow and in an overweight child
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the problem is worse and in
this case it actually bleeds.
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Babies necks will sometimes
bleed because of inertrigo
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with the folds of the
neck sticking together.
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One of the very best treatments
for this is to let the child
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or the baby sit in a
tub,(in the baby's own tub),
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with a lot of
baking soda in the water,
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the baking soda water
should be dipped on to the child
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frequently to bathe those
surfaces that are inflamed
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and it will often
cure the inertrigo in just
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two or three days, older
people who have skin surfaces
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are closely applied one
to another can be treated
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in the same way because under
the breasts, under the arms,
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folds of skin that have a
place where one skin surface
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hits another you can get an
inertrigo in all of those areas.
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Now I have asked Dr. Don
Miller to talk with you some
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about a topic, Dr. Miller
are you going to talk with us
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about psoriasis today?
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- Yes, I'm going to talk
about psoriasis which is a
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major problem, they
usually figure that psoriasis is
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something that is inherited,
we don't really know what
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causes it, we don't know
how to cure it but we do know
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a few things that can
help a person with it.
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There is a sound man here
at 3ABN who has Bassett hounds
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and I like Bassett hounds,
you know a dog has a smelling
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capacity a million
times more acute than a human.
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- Amazing! - And
we wonder how can they
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chase those rabbits and
humans and whatever else,
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they are smelling the
skin cells that are constantly
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flaking off and a human
produces skin cells about every
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26-28 days they live and
they die and reproduce new ones.
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- So they don't all
slough off at once fortunately
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they do one by one.
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- We'd be a little pile on
the floor if that were the case.
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But with psoriasis it's every
4-7 days, and so they start
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piling up one on top of
each other so we get this
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white thickening of the
skin which is a major problem
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and it's itchy and it has a
lot of problems with it and so
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what can you do for psoriasis?
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Let's look first at some
dietary things, and there is an
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excellent book here, it's
called Foods and Their Healing
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Power from the
Education and Health library.
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It talks about vegetables,
especially those vegetables
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that will make your
skin more photo sensitive,
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that means more sensitive to
sunlight, things like lettuce
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or celery and they say
that if you eat these foods
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and then get a sun bath
it will help your psoriasis.
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But you don't want to sun
burn, sun burning can make it
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more severe, but just getting
a good sunlight after you eat
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these foods, especially
a vegetable diet period
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will be very helpful.
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Molasses is another one,
molasses is good for many
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things, I like to get good
old black strap molasses the
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first through the press,
taking a couple of spoonfuls
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stirring it up in warm
water and drinking this.
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This is very good for psoriasis,
there are some other things,
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Omega 3 fatty acids, and I
like to get my Omega 3's from
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things like flax, and that's
really the best one, flax seed
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just take the ground up flax
seed is a good way to do it.
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If you get flax oil,
the thing about oils,
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the better the oils are
the less stable they are,
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if you get flax seed oil
what I recommend a person do,
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they usually come in
a dark bottle any way,
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you keep it in a cool
place and express the air out
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of the bottle, and every time
you use some express the air
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out so you don't have
oxygen getting exposed to it,
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because that degrades and
helps oxidize the oil quicker.
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So the Omega 3's are extremely
good, walnuts also have Omega 3
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fatty acids, and then vitamin
A, we know that vitamin A are in
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dark green leafy vegetables,
in orange vegetables and fruits
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so it's nice, God has
color coded His medicines.
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- Yes! It makes
them more appetizing.
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- And you really can't overdose,
I guess you can over eat
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but you can't overdose on
Kiwi's and apricots and carrots
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- Squash and mangos, oh,
I could over eat on mangos.
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- I could buy those 12
for a dollar down in Zambia,
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that's a great place to be.
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Other things that are good
for psoriasis, salt water soaks,
00:22:13.97\00:22:18.62
they say swimming in the ocean
because you've got that nice
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combination of salt and minerals
but many of us don't live near
00:22:21.19\00:22:24.57
the ocean so just get some
sea salt and put a little bit
00:22:24.60\00:22:27.76
of that into your bath water,
this is good for soaking off
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some of these lesions
which can be very irritating
00:22:31.04\00:22:34.76
to the skin.
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Things that increase, things
that are high in tryptopan
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milk, meat, any dairy products
is going to be high in tryptopan
00:22:39.08\00:22:44.84
which is going to cause an
acceleration in this growth
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of the skin which is going
to exacerbate your psoriasis.
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Also saturated fats which
again is in your meat products
00:22:52.58\00:22:58.41
and dairy products, lots
of... - So you want to leave off
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those things that are from
animal origin and emphasize
00:23:01.22\00:23:05.86
those things that are of plant
origin, if you have psoriasis.
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- More and more as we get
near in this time in the age
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in which we live, I think
it is more and more dangerous
00:23:13.44\00:23:17.25
to be imbibing animal
products because of all the
00:23:17.28\00:23:20.84
diseases, and then alcohol
also exacerbates psoriasis
00:23:20.87\00:23:26.35
and so staying away from alcohol
it causes them to itch more
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to be more inflamed, don't
itch, if you have psoriasis
00:23:28.88\00:23:32.16
of the scalp we recommend
a nice olive oil massage
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get a good olive oil
and just massage it in there
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and then hot towel
packs for about a half hour
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sort of soak those
things and then shampoo but
00:23:44.24\00:23:47.45
don't over shampoo, don't
sit there and scratch your head
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to much because this can
make the condition worse.
00:23:49.98\00:23:53.28
Putting any type of oil onto...
white Vaseline onto these
00:23:53.31\00:23:58.44
psoriasis areas can be
good to soften up the skin,
00:23:58.47\00:24:03.05
just soaking then in the
salt water will help soak
00:24:03.08\00:24:06.12
some of these things off.
00:24:06.15\00:24:07.50
Doing these things can
make the condition better,
00:24:07.53\00:24:10.82
sometimes it is
spontaneously goes away,
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and that's a nice
thought. - That is good!
00:24:14.44\00:24:17.08
- Now you have a graphic I
believe, I think you showed me
00:24:17.11\00:24:21.07
a graphic of a
hand with psoriasis.
00:24:21.10\00:24:23.91
- Yes! We have a graphic with
a hand on it with psoriasis,
00:24:23.94\00:24:28.33
you can see there just between
on the right hand side there
00:24:28.36\00:24:33.15
between the little
finger and the finger next to it
00:24:33.18\00:24:36.86
down there in the crevice you
can see the red patch and then
00:24:36.89\00:24:40.39
in the thumb, especially
the left thumb you see a patch
00:24:40.42\00:24:43.10
of the psoriasis.
00:24:43.13\00:24:44.18
This can be very painful,
very unsightly, very itching
00:24:44.21\00:24:48.66
all the time, we find some
times it is caused by where
00:24:48.69\00:24:52.29
where you rest a
part of your body.
00:24:52.32\00:24:54.22
Whenever you rest your
body on anything even sitting on
00:24:54.25\00:24:57.65
a chair, if you sat on a chair
without moving you would cut off
00:24:57.68\00:25:00.54
blood supply and pretty soon
you are going to have a problem
00:25:00.57\00:25:03.86
in that area, it gets
quite sore, so we recommend
00:25:03.89\00:25:06.72
a person increase the
circulation to the area.
00:25:06.75\00:25:09.29
The German study shows that
a hot water soak for 2 minutes
00:25:09.32\00:25:15.34
and then plunging into cold
water for 2 seconds for about
00:25:15.37\00:25:19.41
30 minutes a day is very
good for psoriasis, getting that
00:25:19.44\00:25:23.11
blood flow in
and out of an area...
00:25:23.14\00:25:25.20
- So the pressure of it against
a hard surface is one of the
00:25:25.23\00:25:31.22
things that causes
the lesions to develop.
00:25:31.25\00:25:33.54
- Absolutely! - So
on the sides of the hand
00:25:33.57\00:25:35.80
on the finger if a
person is a typist or a pianist,
00:25:35.83\00:25:42.60
on the elbows of almost any
body because almost everybody
00:25:42.63\00:25:47.65
leans the elbows
on... The back of the neck
00:25:47.68\00:25:50.47
is another place where psoriasis
comes, where people are often
00:25:50.50\00:25:54.44
having a collar that
fits tightly, so I guess
00:25:54.47\00:25:57.93
anything that irritates, the sun
irritates, you get psoriasis.
00:25:57.96\00:26:00.94
You scratch and it
irritates, you get psoriasis,
00:26:00.97\00:26:03.68
of course people already
have the psoriasis but they get
00:26:03.71\00:26:07.50
an acute flare-
up in those areas.
00:26:07.53\00:26:10.92
- Perfect health
requires perfect circulation.
00:26:10.95\00:26:13.53
I once read a book that if
you... The man Dr. Paul Brandon
00:26:13.56\00:26:17.40
in the book The Gift of
Pain, if you put your finger
00:26:17.43\00:26:19.67
up against a piece of
glass, you can look at it,
00:26:19.70\00:26:21.50
you can see it's going
to blanche, it's going to
00:26:21.53\00:26:23.28
turn white, and it
doesn't feel like anything,
00:26:23.31\00:26:26.43
but if you keep that
there for a couple of hours
00:26:26.46\00:26:28.72
it will start to ulcerate
because the blood has left
00:26:28.75\00:26:31.38
the area and you are
going to start causing some real
00:26:31.41\00:26:33.75
tissue damage, so with
psoriasis, any other disease
00:26:33.78\00:26:38.41
we need to make sure
that we have good circulation.
00:26:38.44\00:26:40.70
That's getting rid
of those saturated fats,
00:26:40.73\00:26:43.86
those animal products is
in itself going to help our
00:26:43.89\00:26:46.57
circulation, and then
drink plenty of water.
00:26:46.60\00:26:49.39
- Now Dr. Miller for this
psoriasis under the fingernail
00:26:49.42\00:26:54.03
as you showed, one thing
that I have used for that is
00:26:54.06\00:26:58.66
grapefruit seed extract, which
is now available in pharmacies
00:26:58.69\00:27:02.30
everywhere, and just the
undiluted grapefruit seed
00:27:02.33\00:27:06.26
extract, I have found that
to be very helpful in some cases
00:27:06.29\00:27:09.58
just to put it on and let
it soak into the crusty areas.
00:27:09.61\00:27:16.82
- It will also keep people
from biting their fingernails.
00:27:16.85\00:27:18.95
- That would because
that would be terribly bitter.
00:27:18.98\00:27:20.95
- Yuk-Thank you so much
00:27:20.98\00:27:23.41
I appreciate your
talking with us about psoriasis.
00:27:23.44\00:27:26.57
Now the Grapefruit Seed Extract
can be used also to take care of
00:27:26.60\00:27:31.26
your colds and flu, it's
very good for that and for any
00:27:31.29\00:27:35.24
intestinal inflammation or
infection, very good for that
00:27:35.27\00:27:39.30
like peptic ulcers, it's good
for that, even Chron's disease
00:27:39.33\00:27:43.80
it can help with that.
00:27:43.83\00:27:44.89
So many of the things
that the Lord has given us
00:27:44.92\00:27:48.37
as a natural remedy has
many applicable applications.
00:27:48.40\00:27:52.09
I hope these things have been
00:27:52.12\00:27:53.66
God's very
special blessing to you.
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