Participants: Agatha Thrash (Host), Calving Thrash, Don Miller, Rhonda Clark,
Series Code: HYTH
Program Code: HYTH000245
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00:01 Hello! I am sure there have been times when you have looked
00:04 at some little lesion on your finger or your face or 00:08 some other place in the body and you have said I wonder 00:11 what that thing is, well I have some pictures and we have 00:15 some discussion about a variety of topics, some things that 00:19 you have seen before, perhaps some things you haven't. 00:22 We hope you will join us in this program because we think 00:25 that you will learn some things. 00:46 Welcome to Help Yourself To Health 00:49 with Dr. Agatha Thrash of Uchee Pines Institute 00:52 and now here is your host Dr. Thrash. 00:58 There are a number of lesions that occur inside of the mouth 01:03 that require some special care. 01:05 One of those is the mouth ulcer which occurs on the tongue 01:10 as an ulcer off on the side of the tongue, sometimes 01:14 on the inside of the jaw or the back of the lip and these can be 01:19 most painful and they can be treated with Golden Seal Tea 01:23 simply swished in the mouth and swallowed because the tea 01:27 has some anti-microbial benefits and it also boosts the 01:31 immune system a wee bit. 01:33 But there are other problems that involve the inside of the 01:37 mouth that I think that you will enjoy seeing some 01:42 pictures of and also hearing some discussion about. 01:46 I have asked Rhonda Clark who is my colleague 01:49 at Uchee Pines to join me on this subject of the 01:53 geographic tongue, is that something that one gets from 01:58 traveling a lot? 01:59 - The name geographic tongue is rather interesting, 02:02 it actually has to do with the appearance of the tongue. 02:05 I have a graphic that I have brought with me to show you 02:08 a picture so that you can see an example of what geographic 02:11 tongue looks like. 02:13 It gets it's name because the tongue has splotches of white 02:17 and red that can appear like continents of a world globe 02:22 and it's also know as geographic tongue because these splotches 02:26 can move and change locations the areas that are bright red 02:31 can be very sore as you can see here, they actually look 02:35 a little sore to even look at. 02:37 The whitish areas can appear like thrush and some people 02:41 may think that they have thrush or a fungal infection 02:43 in the mouth, when actually if that area is cultured it won't 02:47 grow anything fungus. 02:49 So this is something that can be quite painful and 02:53 irritating, there is possibly a genetic component to this 02:57 condition and another interesting theory behind what 03:01 causes geographic tongue is that of a zinc deficiency. 03:04 I wanted to share a case study of an individual who was 03:08 a student at Uchee Pines who had geographic tongue 03:11 and several things that he did in his lifestyle resolved this 03:15 and while we don't know particularly what it was 03:18 we wanted to share his case. 03:20 He went from eating a lot of junk food, very salty and 03:24 highly refined, lots of sugar to eating a healthful 03:28 plant based diet and he increased his intake of Omega 3 03:32 oils, which we find in walnuts and flax seed and that in 03:37 conjunction with drinking plenty of water and switching from a 03:41 traditional conventional drug store type of toothpaste 03:45 to a natural toothpaste that had tea tree oil, the geographic 03:49 tongue completely resolved and he had noticed a normal 03:52 pink healthy looking tongue. 03:54 I understand Dr. Thrash that you have had good success 03:57 in using a turmeric wash. 03:59 - Yes, turmeric wash is quite nice, the turmeric wash can be 04:04 used as maybe two or three teaspoons in about a half of cup 04:08 of warm water, swish the turmeric in the mouth and then 04:12 of course it's expectorated because you wouldn't want to 04:15 take that much turmeric at once. 04:17 Turmeric can be a little irritating to the stomach 04:21 if you take a lot of it, however turmeric has some 04:24 wonderful anti-inflammatory properties, so we of course 04:30 want to make certain that we get all the benefit from the 04:33 anti-inflammatory properties for a geographic tongue. 04:37 I favor this idea of a zinc deficiency because we had 04:41 a patient at Uchee Pines who had a geographic tongue 04:44 off and on for many years, and then it was discovered about 04:50 20- 25 years ago that taking zinc lozenges could be good 04:56 for sore throats and colds and could stop people from 05:01 the progress of an early cold if you take the zinc lozenge 05:06 early in the course of your coming down with a cold. 05:09 You can often stop it so we started telling our patient 05:16 at Uchee Pines that it would be good if some zinc 05:21 were to be taken for a cold, after that there was no more 05:24 geographic tongue, so we were happy that we had learned 05:28 something new that I favor is one of the possible things 05:34 that could cause a geographic tongue. 05:36 - Yes! - Very good, thank you so much 05:39 for telling us about this interesting disorder, 05:42 I don't know if you can call it a disease maybe it's a 05:46 deficiency disease, thank you very much. 05:49 - Glad to be here. - Now other things that can 05:51 occur in the mouth are gum boils and those can be nicely 05:57 treated with Aloe Vera, and I like a little part of the 06:02 stalk of an Aloe Vera or the blade of an Aloe Vera plant 06:06 just trim the little thorny parts off and one side of the 06:13 cortex and just lay it against the place on the gum where there 06:18 can be a need for either a tooth brush injury or a gum boil 06:26 and it can be very healing. 06:28 Now on the hands probably warts are among our most 06:33 prominent things that we can get and especially in children 06:37 so I've asked Cal Thrash if he would join me today to talk 06:42 about this subject of warts. 06:45 Have you had any experience Cal with warts? 06:48 - A little bit! - Welcome to our program 06:50 we hope that you can give us some information that will 06:53 benefit our viewers. - Well thank you! 06:57 Warts are not very sightly, it's an unsightly little problem 07:01 and it's caused by a small virus, the Papillomas virus 07:04 that gets into the skin and it can be unsightly and even 07:11 painful at times. - And it can bleed and those 07:15 little finger like projections can get knocked off and... 07:18 yes, very painful and very uncomfortable and unsightly. 07:22 - I got one when I was about 10 years old, my first 07:25 little wart and of course at that age that was kind of fun 07:28 but as you get older it's not so fun any more... 07:31 - Were you handling frogs was that how you... 07:33 - I'm really not certain how I got it, they say that's the 07:36 way and I'm sure that probably I did, but I had just gotten a 07:39 pocket knife for my birthday and so I think I worry that wart 07:42 right out of there and didn't have any more problem with it 07:45 but many people don't have the... 07:48 They can't get them to go away, they just seem to keep 07:50 going on and on. 07:51 - By the way the idea about the frogs that's an old wives tale 07:58 that I feel sure, because little boys do get them more and 08:01 little boys handle frogs more than little girls but I think... 08:05 - Not today! - I think it's because 08:08 little boys are more out in the cold and they often don't 08:13 care to wear gloves and the skin gets chilled. 08:18 Well any time the skin gets chilled of course it's going to 08:21 cause a weakening of the immune system there and so if the 08:26 immune system is weakened and the virus is right there 08:29 then of course it's prone to get the virus that's going to 08:33 cause the epidermis to overgrow and make those little 08:37 finger like projections that stick up. 08:39 - I kind of wondered whether washing the hands might 08:42 at least help with the ones that are around your hands 08:45 but I don't know whether you could just count on that. 08:48 I suppose that probably keeping your immune system healthy 08:51 is the best thing. 08:53 - That is a good thing. 08:54 Well how would you treat it? 08:56 - Well of course you can go to the drugstore and just get the 08:59 little Wart Away or one of those preparations that has 09:03 sialic acid, but if you want to treat it with a natural 09:06 remedy there are several that you can try. 09:08 Some of the ones that are at the drug store are so strong 09:14 that they cause some irritation and people have trouble 09:18 with that and don't especially like it to well so there are 09:22 several herbal preparation that are actually quite nice 09:26 and you can try them, they don't work with every person 09:28 and so I would say if you try one and it doesn't really 09:30 work for you then try another one and see if it would work. 09:32 - Don't give up with just one. 09:33 - Right! But the first one would be birch bark and birch bark 09:38 is similar in it's composition to the white willow bark 09:43 that we use for pain used as a tea or as ground and also 09:48 you can use white willow bark if you have the bark available 09:52 that's really the best thing, you can actually take a little 09:55 piece of the bark and put it in a square and put it right 09:58 over the (fresh even), put it right over the wart. 10:01 - And it will bend right with the wart. 10:04 - Right! It has a thin enough mark that you can usually 10:07 do that and then cover it with a band aid or a bandage of some 10:10 sort to hold it in place, just over night usually 10:13 is all that is necessary with that but you may have to do 10:15 that several days in a row. 10:17 Then there were some people that suggested that perhaps 10:20 it would be good to soak that over a 20 min period and see if 10:25 it would just come out on it's own, but the bark actually has 10:29 several little compounds in it but one of which is the 10:32 salicylates that are in and of course the salicylic acid 10:35 is the thing that the FDA has approved for removal of warts 10:39 anyway so it is one of the natural compounds that is 10:44 available in the white willow bark and also in the birch bark. 10:49 But another one that is common is Caster Oil, now it's has some 10:54 mixed success and in some countries it's been used 10:57 a quite bit, but I would say that if you use Caster Oil 11:00 probably that you would want to make sure that you repeat it 11:03 several days in a row, maybe 5-7 days, just massage the oil 11:08 right into the warts, into the area where the wart is 11:11 or you could even put some in to mix it up with the 11:14 white willow bark and let that sit for a few days 11:20 and it will make a little tincture that you can drain off 11:23 and use that as your oil to do that for the wart. 11:30 There is one that seemed to be good that was suggested 11:34 for plantar warts, as you know plantar warts are the ones 11:37 that are on the foot and are usually in a place that makes 11:40 walking difficult, it makes it hard for you to get around. 11:43 - Right on the sole of the foot or in the arch or some other 11:47 bad place where it's going to be painful. 11:50 - I can't think of a really good place on the bottom of the foot 11:53 where you could get a wart but it seems like that's where 11:56 they come and sometimes people will have these for quite a long 11:59 period of time, they are very difficult to get rid of 12:03 more so I think than the ones on other parts of the body 12:06 and so the suggestion was to get a pineapple and actually 12:11 cut a square of the thin on one side, of the skin of the 12:17 pineapple and put that against the plantar wart over night, 12:22 let it sit, now the enzyme from a fresh pineapple will make 12:26 the inside of your mouth a little bit irritated, and it may 12:30 irritate the wart as well, if it does that you may have to 12:33 try something else, one of the other herbal remedies, 12:37 but that's the idea is to try to let it eat away 12:41 a little bit at the wart and then soak the foot here again 12:46 for about 20 minutes and see whether you might be able 12:48 to get some of that little graininess out of there 12:53 and you may be able to do that over several days it might 12:56 be something that would move that completely out, 13:00 it would certainly be worth a try. 13:01 - Do you know if anybody has ever tried papaya? 13:04 - It has been tried actually the same type of idea, 13:08 the results that I have seen have not been quite as 13:12 successful as the pineapple and so you can try papaya 13:16 and here again with herbal remedies you really have to 13:19 try several if it doesn't work for you then try another one 13:23 and see if it works for you. 13:24 - Yes, I've noticed that a lot of simple remedies will work 13:27 for one person and they just won't work for another. 13:30 - Right! That's true. 13:31 Several other little things that you can try with warts 13:34 and here again sometimes they are effective and 13:36 sometimes they are not, but just depending on your skin type. 13:39 Any type of weed that has a milky substance like milk weed 13:42 or dandelion even has been used, or figs, you can take a fig leaf 13:48 and the little milky stuff that comes out, if you have 13:51 a fig tree in your yard and we do down south 13:53 we like to grow them. 13:54 Put them on the right side of the house and you make sure 13:57 they grow big and you can take one of those fig leafs 14:00 and just smear the milky substance on the wart and 14:05 many that will take the wart right out, and the theory 14:10 behind this is that there are certain properties in this 14:13 milky sap depending on which on it is, of course there are 14:16 various types of weeds that have either an orange sap 14:19 or a white sap, or a yellow sap, that some of these 14:22 properties in the sap are actually the thing that would 14:25 be an anti-viral type effect and would make the wart go 14:30 away over some time. 14:31 So you might have to use it over and over again, 14:33 it's not something you would want to give up on right away 14:35 so put it on maybe two or three times a day, you might have to 14:38 use that 5-7 days or even longer just to see how long 14:41 it would take, but it should be helpful for it, it may not 14:45 necessarily make it go... You might have to use another 14:47 remedy to make it go away but it is certainly something 14:49 that is worth trying. 14:50 - Humm! Very good! Well thank you so much 14:52 and I hope that these suggestions can be helpful 14:57 to you and to your family, thank you Cal. 15:00 Now I have some pictures that I would like to show you, 15:04 I think that these pictures will be explanatory in themselves 15:10 and some of them have nice remedies that can be 15:15 told easily without any elaborate instruction. 15:21 Now the first picture that you will see is one that you will 15:27 have very little that you can do for, you certainly need 15:31 professional help with this and as early as possible. 15:36 This is a melanoma, you will notice that it has a lumpiness 15:40 and a bumpiness of the skin and it also fades out around it 15:47 slightly, giving it the faded silk appearance. 15:52 Sometimes a melanoma will be much more prominent than that 15:57 with the fading out of the melanocytes that are malignant 16:04 and they are migrating in the skin so they fan out 16:08 around the melanoma. 16:10 That needs to be cut out widely and with a wide border of 16:15 normal skin, sometimes even wide enough that the skin 16:20 would need to be grafted. 16:23 Now the next slide that you see will be another skin lesion 16:29 that you will sometimes see, this picture shows a little 16:35 patch of skin, with a little rounded area of reddening 16:44 and some darker parts in the middle, this is an inflamed 16:51 nevus and it also should be removed unless you know 16:55 for certain why the nevus became inflamed, 16:59 (a little mole), and inflamed moles can be seriously sick 17:08 and they can represent a malignancy, and of course 17:14 then should be removed. 17:15 Now the next slide you will see is a slide of a common 17:21 disorder called inertrigo, children tend to have this 17:25 in surfaces that stick together a lot or lay together a lot 17:31 such as these surfaces of the elbow and in an overweight child 17:37 the problem is worse and in this case it actually bleeds. 17:43 Babies necks will sometimes bleed because of inertrigo 17:49 with the folds of the neck sticking together. 17:51 One of the very best treatments for this is to let the child 17:55 or the baby sit in a tub,(in the baby's own tub), 18:01 with a lot of baking soda in the water, 18:05 the baking soda water should be dipped on to the child 18:11 frequently to bathe those surfaces that are inflamed 18:15 and it will often cure the inertrigo in just 18:20 two or three days, older people who have skin surfaces 18:24 are closely applied one to another can be treated 18:31 in the same way because under the breasts, under the arms, 18:35 folds of skin that have a place where one skin surface 18:42 hits another you can get an inertrigo in all of those areas. 18:46 Now I have asked Dr. Don Miller to talk with you some 18:50 about a topic, Dr. Miller are you going to talk with us 18:54 about psoriasis today? 18:56 - Yes, I'm going to talk about psoriasis which is a 18:58 major problem, they usually figure that psoriasis is 19:02 something that is inherited, we don't really know what 19:04 causes it, we don't know how to cure it but we do know 19:07 a few things that can help a person with it. 19:10 There is a sound man here at 3ABN who has Bassett hounds 19:14 and I like Bassett hounds, you know a dog has a smelling 19:18 capacity a million times more acute than a human. 19:21 - Amazing! - And we wonder how can they 19:23 chase those rabbits and humans and whatever else, 19:25 they are smelling the skin cells that are constantly 19:28 flaking off and a human produces skin cells about every 19:32 26-28 days they live and they die and reproduce new ones. 19:36 - So they don't all slough off at once fortunately 19:39 they do one by one. 19:40 - We'd be a little pile on the floor if that were the case. 19:42 But with psoriasis it's every 4-7 days, and so they start 19:48 piling up one on top of each other so we get this 19:50 white thickening of the skin which is a major problem 19:53 and it's itchy and it has a lot of problems with it and so 19:56 what can you do for psoriasis? 19:58 Let's look first at some dietary things, and there is an 20:02 excellent book here, it's called Foods and Their Healing 20:05 Power from the Education and Health library. 20:07 It talks about vegetables, especially those vegetables 20:12 that will make your skin more photo sensitive, 20:15 that means more sensitive to sunlight, things like lettuce 20:19 or celery and they say that if you eat these foods 20:23 and then get a sun bath it will help your psoriasis. 20:27 But you don't want to sun burn, sun burning can make it 20:30 more severe, but just getting a good sunlight after you eat 20:35 these foods, especially a vegetable diet period 20:37 will be very helpful. 20:38 Molasses is another one, molasses is good for many 20:43 things, I like to get good old black strap molasses the 20:46 first through the press, taking a couple of spoonfuls 20:49 stirring it up in warm water and drinking this. 20:53 This is very good for psoriasis, there are some other things, 20:56 Omega 3 fatty acids, and I like to get my Omega 3's from 21:01 things like flax, and that's really the best one, flax seed 21:05 just take the ground up flax seed is a good way to do it. 21:08 If you get flax oil, the thing about oils, 21:11 the better the oils are the less stable they are, 21:15 if you get flax seed oil what I recommend a person do, 21:18 they usually come in a dark bottle any way, 21:20 you keep it in a cool place and express the air out 21:24 of the bottle, and every time you use some express the air 21:29 out so you don't have oxygen getting exposed to it, 21:32 because that degrades and helps oxidize the oil quicker. 21:35 So the Omega 3's are extremely good, walnuts also have Omega 3 21:40 fatty acids, and then vitamin A, we know that vitamin A are in 21:44 dark green leafy vegetables, in orange vegetables and fruits 21:48 so it's nice, God has color coded His medicines. 21:52 - Yes! It makes them more appetizing. 21:55 - And you really can't overdose, I guess you can over eat 21:57 but you can't overdose on Kiwi's and apricots and carrots 22:02 - Squash and mangos, oh, I could over eat on mangos. 22:05 - I could buy those 12 for a dollar down in Zambia, 22:11 that's a great place to be. 22:13 Other things that are good for psoriasis, salt water soaks, 22:18 they say swimming in the ocean because you've got that nice 22:21 combination of salt and minerals but many of us don't live near 22:24 the ocean so just get some sea salt and put a little bit 22:27 of that into your bath water, this is good for soaking off 22:31 some of these lesions which can be very irritating 22:34 to the skin. 22:35 Things that increase, things that are high in tryptopan 22:39 milk, meat, any dairy products is going to be high in tryptopan 22:44 which is going to cause an acceleration in this growth 22:47 of the skin which is going to exacerbate your psoriasis. 22:52 Also saturated fats which again is in your meat products 22:58 and dairy products, lots of... - So you want to leave off 23:01 those things that are from animal origin and emphasize 23:05 those things that are of plant origin, if you have psoriasis. 23:08 - More and more as we get near in this time in the age 23:13 in which we live, I think it is more and more dangerous 23:17 to be imbibing animal products because of all the 23:20 diseases, and then alcohol also exacerbates psoriasis 23:26 and so staying away from alcohol it causes them to itch more 23:28 to be more inflamed, don't itch, if you have psoriasis 23:32 of the scalp we recommend a nice olive oil massage 23:36 get a good olive oil and just massage it in there 23:39 and then hot towel packs for about a half hour 23:44 sort of soak those things and then shampoo but 23:47 don't over shampoo, don't sit there and scratch your head 23:49 to much because this can make the condition worse. 23:53 Putting any type of oil onto... white Vaseline onto these 23:58 psoriasis areas can be good to soften up the skin, 24:03 just soaking then in the salt water will help soak 24:06 some of these things off. 24:07 Doing these things can make the condition better, 24:10 sometimes it is spontaneously goes away, 24:14 and that's a nice thought. - That is good! 24:17 - Now you have a graphic I believe, I think you showed me 24:21 a graphic of a hand with psoriasis. 24:23 - Yes! We have a graphic with a hand on it with psoriasis, 24:28 you can see there just between on the right hand side there 24:33 between the little finger and the finger next to it 24:36 down there in the crevice you can see the red patch and then 24:40 in the thumb, especially the left thumb you see a patch 24:43 of the psoriasis. 24:44 This can be very painful, very unsightly, very itching 24:48 all the time, we find some times it is caused by where 24:52 where you rest a part of your body. 24:54 Whenever you rest your body on anything even sitting on 24:57 a chair, if you sat on a chair without moving you would cut off 25:00 blood supply and pretty soon you are going to have a problem 25:03 in that area, it gets quite sore, so we recommend 25:06 a person increase the circulation to the area. 25:09 The German study shows that a hot water soak for 2 minutes 25:15 and then plunging into cold water for 2 seconds for about 25:19 30 minutes a day is very good for psoriasis, getting that 25:23 blood flow in and out of an area... 25:25 - So the pressure of it against a hard surface is one of the 25:31 things that causes the lesions to develop. 25:33 - Absolutely! - So on the sides of the hand 25:35 on the finger if a person is a typist or a pianist, 25:42 on the elbows of almost any body because almost everybody 25:47 leans the elbows on... The back of the neck 25:50 is another place where psoriasis comes, where people are often 25:54 having a collar that fits tightly, so I guess 25:57 anything that irritates, the sun irritates, you get psoriasis. 26:00 You scratch and it irritates, you get psoriasis, 26:03 of course people already have the psoriasis but they get 26:07 an acute flare- up in those areas. 26:10 - Perfect health requires perfect circulation. 26:13 I once read a book that if you... The man Dr. Paul Brandon 26:17 in the book The Gift of Pain, if you put your finger 26:19 up against a piece of glass, you can look at it, 26:21 you can see it's going to blanche, it's going to 26:23 turn white, and it doesn't feel like anything, 26:26 but if you keep that there for a couple of hours 26:28 it will start to ulcerate because the blood has left 26:31 the area and you are going to start causing some real 26:33 tissue damage, so with psoriasis, any other disease 26:38 we need to make sure that we have good circulation. 26:40 That's getting rid of those saturated fats, 26:43 those animal products is in itself going to help our 26:46 circulation, and then drink plenty of water. 26:49 - Now Dr. Miller for this psoriasis under the fingernail 26:54 as you showed, one thing that I have used for that is 26:58 grapefruit seed extract, which is now available in pharmacies 27:02 everywhere, and just the undiluted grapefruit seed 27:06 extract, I have found that to be very helpful in some cases 27:09 just to put it on and let it soak into the crusty areas. 27:16 - It will also keep people from biting their fingernails. 27:18 - That would because that would be terribly bitter. 27:20 - Yuk-Thank you so much 27:23 I appreciate your talking with us about psoriasis. 27:26 Now the Grapefruit Seed Extract can be used also to take care of 27:31 your colds and flu, it's very good for that and for any 27:35 intestinal inflammation or infection, very good for that 27:39 like peptic ulcers, it's good for that, even Chron's disease 27:43 it can help with that. 27:44 So many of the things that the Lord has given us 27:48 as a natural remedy has many applicable applications. 27:52 I hope these things have been 27:53 God's very special blessing to you. |
Revised 2014-12-17