Hello! Skin problems can
cause quite a lot of annoyance
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or sometimes fright and to
know a little bit about the skin
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and how it operates and what
can go wrong with it can help
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you to feel more comfortable
as you deal with skin lesions.
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We hope you will join us for
this program, we think you will
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learn some things and
we know you will enjoy it.
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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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A lot of books are being
written today on how to take
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care of the skin.
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One such book is like the
one that I am holding, it's
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a very good book it's
called Encyclopedia of Foods and
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it's in two volumes and
you can find this from the
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Education and Health library
published by Dr. Pamplona Roger
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is the editor of it and
several people have contributed,
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I think you will
find it very helpful.
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Now I enjoy so much
understanding about the skin and
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other diseases that can be
treated with foods or that can
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be treated with herbs and then
a lot of things that can't be
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treated with either food or
herbs can be treated by other
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very simple things and skin
diseases and skin afflictions
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are among those.
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Now I have asked Rhonda Clark
who is one of our instructors at
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Uchee Pines and counselors
to join me and Rhonda you are
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going to talk to us today
about something that I find
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very interesting,
tell us about that.
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Well I brought the
subject today of head lice,
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any one who has had head
lice or who had a child that had
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head lice knows these are
very contagious and difficult
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to get rid of. - And
sometimes can just go
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right through a school.
- Oh, so easily contagious
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it spreads so very easily.
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I have been called several times
by the principal of a school
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saying Dr. Thrash please come
and examine all the students
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in the seventh grade or the
second grade, we have several
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cases of head lice and then
you go and you just look through
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the hair and there's one
or there is a nit which is the
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little egg stuck to the hair.
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- Oh, it used to be that people
thought that head lice occurred
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only in people
who were very unclean,
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- Yes, - But
that isn't the case.
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- The other side of the tracks
but now it's on Carriage Hill
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as well. - Exactly!
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And it can be spread through
coats, scarves, coat hooks,
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ear phones, upholstery,
sitting after someone with
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head lice at a theater or
a bus or any place where your
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hair is resting against
where their hair just was, very
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easily contagious, and
the traditional treatment for
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head lice can be quite toxic
and so it's nice to know that
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there are some natural
treatments for head lice
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and I'm excited to
share these with you today.
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One thing, just to talk
about the whole environment
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if someone in your home
has come down with head lice
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the whole family should
be very carefully inspected.
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Head lice occurs most
predominately of the back
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of the head or scalp and
especially behind the ears is a
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good place to look and it
appears a lot like dandruff
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little white flakes but
they won't be easily combed out,
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when you try to comb them
out they will stick very firmly,
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especially right at the shaft of
the hair up against the scalp.
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The clothing and bedding
should be laundered on the
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hottest cycle in the
washing and drying machines,
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the upholstery and carpets
should be very thoroughly
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vacuumed, you may have
to do that more than once.
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The entire house should be
cleaned as well as possible,
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any item that can't be laundered
could be sealed in a plastic bag
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and kept sealed for 10
days that would give enough time
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for the lifecycle to complete
and the living lice and the
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little eggs to hatch and
those to die, so after 10 days
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protected it should be safe.
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To actually get rid of the
head lice themselves, kerosene
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of all things is one of the
three treatments that's a good
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natural treatment, kerosene
mixed in equal parts with
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olive oil can be massaged
into the hair and scalp,
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it should be left on for
a couple of hours and then
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shampooed out, a very
fine tooth comb can be used to
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help comb the hair to see if
there is any remaining evidence
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of the lice or their
eggs, the little nits.
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Another treatment
that you can use is garlic,
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if you blend several cloves
of garlic in the blender with
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some water and then apply
that to the hair and scalp,
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leave that on for two
hours then shampoo out again,
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that should take care of
all of them and maybe the whole
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rest of the family
and the neighbors as well,
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because that will be
quite a potent smelling
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treatment indeed.
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The last treatment to
recommend is citronella oil.
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- I like the
smell of citronella.
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- Yes! It has a nice smell
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and bugs don't like it so
that's a wonderful advantage
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for it, citronella oil can be
obtained at a health food store
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and it can be massaged into
the scalp and into the hair,
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the hair covered with a
cap and then left on overnight.
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Now some people can have
an allergic reaction or an
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inflammation of the skin from
the citronella oil, so if any
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burning or discomfort occurs
it should be shampooed out
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and one of the other remedies
tried, but after over night
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with the citronella on, often
those can completely eradicate
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the head lice.
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So try those if you ever
come across an infestation
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of head lice, which can
happen to the best of us.
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- Absolutely! I was
doing some research one time in
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a rural area in the Appalachian
Mountains and one day
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after about four days
into the research I had a
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little itchy place and OH!
there was something up there
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so I brought my fingernail down
and there under my fingernail
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was a head louse, oh what
to do, I was very embarrassed
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and I didn't want to
tell anybody about it but
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a day or so later
somebody else did the same thing
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they reach up and brought
out another louse so I felt I
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was in good company, so
we did a number of things
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one thing that we did was
the kerosene treatment and
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another thing that we did was
some soap that was particularly
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strong, we just soaped
up the scalp and put a scarf
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around it for several
hours and then shampooed and we
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got rid of it, I don't remember
that we had any residual problem
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I can't even remember that
we had to deal with the nits.
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But they make these very fine
tooth combs that you can comb
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the hair with a strand at
a time to comb out the nits,
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now if you can't get all the
nits and sometimes there will be
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hundreds on each hair, then
what to do is simply to shampoo
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frequently to
get rid of the lice.
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Well thank you so much
for coming I appreciate it
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very much. -
Thank you for having me!
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I was looking at this
book called The Green Pharmacy
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written by James Duke who is
a friend of ours, who has done
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some really powerful
research in a number of areas,
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one of those is making data
bases of a lot of food chemicals
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that can be helpful for all
sorts of disease and he has one
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for head lice, one is Neem,
Neem oil which Neem grows in
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India and in Hawaii, and
various other tropical areas
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and Neem oil is readily
available in this country
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and can be massaged into
the scalp, it's very good and
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turmeric can also be used,
just ordinary kitchen turmeric
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can be mixed with a little
olive oil and especially if you
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mix it with Neem oil, that's
very good and then it's massaged
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into the scalp and then
shampooed out after a few hours,
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very good for that turmeric
by itself or Neem by itself
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can also be effective.
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Then another one is Sweet Flag,
there is an American species
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of this plant and you can find
this Sweet Flag in herb stores
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in America it's an aromatic
root is what is used and that's
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very good for head lice
and for other body lice.
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We always hope that we
will never get these companions
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but if you do there are
very natural things to do and
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not to have to use the
substances that can be obtained
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from a physician that
may be toxic to your body.
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Now I have asked Dr.
Donald Miller if he will show us
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some things about how to make
some very nice things for the
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skin, welcome Dr. Miller!
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- Thank you! - I
am happy to see your
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little things here. -
My little things, yes!
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- I almost want
to say what is that?
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- You know I like my
little things and I've become a
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collector of these
little things, this comes from
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Malawi. - May I see that,
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from Malawi, oh yes!
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Now that is a work
of art. - Yes it is!
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- I can see that it
is quite functional too,
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it has been used a
little. - I use them!
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This is part of a thing that is
vital, a person that works with
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herbs a little pharmacopeia
there, so I was working with
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some student at Uchee Pines,
it was one summer and mid summer
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and it had been a moist summer
a little bit and the weeds were
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high and the blueberries were
plump and I had a family staying
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in my home and the children
used to love to go out in the
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early morning when the grass
was a little bit dewy wet and
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pick those blueberries and of
course if you've ever been in a
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southern area in the
summer time in weeds,
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there is something
else that lives in there.
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- Oh yes! The little
chiggers! - The little chiggers!
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- We have about three moths
of the year we have the chiggers
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at Uchee Pines. -
This summer had to be the
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worse that I could remember
in my 20 years at Uchee Pines,
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"it was terrible!" - At
least 4 months and I wasn't
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even certain that in January
as warm as the weather was
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we weren't having a few.
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- Well you know some people
are more allergic to things
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like this than others, and
there is one of these children
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staying in my home that
just had a terrible case.
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Well I was working with my
students in making different
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types of herbal preparations
trying to experiment
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and just show them the technique
for making them, not so much
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that we are making them
for a purpose, so I decided to
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use some poke root, now
poke grows all over the country
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as far as I know, I saw
some growing in Japan one time
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so it is not
indigenous to the southeast.
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There is a lot of poke around,
I wouldn't take it internally
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at this stage in the
summer time, I took the root and
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what we did was we cleaned
it off and I had someone use a
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grater and grate it
until it's real fine pieces,
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put this into a pot along
with some oil, vegetable oil,
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and I put that double boiler
type, put that inside another
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pot and heated that
for about 4-5 hours,
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slowly heated this oil, and
the oil was extracting what I
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wanted out of the poke root.
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Then I brought it back
and poured the oil through a
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strainer back into another
pot and put that on top of the
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boiling water, and what I
was trying to make was a salve
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or an ointment and depending
on where you live the conditions
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if you are living in an
area where the weather is
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going to be very warm you
want a little bit more solid,
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if you are living in a cold area
not quite so solid as far as
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what you put in there, because
the heat is going to make it
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softer and might pour
it out of your bottle.
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So what I use to
harden it is bee's wax,
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- Oh yes! - Now this
is an amazing product
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this is something that the bee
makes, so I have some of this
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bee's wax and this is
unbelievably hard stuff.
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- I can hear.
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- So what I would do is up
the temperature, I would slice
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pieces of the bee's wax
into the pot until it melted,
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stir it around a little bit,
and you experiment with this
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after you have put in enough
and you think it might be right
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you take out a small spoonful
and you pour it on a piece of
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glass or metal and blow on
it until hardens and then you
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test it's consistency.
- If it is to hard you
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add a little more oil
and if it's to soft you add
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a little more bee's wax.
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- I would rather go in
the direction of having to add
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more bee's wax because
more oil is going to dilute
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the product you want, so I
put a little bit in test it,
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if it's still to soft I
scrape that back put it in there
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let it set some more, put
some more bee's wax until I get
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a product just right.
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Once I've got it just
right I pour it into my clean
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containers and that's my salve.
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Now I was teaching my students
this and when I got done
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I though well I've
got some nice salve here,
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and then here's this
child and I was reading in my
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herb books that poke
root is very for itching and
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different types of inflammations
so I gave the mother of these
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children a bottle of
this salve, within two days
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it was all gone, not the salve
but the lesions on the leg,
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and the child was completely
well and this child would
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have been itching for a month.
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- Yes! That's wonderful!
- Now you know I believe
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in the Bible of course, and
in the Garden of Eden there was
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the tree called the Tree of
Life and what happened to the
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Tree of Life, what
happened to the Garden?
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I don't think it was destroyed
in the flood, I think just
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before the flood God took
that garden back up to heaven
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again, but I believe that
the branches of that tree still
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hang over the walls and trail
down to the earth and we can
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find the healing
properties in tree and in shrub
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and in flower. - Very
good spiritual lesson.
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- This is one that I'm very
thankful for, it's a green herb
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it's comfrey. - Oh
yes the comfrey that grows
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it's also called Russian
weed because it grows so readily
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and in so many places.
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- Most of these things
are just good old weeds.
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- Yes! - Well I
had had an accident
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with a table and cut off the
tips of my fingers and I used
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comfrey poultices after cleaning
the wounds and having them,
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you couldn't repair them,
it was right down to the bone
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fingernails, everything was
gone used this comfrey poultice.
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Every night I just make
a little bit of a paste,
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put that on my finger tip
take the tips of a rubber glove
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pull it down over my
finger tips, my two fingers that
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had been cut off and three
weeks later I could play the
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guitar again.
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- You replaced the
tip of your fingers?
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- They couldn't find it!
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- Because I see that
you've got them all and I...
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- It was this hand. -
They must have re-grown
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very nicely. - Well
this is a cell growth
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proliferator, it accelerated
the growth, and I have no scars,
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I have full sensation and
like I say in three weeks,
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this is the fingers that
you push the strings with,
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and I can do it
without discomfort.
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- Don't tell my that
you've got fingerprints also.
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- I have fingerprints,
everything is there,
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you can not tell anything
happened to these fingers.
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Now there is another thing that
you can find commonly in the
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yards, pretty much around the
world is a thing called plantain
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or Plantago which
would be the Latin name,
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there's a broad leaf and a
narrow leaf and it's just about
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the same as comfrey. of
you have a wound on the skin
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you can take that stuff
and bruise it, that's where a
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mortar and pestle comes
in handy, put it in there
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and just get it pulpy,
take that out and apply it
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right over a lesion,
and that is extremely good.
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If you have a cut, a bite,
an itch, there is everything
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you need in nature.
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- Comfrey is very
anti- inflammatory.
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We have had flat wound injuries
that we have treated with a
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compress of comfrey and
it has been most effective
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and the
anti-inflammatory effects are...
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the person can sense
it almost immediately,
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within ten minutes they
can tell that the congestion
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the pain, the inflammation
is not as bad as it was.
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- Right! Another one I like
very much and you've got this
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tree growing right next
to your house, Elderberry!
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- Yes! I like this tree,
it's a bush that grew up there
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by itself and I use a lot of
the berries for a lot of things.
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For infections on the
skin, for colds and flu,
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for any kind of infection,
I like the berries but
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I see you have the leaves.
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- Yes, well you probably
see me sometimes over there
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picking your
berries. - I don't mind a bit.
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- Now the thing about
herb gathering is what we call
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wild crafting, getting
your own, there's lots of
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Elderberries along roads
but there going to pick up the
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pollution from the vehicles
so in your side yard there is
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no pollution, so
gather these berries...
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Yes, I have taken leaves
and put them in alcohol to
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let the alcohol extract
the properties that I want,
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this is very good for bruising
and for external inflammations.
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Again we are just experimenting
with my students to see
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what can these things do,
this was rubbing alcohol so
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you can only use it externally
but I would use this on any
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type of external inflammation
and even over painful joints
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to see if that
might give some relief.
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What I am trying to do is
awaken in your mind an interest
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in God's healing
properties, into the herbs that
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God has given us.
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We know many of them, some
of them are extremely important
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to us today: Echinacea,
every one knows about Echinacea.
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- It grows nicely in a
garden. - It's a perennial,
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it's a purple coneflower,
it's a very attractive flower.
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- It has seeds that you
can plant for next year.
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- Yes! Everywhere I go in
the world I find Echinacea.
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I don't find
Golden Seal as much.
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- Golden Seal grows
apparently in higher elevations.
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- So I am thankful for
what God has given us in the
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simple remedies here in nature.
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If you are using a powder,
this is beauty berry leaves
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that we dried
and just ground up.
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- Beauty berry leaf made into
a little ointment is good for
00:19:30.84\00:19:37.58
chronic skin disorders,
it's a very good little leaf.
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- It's also good for the
complexion from one thing
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I read.
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What you can do here if
you make up a powder out of
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an herb and you want to
get it right on the body but
00:19:49.07\00:19:51.73
you don't know how you
are going to keep it there
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you can just mix it with some
Vaseline, just mix it really
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nicely until it's the
same color as the herb - green
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just enough to hold it together
and put that over the area
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that in itself could hold
it there and give you some
00:20:04.14\00:20:06.69
properties that
you are looking for.
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- Very good idea, thank
you so much, I appreciate your
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discussion of these things.
00:20:11.93\00:20:13.69
I appreciate your
being on this program.
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Now with the herbs you
should learn a few and use those
00:20:15.85\00:20:21.04
for yourself, those that you
know are non-toxic and helpful
00:20:21.07\00:20:26.76
and the Lord will bless you
by these very simple things.
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Now I have some pictures
that I would like to show you
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that will show some
other problems with the skin
00:20:33.64\00:20:37.08
and these pictures can
be themselves instructed
00:20:37.11\00:20:40.82
then I will tell you a
few things about how to treat
00:20:40.85\00:20:45.14
people who have
these various afflictions.
00:20:45.17\00:20:49.63
So you will see here on the
screen a picture of something
00:20:49.66\00:20:54.47
that I hope you will not
see, while this thing that I am
00:20:54.50\00:20:59.38
showing is not exactly what I
want to teach you from but you
00:20:59.42\00:21:04.39
will see that there is a central
portion of this picture that's
00:21:04.43\00:21:09.37
a little redder, then a little
pale zone around that white
00:21:09.40\00:21:14.86
nipple looking thing and
then a little bit redder,
00:21:14.89\00:21:18.81
then another pale area that's
bigger and then way out on the
00:21:18.84\00:21:23.35
periphery you will
see more reddening.
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This disease is the disease
that I want to teach you about
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is Lyme disease, Lyme disease
is caused by the deer tick
00:21:31.82\00:21:35.76
and the deer tick bites one
then there may be a red spot
00:21:35.79\00:21:40.45
in the center followed
by a very pronounced pallor,
00:21:40.48\00:21:47.13
or pale zone, then the
pale zone spreads out and
00:21:47.16\00:21:53.42
much more
reddening on the outside.
00:21:53.45\00:21:56.26
This Lyme disease can be a
serious problem and in some
00:21:56.29\00:22:01.31
people it's not serious,
but if you get the Lyme disease
00:22:01.34\00:22:05.90
one of the best things that
we have found for this is hot
00:22:05.93\00:22:09.23
baths, sit in a tub of
very hot water and after about
00:22:09.26\00:22:14.60
a half an hour of being in the
hot water, about as hot as you
00:22:14.63\00:22:17.94
can stand keeping your face
cool, your head cool as much
00:22:17.97\00:22:21.59
as you can with cold
cloths to the neck and the face,
00:22:21.62\00:22:25.38
after a soak in the tub
for about half an hour, you are
00:22:25.41\00:22:30.01
very likely to already be able
to tell that you are better.
00:22:30.04\00:22:33.80
But if you do this daily
for five days then skip a couple
00:22:33.83\00:22:37.58
of days repeat it again for
five days, skip a couple of days
00:22:37.61\00:22:41.65
and yet a third week in this
way five days doing the baths
00:22:41.68\00:22:47.59
and two days then you
are finished at the end
00:22:47.62\00:22:50.60
of that time
having done 15 hot baths.
00:22:50.63\00:22:53.85
This can be a curative
for cases of Lyme disease,
00:22:53.88\00:22:59.35
the Lyme disease is caused by
a spirochete and the spirochete
00:22:59.38\00:23:05.09
can be treated
by very hot baths.
00:23:05.12\00:23:09.04
We learned this is
when I was in Medical School
00:23:09.07\00:23:11.79
treating another spirochete
which causes syphilis,
00:23:11.82\00:23:15.67
Syphilis' vary and Lyme disease
as well, spirochete is very
00:23:15.70\00:23:21.29
sensitive to a little
heating or a little chilling
00:23:21.32\00:23:25.09
but you can't get the
body cold enough to kill the
00:23:25.12\00:23:28.63
spirochete by chilling but you
can by getting the body hotter.
00:23:28.66\00:23:33.69
Now my next slide, this is
another slide that has some
00:23:33.72\00:23:39.22
instruction with it, this
one is Leprosy, you'll remember
00:23:39.25\00:23:44.96
that Leprosy in the Bible was
a serious disease that required
00:23:44.99\00:23:50.90
quarantine of the person.
00:23:50.93\00:23:52.88
Leprosy today is usually
confined to more tropical
00:23:52.91\00:23:59.14
countries but we do have
some cases in the United States.
00:23:59.17\00:24:03.42
Now the next picture that I
will show you is on the screen
00:24:03.45\00:24:09.54
now, this is a common
disorder of the fever blisters.
00:24:09.57\00:24:15.58
This shows a patch of
fever blisters on a pink base
00:24:15.61\00:24:22.04
it's a little tan lesion
with a pink base, a little patch
00:24:22.07\00:24:29.57
of fever blisters, this
was on the side of the face.
00:24:29.60\00:24:32.82
Now the next graphic
shows another form of herpes
00:24:32.85\00:24:37.29
which is what a fever blister is
caused by a herpes simplex virus
00:24:37.33\00:24:45.75
and this is caused by another
virus, the Herpes Zoster.
00:24:45.78\00:24:50.26
This is chicken pox,
most people have never seen
00:24:50.29\00:24:53.22
chicken pox because even
doctors often have not seen
00:24:53.25\00:24:58.36
a lot of chicken pox
because if we think the case is
00:24:58.39\00:25:01.40
chicken pox, please don't
come to the office or please
00:25:01.43\00:25:04.23
don't come to the
hospital keep the child at home.
00:25:04.26\00:25:07.62
But you will notice that
the lesion is what we call a
00:25:07.65\00:25:11.91
dewdrop on a rose petal,
and that is what the chicken pox
00:25:11.94\00:25:16.31
looks like and it's
disseminated all over the skin.
00:25:16.34\00:25:19.11
The next picture is another
form of the Herpes Virus,
00:25:19.14\00:25:24.29
this is also Herpes Zoster,
but this one is shingles.
00:25:24.32\00:25:30.30
You will notice that this
starts in this 11 year old child
00:25:30.33\00:25:35.50
at the spine and comes down
across the hip and goes on to
00:25:35.53\00:25:41.12
the thigh.
00:25:41.15\00:25:42.12
This has the same typical lesion
of dew drop on a rose petal.
00:25:42.13\00:25:48.26
This is usually not very
painful but if it is painful
00:25:48.29\00:25:53.69
then it can be treated
with hot compresses or hot baths
00:25:53.72\00:25:56.72
and a charcoal compress,
very good to keep the disease of
00:25:56.75\00:26:03.62
shingles from going into
the postherpetic neuralgia,
00:26:03.65\00:26:07.64
which is quite painful.
00:26:07.67\00:26:09.52
The next slide you will see
is a slide that tells us how
00:26:09.55\00:26:14.06
chronic pain affects the
body, in cases of postherpetic
00:26:14.09\00:26:20.06
neuralgia where the pain is
what we might call senseless
00:26:20.09\00:26:25.03
that is it is not something
that we are going to work with
00:26:25.06\00:26:30.36
directly because it is
going to hurt the body,
00:26:30.39\00:26:33.74
but you will see that pain can
can come into the place where
00:26:33.77\00:26:40.06
the blue dot is, pain impulses
can come in through those
00:26:40.09\00:26:45.82
parallel lines and
if you have a lot of
00:26:45.85\00:26:50.30
other input such as
from a neutral bath,
00:26:50.34\00:26:54.72
or a hot bath, then you
cannot get a lot of impulses
00:26:54.75\00:26:59.06
through this gate into the
place where the blue dot is
00:26:59.09\00:27:04.70
so if you cannot get pain
impulses through this channel
00:27:04.74\00:27:10.52
that has to go to the place
illustrated by the blue dot
00:27:10.55\00:27:14.99
which is the interpretation
center in the brain, then
00:27:15.02\00:27:19.56
this kind of senseless
pain cannot get through.
00:27:19.59\00:27:23.02
So hot baths or a massage or
a neutral bath, just ordinary
00:27:23.05\00:27:29.89
tepid water, these kinds
of things can be most helpful
00:27:29.92\00:27:34.81
in treating people
who have senseless pain.
00:27:34.84\00:27:38.42
The Lord has provided for
our successfully dealing with
00:27:38.45\00:27:43.67
pain, infection, hereditary
diseases, by the things of
00:27:43.70\00:27:48.94
nature, the things He
has provided for our comfort
00:27:48.97\00:27:52.57
and I hope that
you love the Lord more
00:27:52.60\00:27:54.81
because of these things.
00:27:54.84\00:27:56.68