0 Hello! I grew up in rural South Georgia 0 about 33 miles from the nearest hospital because of our 0 distance away from good medical care, my parents became quite 0 proficient in home remedies. 0 Since I grew up with these I know their effectiveness 0 I know that in may instances they are the best remedy for 0 a certain disorder. 0 It won't work for all things but it does work for many 0 and where it is applicable, a home remedy is the best remedy 0 that we have for that disease. 0 We're going to be talking about Home Remedies, some of which 0 I think you will never have seen before, 0 so we hope you will join us and I know you will 0 enjoy the program. Welcome to Help Yourself to Health 0 with Dr. Agatha Thrash of Uchee Pines Institute 0 and now here is your host Dr. Thrash. 0 In most homes you will find a lot of things that are very 0 applicable to home remedies. 0 Now every home that has water and a source of heat and a 0 source of cold and cloths and sometimes some kind of 0 irrigation equipment, any home that has these can be 0 sure that they know how that they have the equipment to do 0 the home remedies. 0 Now I have here a very simple home remedy, 0 this is a cough syrup, and notice this thick honey, 0 see how thick it is. 0 This honey is produced in South Georgia, 0 it's Gall Berry Honey and as you can see it is quite thick 0 but when you put that with some chopped onion, 0 just ordinary onion chopped notice how very thin the 0 honey gets, the reason for that after 12 hours or so 0 it has extracted all the benefits from the onion. 0 Now we have there the Quercitin, we have a lot of flavonoids and 0 a variety of antioxidants, some antimicrobial substances, 0 a lot of things that can be most beneficial for a cough. 0 and this is a cough medicine. 0 Let me show you what you would do from this point, 0 just take a strainer and pour the juice, the onion honey 0 pour that into a strainer and strain out the onion 0 and then you have the onion honey fluid, you can mash this 0 a bit to get it so that you have only the fluid in a cup and then 0 it can be stored in the refrigerator. 0 Simply store the nice honey water, now when a person has 0 a cough, whether it's dry or productive, this can be used 0 by the teaspoonful to quell the cough. 0 Not very long ago we had a patient who had a cough, 0 it was really terrible, and every time she coughed, 0 she would take a teaspoonful of this from the refrigerator 0 and simply swallow it. 0 In seconds her throat would feel better, she would have a 0 paroxysm of coughing and in just seconds she would be 0 free of cough and go sometimes for half an hour with 0 no coughing. 0 Then another paroxysm of coughing, just almost like 0 the whooping cough, take another teaspoonful, and it was again quelled in just a matter of seconds. 0 Now a close relative of onion is Aloe, Aloe can grow in your 0 kitchen or in your living room, it's a beautiful plant. 0 You can have it if you live in very warm climates 0 you can have it living out of doors, and it has so many 0 uses, and I have asked Rhonda Clark who is one of our 0 co-workers at Uchee Pines to tell us some of the wonderful 0 unexpected uses of Aloe Vera. 0 - Oh! There are so many I really enjoyed researching a little bit 0 of the unexpected uses of Aloe Vera. 0 A typical bottle of Aloe Vera Gel that you can find at a 0 Health Food Store, even now in many pharmacies or 0 grocery stores has so many uses for she wouldn't believe. 0 Some of the ones that I knew of of course that it's wonderful 0 for burns, it's wonderful to put on poison ivy or insect bites 0 or other irritations of the skin, such as a scrape 0 or a small abrasion, but did you know that this also can be 0 used as a deodorant. 0 It can be used as a hair jel, or a hair conditioner, 0 and it even is a wonderful treatment for dandruff 0 if you just thickly apply Aloe Vera get to the scalp 0 allow it to set for 10 minutes and then shampoo the hair as normal, it can help clear up dandruff. 0 - And you just sort of work it into the scalp. 0 - Work it in good, let it sit and then shampoo your hair 0 as normal. - Well that sounds interesting. - Yes! You know it was said 0 that Cleopatra used as her secret for beautiful skin. 0 In Ancient Egypt they used Aloe's in the embalming process 0 not to help preserve anything, but just to help keep the 0 skin intact Aloe Vera Gel makes a wonderful face moisturizer 0 face cream and it has nice microbial killing property 0 that makes it useful for individuals with acne's, 0 psoriasis, other types of skin conditions that you want to 0 keep the skin very clear of bacteria. 0 - Do you have anything for wrinkles? 0 - No! cream against wrinkles unfortunately. 0 - Well I guess I'm proud of all my wrinkles, it indicates that 0 I have lived a long time and that's amazing in this age. 0 - Yeah, there were some things that surprised me when I was 0 doing this, I guess there are some individuals who suffer 0 with odor in the belly button of all places and Aloe Vera 0 is a wonderful remedy for that. 0 Using Aloe Vera gel twice a day in the belly button can help 0 reduce irritations or odor in the belly button 0 and some other kind of surprising things of Aloe Vera 0 that I thought were... 0 Oral care, this one really surprised me. 0 There is a growing body of evidence of the benefits of 0 Aloe Vera gel in many dental procedures. 0 It can be used to treat gingivitis or inflammation 0 of the gums and that can be either by gargling, rinsing, 0 swishing with an aloe Vera juice, or letting the gels sit against the gums for a period of time. 0 There is even now toothpaste made with Aloe Vera that can 0 be useful in fighting against gingivitis, when a tooth has 0 been extracted, Aloe Vera can help prevent infection 0 in that socket of the extracted tooth it could be... 0 - A nice way to put it against the gum is to take a small 0 segment of one of the blades of the Aloe, remove the cortex 0 the little bark of it from one side and make sure there are 0 no thorns projecting from it and then lay that right against 0 the gum and then in a few minutes it becomes quite nicely 0 soft and molds to the side of the jaw and that makes a 0 very nice anti-microbial remedy for a gum boil 0 or an abscess tooth. 0 - Yeah! -Well I appreciate the opportunity to come and share 0 some of these unusual uses of Aloe Vera gel. 0 - Well thank you so much, I enjoyed these and I would 0 like to try the one with the Aloe Vera shampoo. - Yes! - Thank you! 0 Now I would like to show you another remedy and this remedy 0 is a heating pad, it's a very simple one, you could just buy 0 these from a pharmacy or a department store, 0 and they should be in every home having electricity. 0 If you don't have electricity all is not lost, you can simply 0 take a bottle of the appropriate size, fill it with hot water, 0 wrap it with a towel and it can be applied in the same way 0 to the chest, to the abdomen, to the back, to a knee, 0 a foot, and any place where there is pain or discomfort 0 it can be nicely used to great advantage it has both immediate 0 benefits in pain relief, and it also has long term benefits 0 in healing. 0 Now I suppose my very favorite remedy is charcoal 0 and I have asked Cal Thrash to join me for this 0 next demonstration which will be of charcoal remedies. 0 - Yes! 0 - Cal you have a number of things here I see, 0 and I know that you are very familiar with charcoal, 0 - Oh yes! - Because you grew up with it. 0 - I certainly did, in fact I have some experiences that I 0 would like to tell today to our viewers as well. 0 Charcoal is an absolutely amazing substance, but it 0 doesn't look like a whole lot when we look at it, it's just a 0 powder and it's what you expect a black substance, 0 and of course what we use is powdered activated charcoal. 0 It is quite useful for many external applications and some 0 internal ones as well. - Now you said1 it was activated 0 tell us what that means.1 1 - Activation is a process that charcoal goes through when it1 1 still in the kiln the steam is injected into the environment1 1 under pressure and at just the right temperature and the right1 1 pressure, it actually blows open more holes little surface1 1 area in the charcoal. - And these little surface areas1 1 are for what purpose? 1 - Well that's to attract poisons to1 it, 1 now I have a graphic that perhaps1 1 we could show at this time that has actually a picture1 1 that the tunneling electronic microscope took of charcoal1 1 surface, and you can see the surface of the carbon there1 1 under extreme magnification of course, and see the features1 1 that charcoal has too. 1 - It has little ridges and holes and1 valleys. 1 - Right! - I guess the toxins go in1 all 1 of those little valleys and into those1 holes and are held there. 1 - That's part of the beauty of charcoal1 actually, in fact 1 one of the uses of charcoal is to take1 up and draw poisons 1 of all types, drugs fit into that category1 as well 1 so they can be taken up, but toxins1 and... 1 - Toxins from germs. - That's true and1 in fact 1 even bacteria themselves can be actually1 taken up by charcoal 1 some people think though that once the1 charcoal has actually 1 soaked up, if you want to call it these1 toxins and poisons, 1 that it could be squeezed back out again.1 1 But that is not really what happens with charcoal.1 1 charcoal works through the process of what we call1 1 adsorption, you notice I said adsorption and not absorption,1 1 which is different, it's actually the attachment of1 1 the toxin to the surface of the carbon itself.1 1 - So it comes into the charcoal by method of traction.1 1 - That's correct! - Rather than just being1 1 absorbed where it's just like a sponge it flows into it.1 1 - That's right, now the process of taking the poison back out1 1 of the charcoal is considerably more difficult and usually not1 1 compatible with life, although it's true that under certain1 1 circumstances some of the toxins could come out1 1 but those are very unusual circumstances. 1 For instance if a person has been given1 a drug like Morphine 1 or something that actually stops the1 bowel itself 1 and a person may have trouble actually1 eliminating that 1 charcoal and it could cause problems.1 1 Most people don't have that kind of a problem1 1 and if they are generally healthy then they won't have1 1 a problem with eliminating the charcoal and the toxin1 1 that it took up. 1 - Now you look as if you are going to1 make a 1 charcoal compress.1 1 - Actually I'm going to show some of the uses for external1 1 uses of charcoal, and I have some of the sizes,1 1 I will show you some of the sizes of charcoal that we1 1 actually carry at our book store at Uchee Pines,1 1 and we bottle this up ourselves. 1 Now this one is the largest size we1 have, that is 21/2 lbs. 1 size and it's the easiest probably to1 use under most 1 circumstances for external uses where1 you need a lot of powder. 1 - Such as a brown recluse spider bite.1 1 - That's correct. 1 - It takes up that toxin right through1 the skin. 1 - And we'll be talking about some of1 those uses too 1 as we go along here, I won't be able1 to show you probably 1 that one because that would be quite1 an intense usage 1 of charcoal, but this smaller size is1 probably the most 1 common size, that's the quart size charcoal,1 and we have 1 that as well.1 1 These are powders and it's powdered activated charcoal,1 1 and then we have smaller sizes, this one is a tablet and a1 1 capsule vege-caps, both of which we have at our store1 1 there at Uchee Pines, and we bottle all of those together.1 1 - Now would you use charcoal capsules for it's external use1 1 say making a compress? 1 - You could of course, but it is considerably1 more expensive 1 to do it that way.1 1 Probably the best way to use charcoal the most effectively1 1 way, the most cost effective way is to use it as the powder,1 1 you can use it both internally and externally in powder form.1 1 - So if you are traveling you certainly want to take the1 1 powder. - You probably want to take some1 1 along, now I think it's entirely possible that you'd want to have1 1 capsules and tabs when you go traveling and in my experience1 1 actually it seems like the most common thing that happens1 1 to you when you are traveling is some kind of1 1 gastrointestinal distress. 1 - Yes! What can be called Montezuma's1 Revenge if you 1 are going south of the border.1 1 - Now I have to say that charcoal is very effective1 1 with these types of gastrointestinal problems,1 1 and I wouldn't travel without it, it's... 1 - Yes, I never travel without it,1 1 it will save your trip sometimes. 1 - Absolutely! Now what I would like1 to demonstrate today is a 1 poultice and for that I would like to1 ask Arianna Hartsfield 1 if she would come and we will show you1 actually the external 1 uses here in kind of a small way because1 obviously it would be 1 very difficult to work with charcoal1 in a large way 1 here at this set.1 1 I want to show you exactly what I mean by that1 1 when I add the water to the charcoal you can immediately1 1 see that charcoal will begin to powder out and it's very1 1 light, now people have... - Now see this little dust1 1 coming up there. - And you don't want to stir1 1 very rapidly, now people have told me that they have tried to1 1 mix charcoal in various ways they have stirred it very1 1 quickly and tried to get it mixed up quickly,1 1 but this is not a quick process at all, you want to really1 1 take your time when you are adding the water and mixing1 1 the charcoal. 1 One person they told me they had a neat1 experience 1 they put this into the blender and put1 some water in there 1 and turned it on and even after they1 opened up the top 1 it was pretty much everywhere all over1 the kitchen, 1 and so it's something that you want1 to go very carefully and 1 very slowly with, and the mixing process1 can take a little bit 1 of time so don't rush this process at1 all. 1 But I have mixed some up already for1 you and you can see from 1 this little container here about the1 consistency that I've 1 mixed it up, is the consistency of soft1 melted ice cream here. 1 And it does taste wonderful just like1 that ice cream would 1 but this is probably just a little bit1 thick for the average 1 poultice it's not to bad, but you certainly1 don't want to 1 scrimp to much on the water when you1 are using it because 1 you do want it to go ahead and soak1 through the material 1 that you are going to put it on and1 of course this today 1 we are going to use a paper towel which1 is very easy 1 to use for the poultice, so we are just1 going to spoon this 1 on to the paper towel material itself1 and it will begin to come 1 through the paper towel as you spoon1 it on 1 and of course you can make it fairly1 large whatever the sizes 1 that you need to be able to take up1 the surface of the 1 problem that you have and we'll just1 assume that 1 Arianna has a bug bite that she is having1 some 1 little bit of inflammation, maybe a1 little bit of infection 1 there. - There it is right there.1 1 and you want to try to take all of this up with the charcoal1 1 so we are going to put that right on to the surface of1 1 the area and cover it well, so that you make sure you have1 1 plenty of area covered with the charcoal. 1 Don't scrimp in this area, this is not1 where you want to 1 scrimp at all, you want to make sure1 you cover plenty of 1 area with that charcoal poultice, then1 we take some 1 plastic wrap, the regular good stretchy1 kind is good, 1 and we can cover our charcoal poultice1 with our stretch wrap 1 and of course this is probably way to1 much for the 1 average poultice, but it's to show you1 exactly what 1 you would want to do.1 1 You probably could use less, just enough to cover the1 1 charcoal poultice itself, and you can take some tape...1 1 The best thing actually is to take some paper tape1 1 the kind of surgical tape that you find and actually1 1 tape the edges around like this, and of course that keeps1 1 the charcoal from coming out the side and it makes it so that1 1 the person can wear this for quite some time,1 1 maybe several hours without having any problem at all1 1 with the charcoal leaking out around the edge.1 1 - Maybe even wear it over night. 1 - It certainly can be worn over night.1 1 - Or a couple of days if necessary. 1 - But depending on what it is this poultice1 could be used for 1 an hour or two, or up to twelve or so1 hours, 1 but you wouldn't want to keep it on1 for to terribly long 1 because it could begin to cause a little1 bit of a problem 1 being wet there, once the charcoal has1 pretty much all the 1 surface area has been used then it's1 taken up whatever 1 it needs to, you need to go ahead and1 take that one off 1 and if the problem still exists then1 you want to do that 1 all over again, start with another charcoal1 poultice 1 and continue to do it.1 1 Now we talked about Brown Recluse spider bites,1 1 Brown Recluse spider bites are quite a problem in that they can1 1 actually cause a necrosis or death of the tissue all the way1 1 down to the bone in a cone shaped area, and there is no1 1 real effective way to treat Brown Recluse spider bites1 1 except for using charcoal. 1 They use steroids and just excision1 of the tissue 1 and so forth, but it can cause a real1 problem and continue 1 to cause problems on through until the1 person gets 1 skin grafts which sometimes will take1 and sometimes because 1 of the inflammation that is involved1 in this they can 1 slough off and cause a problem and be1 a real tough issue 2 in fact it can even cause amputation2 of certain limbs 2 because of the Brown Recluse bite.2 2 This treatment that we've just shown you of course2 2 considerably bigger area that you would want to make your2 2 charcoal poultice, and you can use a cotton piece of sheet2 2 or something that you could put it on rather than a2 2 paper towel, if you would like to use it over it's something2 2 that you can do, but certainly with a Brown Recluse bite2 2 you want to change that poultice probably once every couple2 2 of hours at the very most, maybe even more often than that,2 2 to give the opportunity to take up as much of this poison2 2 as possible and take it away so that it is not something2 2 that the body has to deal with and the body can focus on2 2 healing the Brown Recluse bite rather than...2 2 - I remember a patient that you had one time who had a2 2 Brown Recluse spider bite on the leg and it was a week2 2 or so before the patient came for the poultice and yet it was2 2 healed but it took quite awhile, it took what was it2 2 5 or 6 weeks? - It took well over a month2 2 in fact it was more like about 3 months that the person was2 2 dealing with this problem. 2 So the faster that you can actually2 get the poultice 2 the charcoal to the site of the bite,2 the better, 2 and that of course includes bee stings2 or anything else 2 that a person is having any kind of2 reaction to. 2 - Very good, how about a snake bite,2 would you use it for 2 a snake bite?2 2 I wouldn't hesitate to use it for a snake bite,2 2 I have never had the opportunity to actually2 2 do that and so, I'm not really certain the procedure other than2 2 just simply using as much charcoal as is possible,2 2 I think I would also use it internally as well as externally2 2 in that type of instance. 2 - Yes, I'm sure I would too but I still2 think that the 2 anti-venom might be the good route to2 go, 2 maybe using both the charcoal for the2 first aid and 2 the anti-venom at a later time.2 2 - That's correct, now we have one other graphic that we want2 2 to show you and that's a picture of a young fellow that is in a2 2 bathtub that has charcoal in it. 2 Now what was happening here was the2 individual involved 2 had the chicken pox and you just draw2 a bath full of water 2 and put some charcoal in it and you2 don't have to necessarily 2 put a certain amount, but a cup or two2 in the bath, 2 it helps to bring about the relief from2 the itching, 2 and the little boy there was saying,2 "it doesn't itch 2 any more" after only a minute of being2 in the charcoal bath. 2 - It certainly looks messy. - It is2 quite messy, and it's 2 not something that you would want to2 do every single day, 2 but I can tell you this that if a person2 did have a 2 snake bite or something that was a serious2 problem, 2 I certainly wouldn't hesitate to put2 their whole affected area 2 if it was their arm or leg, most of2 these snake bites are 2 around the leg area where the snake2 has actually gotten 2 the person as they walk along.2 2 I wouldn't hesitate to put that whole limb right into2 2 a bucket or even put them in the bath tub full of charcoal2 2 because that certainly would give the opportunity2 2 for as much skin area as possible to take that toxin2 2 right out of the body. 2 - Now I know of three instances where2 really serious snake bites 2 have been treated with charcoal in field2 situations 2 and so I wouldn't hesitate to do it,2 and to rely on it 2 in a field situation. But if I had the2 anti-venom 2 I think I would probably not have the2 courage to just use 2 the charcoal alone.2 2 - I'm not sure I would either but certainly it has been2 2 used effectively in stories that I've heard, especially with2 2 animals where an animal was treated that way and2 2 seemed to be just fine the next day so I'm not sure2 2 that it's not effective but like you I'm not certain that I2 2 would rely only on that one. 2 - Well thank you so much I appreciate2 this very nice 2 discussion of charcoal.2 2 Now there are so many other remedies that you can use2 2 and maybe I will ask Dr. Don Miller to come next2 2 and show you some remedies and what have you here Dr. Miller?2 2 You always have nice things that you talk about.2 2 - Well, I travel around a lot but you know I was just thinking2 2 as I was listening to Rhonda and Cal's presentation2 2 Cleopatra used Aloe Vera for her youth and she needed2 2 some of Cal's charcoal for her Asp bite there at the end.2 2 - Oh! That's right, history would have been changed.2 2 - Maybe! You know I travel a lot and here are some2 2 charcoal tablets I bought in Ukraine. 2 - Oh yes! Ok I feel them in there.2 2 - Where ever you go, it's amazing how other countries2 2 have a lot more of the simple remedies and charcoal is very2 2 easy to find, especially in Eastern Europe and2 2 other countries, but what I wanted to show you was2 2 my little travel kit, I basically have a mind towards2 2 travel because when we travel we have to have it,2 2 and that's why these come in so handy it's hard to mix a2 2 charcoal poultice or a charcoal slurry when you are2 2 36,000 feet and making a mess all over the place.2 2 So a few tablets in the mouth chewed up, and you have to,2 2 I like to chew them up because the more you break them down2 2 the more they get to work. 2 - And then if you got anything in the2 mouth it helps with that. 2 - Absolutely! - Bad breath to gum boils.2 2 - May sort of freak the stewardess out when she sees2 2 all the black in your teeth. - It's also for a sore throat.2 2 - It's good for whitening the teeth if you can get it off the2 2 teeth, which you do with a toothbrush. 2 My goal when I travel is not to get2 sick in the first place 2 and charcoal is great to sit there and2 take care of that, 2 Montezuma's Revenge, but why not try2 to prevent Montezuma's 2 Revenge in the very first place.2 2 Having been in the Marine Corp for 14 years maybe Montezuma's2 2 a little bit more aiming at me, so I carry little things called2 2 Wet Ones, there are various different types, this is a2 2 Wet One. - One of the best ways to avoid 2 a cold, keep your hands clean.2 2 You touch your eyes, and your nose, and your mouth you2 2 won't be transferring germs. 2 - These are some I bought in Ukraine2 although they are 2 in English, but I bought those in Ukraine.2 2 I use this for many many different things, if you are2 2 traveling and you are in a situation where you use the2 2 toilet and maybe the toilet paper is not adequate or2 2 whatever else, these are very nice, very soothing,2 2 cleaning your hands after anything that you do.2 2 Before you eat, sometimes I even wipe my food down with it2 2 you may catch a little bit of what is on the cloth but2 2 I would rather have a little bit of that chemical2 2 than whatever that virus or bacteria or whatever else2 2 might kill me. 2 I carry, these are very nice I took2 a bunch of these one time 2 down to Africa for my students and I2 kept one set for myself 2 this is a pair of tweezers with a magnifying2 glass attached 2 to it for when you get those splinters2 or other things that 2 might be giving you problems that way2 you don't have to try 2 to hold a magnifying glass, you just2 got it all right there 2 and you can pick out your splinter or2 thorn or 2 whatever else it might be, very nice2 with the magnifying glass 2 and so I like to carry a piece of equipment2 like that. 2 When I'm traveling you know we talk2 about the laws of health 2 how important sleep is and sometimes2 it's hard to get 2 a good night's rest, or a good flight2 rest and so I like 2 to carry with me some earplugs, keep2 them around my neck 2 they are always there, I like this type2 because if one falls 2 out it's not going to fall on the floor2 and I can't find it 2 and so these are very nice mosquito2 protectors to you 2 can't hear the little fellow.2 2 - Very good! Well thank you Dr. Miller I appreciate your2 2 showing us your kit, and with these simple things2 2 we hope that you will live much more successfully2 2 in this diseased world.