Participants: Mary Ann McNeilus, Don Mackintosh
Series Code: HFAL
Program Code: HFAL000069
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00:45 Hello and welcome to "Health for a Lifetime"
00:47 I'm your host Don Mackintosh, 00:49 and today, I'm delighted to be in the studio with 00:51 Dr. Mary Ann McNeilus 00:53 Welcome Dr. McNeilus! 00:55 Now you're a medical doctor; you've been trained 00:57 in pediatrics, and you've done oncology. 01:01 You've done hematology, and then you have a 01:04 degree also, I believe, in microbiology... 01:06 And family medicine... and family medicine! 01:09 So with all these different things, you've come to 01:13 a rather startling conclusion to some, but really a 01:16 refreshing conclusion that some of the most POWERFUL 01:19 means of HEALING people are some of the SIMPLEST means. 01:23 And, I like what you've entitled your book... 01:26 It's called "God's Healing Way" 01:28 and it's really focusing on those simple remedies. 01:33 I like the way it's outlined too with the different health laws, 01:36 and then practical treatments, and then ending, of course, 01:39 with turning once again to the most powerful Healer, 01:43 that would be God. 01:45 Today we're going to be talking about some home remedies, 01:48 and you have some real strong convictions about 01:53 why we should talk about what we're going to talk about today. 01:56 Thank you Don, it's a pleasure 01:59 for me to be here with you today. 02:03 I would like to share just briefly at the beginning 02:07 of our talk, of how God's healing is available today. 02:15 What are the conditions for healing? 02:18 Are they any different than they've ever been before? 02:22 What are some of the Biblical principles? 02:25 And, certainly when we look at healing, we recognize that 02:29 faith is essential. 02:31 In Matthew 9:22, Jesus said to an individual that He healed, 02:39 "Thy faith hath made thee whole" 02:42 In other words, your faith has made you well. 02:46 However, sometimes we forget that obedience to God's laws, 02:52 or His commands, are also necessary for optimal healing. 02:58 John 14:15 reminds us of this... 03:04 It says, "If you love Me, KEEP my commands. " 03:09 "My commands" are His laws. 03:11 His laws of not only his moral laws, His laws of physiology... 03:17 His laws of good health are also included in God's commands. 03:23 Okay, so we really all have the opportunity of receiving 03:28 that gift of the Spirit... which is faith 03:30 The fruits of the Spirit are love, joy, peace, longsuffering 03:33 faithfulness... And what you're suggesting 03:35 is then that obedience is a fruit of faith. 03:37 It comes right out of it, and we can kind of know 03:39 whether or not we're in that relationship with Jesus 03:42 by whether or not we have that fruit in our life of obedience. 03:45 Now, you know, let's just role-play 03:49 I guess, with a couple of things... 03:51 You have a few things that you want to show us here 03:53 that are very practical approaches to dealing with 03:55 disease, or discomfort. 03:57 Maybe, what's the first thing we want to talk about here 04:00 of ALL the different options we have. 04:02 Today, I would like to talk about "fomentations" 04:06 What are fomentations? 04:08 They are applying a hot and cold to a body area... 04:14 often using a towel, or a similar large cloth to a 04:19 particular body area. 04:21 Okay, so for what reason... just because you want that 04:26 particular area to have treatment... 04:28 I suppose it would be an area that you can't submerge. 04:32 That's right, and this is why if you have an illness, 04:37 or an infection in a hand or foot, you can submerge it 04:40 into the hot and cold water such as with the hot and cold 04:44 contrast bath. 04:46 But if you have an area such as your rib cage, 04:48 or chest area, abdominal area, back area... 04:52 these areas are not easily submerged locally, 04:56 and so you need to take a hot towel, 04:59 or fomentation cloth and apply it to that area, 05:02 and apply hot and cold having the same principles 05:05 as submerging in hot and cold water to a particular body part. 05:09 So let's say, I don't know, maybe I broke my ribs... 05:13 I ran into a tree, who knows, or something like that, 05:16 and then I have a lot of pain from that, 05:18 and I'm not breathing as deeply as I should, 05:20 and I start to develop bronchitis/pneumonia... 05:22 Would fomentations be a good treatment for that? 05:25 It's one of the best treatments. 05:26 Fomentations have a wonderful application in chest illnesses 05:33 such as asthma, bronchitis, and also chest injuries such as 05:39 rib cage injuries. 05:41 So, what would we do? 05:43 I mean, okay, should I hold my chest? 05:46 I ran into something... and, actually, I have broken 05:49 my ribs before, so I know how to do this... Right! 05:52 I'll be happy to show you here. Okay 05:55 I preface this one with a little story as well. 05:59 One of our Amish bishops in our area had a buggy accident. 06:04 And, one Saturday his son called our home just as 06:08 we were leaving for church... 06:10 And he said, "I know this is your Sunday; 06:12 this is your rest day, but my father has had this 06:17 severe rib injury, and now he seems to have pneumonia... 06:20 or something like that... He's coughing up very thick sputum 06:24 and it's very painful. " 06:26 "Is there any way you can see him today. " 06:29 ...And we assured him that there was! 06:32 So he came over to our place for a treatment, 06:34 and what we did is... for the treatment, 06:37 we put his feet in hot water to help in also decongesting 06:44 the chest area for the treatment, 06:46 and then we put some hot towels to his chest... 06:50 And I'm going to demonstrate to you how we heated 06:53 these towels, and how we did that. 06:55 You have a special pot here... 06:58 You can use any kind of pot at home. That's right! 07:01 Well, if we're in a society where you have a 07:04 microwave, the microwave actually is a very 07:10 nifty way to do that as well. 07:13 Let's take this towel for example... 07:15 This towel is just a dry towel, and I folded it widthwise 07:20 twice, and then I run it under the tap water 07:23 to get it completely wet. 07:25 And so, we'll pretend this is a wet towel, not a dry one. 07:29 Then I roll it up, and wring it out... so that it's 07:33 damp but not sloshy, or soggy. 07:37 And then, I simply put it in any 07:40 old plastic bag that I have around. 07:41 I save my grocery bags for such a purpose. 07:44 You need to put it in a bag though... 07:46 It's the best idea to put it in a bag, 07:49 and then I put it into my microwave, turn it on high 07:52 for anywhere from 4 to 8 minutes, 07:55 depending on the size of the towel and the microwave. 07:58 After it is heated, then I will apply it to the body area. 08:06 But say, if I go to an Amish home where I do not have 08:09 electricity, or some parts of the world where 08:11 those things aren't available, what do I do? 08:14 I bet ya, you're going to talk about the pot now. 08:16 The pot comes into play now! 08:19 You can use any large pot. 08:21 A canning kettle is perfect... 08:23 but not every one has a canning kettle, 08:26 or not even everyone has a little wire basket. 08:30 What you can do is get some kind of steamer, 08:33 and one thing I have done to make a steaming pot of 08:38 out of this is that I need to put some 08:42 water in this pot, about 1 or 2 inches' level... 08:46 Probably a little bit closer to 1-1/2 or so; 08:50 at least over an inch because you don't want 08:52 the pot to run dry while you're in the process of steaming 08:55 which will take about a 1/2 an hour. 08:57 What I have done actually... is I've made a little 09:00 improvision here. 09:01 This steaming apparatus for steaming vegetables is a 09:05 little bit low, and I want it a little higher, 09:07 so I took an aluminum pan, punched holes in it, 09:11 and put that upside-down in the bottom of the pot, 09:15 just to give it a little raising there... 09:19 And then I just put this little steamer contraption 09:23 right here, and you can use any type of wire convenience 09:30 ...Just enough to bring the level of the towel ABOVE 09:36 the water level because you want it just 09:38 to be steamed, not boiled. 09:40 Then you put your towel in there on in. 09:42 Yes, then you have your wet towel exactly like you did 09:46 for the microwave; you fold it, you wet it, 09:49 you wring it out, and then you have it just damp... 09:53 and you lay it right in here. 09:56 You can put anywhere from 1 to 3, 10:00 and often, I will put 3 in this canning kettle. 10:04 Then I will put it on the heat whether it's a wood stove, 10:08 or electric stove, it doesn't matter. 10:10 Within 30 minutes, usually, the steam will come up 10:14 and heat the towel. 10:16 Now, how do I get the towel from there to your chest? 10:20 That's a good question! 10:22 Well, you are going to demonstrate that today. 10:25 I aim to please... the doctor is in and so is the patient! 10:28 So my rib hurts though, so be easy on me. That's right! 10:32 And what we're going to do, because I don't have a 10:34 wool blanket here, often I put the hot towel within a 10:37 wool blanket to kind of regulate the heat a bit... 10:40 But since I don't have that, I am going to just triple 10:44 the layers here, and I'm going to put this dry towel 10:46 right over the area where I want to put this hot towel. 10:50 I would be laying down normally... 10:52 Normally, you'd be lying down, and you might even have 10:55 your feet in hot water to kind of even increase the 10:59 effectiveness of the treatment, 11:00 but you don't even have to do that. 11:02 Now, you can use the tongs, or you can use an oven mitt. 11:06 But since I don't have either one, I'm just going to 11:10 use a little pair of spoons here to lift this out 11:19 because it's quite hot. 11:22 I may lay it actually out on a table, 11:25 which I'm just going to pretend my lap is... 11:27 And I will lay it at one end, and actually roll it out 11:32 very quickly, and then very quickly, I would usually just 11:38 wrap this in a little wool blanket... 11:40 Since I don't have that, it's going to go right on there. 11:43 Okay, and I wouldn't really normally touch it, 11:45 but I'm going to today. 11:46 And, in order to keep it from losing much more heat, 11:51 I'm going to put a dry one right on top, 11:53 so it's like the hot filling of a sandwich again... 11:56 All right... there you go! How long is that good for? 11:59 Now, you're going to start to feel better quite soon. 12:03 It's going to relax the muscles, and it's going to kind of 12:06 bring the blood to the surface to decongest that area, 12:10 and we are going to leave that on for anywhere from 12:13 5 to 7 minutes. 12:15 Okay, so then what does it do? 12:19 It helps to decongest that area under which there is 12:25 an injury or an infection. 12:27 It brings blood to the area? 12:28 Yes, it brings blood to the surface area which 12:31 helps will decongest that area underneath there 12:33 where it helps to move the blood. 12:35 Again, it's causing a movement of our circulatory system 12:39 which takes away waste, and 12:41 brings in nutrients, and white blood cells. 12:43 How many times do you do this then? 12:44 We will leave that on... and another thing we will do 12:48 often which we won't demonstrate here with you since you were 12:51 bundled up once before with one of our treatments... 12:53 But we would normally have your feet in, say, a hot foot bath, 12:57 and we would cover you with a sheet, or a blanket so that 13:00 you could sweat in there, and that's another way to... 13:03 How do we close this off? 13:04 Well, now that it's getting comfortable, 13:06 we'll take it off. The whole thing? 13:08 We'll take the whole thing off. 13:09 We'll take this off, and then what we usually have 13:13 is a pan of cold water nearby. 13:18 We always seem to have to get that cold in-there don't we? Yes 13:21 And we'll pretend we have this pan of cold water, 13:23 and this is COLD, and often what we'll do 13:26 We'll take it, and make kind of a little mitt, 13:29 and we'll just lightly rub that area very briskly, 13:33 but gently because it's a little bit sore. It hurts! 13:36 And, we'll do that about a 1/2 a minute to a minute, 13:39 and then we will dry it off with another towel. 13:43 Just dry it off so that it's nice and dry here... 13:48 And now, we're ready for the second towel, 13:50 so we will again put this up here, the dry towel, 13:55 and this time, we may want to put this one back in to steam 14:00 if we need to, or we'll pick out another one, 14:03 and repeat that process for a total of about 4 to 5 changes. 14:08 ...4 to 5 changes, and then several times that day? 14:12 It can be done anywhere from 1 to 4 times a day, 14:15 and it can be continued until pain relief and healing 14:19 have begun there. 14:21 We're talking with Dr. Mary Ann McNeilus 14:24 and she's telling us that sometimes the simplest ways of 14:28 addressing issues are really the best and most effective. 14:31 When we come back, we'll learn more. 14:32 We hope that you join us! 14:36 Have you found yourself wishing that you could shed a few pounds 14:39 Have you been on a diet for most of your life... 14:41 but not found anything that will really keep the weight off? 14:44 If you've answered "yes" to any of these questions, 14:47 then we have a solution for you that works. 14:50 Dr. Hans Diehl and Dr. Aileen Ludington 14:53 have written a marvelous booklet called... 14:55 "Reversing Obesity Naturally" 14:57 and we'd like to send it to you FREE of charge. 15:00 Here's a medically sound approach successfully used 15:03 by thousands who are able to eat more, 15:05 and lose weight permanently without feeling guilty or hungry 15:09 through lifestyle medicine. 15:11 Dr. Diehl and Dr. Ludington have been featured on 3ABN 15:14 and in this booklet, they present a sensible approach 15:17 to eating, nutrition, and lifestyle changes 15:19 that can help you prevent heart disease, diabetes 15:22 and even cancer. 15:23 Call or write today for your free copy of 15:26 "Reversing Obesity Naturally" 15:27 and you could be on your way to a healthier, happier YOU! 15:31 It's absolutely FREE of charge, so call or write today! 15:37 Welcome back! 15:38 If you've just joined us, we've been talking about 15:39 the pharmacy in your kitchen, 15:41 and our pharmacy specialist is Dr. Mary Ann McNeilus 15:46 Looks like we actually are right now into the refrigerator 15:50 area, or right into the kitchen, and it looks like you have 15:52 what is this... a potato, an onion, some cabbage, 15:55 and various tools to lay those things away, if we need to. 15:59 What are these for? 16:00 What are we going to be doing now? 16:01 We're going to demonstrate some poultices that can be applied 16:05 to injured, or inflamed parts of our body that can be 16:11 very effective in the healing process. 16:13 So potato, is that what you're going to talk about first? 16:18 Let's look at the potato, and I've got my sleeves rolled up 16:20 here and my kitchen counter right on my lap! 16:23 All right great! 16:25 And we are going to look at the raw potato! 16:28 Potato poultices are used RAW and they can be used 16:34 just about anywhere for any condition. 16:37 They can be used for eye infections... 16:40 for red eye, inflamed eyes. 16:43 They can be used for burns, or injuries, or infected areas. 16:52 Pretty much the same places you can use charcoal. 16:56 So you just grate them up fine like this... Yes 16:58 The potato must be used raw, and it can simply be grated. 17:02 All right... you grate that. Can you make it bigger than that 17:07 Can you use that other bigger 17:09 section to grate them even larger? 17:10 Well this will certainly take quite a while... wouldn't it? 17:13 Let's see here; let's just for the sake of our... 17:16 But normally you'd do it small like that. 17:18 Smaller is probably better. 17:20 It will get more mushy, and juicy which is kind of 17:23 what you're looking for. 17:24 But mashed potatoes doesn't work. 17:26 No, hot mashed potatoes aren't quite what we're looking for 17:29 in this case. Okay 17:33 All right, so you grate that all up, and what are the 17:35 healing properties in a potato? 17:39 Well, you know, it seems like potato has a lot of 17:45 minerals such as potassium. 17:49 Other things that the Lord seems to have put into it 17:52 that we are actually just discovering 17:57 certainly have healing properties. 18:00 It seems like the mineral combinations 18:02 of magnesium, potassium things like that do have 18:05 properties that are able to promote healing process. 18:10 And, so what I want to do is show you how 18:14 I make a simple poultice... 18:16 I've gotten the raw potato... 18:18 Okay great... those look ready to go. 18:22 And this is a small poultice. 18:25 This can be, for example, for an eye infection... 18:27 So let's just make this a little bit smaller here. 18:31 I hope that the Food and Drug Administration is not watching. 18:33 They'll probably find some way to market this and sell it! 18:35 Well I tell you, that's one reason these ways 18:39 don't have a lot of market value because it's hard to 18:41 improve on God... isn't it, on some of these things! 18:46 So we put the little shavings of the potato inside a 18:49 piece of paper, or loose-fitting cloth, or a cheesecloth, 18:52 and then you can apply it to the infected body part. 18:55 Let's say it's my hand... Sure, we'll put it right there 18:58 or it can be a red eye, infected eye. 19:01 Best for eyes, huh? It's excellent for eyes! 19:03 And, my husband had a sore eye one day, not long ago 19:10 and we did a hot and cold contrast to his eye 19:13 and put the raw potato poultice right over 19:18 his eye; closed his eye, right over the eyelid over the eye. 19:22 He rested for about 30 minutes, and that was the end of 19:26 his inflamed red eye. Is that right? 19:28 Now, is this antiviral as well? 19:30 Well that's a good question. 19:31 It does seem to have properties that do help with burns 19:34 or infected areas as well. 19:36 It does seem to normalize some of those tissues, 19:40 and so there are things in the potato well that seem to 19:45 draw out or absorb in this case substances that are 19:52 toxic, and to promote healing of the tissues underneath it. 19:57 So you do a contrast bath, and then you can put this 19:59 poultice on... How long do you keep it on? 20:02 Similarly to a charcoal poultice 20:05 for several hours, or overnight. 20:07 All right, so then can you do the same thing with an onion? 20:11 Oh, we're going next to the cabbage maybe... 20:13 Well, let's take a look at a cabbage. 20:15 Cabbage is excellent for bruised edematous tissues. 20:21 For example, if you have turned your ankle, 20:24 sprained an ankle, or have fallen and have a severe bruise 20:29 that's very painful and swollen. 20:31 It is also good for breastfeeding mothers 20:38 who have, maybe, what we call a mastitis or inflammation 20:41 or congestion of the breast tissue. 20:44 And, this type of treatment is excellent for that. 20:50 And how you do the cabbage is simply... 20:53 You can chop it up, or cut it up a bit, and then 20:58 take pieces of wax paper, or we can simply use the 21:04 plastic like we did here, and put it between the 21:08 cut-up pieces between the plastic, 21:10 and then just roll it with a rolling pin. 21:13 Or, blend it a bit in a food processor, whatever you have... 21:17 Or, mash it up a bit until it's kind of bruised and juicy 21:22 and moist. 21:24 And then it does its magic. It does! 21:26 And you simply can put it in a loose-fitting cloth 21:28 or paper towel... the same as you did the potato. 21:30 Again, the raw cabbage is best used in this situation. 21:34 I can't wait to try it... you don't want to get sick, 21:37 but I'm almost looking forward to trying some of these things! 21:40 They are a lot of fun; I've had a chance to try this too. 21:42 This is the onion which has a lot of good properties, 21:45 and I'll share a few of these with you. 21:47 First of all, we're going to get out the Kleenex here 21:49 for our eyes, because I am going to cut this onion, 21:52 and I'm not sure how hot it is. 21:53 I just purchased it this morning. 21:56 Now, the onion has a lot of excellent properties as well. 22:01 There was, a while back, croup and whooping cough went through 22:07 our Amish community, and a lot of children were whooping, 22:10 and there are different times in the springtime when viral 22:14 croup syndrome comes around, and we have even small babies 22:18 and toddlers coughing, and carrying on... 22:22 And what can we do for them? 22:24 And certainly one of the fine things that can be done 22:29 for them is to cut up, or grate up onion the same way 22:35 we grated the raw potato. 22:37 With our little grater here, we can grate it, or mash it up 22:40 and I will just pretend that I did that. 22:42 And then we will place our grated onion again 22:47 in a loosely woven cloth or a paper towel, 22:51 and then we can put it either on the chest, 22:55 or sometimes even for earaches, it can be put to the ear. 23:01 It has good properties in it. 23:03 Is it a vasodilator? 23:04 Well, it tends to have properties in it that tend to 23:09 be more of a relaxant, and so that in cases 23:17 where there is swelling and edema from a viral croup, 23:19 or from asthma, it tends to relax those smooth muscles. 23:22 It does also have some antibacterial properties 23:26 that are similar to antibiotic properties and can be used 23:34 for boils or abscesses as well. 23:37 But one that I really like to use it for is for 23:39 croup in small babies. 23:41 And I will often just take the grated up onion, 23:49 and will just simply put it right next to the bare skin 23:53 on the chest, and then just take a piece of plastic 23:57 to cover that because, of course, the onion is 24:00 good and juicy, mushy there. 24:02 Doesn't make the baby cry, does it? 24:04 Surprisingly, it doesn't seem to that much. 24:07 Babies do a little bit better. 24:09 And then we can take a towel or some type of 24:11 a heavier cloth, and cover that, and pin it securely 24:15 in place, so that it can stay on the baby's chest, 24:18 and often that will be... How long? 24:21 For several hours, or overnight. 24:23 Have you used any of these things in the mission field? 24:25 Have you ever used a poultice or different things 24:27 in the mission field? 24:28 Yes, I have had opportunity on numerous occasions, 24:32 but I would like to share with you one particular 24:34 story that stands out in my mind. 24:37 One day, a poor Cambodian widow lady brought her 24:41 12 to 13-year-old boy to me with what appeared 24:46 to be quite a serious condition. 24:48 He had been sick for several days. 24:50 In fact, he had not been able to keep his food down 24:53 well for several days. 24:55 And by the time she brought him to me, 24:57 his left eye was SO swollen that it was actually 25:03 pushing out of the orbit of the socket of the eye. 25:06 His eye was so affected that he couldn't even keep food down. 25:09 That's right, and he was nauseated. 25:13 He was vomiting from some irritation in the brain. 25:20 And, by the time I saw him, his eye was actually protruding 25:24 a bit out of the eye socket, and pointing downward... 25:27 And, he could not see. 25:30 When I asked him if he could count my fingers, 25:32 he could not see a thing. 25:33 I asked him where he hurt, and he pointed to the ENTIRE 25:38 left side of his head. 25:40 I realized his illness was, indeed, a serious situation... 25:46 that the inflammation could have well already traveled down the 25:51 optic nerve and this illness can cause a brain abscess, 25:56 or meningitis. 25:58 And yet the poor mother had no money. 26:01 The hospitals were very marginally supplied at that 26:04 time, and I said to her, "Do you want to see what God 26:08 can do with His simple things?" And she said, "YES" 26:11 That was my clue to work with him, 26:15 and with a prayer in my heart, I put his feet 26:19 in a hot foot bath. 26:20 I put hot and cold towels to the entire left side of his head... 26:26 for about 3 to 5 changes, hot and cold, 26:30 and then I put a LARGE charcoal poultice covering the left eye 26:35 and the entire left side of his head. 26:39 After we put this on, he was able to rest for the evening. 26:44 Several hours after he had rested, he woke up 26:47 actually feeling better, was able to eat an orange, 26:50 and actually keep it down. 26:52 The next morning when I checked his eyesight, 26:56 I found that he could actually count my fingers; 27:00 not well, but he could see enough to count fingers. 27:04 At that point, I let him go home with his mother 27:07 under the direction of one of our lay pastors who was 27:11 well-trained in natural remedies. 27:14 The mother continued the hot and cold water treatments, 27:18 and the charcoal poultices for another 2 weeks. 27:20 At the end of 2 weeks, I received a welcome letter... 27:23 that the young man was now pain-free, 27:26 and could now see well. 27:27 And this is a picture of him. Yes 27:30 That is just incredible. 27:32 That was really a miracle wasn't it? It truly was. 27:34 Well, it also was you stepping out in faith, 27:37 and using God's healing way, 27:41 you know, cautiously, and yet courageously. 27:44 We hope that as a result of today's program 27:47 you'll learn and have confidence to use 27:49 God's healing way. 27:51 And if you would like more information about the book, 27:53 get in touch with 3ABN. 27:55 Thanks for joining us! We hope you have health 27:56 that lasts for a lifetime! |
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