Home Remedies - Barbara O'Neill

welcome to the natural remedies seminar in our natural remedies seminar we're going to be looking at poultices and compresses and the first one we're going to look at is castor oil compresses it's not a poultice it's a compress castor oil penetrates deeper than any other oil and wherever it penetrates it can break up lumps bumps adhesions so great for cysts in the breast for breast cancer great for irritable bowel great for constipation it's it's very good at breaking up stones in the gallbladder kidney stones bone spurs if the bone speeds but if the bone spur has been there three years it might take three months if the bone spurs been there three months it might take three weeks little by little the body heals so be patient so i'm going to make a a compress it's like a little pack the thicker the pack the more castor oil it can hold and the more castor oil can go into you now what i've done is i've cut off i've cut up an incontinence pad i've cut it up and i've opened it up and i've put a few layers of cloth in there to make it thicker and what i'm going to do is put masking tape on the edge so the beauty of this is the plastic isn't really touching you so the only thing that's touching you is the paper topping and it's got that cloth insert and the plastics on the back and the plastic is really just to protect your clothes and stop oil going everywhere which you don't want so you well i'm just going to seal those edges and then i'm going to put the castor oil on now the reason why i'm doing this first so there we have our little pack now to secure that i just staple the edges i used to stitch it with a little cotton and thread and my staff came up with this great idea of stapling it and it takes about a sixteenth of the time and it it holds it quite nicely and i'm doing it now because it's going to take a little while to soak in and what i do is i basically do the middle third because as it soaks in it'll spread out a little bit further i can't hold that up now but probably in about 15 minutes i will be able to hold it up you see it's such a thick oil it just sits on top so you've got to give it time to soak through i haven't covered it because then there's no leeway for the excess oil to go and also when it goes on your hot body the oil will thin and spread out a little bit more so you want to give a little bit of room for for spreading this compress can be used maybe every day for a month and then you might make another one because it's not drawing anything out of you it's just a vehicle to hold the oil so it can go into you and this size i've made here that's a great size for chest congested chest that's a great size for abdomen and that could be cysts on the ovaries it could be fibroids in the uterus it could be constipation it could be irritable bowel so that's a nice size for those areas how long would it take well it depends how big it is and it depends how long it has been there consistency is the key the second thing i'm going to look at is the humble onion now the onion can be used cooked or it can be used raw to use it cooked we'll look at cooked first and this is the first poultice that i ever did my first daughter i must have been i was 23 when she was born so i think i was probably about 25 when she got an earache and i was trained as a nurse even though i was a bit of a hippie and starting to grow my own veggies and all that sort of stuff i did not i didn't know what to do about an earache and everyone said to me don't play with the ears she could go deaf so it was really out of fear and lack of knowledge i went to the doctor he wrote her a script of antibiotics i gave her the antibiotics i didn't know what else to do within 24 hours the earache had eased when she'd finished the antibiotics the earache came back i did not know what to do six weeks later and four courses of antibiotics later the earache comes back but i still don't know what to do so when i went to the doctor i said well my daughter be on antibiotics for the rest of her life which i'm beginning to come to this conclusion he was challenged by my question so he sent me to a near nose and throat specialist who looked in emma's mouth then her ears and he said she's teething give her these drops to keep the eustachian tubes clear and that was it so let's fast forward two years later next child is 18 months and gets an earache i do not go to the doctor and i don't tell anyone i have to do something though so i went to the lady that lives next door so i was what 26 or 27 by now she's 85. i said what did your mother do when you were a little girl and you had an earache she said mum would steam up an onion on the stove so i went home i steamed the onion up on the stove and then i cut it in half under her directions so that what you're looking at is the rings so you keep the skin on and it keeps everything in place and i wrapped the onion up in a cloth a few layers and the few layers of cloth will help to keep it warm but also just to shield the direct heat from being too hot i tested it on my arm and i put it on his ear i covered it with a piece of plastic and what that does is that just insulates it and then i he was just a little boy i i was breastfeeding him and i could i could put the onion between his ear and my arm and i could feel the heat and when he slept i laid him down on the bed but i laid him down on a towel that had been folded up about eight times because i knew that that would keep it warm you can keep it on for as long as you can keep it warm what did they do before plastic they used a wool square so you can certainly use a wool square i make a lot of my enclosed and in the winter i make a lot of woolly skirts so i have squares and you can also put a woolen square just this side of the plastic so that the plastic doesn't even touch you but it is stopping the moisture going through and insulating it and keeping it warm james slept for two hours when he woke up he was happy i watched him all day and the next day and the next day that was it just compare my experience two hours sleep with onion on his ear and then my last experience with my first daughter six weeks and four courses of antibiotics no wonder i went into natural remedies i was excited at the prospect so i went down to the news agent and i bought a book that had a b c d e f g in it and i started my natural remedy book and under e i put onion compress i have since learned that you can steam it and squeeze it and if you squeeze it you'll get a few drops of juice out this is when it's hot and it'll be boiling hot but when the hot juice hits the spoon it'll go a nice temperature and you can put that in the ear you can even use you know one of these little soak it up and squirt it straight in the air the other place that you can use a cooked onion is for a boil a lady told me about this she had a boil on her back and she told her friend and she said we need to cook cook up an onion see an onion is a drawer and she put the onion straight onto the boil obviously she waited till it wasn't going to burn her but it was still quite hot and then she put that plastic square over again if you don't want plastic on the skin and i can understand that you can put a wool there because wool will insulate and then she taped it on and she left it there for 24 hours and when she took it off everything came out she said she's never had a boil resolve so quickly so what the heat does it draws it to a head and the onion's drawing it to her head and then it all comes out she was very impressed so the cooked onion can be used on an earache and the cooked onion can be used for a boil once you've used the onion you must discard it because it does draw poisons into it so it needs to be thrown out now we're going to look at the raw onion there's a couple of places you can use the raw onion and one is for a sore throat now if you want to tell a friend about this because maybe they've got a sore throat they can go to youtube and google barbara o'neill and there is a onion natural remedies lecture there poultices so for the sore throat you finely slice the onion into a few into a few slices and what we do is we if the sheets get old you just tear up the sheets and then you put this sliced onion on the on the cloth and you fold the cloth over and then fold it back over and then that will go around the throat like that and then you can wrap a scarf around it nice woolly scarf and you can go to sleep with that and it'll bring relief to the to the sore throat i think we all know that when you cut up an onion you're likely to cry is that right so that's that's a clear indication that that onion juice is very good at breaking up mucus on the chest in the throat in the head and what i'm going to do now might surprise you i'm going to put the onion on the bottom of the feet so why do we put the onion on the bottom of the feet we put the onion on the bottom of the feet because the bottom of the feet or the feet i should say are a reflex um for the chest and we're going to put the onion on the bottom of the feet for if someone has a bad cough in the night and i'm going to use a plastic bag now misty mountain we buy boxes of starch bags so they're made out of starch and that that would be the best now if you don't have starch bags you can certainly um use a cloth so you might use a cloth put the put the onion like that and put it in the bag and then what you do is you put your foot on the on the onion like that and then you twist it around and put a sock on so the bottom of the feet is touching the onion and then you put a sock on and holds it in place now my grandson he was three at the time i was visiting my daughter and he had a bad cough and she gave him a hot bath which always eases the cough and put him to bed and he was coughing and coughing and coughing and coughing and we thought he'll be asleep in a minute but he kept coughing and coughing so after half an hour i said to em let's do the onion so we got him up we chopped up an onion and put half the onion chopped up on one foot and half on the other foot and put him to bed not one more cough it's all it's almost unbelievable you almost have to do it to believe how incredible it is not one more cough for the whole night with the onion on the bottom of his feet so that's great for a night cough now i'm going to show you how to make an onion cough mixture and the onion cough mixture is a very simple simple thing to do you chop up the onion and then you layer it in a jar with honey so we're going to chop it up small of course the smaller the better because the larger surface area you'll have so i've got a jar here so i'm going to put about half an inch in the jar and then you drizzle drizzle honey probably about a teaspoon and then another layer of onion again half an inch and then another drizzle oops that was a bit heavy-handed doesn't matter then another layer of onion and another drizzle of honey and a final layer of onion so if you had a house full of people that had a bad cold or a bad cough you might chop up an another onion and fill your jar and then we finish with more onion i'm doing this early in our demonstration because by the end of the night the syrup will have formed you see if i put the jar on the side all you see is that thick gooey honey and onion by the end of our demo you will see a clear runny fluid forming and that's the cough syrup after 24 hours you strain the onion out and you're left with your cough syrup and you keep it in the fridge how long can you keep it for well a german lady told me that she'd had hers in the fridge for eight years because honey doesn't go off does it so once you take the onion out it will it will keep indefinitely so for a for a little child maybe one under one you might do a quarter of a teaspoon for a two-year-old you might do half a teaspoon say three times a day for a child from about 10 above you might do a teaspoon three times a day so if a child's got a cold or a cough or a bronchitis any respiratory asthma so you give them the teaspoon three times a day and put them to bed with the onion on the bottom of their feet and everyone will sleep soundly that night so that's the raw onion now we're going to have a look at a relative to the onion which is the garlic i was reading i was reading one research paper that said garlic is six times more potent than tetracycline now tetracycline is a is a antibiotic to have it as potent as an antibiotic or to play a role as an antibiotic you must have three raw cloves a day so an adult will have three raw cloves like that for a child you might halve the dose now in your books there's a recipe for the flu bomb and the flu bomb has six ingredients this is how i remember it i remember it by twos garlic and ginger garlic as much as you dare ginger probably about a quarter of a teaspoon finely chopped and the garlic you finely grate i was going to say this is a great grater that sounds like a pun doesn't it but i love graters like this and when i'm cooking i just grate straight into my pot and i'm going to use it in a minute and you can even travel with that little grater so you see it's quite fine so you'd finally finely grate the ginger and and the garlic into a cup so there's your first two ingredients the next two ingredients are one drop of eucalyptus oil if you haven't got eucalyptus oil you could use [Music] tea tree oil one lady said barbara it says on the bottle you must not consume it and i said well i'm not asking you to drink half a bottle we've got some common sense haven't we no it's not very common today i realize that so one drop it's an age-old remedy people have been using it for centuries on well australia's the land of the eucalypt and one 80-year-old lady told me this 40 years ago she said when when one child had a cold in their house the mother would put a few grains of sugar on a teaspoon and a drop of car sorry eucalyptus oil and they all had to have a dose and you know it's been used for centuries the reason why they say you must not take it is 40 years ago a little boy in tasmania you've heard of tasmania that little island at the bottom of australia he drank a few mouthfuls of eucalyptus all and went into a coma so they banned it now there was such an uproar about it that they legalized it again but if you buy eucalyptus oil in australia it's got poison on the bottle do not take and it's because of that how many young men have died from drinking a bottle of scotch at a party on a saturday night has the alcohol been banned yet no it doesn't make much sense does it so we're looking at the six ingredients so we've got garlic and ginger one drop of eucalyptus oil and cayenne pepper as much as you dare some can handle a sprinkle some can handle half a teaspoon occasionally some pet can handle one teaspoon we'll be talking about cayenne pepper in a minute so there's four ingredients the last two ingredients are the juice of a lemon and the teaspoon of honey so it's a really expanded lemon and honey drink that many people have taken for coals and then you add about half a cup of water so if you feel a coal coming on flu any respiratory of course what's all the go at the moment is covered you take a flu bomb three times a day and it'll be gone in three days of course at the same time you've got to exercise and drink all your water and eat very lightly so that's the flu bomb another way some people take it is they'll have a bowl of hot soup and they'll just grate the garlic straight into the soup and you can certainly do that but you've just got to have that clove three times a day to take the place of antibiotic even even though they say it's equal to antibiotic it's also antiviral it's also anti-fungal it's also anti-yeast so it's a remarkable a remarkable uh we'll call it a herb what about a little baby how do you put it on a little baby when you finely slice a couple of slices and then you bind it to the bottom of their feet so this can be done for a little one and i'm going to do it with a piece of paper towel which you certainly can do it with and you you cut a strip so what i used to do with it was a piece of cloth but you certainly can use a some paper towel and you'll see why excuse me that's important so i'm putting two slices of garlic there and then i'm folding it over and then that is wrapped onto the bottom of the baby's foot like so so can you see what i've done here the garlic does not touch the skin if the garlic touches the skin it will cause a blister now it won't really hurt the babies just then you'll have a blister and you won't be able to apply the garlic till the blister heals but if you put a piece of cloth or paper between the skin and the slices it will not blister i used to then put a sock on or a little booty my son james was having a lot of chest problems so i often did this to him and he was three and i'd put his sock and his shoe on and he'd off he'd go outside to play and every foot he takes he's treading on the garlic and so the slices allow the garlic to be taken up little by little it takes one minute for one drop of blood to go right around the whole body and within a few minutes you could smell the garlic on james breath so that's how you can do it to a little one to a baby is on the soles of the feet but remember you don't put it straight on the feet onion you can but not the garlic the onion when you put the foot the foot goes straight rest straight onto the to the slices of um or the chopped up onion but not the garlic now our castor oil has soaked through you see that yeah so that's ready to to apply and you can also make it early and even fold that over and put it in the put it in a little bag and keep it for a later date now when you are using the castor oil probably about every two days you might find it drying a little and then you'll add a little bit more castor oil so you might find if you're using it for the month you'll you'll apply the castor oil every couple of days so i'll tell you an incidence that i had with recently with the castor oil i have to give you a little bit of background when i lived in the rainforest for many years whenever we drive through the creek to go out of the property we'd lose our breaks so i got used to driving with my clutch so i'd slow down using my clutch meanwhile i'd be pumping my brakes because sometimes it would take half an hour before i had proper brakes again i just got used to driving like that so let's fast forward to where are we 25 years later and we mostly have automatic cars but my husband recently brought a car that was gears and when i started driving it you know the pathways we have in our brain we're going to look at this on saturday morning i just flipped back into my old way of round the corner i'd use gears and when i was slowing down i'd use my gears so my left leg is using it's getting a lot of use especially because this this was a four wheel drive it was sort of a and i'm just a little lady so i had you know took a lot of strength after two weeks my leg began to hurt from my knee down and i thought well i've just overdone it and i've just overdone it and my leg is not used to it so i went over to the automatic car again a month later my leg is still sore now when it's still sore you've got to put your detective hat on and go a little bit further so i saw my son who is trained in remedial massage and he's he's fairly brutal is my son he just tells me to breathe it hurt and he said mum you've had an old injury on this leg and i had and i remember 10 years ago i was walking down steps and i was talking as i was walking and i tripped and the point of the step my shin went straight on it it hurt i put a poultice on it for a few days and then that was enough and i was fine but i always had a little bit of a dent there so i must have maybe dented the bone or something i don't know never gave me a moment's trouble after that and he picked up that an old injury can you see we've got a few threads coming together an old injury overdoing the leg and now i'm in pain and he said this has got a lot of scar tissue there which i'd you know i'd never had pain there and peter was brutal and i decided to choose a gentler way to break up the scar tissue so i made a castor oil compress i probably made it half that size and i bound it onto my leg my shin area down near my ankle and i walked 24 7. i wore it to bed i wore it through the day i just wore it wore it wore it i think i wore it for a month after a week i went and let peter do another session on me and i'd forgotten how much it hurt i didn't see him again but the point of my story is i wore it 24 7 for a month and i noticed no pain i have absolutely no pain there now but it obviously penetrated deep it broke up that scar tissue but i had to be diligent i had to be very diligent with it i decided to use the gentler approach over peter's manual breaking up with his thumbs of this scar tissue point is you've got to keep at it one or two applications really won't do much you've got to do it again and again and again and again so yes i i drive an automatic car now now we're going to have a look at ginger ginger can be used internally and ginger can be used externally internally it's an anti-inflammatory but it's probably mostly known for its anti-nausea effect if you buy car sickness or sea sickness tablets it's compressed ginger now the easiest way i think to have this is to grate it so you grate it on that little grater and you'll grate about a teaspoon and you put it in a little teapot and pour boiling water on it and let it sit probably 10 minutes now that might be too strong for you but i love it i love it like that if it's too strong you just water it down a little bit if someone's very cold maybe they've been caught out in the cold or something and it's very hard to warm them up give them a cup of hot ginger tea and it will warm them up very nicely so it can be used for nausea it can be used to warm a person if they're chilled or cold and you saw too it is one of the recipes in the flue bomb i was at a function was a health seminar and in the break everyone went and had their herb teas and there was a girl with a tiny little grater grating ginger and i said ah ginger she said i'm an entertainer i'm a singer she said i was in greece last year and i lost my voice and a little a little greek lady made me a hot ginger tea she said i sung that night so i said she said i travel with my little grater everywhere i go so very nice on a sore throat or horse throat now we're going to look at what you can do with ginger externally so i always take a plate and i always take the plastic square again you can use a wool square next to that but you still need that plastic backing so that it doesn't wet all your clothes and also so it insulates and then we put a cloth over it and it's usually around this size and then i grate straight onto it so why would i use a ginger poultice i would use a ginger poultice for an inflamed joint so the easiest way to remember this is ginger is for joints so that would be gout it would be arthritis also a sore back an inflamed back now when someone's got an inflamed back they usually put a hot water bottle on it is that right but if the back is hurting because of inflammation the the uh where's my knife here the hot water bottle will relax and you know the reason why the hot water bottle relaxes is because when we're in pain the muscles around that area tighten and cramp basically they go out in sympathy with the pain and you put a hot water bottle on that and it relaxes those cramping muscles so you do get some relief but it does not help the inflammation it can even make it worse but ginger if you apply a ginger poultice anywhere where there's inflammation the ginger pulls the inflammation out of the joint to the skin and the skin gets really hot so if you apply this to the lower back the heat relaxes the muscles and yet the ginger is reducing the inflammation so you do about that much and then how you make the poultice is you put the left side over and the right side over and the bottom comes up and the top goes down so you can see i've made like a little package there and then i turn that over and the part that's touching the skin is where you've just got one layer and the beauty of this little package also is that you've got a few layers behind so that if it is quite wet it will help to to soak up any drips and then you will apply that to the area now let's say that i have an inflamed joint then you would apply it to the area there but you can see even with the plastic on that not much is touching the skin it's only the very edges and then you bandage that on now if someone has an inflamed joint say a wrist or an ankle or a knee or toes we apply the ginger poultice or even in a sore back we apply the ginger poultice maybe about six o'clock in the evening and within half an hour if there's inflammation in there the skin gets very hot and then the person has the choice when they're going to bed is that heat all right because if it's too hot they can just take it off but if it feels good to them they can go to sleep if you put it on just before bed and the skin gets really hot it could could wake up and cause discomfort but when people have gout or arthritis the heat is usually very very nice and again for a sore lower back it's very nice because again it pulls the inflammation out of the joint and the heat relaxes those muscles that tend to cramp whenever there's pain so i'll tell you the story of a lady who saw my lecture on youtube she emailed me the story and she put the ginger poultice on her sore knee she was so excited it reduced the pain by 50 percent the skin did get hot you see all the inflammations being drawn out so the next morning she made another one and then she made another one for overnight and when she woke up in the morning the skin was all swollen and blistered she said what have i done i said you've overdone it you've just overdone it you've just pulled too much inflammation out and it's irritated the skin so if you do have an inflamed joint anywhere just do it maybe for four hours in the afternoon or even overnight but just don't do it non-stop because again you can inflame the skin not a problem because you just have to leave the skin maybe put a castor oil compress on that knee until it settles right down one lady said my skin's burning and i said actually it won't burn but but but what's the joint like and she said oh actually it's good we had one lady and she said i've got this swollen finger the joint was swollen twice the size she said this has been paining me for two years so he made a tiny little ginger poultice put it over put a little bit of plastic over it to insulate and then taped it on and this is called a paper tape this is a really soft paint tape on the skin in the morning she was so excited that the joint had gone right down and she could move her finger that was just one night sometimes it takes more than one night but that ginger is excellent for joints so remember gout arthritis you can do it one one man said his big toe he put it on his big toe and all the pain went out and then the next toe was painful so he put the put it on there then the next night it was okay to go on to the next one he said it was jumping toes i said did it go to the next foot he said no so again you're just listening to the body now this poultice once it's used because it's vegetable matter has to be discarded but you could make it in the afternoon and fold it over like that and use it that night now we're going to make a potato poultice now i just told you that the ginger is for joint where the potato is for tissue the potato is very very gentle potato can be used on sore eyes conjunctivitis so again we're going to put our plastic down and put our square down and use potato so potato is used for tissue inflammation so swollen eye sore eyes red eyes it can be used for ingrown toenails it can be used for a a splinter that you couldn't get out so tissue inflammation sprained ankle very good on sprained ankle so the lady that had the swollen knee because she did too many ginger poultices i said do i put a potato on potato is very cooling so it's great for all tissue inflammation the potato is also a drawer so again you you spread that out my girlfriend rang me one day when this is years ago when she had babies and so did i and i could hear her little boy just crying and crying i said what's the matter with louie she said i don't know what's happened but his little penis is twice the size he was 10 months old what are you going to do and if you go to hospital what are they going to do i said quickly make up a potato poultice any tissue swelling the potato poultice so she made up a poultice maybe about that size see it's very cooling and she laid it on the area she put his nappy you call it a diaper and the little fella within five minutes it must have really soothed it he fell asleep you see that that just soothes any tissue that's swollen she said he slept for two hours what does that tell you he's not in pain anymore she said when he woke up he was happy she quickly changed his nappy or diaper and everything was back to normal now sometimes you don't know what it is just if in doubt just use that grated potato so what would it have been well her little little boy was crawling round the floor of their hippie home you don't know whether he got a little bit of dirt in there or whether there was a bite sometimes you don't know and you're not going to play around with that area so can you see with the ginger you would never put the ginger on tender areas but the potato is very soothing and cooling you would do that i'll tell you the most remarkable story i've had with the with the potato when i lived in the rainforest there was a guy who lived on our property at the end of our end of our paddock you call it a field in a caravan he was a real hippie and he was sickling the grass you know what a sickle is with bare feet so what's going to happen next the sickle went into the back of his ankle now i heard about it but i didn't see him for a few days and one other guy said have you seen chris his foot's up like a red balloon and there's a red line going up his leg and he's lying in bed smoking marijuana waiting for nature to heal the body will heal if you give it the right conditions and one of the problems with the marijuana it was dulling the pain but the pain was telling him to do something so i said well we'll bring him up so they brought him up and the first thing i do and vanessa will show you this tomorrow night i got two buckets of water one hot one ice cold and i put his foot straight into the hot water now i had my i had his foot in my hand and i was just watching his face if it was too hot i put a bit of cold in because that first one can be you know hard to take three minutes see after three minutes the blood slows down so then you put it into the ice cold and everything moves up again as vanessa will explain to you while it's in the cold i put a little bit more hot water in the hot and then i say 30 seconds in the cold after 30 seconds things are slowing down so you bring it back into the hot so i did that three times three hearts and three coals his pain had reduced by 50 percent see what what that does is it brings fresh blood into the area which drives all blood out which gets the inflammation down somewhat and then i made a very big grated potato poultice you see he had a wound that had healed on the outside and it had not healed on the inside and tetanus happens in it in an area of a wound that hasn't healed from the inside and sealed on the outside and there's an element of horse organism well we had a horse in the paddock so he was a perfect environment for tetanus so i'll put a big grated potato poultice on his foot and i said come back in two hours he could limp now so just that reaction tells me we're getting results when he came back after two hours i took this off and the wound was oozing and the red line had gone down about four inches now if he was still in pain and the red line hadn't gone down we would take him straight to hospital you know if in doubt but where are now from hospitals so what we could but we could see results and he did not want to go to hospital so um if he didn't want to go to hospital and we could see he was dying we'd take him of course you do so i did hot and colds again and i did another greater potato and i said come back again at six o'clock another few hours and every time he came back that big the line was going down down down and the foot was going down down and the foot was still oozing see this draws and when you took it out you could see the area where it was drawing and then he put the grated potato on we put it on after another hot and cold all night he came over in the morning we did another hot and cold and the red lime was gone and the foot was just about back to normal looked like a dried prune but you don't care about that you just want that to go down he said what will i do now and i said you might be right now i said see how it goes but if it starts to hurt if it starts to throb and if that seals we need to do all that again so i basically left it with him then but it it uh healed you can imagine that could have been a very serious situation so that was quite remarkable i've also seen this draw out splinters you know sometimes you get a splinter in a finger that's just too painful to get out if you put the grated potato on it'll keep that swelling down it'll it will not get or what they call infected and usually after a couple of days you can just get a needle on the tip of it press it and it'll usually just come out i've just seen that happen a few times so the grated potato can be used in all areas of tissue inflammation now we're going to have a look at cayenne pepper cayenne pepper we've got cayenne pepper in this little container here cayenne pepper is a remarkable herb some people say we shouldn't use it because it's a stimulant it is not a stimulant like caffeine or alcohol or marijuana is a stimulant it's a blood stimulant that means it's good because leviticus 17 11 states that the life of the flesh is in the blood so anything that moves blood is going to be helpful there's a book you can get it's um it's by sam biser it's called curing with cain and he shows in that book that you put came with any other herb and it'll intensify that other herb's action it's a blood stimulant it can be used internally and it can be used externally and i think in your book you've it shows how it does three main things internally in the blood it thins the blood it strengthens the arterial walls and it opens the capillaries so let me tell you about an experience i had a few years ago was one of our retreats i got the call lady had a heart attack i was only three minutes away that's why you have to be fit i ran down it was a cooking class with about 16 people and she was lying on the floor she was 80 her husband said she'd already had a few that year and they always called the ambulance but they thought let's see what they do and i said to my my off-cider cane pepper quickly we got the cayenne pepper now there was a guy holding a pulse and he said the pulse is almost gone she was just white so i got i don't know how much i got you just in a hurry so i think i've got about half a teaspoon put it straight in her mouth she was half conscious gave her a little bit of water to drink the guy holding the pulse yelled out the pulse is strong this would have been two minutes and you could feel that pulse come back and all the blood came back to her face she sat up and said what happened everyone around was going whoa and i said no it's not me it's the cayenne pepper so we sold out of cane pepper that program what did the cayenne pepper do it thinned the blood that opened the capillaries and got a dramatic delivery of blood through the whole body remember one minute for one drop of blood to go around your whole body i have read about it but then i actually experienced it so cayenne pepper can also be used to boost hydrochloric acid you take it in internally it'll boost digestion cane pepper can also ease a sore throat remember it's in the flue bomb it might give it initial tingle but then when that tingle settles down it it uh eases it some people take or are told to take aspirin for a blood thinner in fact i have read where it is recommended that anyone over the age of 50 should be on half an aspirin a day you might have heard that well what the research is showing today is that aspirin causes stomach bleeds it's the number one cause of stomach ulcers it causes brain bleeds and eye bleeds that's what the recent research is showing cayenne pepper will not cause that at all but if cayenne pepper is in your blood and it sees a bleed it'll constrict the blood vessels to stop the bleeding yes it dilates the blood vessels when it's in the blood but if it sees a break it'll it'll constrict that beautiful illustration of psalm 104 verse 14 that god gave herbs for the service of man remember they're there to serve you where would you like me what would you like me to do thin that seal that that's the cane pepper in fact it's just about a first aid kit in one is the cayenne pepper and you'll get used to it now you can use it externally i'm going to show you how you can use it externally and i'm going to show you how you can use it for poor circulation in the feet cold feet i find people that allow their feet to be cold eventually their feet are numb and eventually the next step after numb feed is gangrene of the toes you see the blood's the life of the flesh and any part of the body that's cold blood's not going in there so blood's not feeding the area it's not feeding the herbs the nerves you cannot put cold feet into hot water or you'll damage the tissues so what can you do you can make a cane compress to put on the bottom of the feet so to make a cane pepper compress you get some paper towel and you cut it to the size of the foot which would be let's just guess it'll be about this i guess i'm guessing my size foot and you put it on i've doubled over a couple of layers of of cling wrap there and then you put a little olive oil on there not a lot because you don't want to soil your you don't want to soil your sheets so i'm going to put it in this plate to show you how you can put it on lightly so i'm just going to dab it on the reason why i'm putting olive oil there is in a minute i'm going to sprinkle the cayenne on it and this causes the cane to stick to it so it's really just there for the cayenne pepper to stick to it now that's that's about the right amount as i said anymore and it will leak because this compress is worn overnight so you can see i've just got a light sprinkling of of oil there and now i'm going to put the cayenne pepper on that so you put about a half a teaspoon for each foot so that's about half a teaspoon so you can see the way i'm holding it up the cayenne pepper is now sticking to the paper and the foot goes straight onto that and then you put a sock on and leave it on all night if i put that on my foot by four in the morning i'm waking up wanting to rip it off because my feet are so hot but if someone has no feeling in their feet or if someone regularly has cold feet often by morning they're feeling a little tingle so you would probably wear it every second night until your feet get hot so that's a very easy way to warm up feet because feet must be warm so he'd put one on each foot i've even made it and folded it up and left it at one lady's haste that i visited and she had no feeling in her feet peripheral neuropathy that's some that's a side effect of chemotherapy where people lose that feeling in their feet they can bring their feet along alive again with the cane pepper compresses so you could even make a few and fold them over like that so i left them with their lady so that she could use them let's have a look at our oh can you see that so we're already getting a syrup there and you'll be able to taste this in a couple of days remember you leave that 24 hours and then you strain it out last and certainly not least is cayenne pepper no we've done cane pepper it's getting late [Laughter] it's charcoal charcoal does not absorb it adsorbs what does adsorb mean adsorb means that it binds and it binds poisons it particularly binds poisons it binds the poisons to its its millions of little little facets so under a microscope there are all these little facets like this and it adsorbs poisons by binding them to those facets it's been known for a long time nasa filter their water and their air in outer space with charcoal many masks have charcoal in them to to neutralize the poison in hospitals they use charcoal to filter the blood for dialysis and in cases of poisoning anyone who's worked in casualty knows that they give a dose of charcoal because if someone's been poisoned and they take charcoal the charcoal will adsorb and bind that poison to its facets and it's basically safe until it gets out of the body so internally it can be used for any case of poisoning and it can also be used for diarrhea or vomiting many people that go to asia always travel with charcoal tablets because they if they if they get a bit of what's called barley belly or diarrhoea they'll take the charcoal you can also use charcoal on the outside and it can be used for bee stings spider bites snake bites wasp bites it's quite incredible the way once you apply that the sting comes out almost immediately or the pain i should say now it's very messy stuff to work with so i'm going to show you a mess free way to make the poultice and you can make this ahead of time and keep it in the fridge when you mix charcoal with water it's like mixing dirt and water it doesn't mix very well and so we're going to use psyllium you can use slippery elm or you can use ground linseed so we're going to use a teaspoon of psyllium to two teaspoons or this is a probably equal to this spoon is equal to two teaspoons to two so what we've just done two teaspoons of psyllium to four teaspoons of charcoal you always put the lid straight back on the charcoal because you don't want to drop it and you seal it while you mix it so you want to mix that quite nicely and what we're going to do is put water in there and then we're going to let that mix or gel together and we're going to roll it out so it's thin and you've got a thin jellied charcoal charcoal poultice so to that you'd probably do about half a cup of water and you move that around for a while and it'll start to gel now the beauty of this is that you'll roll that out get the air out you'll roll it out so it's it's a strip a thin strip and then you put it in the fridge or you'd put it in the freezer if you're not if you don't think it's going to be used for a while and then if someone has a bee sting or a spider bite or a snake bike then you cut a section cut it round peel the top off and it can be slapped straight on it'll have that plastic topping and you can bandage that on so it's very very easy to do i think every fridge every home every freezer should have have some of these because when you do get a steam it's very very painful this can also be used i'm just going to get the air out it can also be used for a conjunctivitis red eyes painful eyes remember we talked that you could use your potato for that but you could also use this it's starting to gel up a little bit now so i'm just going to get a bit more of the air out so then you just squeeze that up so you can see where it's it's nice and thin now you put that in the fridge or freezer it'll go it's quite jellied now so you can see the psyllium is just to make to have it jelly and that's very user friendly see that's quite thin so if someone has a bee sting on here you quickly cut an area around take the plastic off put it straight on the skin bind it on very quick and easy so that's a no mess easy way to make your charcoal poultice for the outside if someone's got a sore knee they could put charcoal on one night and casserole on another eye ginger on another night potato on another eye and see what it does and see what your body says i like that one i didn't like that one as much as that one so you can you can play with it the different poultices and compresses do different things and you will soon discover what works best thank you for your attention tonight and so ends our natural remedy seminar

Channel: Living Springs Retreat

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Keywords: Barbara O'Neill, Natural Remedies, Herbal Remedies, Charcoal Poultice, Living Springs Retreat

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Length: 57min 41sec (3461 seconds)

Published: Fri May 20 2022