Greetings. I hope this month finds you in the best of health and with the blessings of God. This month’s issue will explore some of the emergency remedies of “natural medicine”. This is certainly one of our most important issues yet. I trust and pray that this issue will be a blessing to you and your family. God Bless.

 

 

Emergency “Herbal Medicine”

 

   When most people think of natural medicine with regard to herbs, supplements, etc., they think of substances that will work over time to prevent disease or help cure some chronic disease.

  However, the kingdom of natural medicine boasts some remedies that have literally saved the life of people in  emergency situations.

   Some of these remedies work fine to save a life in and of themselves, others will work until medical attention  can be obtained.

  It is not my intent to try and cover all of the various remedies that one could use in emergency situations, but I have chosen a few that  I believe will be very helpful.

 

Cayenne- God’s Nitro-Glycerin

  Cayenne pepper should always be available to every family. “About 1.5 million Americans are admitted to hospitals yearly for serious chest pain, which is often a warning sign of heart attack.”[1]

  Coronary artery disease is the major cause of heart attack. About one person per minute dies from a coronary event, and about 14 million americans suffer from coronary artery disease![2]   

  Cayenne pepper will stop a heart attack in its tracks. Numerous herbal practioners, medical missionaries, naturopatheic doctors, etc. relay their success in using cayenne to stop a heart attack.

   The very sucessful Dr. Christopher wrote, “Prop up the patient and pour hot cayenne tea down, and the attack will stop immediately. We have been called in the middle of the night so many times. A teaspoon of cayenne should bring the patient out of the heart attack.”[3]

Cayenne Pepper

 

   The extremely succesful medical missionary, Mamon Wilson, writes: “Cayenne is a special herb… We  had an experience with an elderly man several years ago. We were in a service just singing and praising the Lord; and he slumped over on the floor. He was having a heart attack. We were having a training school at the time so all the students started scrambling for the cayenne pepper because that’s what we had drilled into them. We gave him the cayenne pepper and he revived in less than 60 seconds. What is the difference between cayenne pepper and nitro-glycerine? Nitro-glycerine has a lot of side effects that we don’t need…God has given us cayenne pepper, which produces the same effect as nitro-glycerine and the best way to take it is similar to nitro-glycerine

  “If someone is having a heart attack and has passed out, we simply take ½ teaspoon of cayenne pepper and put it under his tongue. It will revive him in less than 60 seconds.”[4]

 

  I had previously informed my mother, who suffers from coronory artery disease that a heart attack can be stopped by cayenne pepper. After having chest pains one day she recalled this and placed a couple of cayenne capsules beneath her tongue. She says that indeed the pain stopped.

 

 AN IMPORTANT NOTE

 

  In order to stop a heart attack with cayenne pepper, the pepper must be at least 90,000 heat units. Cayenne pepper is not your average red pepper, but it must be “cayenne” also known as African bird pepper.

 

BEE STINGS/INSECT BITES

 

  For venomous bites activated Charcoal is definetly God’s antivenom agent in cases of emergency. For fire ant bites, mosquito bites, chigger bites,  poison ivy, and various other venemous bites, charcoal will do wonders.

  Dr. Agatha Thrash, M.D., explains, “Fire ants leave a sterile abscess under the sting from the venom which kills a tiny area of tissue. An ordinary band-aid, wet slightly and rubbed with a charcoal tablet until it is entirely black , and applied as a mini poultice combats ant stings.”[5] This can be done as noted above for  mosquito bites, chigger bites, and poison ivy.

  Dr. Thrash, in discussing the use of charcoal with regard to a bee sting, says: “Many years ago we had a young co-worker who was stung on the finger by a yellow jacket. He spent one sleepless night due to pain, and was about to go into his second when he decided that he would apply a charcoal poultice. At that time none of us had used charcoal poultices for yellow jacket stings and didn’t know what to expect. Within five minutes the pain was gone and he slept all night. Since that time whenever anyone is stung by a bee, wasp, or yellow jacket, we promptly apply a poultice which will prevent either swelling or pain.”[6]

  Dr. Thrash also points out that the treatment of choice for a brown recluse spider bite is charcoal. In fact there is no other recognozed treatment except “wide surgical excision.” There is no known antidote.

 

Brown Recluse spider bite after a few days.

 

  Speaking of charcoal Dr. Dana Myatt N.M.D., says,  “It's the only thing to do for a Brown Recluse Spider bite. (Conventional medical treatment consists of giving both an antibiotic and prednisone, both of which are basically worthless in preventing the inevitable tissue damage that will follow.) But placing a charcoal poultice over the bite site will pull the toxins out of the system, usually in as little as one hour. I have also used it successfully in Black Widow Spider bites (not as serious as a Brown Recluse bite, but very painful). Two M.D. colleagues of mine tell me that it works well for snake bite, and I would certainly use it in this instance if I had occasion to.”[7]

 

  Dr. Thrash adds, “The brown recluse spider produces a bite that gives little or no pain at first. In 24 hours a purplish red zone develops around the bite, and extensive tissue death occurs. It may produce a very deep and angry ulceration extending down to the bone, which lasts for weeks or months. We have had three brown recluse spider bites successfully treated with charcoal, which produced no ulcerations and only the faintest purple discoloration after one week. The sooner treatment is begun the better. The spider is brown and has a fiddle-shaped mark on the back.”[8]

 

  CHARCOAL IF YOU ARE  

               POISONED

 

  We have already produced one entire Journal on charcoal and especially its benefits in the case of poisoning and will not go into as much detail in this issue. If you would like that issue please contact us for your free copy. Nevertheless I will relay an instance wherein I used it on my pet.

 We  put down fire ant granules in our yard and soon afterwards we noticed our dog vomiting continually. I immediately assumed he had ingested some of these granules on one occasion after being let out of the garage to play. I took a tablespoon or so of charcoal and mixed it in his water. Not long after ward he stopped vomiting. However, I kept giving it to him for a couple of days. Since that time he has not experienced any more problems.

 

        TOOTHACHE

  Many people may wonder about toothache being included in emergency natural medicine, but I have seen the power of the toothache to totally incapacitate people. 

  I have used a very effective remedy of charcoal to relieve pain in an inflamed tooth of my wife.

  She began to have pain in a tooth, and this pain increased in its intensity daily. Finally she contacted a dentist, but it was the holiday season and after calling around to several dentists the soonest she could get in for an appointment was two weeks!

  As the pain increased to the point that she could take it no longer I decided to try a charcoal poultice. I mixed enough water with activated charcoal to make a paste, and placed it on a piece of gauze that I cut to fit over the tooth. Afterwards I prayed for my wife, which by this time was in such excruciating pain that she was in tears.

  Within about 10 minutes she begin to fill the pain subside from her head, on the same side as the tooth down to the tooth. In another 10 minutes she had dropped off to sleep for the pain had stopped.

   Over the next 10 days or so I gave her charcoal mixed in water to drink and made a poultice if she needed it until she could get to the dentist.

  The Medical Missionary Mamon Wilson gives the following alternate herbal combination to arrest toothache pain: 3 tablespoons charcoal,1/2 teaspoon clove oil, 1/3 teaspoon cayenne pepper, ½ teaspoon olive oil(enough to make a paste), and 1 teaspoon of golden seal.  He states: “ This remedy is strictly for pain in the jaw or tooth pain. Pack this around the tooth that is giving you problems. If you can cover the tooth up it will generate heat. That will remove the pain faster than any toothache remedy. Try it. You will feel the heat and you can go wash your mouth out. If you are in a lot of pain the heat is comforting. The pain of the poultice drawing is less than the throbbing of the toothache.[The mixture] should be quite thick, about the consistency of natural peanut butter. You want to be able to mould it around the tooth, so that it will stick.”

  He says further, “If you have an abscess with a lot of swelling, you cannot get that tooth pulled until you get the abscess under control. This recipe is famous for getting that abscess down

 3 parts Slippery Elm, 2 parts baking yeast, 4 drops cloves, 1/3 teaspoon cayenne pepper.” He add a little water, enough to make a paste. It will be gummy due to the slippery elm. Then pack this mixture around the gum.

  The slippery elm, like charcoal, draws the inflammation, the cayenne stimulates the cells around the tooth to release toxins and the cloves are added for the reputation as a pain remedy, especially in toothache.

 

BURNS/CUTS WOUNDS

       Herbal Stitches

 

   One of my favorite emergency natural remedies for wounds, cuts, scrapes, and even burns is a combination I call herbal stitches. I originally based the formula that I use off of Dr. Christopher’s formula.

  Dr. Christopher explained: “To equal parts of liquid honey and wheat germ oil, blend in finely chopped or powdered, fresh or dried comfrey leaf or root.  When the mixture is the consistency of a heavy spreadable paste it is ready to use.  Apply it a half-inch thick or more, over the entire area that has been burned, scalded, etc.  Cover with gauze and bandage lightly.  Observe area from day to day and if paste has been absorbed, add more on top of the original application.  Do not remove original, just add to it when needed.”[9] 

 

A cut finger, the result of a table saw accident.

 

  I used a variant of this formula with a cut on my wife’s foot, and my stepdaughter’s knee. My wife obtained a cut on the top of her foot a couple of years ago from the sharp edge of the bottom of a refrigerator door. The cut was at least an inch deep. After washing the wound the blood continued to come so I threw cayenne into the wound. This will, and did, cause the bleeding to stop.

    I placed the above formula on the wound. It is almost like a natural band- aid. This is why I call it herbal stitches.

  The next day there was no soreness or pain, but amazingly the wound had actually begin to fill itself from within with new flesh. The mixture had been “sucked” into the wound. Each day we added more of the mixture to replace that which had been used to regenerate the flesh within the wound. Within a couple of weeks or so the wound was totally healed! This same method was used on a bad scrape obtained from a fall on pavement by my stepdaughter. We obtained the same results!

    I mentioned that I  altered the formula. This was done because I did not have wheat germ oil at the time that I was making the mixture so I used olive oil instead. I would; however, use the wheat germ oil. This mixture can be made and stored in tightly closed glass bottles at room temperature, and will keep for many months. A bottle can be kept for cases of emergency. 

 

           EAR ACHE

 

  Dr. Christopher writes, “The simple, old-fashioned aids are sometimes very fast in giving relief.  We will give you a number of aids that have been used successfully for many years.  Always treat both ears, even if only one aches.

 

Onion:  Lightly bake a large onion, cut it in half and while warm (not hot enough to irritate the area), bind one half of the onion over each ear.  Bandage in place and hold bandage on with a nightcap, white skullcap, etc., and leave on all night.

        Garlic.  Drop four to six drops of oil of garlic into each ear and plug with warm cotton

            Camomile : Use a fomentation over both ears of three parts of camomile and one part of lobelia.  Take two ounces orally (a wineglass full) each two waking hours.  Leave the fomentation on the ears all night.  (Cover fomentation with plastic or oiled silk, etc.).

            Mullein:  Use three to six drops of mullein oil in both ears several times each day.  Insert it upon retiring for the night, and, as before, plug the ears with cotton.  Place a fomentation over the ears all night of three parts mullein and one part lobelia.

          Lobelia :  Place a few drops of tincture of lobelia (warmed) into each ear and plug with cotton.” [10]

      

  Adding to these earache remedies, the Medical Missionary Mamon Wilson explains: “For someone who has an earache, I like to use a roasted onion. Cut it in half. Put a drop of warm olive oil down in both ears(you can also use vitamin E or garlic oil) Sometimes I will take a clove of garlic and wrap it in tissue and leave one in each ear over night.

   I put half the onion over the ear and cover it up. An ace bandage is used to secure this. I like to do both ears even if there is only pain in one ear. Most ear problems come from sinus drainage, which infects the ear. So if you have chronic ear problems, check the sinuses.

 

  Young children with runny noses always seem to have ear infectons. If you heat the onion and put on the ear warm that is best. You can put a towel over it to insulate it a little.”[11]

 

 

      ASTHMA ATTACK

 

  In the event of an asthma attack Dr. F. Batmanghelidj, M.D., explains how to use water and salt. He writes, “Salt (ideally sea salt) is a strong antihistamine. It can be used to relieve asthma by putting it on the tongue after drinking a glass or two of water. It is as effective as an inhaler, without the toxicity. You should drink one or two glasses of water before putting salt on the tongue.”[12]

   Closely associated with asthma problems are other general respiratory conditions such as bronchitis, respiratory infection, and coughs resulting from the common cold.

   I received a call to our ministry from a young lady that my wife met who had explained that her baby, but a few months old, was suffering from asthma, maninly at night, and often had to be rushed to the hospital.

   With a child that young it was difficult to determine what I would do if I were in her situation. So as usual when in such situations I prayed, and explained to her what I would do if I had a child in that situation. I would use Eucalyptus oil.

    The young lady did in fact try it in a vaporizer, and it worked like a charm. The infant that had not been able to sleep  through the night without great difficulty  in breathing was able to do so with the addition of the Eucalyptus Oil!

 

   One remedy by Dr. Maude E. Scott, M.H., N.D., which one mother used, who had to consistently take her children to the hospital for severe congestion and has been relayed to me that works wonders is a “Eucalyptus Cough Syrup”. The recipe follows:

 

 INGREDIENTS:

 

“  1 pint of lemon juice (use fresh juice when possible)

 

 1 pint of honey (best quality)

 

 2 tablespoons of vegetable glycerine

 

 1 tablespoon eucalyptus oil

 

Combine and mix thoroughly.

 

Adults: Take two to four tablespoons 3 times a day. Children: Take one to two tablespoons (depending on age) three times a day.”[13]

 

LABOR PAINS

 

  Doing medical missionary work I have found God has placed some very effective herbs upon the earth for the female system, and especially in times of pregnancy and childbirth.

  A good friend of mine called one day after her daughter had been having labor pains for hours. Her daughter had gone to the hospital, but she had not dilated enough, so she was eventually sent home. Essentially she was having “false labor”.

  My friend had obtained the Natural Remedies Encyclopedia from our ministry and had called to ask me about the herbal recommendation in the book for “false labor” pains. Her daughter was in really bad pain. I told her that I saw no problem with the specific recommendation given in the book.

 

  They followed the directions and in about 20 minutes the pain had ceased! The book recommended walking, a warm bath, or resting to help calm the contractions, but it also recommended an alternative method, and this is what they used. It is as follows: “Take two capsules each of cayenne and bayberry; and get to the hospital or call your midwife immediately.” [14]

FUNGAL JOCK ITCH

 

 Jock Itch may not seem like an emergency situation but some people have had well –nigh intolerable cases of it.

Photo of Skin with “Jock Itch”

 

  In fact, I know of a young man that had it, and I informed him of the research concerning the effectiveness of Oil of Oregano. He used it mixed with olive oil which stopped the itching after about 20-30 minutes for a day, but the itch seemed to be trying to return the following day. After a couple of days he put the Oil of Oregano on full strength, that is to say without the olive oil.

  The infection cleared up in three days and has never returned! Such is the power of God’s remedies.

   If more of us would accept God’s way of healing disease, humanity would see a lot less suffering and dis-ease; for God says, “I am the LORD that healeth thee.” Exodus15:26. In God’s eyes there are no incurable diseases. It is just a matter of our cooperating with him. There are many, many other remedies that God has given mankind that I have not included, but remember, God’s way is always the simple way.

 

God Bless

 

Keith M. Henry M.M.