Traditional Medicine

The most common animal products used are actually human products. Anybody taking radio traffic and you found out it's still as amazing as the one that is sent in in the patients here to help their ear infection, so back to that. Well, it's actually frequently used, you can take a urine from a small boy and put it in either either you see a little oil or a urine, and it has a soothing effect. I've heard of that used, especially that you're on treating ear infections or ear aches. Human hair, saliva, nasal scretions, milk, and blood, many of these have more, probably a more historical interest than, again, these are things people use, and you probably don't know about it. But it's, there have been a number of points in people who use this. In fact, if you can use a human hair, if you've got a, I think they use it for P.K.C. in the past. The idea was they would use it as a chemical part on a chemical but an actual irritant

to accordion, and that way you'd get a scar that would be different from P.K.C. that was more of a historical interest. Fuel oil used very commonly, for a number of different things, diarrhea, constipation, use it on your skin as it went down, it's like a fever if you went cool and down, and call it the baby used to, the fuel column, the massage column, the baby's abdomen, which is the oil. It's, supposedly, the rancid version of seal oil has a chemical called heptaldehyde in it, and at the time that Lantis wrote her, kind of text on this back in 59, there was some Canadian thirties who were working on it to see if any effect on this cancer. I was able to substantiate what they actually found. That's causing the rancid oil.

Beaver castor, human beaver castor, it's the stinkland, stinkland, stinkland, there's this perineal. In a perineal area, there's a small, though, black gland, and you can frequently, it's dried. You take it off and you move it from the trunks. It stinks, too. Well, all the males I've talked to, like all the females I've talked to, don't you? Yes, is this female beaver's more of male beaver's? A lot of the stethoscope, is he even thinking that he's a beaver at it, because I would think they'd be kind of a generous thing of a beaver to donate this, because it's in a kind of a very sensitive area. They also use beaver testicles, and I can't tell you they actually agree, and they have to, if you wanted to do a research on that anyway, Fox, they use the rancid oil. This is probably some of these, you know, I can't tell you how many people are using

them, but I assist. It may have more of a, it's something where we eat, the weasel made it, you know, helps going down, or it may have actually kind of a spiritual effect as you're eating it. It's no one's who can't. There's probably no great active ingredient in it, but it's just the, some of the psychological overlay behind it might actually be more important that we could, how much work we could do in it and probably still not finding our own answer for that. Porky pine feces and other feces, as throughout many different cultures, people have started to have used animal feces as more of a, an astringent or a some way to, as a laxative and, and by doing that, yeah, it is that they couldn't clean up the cow humors or clean up whatever was bad in there. You know, to what extent, you know, we can encourage or discourage that.

I don't know, but I just did let you know that people are actually doing that to some small. Exactly. As far as mineral things, again, these are probably more coastal burnt seashells, ashes, and some of the probably unique stuff that, you know, healthy, he has to just tremendous mass as a vast knowledge of all the stuff. Plus he's also improvised, I mean, that maybe people have, you know, lived in a relatively harsh environment for years and they've come up with empirical peers, what he's, he's thinking that once that further, you know, with his state weight, he combines with big A, right, in that sense. And there's also a number of people that use, this is actually an old one to use, but we're seeing more white gas for a respiratory infection. Do you have any, any back there for now? I don't know, they can't go a reason why, but it's been known to, I have a couple of

laser scores that I'm seeing, maybe translators, case angle, granulomas, which is an older culture too. What's that? Here's the sugar, one of the things that you've done, you know, you've turned this time, you know, I'm looking for some of those. And it didn't taste good, or it tastes so bad that you didn't mind, they cost me that. And I'm like, have a piece of them before they're getting damaged, they're getting damaged. And I don't know if they're going to have the hot meat. Pretty dangerous, just don't smoke. Okay, sounds great. Okay, let's see, the machine oil, people do use that on sore joints. Sure, we just talked about a little bit. Epsom salts cast the oil, that would be cast off from the store. Well, now we can get onto some of the pests.

So now we've got two remedies. So now the next thing is laying on the hands, procedures. Here we go, we're getting some procedures. Physical medicine, surgical techniques, and federal techniques. And the one I put on the top is the one that I knew most about at the time. And that was, that's cooking. What do people know about cooking? Right here, what can you say? I've had people talk to me now. Okay, I honestly, I haven't seen too many people, because that's my biggest thing I'm worried about. Yeah. The poking that I've seen and I've been around, is usually done in a very accepting technique. They have usually taken a small blade, and either cut it out of a, some kind of saw, or taken this part of the saw and cut it off. And granted, it's usually very clean. Frequently, it's put into a fire or a plane before. I've gotten a little bit of, just a black slip to get on over a

over a candle, and then they swipe that off. I probably could, you want me to show it on you? No. And what, basically, what you need to kind of lift up the skin, there's different techniques. One of the techniques is lift up the skin like this, and to go through this way. And, and frequently, now that the key, that's easy enough, but it's the figure I'm worried you're supposed to do it, and what the man and woman is doing is they're feeling for a small pulse underneath there, and it's not a pulse like you or I would feel for this, certainly. But it's a small pulse underneath there, a small area like little worms moving, but it's something that many other people can feel that I can't. I've had people who came in my clinic and took some, and they had people who came in, and I said, can you show me on this gentleman's back, you know, where you poke? And he felt around, who came up with the same spot. I was, I had found a trigger point right below the gentleman's scapula that was, that was tender, and I, you know, palpated it and it was reproducible, and then I had this gentleman came in,

and he found the same spot that he would have done superficially in his pulling the skin, not actually going into the deep tissue, and, you know, it's less respected for a spot for an active person, actually. Well, it may well, it may well, but usually the ones I've seen have been done very well. They're poked through and through usually, in some areas of the body, like in the back, that usually the rule is that I've heard from it, is that they avoid, of course they avoid any midline structures, and they would only come down into this, you know, I think a red somewhere around the shoulders and not the neck of the back. So again, empirically, people come up with the way to deal with their problems, and this, the idea is that they let out blood and they actually seem to come down. When I use this in clinic, I said, an old asthma doctor would do this, but instead, I'm going to do this, and I just inject the trigger point, and I tell them, this is just like what would have happened,

you know, an asthma doctor, kind of helping fit into their concept of reality and fitting into my concept of trigger point size. So, you actually can't kind of meet halfway, and I do it mostly with the older people, and they think, well, that's kind of new, we have the Western doctor who's, you know, kind of with the program. So, these are things that, you know, you can actually, there's actually some kind of biomedical approach that they get's close, and I think it's just, you stomping all over their belief systems and making them last out of yourself or making them look like they don't. It's not in fact, these things aren't well developed, well done, so you can actually do a few of these things. Now, this then came from the Cassieglac app area actually, and from upper the, is, um, is vena puncture letting out blood. Um, this, in fact, we had a person in the hospital just last week who wanted to have his blood blood out, because they had too much blood in his heart. And, um, that's usually done with a small, tourniquet, sharp leg,

and some blood is usually taken out from the end of the pupil of Boston as far as I can tell. Um, I don't know how or why or whether that's, that's what she used, that's not used as much, but some of the older people will say that they have too much blood as one of their complaints. And, um, and we, and we reinforce that greatly because what we're doing, Eric, someone comes in sick. Talk to Sarah for somebody. He's all of that. Yeah. I like it. Um, something that's more developed up in the Northwestern area that, that I don't know as much, or I haven't heard about it as much down here. It's a domino massage. Um, either using hands or using elbows to massage a person's abdomen. And, um, and it has, uh, a strictly used internally cases, uh, or just for a GI upset or like, uh, like the same sometimes with a cocky baby. Um, that, uh, delicates has real nice set of lectures and some videotapes, which actually does some massage. Um, but because I kind of have been fine

in my, um, research and stuff to this area, I was able to find it much about it. Probably it's used more to, I just wouldn't have been able to find out. Uh, dental extraction, uh, that's something that people have done on the form, um, with the HS in the, the YK dental. Um, modify 100 techniques. In fact, I get this from Henry's paper. Um, a different way. So if someone is out on their own and they swallow something and they need to get it out, do you remember those two things where, um, the line that was to run and then the last thing that, uh, state and staff, you know, so I thought it was, it was, it was out. There's a fellow in that, quite a lot of cooking, so they take a shot, then they put it up here and just, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, that should have,

within thesuspense, you know, you know, you know, you know... Okay. Right. Okay. A couple of their, uh, I mean, you know, uh, um, you know, you know, you know, some things you know, six weeks old, you know, they give beer beers, right? I mean, how many days do you see in K-man versus you check that or, you know, two months, I've already pierced a few years' periods. Something that takes, I don't guess you've mailed about 35 years to have been. But, you know, they have it two months. And how does that usually happen? You just have to use the dust that, say my nose just the hooking, what's not us, right? I mean, we're not doing it. So, and it's not healthy. It's frequently done, you know, in the kitchen or at home. And there's either a small, either an owl, you know, it's like a owl.

Got a handle with that shirt pointing to it. And in the old days, and I've seen just a couple of these folks, you know, folks that have, have the old style, have their nose pierced. So, I've seen folks like that right now. That's usually an old ornamental thing that I have only seen two people with, two women. And the other thing is tattooing, which again is very common, especially only people. Do you know how they did their tattoos? Take a hair and put some... All the same types of things. What do you feel like H.C. is that now? I think that Y.K.H.C. is doing well in the past. As I say, we've provided a lot of primary care and primary education, and maybe there wasn't such a great need in the past to tie in with other agencies with reduction

and funds from the funding sources that many people are going through. I feel that people really have to come together. And when they identify a problem, there has to be planning, not just within one program at Y.K.H.C., but with all the other agencies involved, whether it be state or federal or agencies that are local here in town. And I think that's the key to providing the best services is the cooperation. Mary, can you again, briefly describe your programs and give a narrative outlook of highlighting more basic points of your programs at the University? Sure. I'll just run briefly over the eight programs I have, and I did have to write them down because occasionally one slips my mind, and I certainly wanted to justice to them all. I have three programs located at the hospital that provide primary care. The maternal child health and family planning office

is one of them. Their focus is mainly on providing prenatal care, family planning services, counseling, being used as a referral center for women with GYN problems. They do a lot of community education. They go out and work with the schools a lot, work with the school board, work with different councils, work with our full board. So they're very much in the light, so to speak. People feel good about the program. They've been in existence, and the basic staff does a lot of traveling to the villages. So it's not just a service that's located in Bethel, but it's located throughout the whole YK region. Another program located at the hospital is the I-Care program. This, again, is a program that provides primary care, both in Bethel and the villages. They do a lot of traveling during the school year because a lot of their care is provided to school-aged children, screening and referrals,

those types of things. The staff, again, tries to touch bases as much as they can with other agencies to help identify what problems are and how they can best be solved. Another program at the hospital is the STRIP program. This program, although it has a small staff of only two, really does a lot in the community. They process all the throw cultures for the area. And by that, I mean, they run their series of tests and determine if the person has strep throat or if they don't. Once that determination is made, then the clients are referred to appropriate people to treat whether it be the health aid who treats them in the village or people that live in Bethel come into the hospital for treatment or referring people to the Bethel family clinic in order to get treatment. Another program we do provide at the hospital is the arthritis occupational therapist program.

And basically what this is is a joint venture between the hospital, YKHC and the Alaska Treatment Center. There is a therapist that comes out from the Alaska Treatment Center and works out here several times a year seeing clients that the physicians at the hospital feel need to be seen for arthritic services. And this is a real growing program. It's only been in the past two years. We've been able to provide these services. And these services are just for people who can come into Bethel at this point. And they provide a type of care that's not available anywhere else in this area. And that's a good example of agencies pulling together to get out of problem and provide services. Another program that travels out to the villages is the Otitis Media or the Special Ear Project. This team travels out and works real closely with health aids, does a lot of screening

and diagnosing in the villages regarding ear problems, maintains a referral system for people. They see out in the villages to get further care either here in Bethel or to be referred to Anchorage. Again, this is a small staff, but they do extensive traveling. They try to get into the schools and give short community and school presentations while they're in a village. And it's for us, but thanks for fitting me. So it's the beginning, but. Okay, one of my other programs, Frank, is the eye program. And they provide primary eye care services, both here in Bethel and the villages. They work very closely with the health aids and screening the school age children. And their evenings and the villages are spent with the adult population who may come in for other reasons.