- Today we are breaking down and reacting
to the highly requested Nickelodeon show,
"Avatar The Last Airbender."
Aang may be the master of all four elements,
but just how accurate
are some of the medical practices
seen in "Avatar The Last Airbender."
Today, we're going to find out.
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All right let's dive right in.
- Now that's fire bending.
- Fire bending. Nice.
- Aang you'll hurt yourself. - Careful.
- Ahhhhh!!
- You're going to burn people.
- [Aang] Katara!
- Fires. You gotta be careful, you know,
pyromaniacs bending fire.
You basically get burned pretty easily.
We see a lot of burn injuries
coming to the emergency department.
Explosive burns,
grill burns,
burns from even just hot water.
(Katara whimpering)
- Oh!
It's like first degree burns, right?
First degree is just redness to the tissue
that hurts a lot.
She's able to heal her own hands with the water.
Fantastic. I wish I could do that.
- The great benders of the water tribe
sometimes have this ability.
I've always wished I were blessed like you.
- Nice
- Water has been thought to be the flow of life.
We're made up of a lot of water.
It gives life and sustains life
versus fire.
Essentially a little bit more destructive, per say.
- [Aang] It's like every time
I think about how stressed I am,
I just end up more stressed.
I'm like a big growing snowball of nerves.
- What's causing your anxiety,
causes more anxiety
and then you're upset at yourself
for being anxious about something
and then you become more anxious.
Anyway, it's really hard
to kind of break that cycle.
- You know what. I've got just the thing.
Get ready to be de-stressified.
- De-stressified! Nice.
We see it a lot in emergency department.
Actually, we're able to give people medications
in the class of a benzodiazepine
to stop that cycle.
This individual
potentially might need a rescue
to break that cycle.
- [Katara] Stretches can really work wonders
if you do them in extreme heat.
- When you're doing yoga,
your mindset and your tension is on your body.
Thus, displacing your thoughts
or whatever's causing your issue
or your anxiety or your depression
back onto your own body
and the movements and your breath.
That way the anxiety can pass.
- Why don't you get right down to business
and tell me what's been bothering you.
- You know what's bothering me.
I have to fight the Fire Lord in a few days.
(Dr. Wagner laughs)
- Well, that's good.
Maybe a modern day psychologist.
You have psychiatrist and psychologist.
A psychiatrist is a medical doctor
that can prescribe medications.
We'll also talk to you.
But then a psychologist
is typically a master's degree,
PhD degree.
They are more cognitive,
working on techniques, talking.
It's the classic laying on the leather chair.
And there are different types.
There's ones that help guide you.
There are ones where they just sit there quietly
and let you talk.
It all depends what works best for you.
- [Toph] All right. What you need
is a good old fashioned back pounding
to relieve your stress.
- Pound away.
- Oh, nice!
Like a messed up massage.
- Ow!
Toph!
- A bad idea.
- It's bruising me!
- Having pieces of wood jammed
into your back is probably not the best.
Potentially, you can have a lot of fractures
because when you're getting massage,
it's all soft tissue, right?
The muscles, fascia,
but you're not digging on the bones
because that can cause a lot of pain and injury.
- There's one other thing we can try.
Acupuncture.
- Oh!
- Acupuncture is a great alternative
for individuals who need to de-stress
or you're having muscle spasms.
Someone is trained to put needles in.
They're very, very, very, very thin.
So it's just hitting specific areas.
We do something similar
to where if you have a muscle spasm,
we could do dry needling,
where we actually stick a needle
into the hypertonic muscle,
the muscle that's spasmed out,
to get it to over fire and
then get it to relax.
- Sokka, wait! You shouldn't
be eating strange plants.
Yep. You gotta be really careful with plants.
You have to realize what plants you're eating.
Some are super deadly. Some are totally fine.
- Ah! There's water trapped inside these.
- Have to stay hydrated.
All of the processes in our body,
we need water.
You're supposed to have eight cups
of eight ounces of water,
which ends up being 64 ounces of water,
which is just about maybe half a gallon.
- I don't know.
- Suite yourself.
It's very thirst quenching though.
- Uh oh.
Uh oh.
Oh!
One eye that dilated.
Anisocoria is actually the name of the term
that we use in the medical world.
That actually happens.
Sometimes actually people are born that way.
Could mean like a brain neurologic issue,
a mass on different nerves of the brain itself
related to the eyes.
If you notice that or something new,
definitely get it checked out.
- Drink cactus juice,
it'll quench ya.
Nothings quite-
- Nice!
- It's the quenchiest!
(Dr. Wagner laughs)
- Okay, I think you've had-
- Nice.
You have to realize that a lot of the medications
and the medicines that we've gotten
are derived from plants.
There are plenty of plants out there
that are healthy,
but they're also extremely dangerous
to us as well.
So just be aware,
don't be just rummaging through the forest
and deciding to eat anything.
- Who lit Toph on fire?
- Oh my gosh.
- Can I get some of that cactus?
- I don't think that's a good idea.
- My suggestion here,
if you live in the United States
is that you call
the Poison Control Center first
and they'll advise you
if you need to go to the emergency department or not.
I just don't want anybody wasting their time
or being disappointed when they show up
to the emergency department
and we call the same number and they say,
"there's nothing to do, the patient can go home",
and you spent a lot of money for that advice versus you can
actually just call.
- The blood, bending, controlling the water in another body.
Once you perfect this technique,
you can control anything
or any one.
- Interestingly enough,
we are mostly made of water and fluid basically, right?
Somebody who has the ability to control the water
could you potentially control the movements,
maybe of another human being?
- I won't,
I won't use blood bending
and I won't allow you to keep
terrorizing this town.
Ah!
- Oh!
There's a control.
- You should have learned the technique
before you turned against me.
It's impossible to fight your way out of my grip.
- Muscles fire based on
deep polarization
and movements
and nerves
and all the different fibrils,
so if there are water's flowing through it,
it potentially can affect ion movements.
So H2O,
different things having to do with contraction.
Sarcoplasmic reticulum has to do with ions
and ions and cat ions
going across different membranes.
Could it happen?
Obviously it's a show.
(Katara coughing)
- It was just a little cough I'm-
(Police sirens)
- Come on!
We don't know how to cough?
Coughing into your hands
and you spread it.
Into the elbow, okay?
And then obviously if you're wearing a mask,
cough into the mask,
don't take your mask down and cough.
- Hello, I'm sorry to barge in like this
but I need some medicine for my friends.
- Is it a pneumonia?
Is it bronchitis?
Is it croup?
There's all of these different,
differential diagnosis' that it could be
but let's see where this is actually going,
what type of medicine they're trying to give.
Probably herbal remedies,
but we'll talk about that in a second.
- Thanks to my remedies,
they always leave in better shape
than when they arrive.
That's nice. Are you almost done?
Well, all they need
is some frozen wood frogs.
(Dr. Wagner laughs)
There's plenty of them down in the valley swamp.
- What am I supposed to do with frozen frogs?
- Frozen frogs?!
- Why, suck on them of course!
- Frogs are good and bad.
They actually secrete a neurotoxin
that indigenous tribes
actually use to touch their darts,
and that way they can kind of use it
as a weapon against other people.
But then on the flip side,
there are enzymes that are secreted by frogs
that are actually helpful,
and have been used in medicines to help people.
- Suck on them?!
- The frog skin excretes a substance
that'll cure your friends,
but make sure you get plenty.
Once those little critters fallout,
they're useless.
- What?!
(Dr. Wagner laughs)
Oh my God.
It looks like the medicine doctor
is actually telling them and suggesting,
to use the healthy aspects of a frog.
Frogs.
That's disgusting.
- This is tasty!
- Oh!
Now it's alive.
Thawed out.
(Dr. Wagner laughs)
Just like there are mushrooms out there
that are super healthy and good for you.
And then there's mushrooms out there
that can actually kill you.
You just have to know which one is which,
and be careful what you're eating
and which ones you're touching.
So super crazy broad spectrum
of healthy versus dangerous.
I've never actually seen this before.
There's components of medicine
and trying to heal.
I love that all these different shows that I've checked out,
they try to incorporate medicine
and medical topics.
I try to be accurate about it.
So it's pretty good.
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Stay healthy my friends.