What do you think?
Rate this book
The Edgar Cayce Handbook for Health Through Drugless Therapy
"Everyone should live the life of Reilly" - Bob Hope Edgar Cayce’s natural, drug free techniques for restoring a healthy body, mind and spirit often anticipated the discoveries of modern medical research for decades. Now, Dr Reilly, a world famous medical practitioner, puts these holistic health remedies to work. The book is thoroughly indexed to help you find at your fingertips such topics · Losing weight · Preventing Arthritis · Treating Allergies · An anti-aging program · A treatment for Psoriasis This is a practical handbook of natural healing for every home.
- GenresHealthSpirituality
348 pages, Paperback
First published May 10, 1979
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 6 of 6 reviews
February 20, 2013
Interesting book. Even though these remedies were suggested 40-60 years ago, you wonder whether they might work better than some of the things we use today. Might have to try some of them. And most of the advice is common sense that we now know to be true -- healthly living.
April 23, 2023
The author is a doctor who Cayce referred people to before the doctor even knew who Cayce was. The book has good tips for improving health and treating conditions, mostly natural remedies such as diet and exercise (including pictures), but some remedies seem to be products that I’ve never heard of which might be drugs (like Atomidine, Glycerine, Glyco-Thymoline). I appreciate that pictures were provided for how to do the exercises, but the author should have organized them better. Instead of having a picture going with each description, all the pictures are on their own page, separate from the description, so you have to keep flipping back and forth to see the words and picture together. Another thing I didn’t like about the book layout was how they put captions in the margins which contained text that was already elsewhere on the page.
The book recommends brining the body to normal with CARE (6, 27):
Circulation of blood
Assimilation (capacity to utilize & digest food)
Relaxation
Elimination (of indigestible material, also breathing, sweating)
“Negative thoughts and poor circulation accelerate the appearance of lines, wrinkles, blemishes, and muddy color, while poor elimination will not only produce blackheads, pimples, and dry or oily skin, but is one of the chief causes of major skin diseases” (278). “Headaches are the signs or warnings that eliminations are not being properly cared for” (202). Watercress and beet tops especially help eliminations (262).
Cayce was an introvert (18). His son said that his father “would include either at the beginning or the end of an instruction that the circulation of the body should be increased to remove the congestion or cold. And I could watch the color in that particular part of the body involved in the suggestion change as the blood flowed” (19).
Cayce having this power and curing people of such complex things as paralysis (16) just goes to show that you don’t need to be the son of God in order to do these things. The auras Cayce saw can be photographed with Kirlian photography (25). Some research postulates that illnesses show up in one’s aura before the symptoms manifest in the body (25).
“The force in nature that is called electrical or electricity is that same force ye worship as Creative or God in action!” (35)
Some of the enemies to good health are the TV set and “the dependence of the family automobile, which has immobilized us into heart disease and other killing ailments when it doesn’t kill or maim us outright on the road” (3).
“The seeming shortcuts always mean danger to mankind! As soon as glad tidings of this shortcut are heard, mankind leaves its path and the way is lost!” - Nietzsche (28-29)
“A rotten apple left in a barrel may make all of these rotten; yet no matter how many sound ones are put about it, the rotten one will never be made sound” (315). Good analogy that can be applied to the school system; one bad kid ruins all the others.
Keep your reading material at chest level, held at a 45-60 degree vertical angle (149). If you sleep on your back, use a small pillow under your knees (150).
45 minutes of massage is equal to four hours of sleep (159). “Inactivity causes many of those portions along the spine from which impulses are received to the various organs to be lax, or taut, or to allow some to receive greater impulse than others. The massage aids the ganglia to receive impulse from nerve forces as it aids circulation through the various portions of the organism” (160). “All general massage movements should be upward and toward the heart, except for the neck and head” (170). After 20-25 minutes of massage with oil, you can wash it off (163).
“After breakfast, work a while. After lunch, rest a while. After dinner, walk a mile” (318).
Exercise:
Don’t sleep too late. Exercise 5-6 minutes right after you wake up, before you get dressed. Stand in front of open window, slowly reach up and breathe deeply through the nostrils, then touch your toes and breathe out quickly through the mouth; repeat 3-4 times each morning (105, 106).
“When you take a good deep breath, especially if you exhale it completely, forcing the residual air out of the lungs you bring about a complete change of air. By doing so, you not only drive oxygen down into the lower part of the lungs, but you also help to speed the elimination of carbon dioxide which is the end product of fatigue. Protein waste is also eliminated through the lungs in the form of carbon dioxide. The bloodstream picks up some of the acid waste and turns it into gas, which is exchanged for oxygen in the lungs” (30).
If you want to jog, you should first work up to it by walking for a few weeks, going faster and longer (104).
“The popular sit-up is potentially dangerous to weak backs and should be done only by experienced exercisers or under supervision” (127).
Have your room temperature at 68-74 degrees when you take a bath. When exercising, you can have it at 65 (206).
“If you do exercises very rapidly, you have a tendency to increase the bulk of muscle above the movement” (271). Seems to contradict this: “To increase the size of any part of the body, exercises must be performed very slowly, with complete relaxation between movements” (273).
If you want to reduce the size of a part of your body, do the exercise at moderate speed, but try to increase the arc or angle a little each time you do them (271-272). If you wish to firm the body, perform the exercise slowly and use weights (272-273).
Cayce’s recommendations for diet (41-42, 53, 69, 75, 89-92, 259-260, 263-264):
Morning (no later than 8am): small amount of tea/coffee (with no milk/cream/sugar). 20-30 min later, citrus fruit/juice (four parts orange juice to one part lime/lemon; or pineapple or grapefruit alone) OR whole grain cereal & milk. Cereal can be eaten with fruit, but not citrus fruit JUICE. No cow’s milk in the cereal. Following this, rice or whole wheat/rye toast with butter or honey.
9:30-10am - optional: malted milk/Ovaltine with 1 coddled egg yolk with crisp bacon
12pm - Raw grated vegetable salad with optional egg & 1 tbsp olive oil dressing (no vinegar). 1-2 times a week, eat shellfish. Optional: meat juice or veggie juice (veggie preferred), whole wheat/rye crackers. Soup or vegetable broth for lunch or dinner.
Beverage of choice for lunch/dinner: half grape juice + half water.
Evening (6/7pm preferred) - cooked leafy vegetables, nuts, & meat (only fowl, lamb, wild game, fresh water fish). No starch with meat (76). At least 3 times a week, calf’s liver or tripe and pig knuckle. For rabbit, make sure the tendon in both left legs is removed or it may cause a fever.
Dessert: jello, jellies, 4 oz yogurt, tarts, fruit pie, rolls, but not cake alone.
* The less active you are, the more alkaline-reacting your diet should be (70).
*Don’t eat in a hurry; chew your mouthful 4-20 times (91).
*Don’t eat fried food or raw meat (69). Don’t eat a lot of protein without lots of water, otherwise you will have health issues like damaged kidneys (248).
*Drink 6-8 glasses of water per day (29). Drink water before and after meals. Spring or distilled water preferred. Boil the water before use, then cool and add ice around it, not in it (204). For the first morning cup of water, it should be warm and .5-.75 full (204). If you drink other beverages, only drink them with meals (41).
*It’s best to get local food since it’s fresher; food loses its value the longer it goes between when it was picked and when it gets eaten (81).
*Don’t eat starch with sweets, even fruit, unless the starch is whole wheat bread (70, 75). Beet sugar is preferable to cane sugar or brown sugar (69, 70). Grape sugar (jelly) is okay (70). Chocolate is okay if plain and not with corn starch or too much cane sugar (70).
*Apples should be eaten cooked only, unless doing the 3 day apple diet (89, 92, 236). “Raw apples are not well unless they are of the Jenneting variety” (Delicious, Oregon Red, Arkansas Black, Jonathan, Sheep Nose) (221).
*Veggies in gelatin is good (79, 262). Eat potato skin, but not the inside (74, 80). Peas, beans, & legumes are good. Have three vegetables above ground to one below ground (76). The preferable way to prepare vegetables juices would be through cooking the vegetables after tying them in Patapar paper or in a steamer; not putting them in water to boil. Don’t add any water (82).
*“The cooking of condiments, even salt, destroys much of the vitamins of foods” (82). It’s better to get vitamins from food than from pills. When taking the pill form, take (one week) breaks from them after 2-3 weeks (74); “for if the system comes to rely upon such influences wholly, it ceases to produce the vitamins even though the food values may be kept normally balanced” (73).
*“More of the vitamins are obtained in tomatoes [vine-ripened] than in any other one growing vegetable!” (71) “Tomatoes carry most of the vitamins, in a well-balanced assimilative manner” but they can be destructive if they ripen after being pulled (81).
Cayce didn’t follow the diet advice he prescribed to people in readings (17, 19).
Sprouts: “The vitamin value of the seeds continues to increase as the sprout grows and lengthens, but some sprouts are not as delicious tasting when permitted to grow too long. Many people dislike the extreme sweetness that wheat develops when it is long. The taste of mung beans and alfalfa improves with length and some sprouts, when exposed to the sun grow tiny leaves, which add to their delicate flavor” (84). “The best containers to use are glass, ceramic, earthenware, and enamel” (85). “When you wash [the sprouts], the dead seeds will rise to the top and are poured off with the wash water. If you find too many dead seeds, get a better source of supply” (85).
“Studies of identical and fraternal twins have shown that food habits are not the main factor” in obesity (252). People are less likely to be obese if they live in a mountainous region or by the ocean which provides iodine in the water, soil, and air (253). I looked up maps online, and the obesity rate seems to correlate more with poverty than mountains or sea proximity. Mississippi, Louisiana, and West Virginia were the leading states in obesity (they’re also the leading states in poverty), while Colorado was the state with the least people obese (Colorado is #3 on the list of least poor). More reason not to give food stamps to the poor. They eat too much. Make them work for their food.
“Don’t get mad and don’t cuss a body out, mentally or in voice. This brings more poisons than may be created by even taking foods that aren’t good” (23). “Attitudes oft influence the physical conditions of the body. No one can hate his neighbor and not have stomach or liver trouble. No one can be jealous and allow the anger of same and not have upset digestion or heart disorder” (24). “If we eat when we are tired, angry, excited, or under stress or other emotion, the most nutritious food will give us indigestion, and if we make a habit of it, ultimately an ulcer. Too much food, eaten too rapidly, has killed many people” (27).
“In animals under emotional stress, fats are drawn from body deposits, emptied into the blood and deposited along artery walls” (32, “The Stress of Life” by Dr. Selye).
Website for obtaining some of the stuff recommended in this book:
https://www.baar.com/storefront
Don’t take a sitz bath if your body is already cold. You can warm up your body with exercise before the bath (207). Don’t go outside in cold weather after taking a cold bath/shower (208).
Remedies:
Acne
2 almonds daily
Beet tops
Mud (boncilla, clasmic clay) pack
Watercress
Alzheimer’s/dementia
Increase oxygen
Anxiety
Exercise
Artery declogging/Blood clot
Avoid stress
Herb tea
Rutin (citrus fruits, green peppers, mustard greens, dandelion greens)
Exercise 35 minutes in the evening, rest, breathe. Take a cold sitz bath for 60-90 seconds.
Avoid meat except lamb, chicken, fish
Give up coffee
Arthritis
B & b1 vitamins (salmon, flax, yellow fruits and veggies)
Castor oil pack
Peanut oil rub each week
Hot bath + optional salts, epsom, pine, sluphur
Hot salt pack
Avoid stress
Asthma
Blow up balloons several times daily
Onion, sand, or sassafras oil pack
Back pain
Calcium (salsify/oyster plant)
Exercise daily
Have good posture
Baldness
Hot pack
Bites
Salt pack
Blood pressure
Alpha meditative state
Gentle massage
Osteopathic relaxing of third cervical and through upper dorsal for 6-8 weeks
Walk outside in early morning
Warm bath (90-101 F for 10-12 minutes)
Avoid consuming fat
Blood purifying
Salad: tomato, lettuce, celery, spinach, carrot, beet tops, mustard, onions
Boil
Mullein pack
Broken bones
Calcium
Castor oil packs
Massage
Bronchitis
Onion pack
Burns
Plantain leaves
callous/corn/bunion
massage 3-5 min with baking soda dampened with spirits of camphor for 5-10 days.
bathe limb from knee down with warm olive oil. then apply saturated solution of spirits of camphor with bicarbonate of soda. spread on evenly. bandage with a thin cloth overnight.
Cancer
Eat 3 almonds a day
Eat nothing but grapes for 4 days, and use grape poultices on tumor and/or across abdomen. (Not green grapes) Do this 4 days each month.
Castor oil or plantain salve or sassafras oil pack
Plantain leaves (skin cancer)
Avoid refined carbs (colon cancer)
Cataracts
Castor oil pack
Lavoris pack
Raw potato pack
Celiac
All banana diet
Cerebral palsy
Castor oil pack
Massage - alternate using Cocoa butter & olive oil
Cholesterol
Yellow Apples or apple jelly/jam
Fume bath with no soap
Colds
Cupping massage (for chest/back congestion)
Hot salt pack (congestion)
Keep the body alkaline (eat milk products but not the milk drink; fruit except prune/plum/cranberry & veggies except legumes like peas/beans/lentils)
Bathe feet & calves in mustard water 2-3 times a day
Onion pack (congestion)
Stop eating for 2 days. Drink as much liquid (citrus fruit juice) as possible, up to 1 gal per day.
4 glasses of water + 1-2 tbsp apple cider vinegar & 2 tbsp honey, taken at mealtimes and before going to bed
1 tsp baking soda in a glass of water, sipped slowly every hour
Constipation
Castor oil pack
Detox
Fast
Eat only apples for 3 days. The morning after the 3rd day, take 2 tbsp olive oil. Enema/colonic at the end of each day.
Eat only grapes for 4 days. (Not green grapes)
Eat only oranges for 5 days
Diabetes
Jerusalem artichokes (natural source of insulin)
Colonics with salt & soda
Avoid stress
Eczema
Avoid stress
Emphysema
Blow up balloons several times daily
Epilepsy
Castor oil pack
Hot salt pack
Pine needle oil
Eyes
beets
Burned/blinded by flash - tannic acid poultice
Carrot
green beans
Hot salt pack or hot castor oil pack
Lemon
Lime
Liver
onions
Oranges
peas
Raw potato pack (blindness)
Raw vegetable gelatin
To eliminate needing reading glasses: Do head & neck exercises as you walk for 20-30 minutes each morning
Fatigue
In the morning, swing the arms straight up and down
Massage for a minimum of 5 min
Short cold bath (40-55 F, 1.5-3 minutes)
Fertility
Cold sitz bath (6-9 inches of water, 60-65 degrees, sit with your feet up above the water; no more than 3 minutes) OR shower bath that starts increasingly hot for 3-5 minutes, then turn on the cold water for 40-80 seconds, then wrap up in a towel and relax in bed for 10 minutes minimum
Fever
Cold pack changed every 5-8 minutes
Gallbladder ailments
Castor oil packs
Hair loss
carrots
egg yolk
garlic
iodine
kelp salt or deep sea salt
onions
potato peel soup
raw vegetables: lettuce, celery, watercress, radish, mustard greens
seafood
avoid sweets
Massage scalp with crude oil (not the gas station kind) once or twice a month. After each massage, cleanse with 20% solution of grain alcohol with water added.
Massage scalp with hog lard once a week, wear a close fitting cap overnight. In the morning, shampoo with olive oil shampoo, then massage scalp with white vaseline + a drop of grain alcohol
Headache
Beet tops
Cold pack
Watercress
Cold sitz bath (6-9 inches of water, 60-65 degrees, sit with your feet up above the water; no more than 3 minutes) OR shower bath that starts increasingly hot for 3-5 minutes, then turn on the cold water for 40-80 seconds, then wrap up in a towel and relax in bed for 10 minutes minimum
Heart disease
Colonics
Hydrotherapy
Massage
Sweat baths
Let go of jealousy and anger
Heartburn
Almonds (peeled sweet dried)
3 day apple diet, enema/colonic, fume bath
Castor oil pack
Hemorrhoids
Epsom salt pack
Hot salt pack
Ride bicycle
Raise hands high above head, bend & touch toes 3 times when you get out of bed in the morning & 3 times before going to bed.
Incontinence
Ride a bike
Insomnia
Castor oil pack
Cold pack on abdomen
Before bed, take a cold sitz bath (6-9 inches of water, 60-65 degrees, sit with your feet up above the water; no more than 3 minutes) OR shower bath that starts increasingly hot for 3-5 minutes, then turn on the cold water for 40-80 seconds, then wrap up in a towel and relax in bed for 10 minutes minimum
Intestines
Chamomile tea
Mullein tea
Yellow saffron tea
Joint/tendon pain
Moisten iodized salt + apple vinegar. Massage it into the painful area twice a week.
Liver
Castor oil packs
Let go of hate
Longevity
Adapt to your circumstances
Antioxidants (goji berries, blueberries, dark chocolate, pecan, artichoke, elderberry, kidney bean)
Balance mental & physical activity
Castor oil pack over the abdomen
Challenge yourself
Emotional discipline
Give and receive love and friendship
Gold (shellfish, carrots, salsify/oyster plant)
Have motivation
Keep your daily calories 1200-1923
Turtle eggs
Vitamins c, e
Cool temperatures (5-6 F lower than what’s comfortable)
Eat mainly fruits, veggies, grains. 50g protein, 36 g fat, 354 g carbs. Meat & dairy should be 1% of your diet.
Exercise after waking up and before bed
Do Physical work throughout your life, even in old age.
Live in the mountains
Cayce says that humans could live much longer if they ate wisely, didn’t worry too much, and kept an optimistic outlook on life. “According to biologists, the life span of a species if from 8-10 times the age at which it is first capable of reproduction. Theoretically, then, humans should live to at least 120-150 years of age” (1).
Memory
Increase oxygen
Menopause
Calcium
Exercise daily
Hot salt pack
Massage daily
Menstruation
Glyco-thymoline packs
Turpentine stupes (4-5 thick cotton flannel dipped in 1-2 oz water & 1 tsp turpentine; wring out) applied over pubic center
Migraine
Alpha meditative state
Castor oil pack
Moles
Massage gently with castor oil twice each day for about 2 weeks
A pint of Plantain leaves + pint cream. Cook until thick; don’t burn. Use as ointment.
Multiple sclerosis
Massage
Castor oil pack
Hot salt pack
Mumps
Kerosene pack
Muscle pain
Hot pack
Massage
Muscle sprain
Hot salt pack
Nausea
Hot salt pack
Paralysis
Massage the numb area
Epsom salt bath
Pellagra
Eat Turnip greens
Pneumonia
Onion pack
Polio
Hot water vapor pack, followed by massage
Psoriasis
Fruit and vegetables
Osteopathic adjustments
Mix sulfur, cream of tartar, rochelle salts, mullein, saffron tea, elm water
Avoid stress, fat, sweets, pastries
Sciatica
Epsom salt bath or pack
Sore throat
Cold pack left on for at least 4 hrs or overnight
Stomachache
Almonds
Stress
Warm bath (98-100 F, 10-30 minutes, 20 average)
Teeth
Figs
large raw vegetable salad daily
massage teeth and gums with equal parts salt+baking soda. once a month add 1 drop of chlorine to a pint of water and rinse the mouth with this.
Tuberculosis
Grape pack
Eucalyptus oil pack
Inhale brandy fumes from old charred oak keg
Typhoid fever
Grape pack
The book recommends brining the body to normal with CARE (6, 27):
Circulation of blood
Assimilation (capacity to utilize & digest food)
Relaxation
Elimination (of indigestible material, also breathing, sweating)
“Negative thoughts and poor circulation accelerate the appearance of lines, wrinkles, blemishes, and muddy color, while poor elimination will not only produce blackheads, pimples, and dry or oily skin, but is one of the chief causes of major skin diseases” (278). “Headaches are the signs or warnings that eliminations are not being properly cared for” (202). Watercress and beet tops especially help eliminations (262).
Cayce was an introvert (18). His son said that his father “would include either at the beginning or the end of an instruction that the circulation of the body should be increased to remove the congestion or cold. And I could watch the color in that particular part of the body involved in the suggestion change as the blood flowed” (19).
Cayce having this power and curing people of such complex things as paralysis (16) just goes to show that you don’t need to be the son of God in order to do these things. The auras Cayce saw can be photographed with Kirlian photography (25). Some research postulates that illnesses show up in one’s aura before the symptoms manifest in the body (25).
“The force in nature that is called electrical or electricity is that same force ye worship as Creative or God in action!” (35)
Some of the enemies to good health are the TV set and “the dependence of the family automobile, which has immobilized us into heart disease and other killing ailments when it doesn’t kill or maim us outright on the road” (3).
“The seeming shortcuts always mean danger to mankind! As soon as glad tidings of this shortcut are heard, mankind leaves its path and the way is lost!” - Nietzsche (28-29)
“A rotten apple left in a barrel may make all of these rotten; yet no matter how many sound ones are put about it, the rotten one will never be made sound” (315). Good analogy that can be applied to the school system; one bad kid ruins all the others.
Keep your reading material at chest level, held at a 45-60 degree vertical angle (149). If you sleep on your back, use a small pillow under your knees (150).
45 minutes of massage is equal to four hours of sleep (159). “Inactivity causes many of those portions along the spine from which impulses are received to the various organs to be lax, or taut, or to allow some to receive greater impulse than others. The massage aids the ganglia to receive impulse from nerve forces as it aids circulation through the various portions of the organism” (160). “All general massage movements should be upward and toward the heart, except for the neck and head” (170). After 20-25 minutes of massage with oil, you can wash it off (163).
“After breakfast, work a while. After lunch, rest a while. After dinner, walk a mile” (318).
Exercise:
Don’t sleep too late. Exercise 5-6 minutes right after you wake up, before you get dressed. Stand in front of open window, slowly reach up and breathe deeply through the nostrils, then touch your toes and breathe out quickly through the mouth; repeat 3-4 times each morning (105, 106).
“When you take a good deep breath, especially if you exhale it completely, forcing the residual air out of the lungs you bring about a complete change of air. By doing so, you not only drive oxygen down into the lower part of the lungs, but you also help to speed the elimination of carbon dioxide which is the end product of fatigue. Protein waste is also eliminated through the lungs in the form of carbon dioxide. The bloodstream picks up some of the acid waste and turns it into gas, which is exchanged for oxygen in the lungs” (30).
If you want to jog, you should first work up to it by walking for a few weeks, going faster and longer (104).
“The popular sit-up is potentially dangerous to weak backs and should be done only by experienced exercisers or under supervision” (127).
Have your room temperature at 68-74 degrees when you take a bath. When exercising, you can have it at 65 (206).
“If you do exercises very rapidly, you have a tendency to increase the bulk of muscle above the movement” (271). Seems to contradict this: “To increase the size of any part of the body, exercises must be performed very slowly, with complete relaxation between movements” (273).
If you want to reduce the size of a part of your body, do the exercise at moderate speed, but try to increase the arc or angle a little each time you do them (271-272). If you wish to firm the body, perform the exercise slowly and use weights (272-273).
Cayce’s recommendations for diet (41-42, 53, 69, 75, 89-92, 259-260, 263-264):
Morning (no later than 8am): small amount of tea/coffee (with no milk/cream/sugar). 20-30 min later, citrus fruit/juice (four parts orange juice to one part lime/lemon; or pineapple or grapefruit alone) OR whole grain cereal & milk. Cereal can be eaten with fruit, but not citrus fruit JUICE. No cow’s milk in the cereal. Following this, rice or whole wheat/rye toast with butter or honey.
9:30-10am - optional: malted milk/Ovaltine with 1 coddled egg yolk with crisp bacon
12pm - Raw grated vegetable salad with optional egg & 1 tbsp olive oil dressing (no vinegar). 1-2 times a week, eat shellfish. Optional: meat juice or veggie juice (veggie preferred), whole wheat/rye crackers. Soup or vegetable broth for lunch or dinner.
Beverage of choice for lunch/dinner: half grape juice + half water.
Evening (6/7pm preferred) - cooked leafy vegetables, nuts, & meat (only fowl, lamb, wild game, fresh water fish). No starch with meat (76). At least 3 times a week, calf’s liver or tripe and pig knuckle. For rabbit, make sure the tendon in both left legs is removed or it may cause a fever.
Dessert: jello, jellies, 4 oz yogurt, tarts, fruit pie, rolls, but not cake alone.
* The less active you are, the more alkaline-reacting your diet should be (70).
*Don’t eat in a hurry; chew your mouthful 4-20 times (91).
*Don’t eat fried food or raw meat (69). Don’t eat a lot of protein without lots of water, otherwise you will have health issues like damaged kidneys (248).
*Drink 6-8 glasses of water per day (29). Drink water before and after meals. Spring or distilled water preferred. Boil the water before use, then cool and add ice around it, not in it (204). For the first morning cup of water, it should be warm and .5-.75 full (204). If you drink other beverages, only drink them with meals (41).
*It’s best to get local food since it’s fresher; food loses its value the longer it goes between when it was picked and when it gets eaten (81).
*Don’t eat starch with sweets, even fruit, unless the starch is whole wheat bread (70, 75). Beet sugar is preferable to cane sugar or brown sugar (69, 70). Grape sugar (jelly) is okay (70). Chocolate is okay if plain and not with corn starch or too much cane sugar (70).
*Apples should be eaten cooked only, unless doing the 3 day apple diet (89, 92, 236). “Raw apples are not well unless they are of the Jenneting variety” (Delicious, Oregon Red, Arkansas Black, Jonathan, Sheep Nose) (221).
*Veggies in gelatin is good (79, 262). Eat potato skin, but not the inside (74, 80). Peas, beans, & legumes are good. Have three vegetables above ground to one below ground (76). The preferable way to prepare vegetables juices would be through cooking the vegetables after tying them in Patapar paper or in a steamer; not putting them in water to boil. Don’t add any water (82).
*“The cooking of condiments, even salt, destroys much of the vitamins of foods” (82). It’s better to get vitamins from food than from pills. When taking the pill form, take (one week) breaks from them after 2-3 weeks (74); “for if the system comes to rely upon such influences wholly, it ceases to produce the vitamins even though the food values may be kept normally balanced” (73).
*“More of the vitamins are obtained in tomatoes [vine-ripened] than in any other one growing vegetable!” (71) “Tomatoes carry most of the vitamins, in a well-balanced assimilative manner” but they can be destructive if they ripen after being pulled (81).
Cayce didn’t follow the diet advice he prescribed to people in readings (17, 19).
Sprouts: “The vitamin value of the seeds continues to increase as the sprout grows and lengthens, but some sprouts are not as delicious tasting when permitted to grow too long. Many people dislike the extreme sweetness that wheat develops when it is long. The taste of mung beans and alfalfa improves with length and some sprouts, when exposed to the sun grow tiny leaves, which add to their delicate flavor” (84). “The best containers to use are glass, ceramic, earthenware, and enamel” (85). “When you wash [the sprouts], the dead seeds will rise to the top and are poured off with the wash water. If you find too many dead seeds, get a better source of supply” (85).
“Studies of identical and fraternal twins have shown that food habits are not the main factor” in obesity (252). People are less likely to be obese if they live in a mountainous region or by the ocean which provides iodine in the water, soil, and air (253). I looked up maps online, and the obesity rate seems to correlate more with poverty than mountains or sea proximity. Mississippi, Louisiana, and West Virginia were the leading states in obesity (they’re also the leading states in poverty), while Colorado was the state with the least people obese (Colorado is #3 on the list of least poor). More reason not to give food stamps to the poor. They eat too much. Make them work for their food.
“Don’t get mad and don’t cuss a body out, mentally or in voice. This brings more poisons than may be created by even taking foods that aren’t good” (23). “Attitudes oft influence the physical conditions of the body. No one can hate his neighbor and not have stomach or liver trouble. No one can be jealous and allow the anger of same and not have upset digestion or heart disorder” (24). “If we eat when we are tired, angry, excited, or under stress or other emotion, the most nutritious food will give us indigestion, and if we make a habit of it, ultimately an ulcer. Too much food, eaten too rapidly, has killed many people” (27).
“In animals under emotional stress, fats are drawn from body deposits, emptied into the blood and deposited along artery walls” (32, “The Stress of Life” by Dr. Selye).
Website for obtaining some of the stuff recommended in this book:
https://www.baar.com/storefront
Don’t take a sitz bath if your body is already cold. You can warm up your body with exercise before the bath (207). Don’t go outside in cold weather after taking a cold bath/shower (208).
Remedies:
Acne
2 almonds daily
Beet tops
Mud (boncilla, clasmic clay) pack
Watercress
Alzheimer’s/dementia
Increase oxygen
Anxiety
Exercise
Artery declogging/Blood clot
Avoid stress
Herb tea
Rutin (citrus fruits, green peppers, mustard greens, dandelion greens)
Exercise 35 minutes in the evening, rest, breathe. Take a cold sitz bath for 60-90 seconds.
Avoid meat except lamb, chicken, fish
Give up coffee
Arthritis
B & b1 vitamins (salmon, flax, yellow fruits and veggies)
Castor oil pack
Peanut oil rub each week
Hot bath + optional salts, epsom, pine, sluphur
Hot salt pack
Avoid stress
Asthma
Blow up balloons several times daily
Onion, sand, or sassafras oil pack
Back pain
Calcium (salsify/oyster plant)
Exercise daily
Have good posture
Baldness
Hot pack
Bites
Salt pack
Blood pressure
Alpha meditative state
Gentle massage
Osteopathic relaxing of third cervical and through upper dorsal for 6-8 weeks
Walk outside in early morning
Warm bath (90-101 F for 10-12 minutes)
Avoid consuming fat
Blood purifying
Salad: tomato, lettuce, celery, spinach, carrot, beet tops, mustard, onions
Boil
Mullein pack
Broken bones
Calcium
Castor oil packs
Massage
Bronchitis
Onion pack
Burns
Plantain leaves
callous/corn/bunion
massage 3-5 min with baking soda dampened with spirits of camphor for 5-10 days.
bathe limb from knee down with warm olive oil. then apply saturated solution of spirits of camphor with bicarbonate of soda. spread on evenly. bandage with a thin cloth overnight.
Cancer
Eat 3 almonds a day
Eat nothing but grapes for 4 days, and use grape poultices on tumor and/or across abdomen. (Not green grapes) Do this 4 days each month.
Castor oil or plantain salve or sassafras oil pack
Plantain leaves (skin cancer)
Avoid refined carbs (colon cancer)
Cataracts
Castor oil pack
Lavoris pack
Raw potato pack
Celiac
All banana diet
Cerebral palsy
Castor oil pack
Massage - alternate using Cocoa butter & olive oil
Cholesterol
Yellow Apples or apple jelly/jam
Fume bath with no soap
Colds
Cupping massage (for chest/back congestion)
Hot salt pack (congestion)
Keep the body alkaline (eat milk products but not the milk drink; fruit except prune/plum/cranberry & veggies except legumes like peas/beans/lentils)
Bathe feet & calves in mustard water 2-3 times a day
Onion pack (congestion)
Stop eating for 2 days. Drink as much liquid (citrus fruit juice) as possible, up to 1 gal per day.
4 glasses of water + 1-2 tbsp apple cider vinegar & 2 tbsp honey, taken at mealtimes and before going to bed
1 tsp baking soda in a glass of water, sipped slowly every hour
Constipation
Castor oil pack
Detox
Fast
Eat only apples for 3 days. The morning after the 3rd day, take 2 tbsp olive oil. Enema/colonic at the end of each day.
Eat only grapes for 4 days. (Not green grapes)
Eat only oranges for 5 days
Diabetes
Jerusalem artichokes (natural source of insulin)
Colonics with salt & soda
Avoid stress
Eczema
Avoid stress
Emphysema
Blow up balloons several times daily
Epilepsy
Castor oil pack
Hot salt pack
Pine needle oil
Eyes
beets
Burned/blinded by flash - tannic acid poultice
Carrot
green beans
Hot salt pack or hot castor oil pack
Lemon
Lime
Liver
onions
Oranges
peas
Raw potato pack (blindness)
Raw vegetable gelatin
To eliminate needing reading glasses: Do head & neck exercises as you walk for 20-30 minutes each morning
Fatigue
In the morning, swing the arms straight up and down
Massage for a minimum of 5 min
Short cold bath (40-55 F, 1.5-3 minutes)
Fertility
Cold sitz bath (6-9 inches of water, 60-65 degrees, sit with your feet up above the water; no more than 3 minutes) OR shower bath that starts increasingly hot for 3-5 minutes, then turn on the cold water for 40-80 seconds, then wrap up in a towel and relax in bed for 10 minutes minimum
Fever
Cold pack changed every 5-8 minutes
Gallbladder ailments
Castor oil packs
Hair loss
carrots
egg yolk
garlic
iodine
kelp salt or deep sea salt
onions
potato peel soup
raw vegetables: lettuce, celery, watercress, radish, mustard greens
seafood
avoid sweets
Massage scalp with crude oil (not the gas station kind) once or twice a month. After each massage, cleanse with 20% solution of grain alcohol with water added.
Massage scalp with hog lard once a week, wear a close fitting cap overnight. In the morning, shampoo with olive oil shampoo, then massage scalp with white vaseline + a drop of grain alcohol
Headache
Beet tops
Cold pack
Watercress
Cold sitz bath (6-9 inches of water, 60-65 degrees, sit with your feet up above the water; no more than 3 minutes) OR shower bath that starts increasingly hot for 3-5 minutes, then turn on the cold water for 40-80 seconds, then wrap up in a towel and relax in bed for 10 minutes minimum
Heart disease
Colonics
Hydrotherapy
Massage
Sweat baths
Let go of jealousy and anger
Heartburn
Almonds (peeled sweet dried)
3 day apple diet, enema/colonic, fume bath
Castor oil pack
Hemorrhoids
Epsom salt pack
Hot salt pack
Ride bicycle
Raise hands high above head, bend & touch toes 3 times when you get out of bed in the morning & 3 times before going to bed.
Incontinence
Ride a bike
Insomnia
Castor oil pack
Cold pack on abdomen
Before bed, take a cold sitz bath (6-9 inches of water, 60-65 degrees, sit with your feet up above the water; no more than 3 minutes) OR shower bath that starts increasingly hot for 3-5 minutes, then turn on the cold water for 40-80 seconds, then wrap up in a towel and relax in bed for 10 minutes minimum
Intestines
Chamomile tea
Mullein tea
Yellow saffron tea
Joint/tendon pain
Moisten iodized salt + apple vinegar. Massage it into the painful area twice a week.
Liver
Castor oil packs
Let go of hate
Longevity
Adapt to your circumstances
Antioxidants (goji berries, blueberries, dark chocolate, pecan, artichoke, elderberry, kidney bean)
Balance mental & physical activity
Castor oil pack over the abdomen
Challenge yourself
Emotional discipline
Give and receive love and friendship
Gold (shellfish, carrots, salsify/oyster plant)
Have motivation
Keep your daily calories 1200-1923
Turtle eggs
Vitamins c, e
Cool temperatures (5-6 F lower than what’s comfortable)
Eat mainly fruits, veggies, grains. 50g protein, 36 g fat, 354 g carbs. Meat & dairy should be 1% of your diet.
Exercise after waking up and before bed
Do Physical work throughout your life, even in old age.
Live in the mountains
Cayce says that humans could live much longer if they ate wisely, didn’t worry too much, and kept an optimistic outlook on life. “According to biologists, the life span of a species if from 8-10 times the age at which it is first capable of reproduction. Theoretically, then, humans should live to at least 120-150 years of age” (1).
Memory
Increase oxygen
Menopause
Calcium
Exercise daily
Hot salt pack
Massage daily
Menstruation
Glyco-thymoline packs
Turpentine stupes (4-5 thick cotton flannel dipped in 1-2 oz water & 1 tsp turpentine; wring out) applied over pubic center
Migraine
Alpha meditative state
Castor oil pack
Moles
Massage gently with castor oil twice each day for about 2 weeks
A pint of Plantain leaves + pint cream. Cook until thick; don’t burn. Use as ointment.
Multiple sclerosis
Massage
Castor oil pack
Hot salt pack
Mumps
Kerosene pack
Muscle pain
Hot pack
Massage
Muscle sprain
Hot salt pack
Nausea
Hot salt pack
Paralysis
Massage the numb area
Epsom salt bath
Pellagra
Eat Turnip greens
Pneumonia
Onion pack
Polio
Hot water vapor pack, followed by massage
Psoriasis
Fruit and vegetables
Osteopathic adjustments
Mix sulfur, cream of tartar, rochelle salts, mullein, saffron tea, elm water
Avoid stress, fat, sweets, pastries
Sciatica
Epsom salt bath or pack
Sore throat
Cold pack left on for at least 4 hrs or overnight
Stomachache
Almonds
Stress
Warm bath (98-100 F, 10-30 minutes, 20 average)
Teeth
Figs
large raw vegetable salad daily
massage teeth and gums with equal parts salt+baking soda. once a month add 1 drop of chlorine to a pint of water and rinse the mouth with this.
Tuberculosis
Grape pack
Eucalyptus oil pack
Inhale brandy fumes from old charred oak keg
Typhoid fever
Grape pack
May 5, 2012
Really enjoyed this book as it was VERY detailed on how to do things. The difficult part is finding some of the oils/items but they give you resources in the back of the book. If you're not into online shopping though, this may not be for you! The remedies I have tried have worked AWESOME!! Even the ones I was skeptical about ie) cold towel for a sore throat worked Amazing! I may change my rating as I try more of the things. Will keep everyone posted! EAT YOUR ALMONDS!!
May 29, 2013
Very good. The remedies I've tried have worked.
February 23, 2017
Not organized in a way that makes it easy to find solutions
Displaying 1 - 6 of 6 reviews