The Edgar Cayce
Handbook for Health
Through Drugless Therapy
The Edgar Cayce Handbook for Health Through Drugless Therapy
Harold J. Reilly, D.Ph.T., D.S.,
and Ruth Hagy Brod
Note to Readers: It is essential that you consult a physician before trying any of the remedies and exercises contained in this book, and in no case should you try any of them without the full concurrence of your physician. It is also important that you do not discontinue the treatment and diet prescribed by your doctor.
Copyright © 1975 by Harold J. Reilly
Revised Edition
ISBN 13: 978-0-87604-215-1
8th Printing, July 2011
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Reilly, Harold J.
The Edgar Cayce handbook for health through drugless therapy. Bibliography: p.
Includes index.
ISBN 0-02-601960-4
1. Hygiene. 2. Cayce, Edgar, 1877-1945. I. Brod, Ruth Hagy, joint author. II. Title. [DNLM: Parapsychology. 2. Therapeutic cults. WB960 R362]
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Edgar Cayce Readings © 1971, 1993-2007
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To Betty
Who I feel was sent to me by Edgar Cayce to help me carry on the work which has made this book possible.
H. J. R.
To Albert
Beloved husband, friend, and partner who makes all things possible.
R. H. B.
“This, then—that the spirit, the soul, the elements of the active forces, use those portions of the physical body as their temple during an earth’s experience.” (311-4)
“For, all healing comes from the One Source. And whether there is the application of foods, exercise, medicine, or even the knife—it is to bring [to] the consciousness of the forces within the body that aid in reproducing themselves—[which is] the awareness of Creative or God Forces.” (2696-1)
“ . . . at least one week out of each month should be spent in beautifying, preserving, rectifying the body—if the body would keep young, in mind, in body, in purpose. This doesn’t mean that the entity should spend a whole week at nothing else.” (3420-1)
Editorial Notes for This Edition
Care has been taken in the preparation of this edition to preserve the content and intent of the authors, while reformatting the layout to make the book easier to use.
Wherever possible, ancillary concepts, quotations, and anecdotes have been shifted into boxes or margin spaces for handy reference. Footnotes have been gathered as endnotes at the end of the book, while titles of books, which the authors either referred to or quoted from, have been consolidated in a bibliography at the back. Updated lists of reference books on Cayce’s life, diet, health, and remedies have been inserted in appropriate chapters. Some of the statistical charts have been updated along with the Sources of Supply.
NOTE: Quotations from the Edgar Cayce readings are identified by two numbers, e.g., 262-15. The first set of numbers refers to the individual or group who received the reading, while the second refers to the sequential number of the series of that particular reading. In the example cited, “262-15,” this was the fifteenth reading given to Study Group #1 assigned the number “262.”
—The Editors
Contents
Part I: The Physical Body Is the Temple
1 Prevention: The Key to Lifelong Health
3 The Cayce Philosophy of Healing
Part II: Your Home Health and Beauty Spa
5 The Cayce Principles of Diet and Nutrition
7 For Figure and Fitness—Exercises from Head to Toe
8 Massage and Manipulation: Rubbing People the Right Way
10 Hydrotherapy: Healing with Water
11 Internal Cleansing: Colonics and Packs—and a Cure for the Common Cold
Part III: The Cayce/Reilly Beauty Handbook
12 It’s Better Off (Excess Weight)
13 Wake Up Your Sleeping Beauty