In other readings, Cayce emphasized the need to alkalinize the system through diet:
In the diet we would keep rather to the non-acid foods, that is, keeping rather the alkaline-reacting foods; letting one meal each day consist of raw vegetables wholly. With such there may be used an oil or salad dressing. (745-1)
The herbal remedies such as the yellow saffron, mullein, and chamomile teas were designed to promote healing of the lesions in the intestinal wall.
Elimination was stressed through colonics, enemas, the Rochelle salts-sulfur-cream of tartar compound and the occasional use of vegetable laxatives such as a fusion of senna pods, saline laxatives, mineral laxatives such as milk of magnesia and, of course, the ever-present castor oil packs.
However, in general, Cayce preferred to stimulate elimination through the use of proper foods.
Massage with olive oil and peanut oil, and hydrotherapy—particularly fume baths—were encouraged to aid circulation and elimination, and the use of violet ray was recommended in some cases.
For external relief and treatment of the lesions he frequently mentioned the application of Resinol and Cuticura ointments.
In the evenings when the bath is taken, we would apply Cuticura Ointment followed by Resinol—both applied, you see, one following the other. Apply these especially over the areas of the abrasions. Do not apply it in the hair, but around the edges—and on all other portions of the body where the skin is irritated. If we rid the condition from the system, then these disturbances should be eliminated. (2455-2)
I had my first psoriasis case from Cayce in the early 1940s. This woman had suffered from psoriasis for twenty-two years, since she was a girl of thirteen. Usually Cayce recommended a series of osteopathic treatments for patients suffering from psoriasis before starting the other therapies. For some reason, in this case he started her with colonics prepared with “a level teaspoonful of table salt and half a teaspoonful of baking soda to each half gallon of water . . . In the last rinse water, put a tablespoonful of Glyco-Thymoline as the intestinal antiseptic.” (3032-1) The rest of the treatment included showers, thorough rubdown, saffron tea, milk of bismuth, and elixir of lactated pepsin in water. After three months of this, violet-ray treatments began.
The patient wrote to Mr. Cayce: “I went to see Dr. Reilly . . . already I feel less fatigued and considerably more ease of body. It is wonderful! . . .
“There are times when words fall so short of our feelings and in wanting to thank you, Mr. Cayce, I find this is one of those times.”
In the diet we would keep rather to the non-acid foods, that is, keeping rather the alkaline-reacting foods; letting one meal each day consist of raw vegetables wholly. With such there may be used an oil or salad dressing. (745-1)
I often find my own feelings echoing those of this grateful patient. As the years go by, I never cease to get a thrill when I learn of another Cayce-inspired cure and receive this reassurance that his work and his goodness live on. It doesn’t matter whether this occurs in my own practice or elsewhere.
The child had developed psoriasis at about eight y ears of age and had been covered from head to foot with lesions of the disease. She was taken from doctor to doctor without relief or improvement. She was so disfigured that it was not possible for her to lead any sort of normal life.—H.J.R.
Last summer, my co-author, Mrs. Brod, returned from a statewide meeting of the New Jersey Society of Psychical Research, thrilled over an interview she had had with the parents of a young girl who had been cured of psoriasis by the Cayce treatment just described. The girl and her family were transfigured by this extraordinary experience.
The child had developed psoriasis at about eight years of age and had been covered from head to foot with lesions of the disease. She was taken from doctor to doctor without relief or improvement. She was so disfigured that it was not possible for her to lead any sort of normal life. Her performance in school and her personality were affected, and her life and her family’s life were completely dominated by this tragedy.
One day, when the girl was about eleven years of age, her parents were opening a new bookstore in a New Jersey town when a woman rushed in and asked for a copy of a book she had heard discussed on a radio talk show the night before. She did not know the name of the book, nor much about it, except that it contained a cure for psoriasis given by a psychic named “Casey.” The alerted parents traced the book down. It was Edgar Cayce—The Sleeping Prophet by Jess Stearn. They wrote to the A.R.E. immediately, joined the organization, and got the file on psoriasis. It took a lot of hard and persistent effort for them to find an osteopath who would follow the treatment, and they did not know how to procure the herb teas—particularly the mullein—which is an ordinary roadside wild weed. However, they persisted and were more than rewarded when after the first series of osteopathic treatments no new lesions appeared. After the Rochelle salts combination was taken, the lesions faded from red to pale pink, and within three months the child, now a beautiful teenager, was cured and has never had a reoccurrence of the disease. (See source of supply at the back of this book for help in procuring the necessary herbs and Rochelle salts mixture.)
Case 2924
Another patient who received relief from a longstanding condition was E.D.G., a fifty-year-old man who lived in Massachusetts. He had suffered ill effects from working in very cold conditions, making hive equipment in the dozen years he had been a beekeeper.
“I think I eventually got a permanent condition of cold in my back and this seemed to have considerable influence on my bearing,” he wrote. Besides backaches, he suffered affected heart action, breathlessness, headaches, and loss of memory. A medical doctor’s treatments had taken care of the trouble for two years, but the man was apprehensive that it might return, so he appealed to Cayce.
Cayce prescribed hydrotherapy treatments, including mild, dry heat, then a fume bath, preferably with witch hazel, followed by thorough massage and at least two colonics two weeks apart.
The patient came to New York so that I could get him started on the treatment and help him to locate a fume-bath device for home use. His wife wrote Cayce, “We are now carrying on the treatment the best we can at home, and we are delighted with the good results even in this short time.”
Case 3286
The case of [3286], in which I was only slightly involved, is a dramatic example of the importance of patience and persistence in achieving one of Cayce’s miracles. It took twelve years to come about. This is the story:
The young woman, severely handicapped by poliomyelitis since infancy, was twenty-five when she received her first Cayce reading (October 11, 1943). He prescribed the daily use of the wet-cell appliance carrying gold, silver, and iodine alternately. This was to be followed by massage with a combination of these oils: Russian white oil, oil of pine needles, olive oil, peanut oil, and sassafras oil. “Be persistent, be consistent, be instant [insistent] in prayer,” he told her
Cayce sent her to me for instruction in the use of the appliance and massage. I saw her twice.
In November 1955, Cayce’s devoted secretary, Gladys Davis Turner, was making a survey of cases. She wrote Miss [3286] asking for a report on her experience with the wet-cell appliance.
The reply came back: the wet-cell appliance