The Edgar Cayce Handbook for Health Through Drugless Therapy. Harold J. Reilly

back relating the story on file of a thirty-year-old woman [2778] whose legs had been paralyzed by polio when she was a year old. She used huge, clumsy braces and crutches in order to walk. Her reading from Mr. Cayce prescribed the use of the wet-cell appliance, massage, and heat cabinet. In three months’ time she could stand alone and in two years’ time she was using braces from the knees down and a cane to help her keep her balance. “On the basis of her progress alone I would certainly encourage you to take out your readings again and follow the treatments,” Gladys wrote Miss [3286].

      In time, [3286] replied that as a result of Gladys’s letter she had bought an appliance and supplies and started in again, this time with her mother and sister giving the massage. “I’m getting straighter, I’m told. My spine seems to be straightening out . . . I believe I can raise my left arm higher than I did . . . I have gotten up out of the wheelchair . . . from a slightly lower height than usual.”

       Case 2966

      To a fifty-five-year-old woman suffering from uterine tumors and insomnia, Cayce recommended twenty to twenty-five hydrotherapy treatments under my direction:

       Gladys wrote back relating the story on file [2778] of a thirty-year-old woman whose legs had been paralyzed by polio when she was a year old. She used huge, clumsy braces and crutches in order to walk. Her reading from Mr. Cayce prescribed the use of the wet-cell appliance, massage, and heat cabinet. In three months” time she could stand alone and in two years’ time she was using braces from the knees down and a cane to help her keep her balance. —H.J.R.

      Hydrotherapy should include the steam baths . . . fumes, alternately, one time Atomidine and the next time Witch Hazel . . . followed with a thorough rubdown . . . following the hot and cold water spray . . . For the thorough massage we would use a combination of 2 parts Russian White Oil . . . to one Pine Oil. And use the regular Pine Oil, not pitch, not pine needles, but Pine Wood Oil, see?

      Have sufficient exercise in the open each day. Walking is the better exercise, besides that which will be attained in taking the hydrotherapy and massage. (2966-1)

      He said the tumors did not necessarily require an operation since they “as we find, are lymph accumulations.” Two months after the April 1943 reading she wrote, “The operation is now behind me . . . My recovery has been excellent. I attribute this in goodly measure to the seventeen treatments that I managed to get in at Reilly’s.”

       Case 2774

      A forty-eight-year-old woman suffering from glaucoma was being given Cayce treatments by both Dr. George N. Coulter, an osteopathic physician, and by me in hydrotherapy and massage.

      Dr. Coulter wrote, after [2774] returned to him from my physiotherapy treatments, that “her improvement was astounding. Her pain was greatly relieved and she acted like a different person.”

       Case 1841

      A fifty-three-year-old woman was advised by a surgeon to have a major operation (hysterectomy) immediately. David Kahn prevailed on his friend to consult Cayce for a reading first before surgery.

      The reading, in March 1939, diagnosed her disorder as “glandular disturbances [which] . . . produce the forming of lymph globules . . . in the pelvic or digestive areas ...” No operation was necessary if she followed the treatments, Cayce said, which included two periods of Atomidine taken for seven days, “for cleaning the system,” omitted for five days and taken again for seven. After the Atomidine the patient was to start with a pine-oil fume bath and full massage and some osteopathic adjustment for six or eight weeks. He also recommended pelvic douches and a diet that avoided fried food, white bread, potatoes, and red meat.

      Mr. Kahn wrote Cayce a few months later, “You no doubt have heard from Mrs. [1841] that she is 100 percent improved and cured ...”

      The woman never had that “urgent” operation.

       Case 4020

      A thirty-eight-year-old New York policeman, suffering for years from a painful back (sacroiliac joint) and pain down the leg, had sought relief from many doctors, hospitals, and even the Mayo Clinic.

      After his return from Rochester, Minnesota, he wrote an anguished letter to Cayce. “At the Mayo Clinic,” he said, “doctors say that my symptoms and certain laboratory tests all point to one condition but the X-rays show nothing . . . They told me to return in six months or a year if the condition became aggravated.

      “... I am married and have a nineteen-month-old daughter. I write to you now in more of a desperate mood than a despairing one. My job is in jeopardy. There is a strong possibility that I may be retired on an annual pension of only a thousand dollars. That is entirely inadequate to support my family . . .

      “Mr. Cayce, would you employ your marvelous gift in order to help me?”

      Cayce would and did. He recommended a hydrotherapy treatment once a week to include short wave and fume baths and thorough massage.

      Cayce wrote him:

      Do by all means see Dr. Reilly himself or Mr. Eigen and show them the reading. They are quite familiar with the work and have handled quite a number of people with marvelous results. I am sure if you don’t already know them, you will find them most accommodating and very lovely men to deal with.

Part II

5

      The Cayce Principles of Diet and Nutrition

      The wagon drew up before the office of Dr. Wesley Ketchum in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. It was filled with straw and on it lay the inert figure of Homer Jenkins, a man who worked in the local brickyard.

      “He just keeled over in a faint,” the wagon driver told the doctor. “One minute he was working . . . the next . . . there he was stretched out on the ground. We thought down at the brickyard that you had better look at him.”

      Dr. Ketchum did look and listen with his stethoscope. He probed and thumped and questioned and tested in his best diagnostic manner. He could find nothing organically wrong with the man. It was a puzzle.

      Dr. Ketchum placed a call to his friend and secret colleague, Edgar Cayce, and told him about the case. “I’d like you to see what you can do with it,” he told Cayce. “I can’t figure out what’s wrong with him.”

      Cayce loosened his collar and tie, lay down, stretched out, and received instructions from Dr. Ketchum as he slipped into trance.

      “The body is suffering from malnutrition,” he told Dr. Ketchum, “too much hominy, hog, and grits.” The treatment consisted of changing the diet and adding lots of greens such as turnip greens.