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That beef juice is to be taken as a tonic or as medicine offers a clue as to when one would use it. A number of the readings’ recipients were debilitated with a longstanding illness or disease process or they were suffering the aftereffects of surgery; consequently, they were on a liquid or semi-liquid diet, trying to regain their strength and stamina by ingesting easily assimilated and easily digested foods.

The strengthening quality of this food item is frequently noted; for example, “ . . . there is more strength and body-building in one spoonful of beef juice than a pound of the raw meat or rare meat or cooked! and the system will build more from same if taken in that way and manner . . . ” (1259-2)

A person who needed more calcium in his system was told that “ . . . the beef juice—if not in excess—will assist in the general condition for the body, as well as all properties carrying more of those that build muscle, tissue, bone and structural forces of the body.” (142-4) It may also be taken when one is feeling tired or weak.

Two recommendations remain consistent throughout the readings in the taking of beef juice: small amounts are to be taken each time, and this quantity is always to be sipped slowly, taking one’s time to swallow it. One reading states: “ . . . almost chew it—though there is nothing to chew, of course—for it is liquid . . . ” (975-5) Two other excerpts follow:

. . . Give a teaspoonful at the time, but let the body be at least two minutes in sipping that quantity. Let it rather be absorbed than swallowed. Let it just flow with the salivary glands and be absorbed through the body-force by the gentle swallowing. There will be little or none to digest, but will be absorbed.

3316-1

. . . But take at least a teaspoonful of beef juice four times each day and take at least a minute and a half in sipping this. That is, just sip it sufficiently that there is scarcely the need for even swallowing but let it be absorbed in the mouth as well as just trickle, as it were, to the throat and stomach, and then a swallow . . .

5334-1

Why the Cayce readings’ emphasis on sipping the juice? The reason for this may lie in its high concentration, as noted in several readings. “If the beef juice is prepared properly, a tablespoonful of this carries all of the elements that are most worth while for the system—as much as from as large a steak as an ordinary person might eat.” (556-8) “ . . . A tablespoon is almost equal to a pound of meat or two pounds of meat a day; and that’s right smart for a man that isn’t active!” (1424-2)

The equivalent of a smaller amount of beef juice is expressed in the following: “ . . . A teaspoonful of this is worth much more than a quarter pound steak. This is worth much more than five pounds of potatoes. It is worth much more than a whole head of cabbage, unless the cabbage is eaten raw—and this wouldn’t be very well for this body . . . ” (667-8) Sipping it slowly also helps the body to better assimilate it.

In the Physician’s Reference Notebook, Dr. William McGarey states that regular use of beef juice has these benefits: “It apparently could bring about a strengthening of the body without irritating the cells in the intestinal tract which might bring about a change in the nature of the lymph and the lymphatic functioning . . . ” (p. 374) This idea seems to be borne out in the information contained in the following reading:

. . . This, sipped in this manner, will work towards producing the gastric flow through the intestinal system, first in the salivary reactions to the very nature of the properties themselves, second with the gastric flow from the upper portion of the stomach or through the cardiac reaction at the end of the esophagus that produces the first of the lacteals’ {lymphatic vessels in the small intestine} reaction to the gastric flows in the stomach or digestive forces themselves; thirdly making for an activity through the pylorus and the duodenum that becomes stimulating to the activity of the flows without producing the tendencies for accumulation of gases.

1100-10

For those times when one may need some extra energy or vitality, a small amount of beef juice may be just the right help to get back on track.