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What exactly is castor oil? It is a yellowish-colored oil that is extracted from the castor bean or seed of the Ricinus communis, a tall tropical plant with large palmate leaves, also known as Palma Christi (palm of Christ). The castor oil plant is native to India, where it has been used extensively to treat all types of gastrointestinal disorders, bladder and vaginal infections, and asthma. In Russia it is used as a lubricant in industrial equipment because of its consistent viscosity; it won’t freeze even in Russia’s severe winters. It is also used there medicinally to restore hair and to treat constipation, eye irritations, and skin ulcers.

Chemically, castor oil is a triglyceride of fatty acids, nearly ninety percent of which is an unsaturated fatty acid called ricinoleic acid. (Triglycerides play an important role in metabolism as energy sources.) It is thought that the high concentration of this ingredient gives the oil its remarkable healing qualities. Ricinoleic acid has been shown to be effective in preventing the growth of various species of bacteria, yeast, molds, and viruses (Novak, A.F., et al., Journal of the American Oil Chemists’ Society, 1961, No. 37, pp. 323-325). Perhaps this quality accounts for its high success rate in topical applications and antimicrobial activity.

Cayce offers another perspective in the following two extracts:

. . . Consider that which takes place from the use of the oil pack and its influence upon the body, and something of the emotion experienced may be partially understood.

Oil is that which constitutes, in a form, the nature of activity between the functionings of the organs of the system; as related to activity. Much in the same manner as upon an inanimate object it acts as a limbering agent, or allowing movement, motion, as may be had by the attempt to move a hinge, a wrench, a center, or that movement of an inanimate machinery motion. This is the same effect had upon that which is now animated by spirit. This movement, then, was the reflection of the abilities of the spiritual of animate activity as controlled through the emotions of mind, or the activity of mind between spirit and matter . . .

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(Q) Should the Castor Oil packs still be taken?

(A) When necessary for the proper eliminations to be carried on in system; nothing will be found better, for this aids the organs in their necessary overactivity in eliminating the character of drosses created by the destruction of bacilli that will be carried on, and that is being carried on in the system. Do not allow the bowels or the colon to become clogged. Keep the eliminations properly. This is better done by either the diet or by outside influences than by poisoning or overtaxing the muco-membranes of the digestive system, by creating excitement to the activity of the lymph and emunctory circulation, or by taking cathartics or purgatives.

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