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In March 2000, the Heritage Store in Virginia Beach, VA, sent out a brief questionnaire to people who had purchased a charred oak keg within the last few years. Twenty-nine individuals responded. While the majority of recommendations from the Cayce readings concerned those with tuberculosis or TB tendencies—with a few cases of asthma, pleurisy, and various lung problems—a wider range of respiratory ailments was noted by the survey responders: bronchiectasis, bronchitis, chronic cough, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, colds, congestion, emphysema, fibrosis, nasal drip, pneumonia, sarcoidosis, and smoker’s lung. Several even used it to help quit smoking and others to achieve better athletic performance.

In rating their success with the keg, consistency of use seemed to be the main factor influencing a better outcome; those individuals using it on a regular basis reported good or better results.

Some of the differences noted by the survey participants included: coughing less often, breathing more easily, and experiencing a decrease in the number of colds and respiratory infections, the loosening up of congestion, as well as the alleviation of pain. One individual, taking oxygen for emphysema and chronic bronchitis, commented that inhaling from the keg “loosens mucus to cough up, expel; medicates lung and bronchi, keeping down infections.”

Remedial use of the keg was found to be effective at the onset of congestion to help cough up mucus, when losing one’s voice, and to open breathing passages. Another individual, susceptible to colds, noted: “I took so many antibiotics that I became allergic to two of them, so the charred oak keg was always a rescue mission for me.” Two respondents commented that the keg helped reduce their desire to smoke; one mentioned taking a whiff from the keg each time the urge to light up arose. Another used it “to enhance oxygen intake for extreme sports training.”

With proper care and use, the keg can be a healing influence on the lungs. One excerpt succinctly stated: “Keep the keg. This is as life itself . . . ” (1548-4)