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Cayce gave this information:

. . . clear the body as you do the mind of those things that have hindered. The things that hinder physically are the poor eliminations. Set up better eliminations in the body. This is why osteopathy and hydrotherapy come nearer to being the basis of all needed treatments for physical disabilities. [Italics added.] (2524-5)

Many people go through life taking chronic constipation casually, little realizing how serious it is and what diseases it can lead to.

—H.J.R.

The word elimination is a broad term. We eliminate through the intestines, through the kidneys, skin, and lungs. If you go through a number of the Edgar Cayce physical readings, however, you will find that all these channels of elimination are covered very thoroughly. In this reading he explains, with uncanny medical accuracy and comprehensiveness, how wastes are accumulated in the body:

. . . each activity, whether the pulsation of the heart or the movement of the hand, the use of the vision, speech, walking, or what activity, is USING energy in the body, and this energy leaves what may be called ash—or what we have chosen to term the drosses. As the circulation passes through the system, the natural activity is that along the corpuscles’ activity; these [drosses] are thrown into the channels of not only the alimentary canal as the drosses from food taken into the body . . . the nerve and muscular reaction carried into the blood supply is to be, through the activity of the liver, the lung, thrown off through one or the other of these channels . . . It is thrown off in the breath, through the liver activity—as an excretory and secretive functioning; that is, the secretions are activities from the system and as these are thrown into blood supply here, with the activity of the pancreas, gall duct, spleen, these all . . . throw out drosses, as in the rest of the system. If the eliminating channels coordinate one with another, then these are thrown off in their regular way and manner. [Italics added.] (480-8)

Many people go through life taking chronic constipation casually, little realizing how serious it is and what diseases it can lead to. Dr. Max Bircher-Benner, the world-famous pioneer in preventive medicine (probably known to Americans chiefly through his organic Swiss breakfast food), was fond of quoting Professor Elie Metchnikoff of the Pasteur Institute, who called the large intestines “murderer of men.”

“Not only are poisons carried often to the blood,” Dr. Bircher-Benner points out, “but the mucous membranes, which are a kind of barricade, allow germs to pass. This is the beginning of the accumulation of bacillus coli in kidney and bile ducts . . . Serious operations become necessary, such as the removal of the gall bladder; there is no end to the trouble.”³

As for remedies, Dr. Bircher-Benner (and I agree) decries the use of laxatives, which has steadily increased since his death in 1939. “The quantities of laxatives which are so largely used by millions of constipated people are by no means harmless. They will never remove the dangers inherent in all constipation: autointoxication and its incurable sequels. The convenience of their use prevents doctors and patients from applying drastic measures that would really cure. Here again we may quote the words of Nietzsche: ‘The seeming shortcuts always mean danger to mankind! As soon as glad tidings of this shortcut are heard, mankind leaves its path and the way is lost!’”⁴

Before describing the remedies that Cayce used to treat elimination—none of them “shortcuts,” but real corrections—I would like to point out the parallel in philosophy and wisdom of the great doctor Bircher-Benner with Cayce, the simple man who gained his knowledge through his psychic ability. In both cases the men have died, but their work not only lives on but grows more alive and relevant every day.

The great health spa that Dr. Bircher-Benner founded in Switzerland to carry out his theories is more popular today than ever and the greatest celebrities of the world flock to it for rejuvenation.⁵ Similarly the Cayce health and medical readings are attracting more doctors, osteopathic physicians, therapists of all kinds, and patients to the clinic in Phoenix and to Virginia Beach. And I believe that we still have a gold mine of health information buried in the readings, from which we have only extracted a few nuggets.

How did Cayce cope with the problem of elimination?

In cases of extreme toxemia he recommended a controlled fast for complete bodily cleansing—either a three-day apple diet, a four-day grape diet, or a five-day orange diet, all of which will be described with instructions in Chapter 11.

Unless contraindicated, we always give daily colonic irrigation with these diets, followed by castor oil packs to improve elimination and stimulate the gallbladder, spleen, and digestive organs. Cayce was a great advocate of colonics:

Take a colonic irrigation occasionally, or have one administered, scientifically. One colonic irrigation will be worth about four to six enemas. (3570-1)

The subject of colonics and enemas will be described and instructions given in Chapter 11.

Cayce was also very sold on all forms of hydrotherapy and massage for elimination as well as circulation:

For the hydrotherapy and massage are preventive as well as curative measures. For the cleansing of the system allows the body-forces themselves to function normally, and thus eliminate poisons, congestions and conditions that would become acute through the body. (257-254)

To promote elimination through the kidneys Cayce advised drinking water—six to eight glasses a day:

. . . there should be more water taken into the system in a more consistent manner, so that the system, especially in the hepatics and kidneys, may function more nominally [normally?], thus producing the correct manner for elimination of drosses in the system, for, as we see, there are many channels of elimination from the system. For this reason, each channel should be kept in that equilibrium or in that balance wherein the condition is not brought to an accentuated condition in any one of the eliminating functioning conditions; not overtaxing the lungs, not overtaxing the kidneys, not overtaxing the liver, not overtaxing the respiratory system, but all kept in that equal manner. . .

Many patients who came to me from Cayce brought directions and instructions for “sweat” and ‘fume” baths. The fume bath is a light steam or vapor bath, using certain chemicals, oils, or drugs that vaporize easily. —H.J.R.

The lack of this water in system creates, then, the excess of those eliminations that should nominally [normally] be cleansed through alimentary canal and through the kidneys, back to the capillary circulation . . . [This brings about, at times,] congestion and weakened condition. (257-11)

Diet as Therapy

We find that those food values are best that make for the eliminating forces of the body through the alimentary canal; that is, leafy vegetables will make for the better eliminations—also, as a part of the diet (in the mornings or evenings), use either stewed figs, raisins, apricots, or pears occasionally. All of these will be found to be most helpful to the body in these directions. (480-24)

Many patients who came to me from Cayce brought directions and instructions for “sweat” and “fume” baths. The fume bath is a light steam or vapor bath, using certain chemicals, oils, or drugs that vaporize easily. We usually give it in an electric cabinet but we will give you directions for home use in Chapter 10. Cayce often recommended that Atomidine (“atomic iodine”)⁶, witch hazel or eucalyptus, and balsam or pine oils be used to make the vapor.

Elimination through the skin is very important, for the skin normally does about one-twentieth of the work of the kidneys. When the skin elimination is speeded up, it can take care of practically one-tenth of the work that the kidneys usually do for the body. Therefore, stimulation through the skin is important for elimination, for it can help kidney function and prevent kidneys from becoming overloaded. Fume baths are useful not only for the skin but also are used for inhalations, thus aiding elimination through the lungs.

A great deal of elimination takes place through the lungs, by means of deep breathing. When you take a good deep breath, especially if you exhale it completely, forcing the residual air out of the lungs, you bring about a complete change of air. By doing so, you not only drive oxygen down into the lower part of the lungs, but you also help to speed the elimination of carbon dioxide, which is the end product of fatigue. Protein waste is also eliminated through the lungs in the form of carbon dioxide. The bloodstream picks up some of the acid waste and turns it into gas, which is exchanged for oxygen in the lungs. Cayce placed great emphasis on deep breathing and even paralleled some of the breathing techniques used in yoga, incorporating them and combining them with stretching and bending exercises in the yoga tradition (see Chapters 6 and 7).