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Cayce’s success in curing psoriasis has received considerable publicity because this disfiguring skin disorder is usually considered incurable by the medical establishment. Although I personally make it a rule not to treat patients with skin disorders (largely because of the prejudices of the clientele in a large institute), I did accept one case and did considerable research on the Cayce approach to this puzzling and baffling aberration.

Although there has never been an officially designated medical cause of psoriasis, Cayce’s theory was that it stemmed from the thinning of the intestinal walls and that usually a lack of lymph circulation through the alimentary canal is involved.

In Case 5016 a twenty-five-year-old woman asked: “Is psoriasis always from the same cause?” Cayce replied:

No, but it is more often from the lack of proper coordination in the eliminating systems. At times the pressures may be in those areas disturbing the equilibrium between the heart and liver, or between heart and lungs. But it is always caused by a condition of lack of lymph circulation through alimentary canal and by absorption of such activities through the body.

Cayce outlined a diet for the diabetes, with plenty of Jerusalem artichokes (a natural source of insulin), and colonics with salt and soda, followed with Glyco-Thymoline to correct the “prolapsus in the colon” that Cayce found as one of the core causes of her illnesses . . .—H.J.R.

We did succeed in bringing down her blood pressure from 230 to 150. She wrote Cayce, “No medical doctor has been able to do this.“ We were also able to reduce the edema and the phlebitis.—H.J.R.

Cayce’s success in curing psoriasis has received considerable publicity because this disfiguring skin disorder is usually considered incurable by the medical establishment. Although I personally make it a rule not to treat patients with skin disorders (largely because of the prejudices of the clientele in a large institute), I did accept one case and did considerable research on the Cayce approach to this puzzling and baffling aberration.

—H.J.R.

The treatment embodied all the principles of the Cayce CARE program—and used all the modalities discussed in this book: diet, elimination by internal cleansing and the use of special herb teas and waters, osteopathy, hydrotherapy, stimulation of circulation through massage, and in some cases electrotherapy

The following excerpt from Case 5016-1 is fairly typical of the cases of psoriasis and the recommended treatment.

A distracted mother wrote in early 1944: “I have a daughter who has had a skin condition for some years. No physician so far has helped her and not we either. We are licensed naturopathic physicians . . . I would like you to please give her a reading soon, so that I can follow your instructions during summer months and she will be cured by September before going back to college. Her trouble was so bad that she had to stop her school work ...” Cayce replied:

While there is the thinning of the walls of the small intestines and there are poisons absorbed through the system that find expression in the attempt to eliminate through superficial circulation, we find that there are pressures also existing in the areas of the 6th, 7th dorsal that upset the coordination of circulation through the kidneys and the liver. These contribute to the condition, causing the abrasions which occur as red splotches or spots at times, and at other times there is the forming of blackheads apparently, or black points on the abrasions, you see, or in the abrasion areas.

... Then, in making applications for corrections here we would first through osteopathic adjustments correct those subluxations upon the right side at the 6th and 7th dorsal and then coordinate the 3rd cervical, the 9th dorsal and through the lumbar, with such corrections. There should only be required about twelve adjustments, if properly made, coordinating the muscular forces in areas where the sympathetic and cerebrospinal systems coordinate in the greater measure.

We would have these twice each week for the first six of the treatments. The others may be spread out longer.

After the first six osteopathic adjustments have been made (not before), begin taking internally a compound prepared in this manner:

Sulfur	1 tablespoonful
Rochelle Salts	1 tablespoonful
Cream of Tartar	1 tablespoonful

Mix these very thoroughly, as with mortar and pestle. Take a teaspoonful every morning, either in water or dry on tongue, until the whole quantity has been taken.

Then begin with Yellow Saffron Tea, a pinch of the American Saffron in a cup of boiling water—or put in a cup and fill with boiling water, allow to stand for thirty minutes, strain and drink, each evening when ready to retire.

Occasionally, about two to three times a week, drink elm water—a pinch of ground elm (between thumb and forefinger) in a cup, filled with warm water (not boiling water). Stir thoroughly and let set for 30 minutes. Drink this preferably of morning rather than at the period when the Saffron is taken.

Eliminate fats, sweets and pastries from the diet. Do have a great deal of fruits and vegetables.

The thinning of the intestinal walls of the intestinal tract would permit toxins to leak into the circulatory system and into the lymph flow of the skin. Then when the blood and lymph systems are unable to eliminate these poisons, the inflammatory skin reaction known as psoriasis is produced. A study of the Cayce readings indicates that the initial cause that triggers this malfunction could be emotional, nervous, improper functioning of the kidneys, liver, and any or all portions of the elimination systems of the body, so that the emunctory systems are unable to eliminate toxins as fast as they are absorbed; thus, the circulation becomes overburdened and the toxins find their way into the lymph flow of the skin in sufficient quantity to produce congestion and the inflamed reaction which is characteristic of the red, scaly, itchy patches on the skin.

In other readings, Cayce emphasized the need to alkalinize the system through diet:

In the diet we would keep rather to the non-acid foods, that is, keeping rather the alkaline-reacting foods; letting one meal each day consist of raw vegetables wholly. With such there may be used an oil or salad dressing. (745-1)

The herbal remedies such as the yellow saffron, mullein, and chamomile teas were designed to promote healing of the lesions in the intestinal wall.

Elimination was stressed through colonics, enemas, the Rochelle salts-sulfur-cream of tartar compound and the occasional use of vegetable laxatives such as a fusion of senna pods, saline laxatives, mineral laxatives such as milk of magnesia and, of course, the ever-present castor oil packs.

However, in general, Cayce preferred to stimulate elimination through the use of proper foods.

Massage with olive oil and peanut oil, and hydrotherapy—particularly fume baths—were encouraged to aid circulation and elimination, and the use of violet ray was recommended in some cases.

For external relief and treatment of the lesions he frequently mentioned the application of Resinol and Cuticura ointments.

In the evenings when the bath is taken, we would apply Cuticura Ointment followed by Resinol—both applied, you see, one following the other. Apply these especially over the areas of the abrasions. Do not apply it in the hair, but around the edges—and on all other portions of the body where the skin is irritated. If we rid the condition from the system, then these disturbances should be eliminated. (2455-2)

I had my first psoriasis case from Cayce in the early 1940s. This woman had suffered from psoriasis for twenty-two years, since she was a girl of thirteen. Usually Cayce recommended a series of osteopathic treatments for patients suffering from psoriasis before starting the other therapies. For some reason, in this case he started her with colonics prepared with “a level teaspoonful of table salt and half a teaspoonful of baking soda to each half gallon of water . . . In the last rinse water, put a tablespoonful of Glyco-Thymoline as the intestinal antiseptic.” (3032-1) The rest of the treatment included showers, thorough rubdown, saffron tea, milk of bismuth, and elixir of lactated pepsin in water. After three months of this, violet-ray treatments began.

The patient wrote to Mr. Cayce: “I went to see Dr. Reilly . . . already I feel less fatigued and considerably more ease of body. It is wonderful! . . .

“There are times when words fall so short of our feelings and in wanting to thank you, Mr. Cayce, I find this is one of those times.”

In the diet we would keep rather to the non-acid foods, that is, keeping rather the alkaline-reacting foods; letting one meal each day consist of raw vegetables wholly. With such there may be used an oil or salad dressing. (745-1)

I often find my own feelings echoing those of this grateful patient. As the years go by, I never cease to get a thrill when I learn of another Cayce-inspired cure and receive this reassurance that his work and his goodness live on. It doesn’t matter whether this occurs in my own practice or elsewhere.

The child had developed psoriasis at about eight y ears of age and had been covered from head to foot with lesions of the disease. She was taken from doctor to doctor without relief or improvement. She was so disfigured that it was not possible for her to lead any sort of normal life.—H.J.R.

Last summer, my co-author, Mrs. Brod, returned from a statewide meeting of the New Jersey Society of Psychical Research, thrilled over an interview she had had with the parents of a young girl who had been cured of psoriasis by the Cayce treatment just described. The girl and her family were transfigured by this extraordinary experience.

The child had developed psoriasis at about eight years of age and had been covered from head to foot with lesions of the disease. She was taken from doctor to doctor without relief or improvement. She was so disfigured that it was not possible for her to lead any sort of normal life. Her performance in school and her personality were affected, and her life and her family’s life were completely dominated by this tragedy.

One day, when the girl was about eleven years of age, her parents were opening a new bookstore in a New Jersey town when a woman rushed in and asked for a copy of a book she had heard discussed on a radio talk show the night before. She did not know the name of the book, nor much about it, except that it contained a cure for psoriasis given by a psychic named “Casey.” The alerted parents traced the book down. It was Edgar Cayce—The Sleeping Prophet by Jess Stearn. They wrote to the A.R.E. immediately, joined the organization, and got the file on psoriasis. It took a lot of hard and persistent effort for them to find an osteopath who would follow the treatment, and they did not know how to procure the herb teas—particularly the mullein—which is an ordinary roadside wild weed. However, they persisted and were more than rewarded when after the first series of osteopathic treatments no new lesions appeared. After the Rochelle salts combination was taken, the lesions faded from red to pale pink, and within three months the child, now a beautiful teenager, was cured and has never had a reoccurrence of the disease. (See source of supply at the back of this book for help in procuring the necessary herbs and Rochelle salts mixture.)