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When individuals with no medical training find out about very simple therapies that are harmless but very interesting and have a history of being helpful, some become fascinated. They want to know “What happens if . . . ?” These are therapists who are born that way. I suspect that they have had past lives helping other humans through physical or mental difficulties.

When I was in Virginia Beach several years ago, an A.R.E. member told me about a friend of hers who must have been one of these “born-again” therapists. She worked at a supermarket checkout counter, but loved the use of castor oil and most of the Cayce remedies. She would tell her customers about these things as they checked out. Most of the time her customers do nothing about her suggestions, but on those occasions when they do, they get results.

One woman came through her checkout counter who had plastic wrapped around one leg and was obviously uncomfortable. Emma, the checkout clerk, said, “What in the world happened to your leg?” The answer, “Varicose veins!” The skin had broken down and would not heal no matter what she did. She had even spent three months in bed with no results. Emma told her about soaking a cloth in castor oil and wrapping it around her leg underneath the plastic. She didn’t tell her anything else.

Emma saw the lady’s husband about a month later and asked how his wife was doing. His answer, “You know, after two or three weeks, the leg healed up completely, and she’s had no trouble with it since.”

Another one of those investigative therapists was a patient of mine, who told me his story after the fact. He severely sprained his ankle. He wrote this account and sent it to me: “I used castor oil Saturday and Sunday nights and I am amazed at what it does. When I talked with you, I had just had the pack on for about half an hour and had gone to bed to keep my foot up. The pain was pretty hard to take, but after we were through on the telephone, I went back to bed and within a half hour the pain left almost suddenly, and I never had a recurrence.

“I slept like a log, put my foot in any position I wished, and could walk on it the next morning by using chairs along the way. Two nights before I couldn’t even step on it. I had to hang on to things and shuffle my good foot back and forth on the rug until I got to the phone . . . Now my ankle is fine, discolored a bit but no swelling, and I bind it up and go on my way.”

In the early days of my association with the Cayce material, I was on call for the emergency room at one of the local hospitals. A woman who had sprained her ankle at work had been taken to the emergency room. X-rays showed no fracture. I checked her ankle; it was swollen and tender to pressure and she had difficulty bearing weight on that foot. I instructed her to make up a castor oil pack and wear it constantly for the next two days, using an elastic bandage to hold it in place and to provide some pressure to keep the swelling down.

Two days later she appeared at our office, walking normally, with the pack in place. When I checked her ankle, she told me that my instructions were so strange that when she got out of the hospital, she thought, “What am I doing? That’s the craziest thing I ever heard of!” But, she said, since she didn’t have anything else to do and her ankle was hurting, she followed the instructions.

She used an elastic bandage for the next few days, but she walked without a limp and there was no pain. Even I was surprised at that kind of dramatic response. It represents more evidence for me on the amazing value of a common substance used to bring new awareness to the forces within the human body.

Many other experiences come from among our patient population and from those who correspond with me, but this one tells the story in a different way:

This was another instance in which a woman suffered a nasty sprain to her ankle. She knew about using castor oil packs and she put one together at once, applying the pack warm, covering the ankle and the foot, and using a plastic baggie to cover both.

The ankle hurt “like blazes,” she said, for about two hours, but then the pain disappeared completely. She used crutches the first day, but discarded them after that, keeping the pack on day and night for three days, warming it occasionally. Her ankle was a bit tender for a few days, but she was off it for just the first day.

Her husband had sprained his ankle years ago and was disabled and on crutches for three weeks. More recently a friend of hers was six weeks on crutches after her ankle was sprained. When they talked together (six weeks after the injury), the friend’s ankle was still swollen and painful. She took the suggestion, however, about using the packs and reported that she was delighted with the results.