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Because of the as-yet-unexplained healing qualities in castor oil, we have used it extensively with our patients, the personnel at the Clinic, and in our own lives. We have found that any puncture wound clears up almost immediately simply by applying castor oil over the area gently several times a day. The date palm trees in our back yard rarely got a trimming without my getting one or two puncture wounds from the needle-like ends of the fronds. I found out years ago that these wounds would become irritated and infected, if left unattended. I used to apply antibiotic cream on them, but that wasn’t helpful. When I discovered the efficacy of castor oil, I never had an infected puncture wound again. I would rub castor oil into the area after washing it, repeat it again several hours later, and then again at bedtime. If it was still reminding me that it was not feeling good in the morning, I would apply the oil once again. Usually, this would take care of the problem.

Our six children have had castor oil applied to various parts of their anatomy so often over the years that they have reminded us that they will put on our tombstones when we die, “Here they lie in spite of castor oil!”

The experience paid off in our caring for our patients and friends, and—as I mentioned earlier—it led to my writing a monograph about the use of castor oil packs in the practice of medicine. It developed into a book and acquired its name because someone in the Middle Ages called the castor bean plant the Palma Christi, the palm of Christ.⁸

A patient of ours, Sherri, was traveling about forty-five miles per hour on her motorbike when she lost control and crashed. Sherri had skin abrasions on her elbows, abdomen, and left breast, and the palms of both hands were scraped raw down to the dermal layer. Her therapy was castor oil, used liberally on all the affected areas. Her response was excellent. The wounds healed completely without scars.

Injuries at birth sometimes come in the form of bleeding under the skin of the scalp, which is called a hematoma (a tumor filled with blood). This is what happened when Patti’s third son was born. The tumor was relatively small right after birth, but continued to grow in size until the baby was two months old. At that point, it was the size of a baseball, and it was then that the mother started using a castor oil pack on his head, keeping it in place with the ingenuity born of motherhood.

It rapidly decreased in size and, within the next ten days, the hematoma was no longer present.

We have treated fingernails that had been “smashed,” using a little pack kept in place with a Band-Aid^®. If treated early enough, the blackened nail gradually gains back its normal color and the blood is reabsorbed.