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Much has been written about this affliction which also has the name or is associated with what is called dyslexia, an impairment of the ability to read. One lesson I’ve learned over the years is to look at the deeper causation of problems rather than the end product of a process.

The development of physiological abnormalities is the process. On the causative side of this process are those factors that create the abnormalities. On the resultant side of the same process is the manifestation, which is termed a disease or syndrome. Everything in the human body is changing for the better or for the worse as life continues, and we are always creating at the level of the mind and the emotions. This creative activity impacts the physiology for better or for worse.

In this instance, hyperactivity was the end product. The deeper problem must lie somewhere in the relationship among the activity of the mind, the emotional nature, and the neurological impulses which either bring information into our consciousness or cause the body to act. This places the cause, then, directly inside the nervous system.

It’s truly interesting to let the creative part of yourself loose and consider that the same application which helps a man stop snoring and become a cooperative instead of an antagonistic individual might also have a beneficial effect on hyperactivity. Both conditions lie in the realm of the autonomic nervous system.

This kind of speculation does not currently reside in the scientific field, but it might indeed have a reality if we acknowledge that most of the nature of humanity cannot be quantified, but has its ultimate meaning in a spiritual realm about which we know very little.

I recall one woman, in her late fifties, who reported to me that the castor oil pack which she had put on for the very first time was the best tranquilizer she had ever used. Others have told me that it helps them sleep, it relaxes them, and it soothes them. One might say it helps to normalize the body when applied over the abdomen, where the solar plexus is to be found—the largest accumulations of autonomic nerve cells in the lower part of the body.

It was in 1960 that we had our first real encounter with severe hyperactivity. Tommy’s mother told about his lifelong problem while she picked up torn magazines that Tommy had worked over, pushed drawers back in place in the examining room, pulled Tommy from the tops of furniture time and again—trying to restore order where he was creating chaos. He was everywhere and could not be quieted down.

He was in our office for a mild belly ache. The hyperactivity was a daily occurrence to which his mother had adapted. Mother was instructed to use a castor oil pack for the abdominal problem and to bring Tommy back if he was not doing well.

The next visit, three weeks later, was a revelation. Tommy was quiet, sat on a chair reading a book, turning the pages without tearing them out, answering questions like the average child, and showing no signs of hyperactivity.

What was happening? Every evening, his mother placed the castor oil pack on Tommy’s abdomen while he was watching television. She didn’t like having him watch television but she knew he would stay quiet. In a few days, he started reminding his mother to put the pack on because it felt so good. Her life was changed. Tommy was no longer a threat to the sanity of his parents nor to the furniture, wall-paper, or glassware. He was a normal five-year-old boy getting ready to go to school.

Ever since that experience, we have been treating hyper-activity with a good diet and castor oil packs, not with medication. Tommy grew up, got married, and now brings his kids in for a checkup occasionally. There is no hyperactivity now in that family.