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Part of my awareness of the healing qualities of substances offered us by Mother Nature came about as I watched one kind of disturbance of the body after another respond to the application of a castor oil pack. We first used the packs on hepatitis because of the frequency with which Cayce, in his readings, suggested that they would be beneficial. Gall bladder conditions received much the same sort of attention in the readings.

Consistently, through the thirty years I have worked with the Cayce information, the use of castor oil packs for liver and gall bladder conditions has remained our standard. Rarely, if ever, have they failed to perform advantageously.

A nursing student, recognizing the onset of hepatitis, took a week off, loaded up with water and more water, and wore a castor oil pack continuously. She also had people pray for her. The following Monday she returned to school with no sign of the yellowish tint to her skin or conjunctivae of the eyes. The diagnosis had been confirmed early in the course of her illness, so there was no question about its validity. She would not have been able to continue in her training if she had missed more school than she did.

In 1978, we began a residential seventeen-day Temple Beautiful Program, fashioned to an extent after the ancient Temple Beautiful described in the Edgar Cayce readings. Later on, it became an eleven-day event, providing patients with a healing experience, linking together the body, mind, and spirit portions of the human being.

Joel Buchanan, a patient of ours who earlier had been through one of these programs, called me from Texas for some advice. He wanted to keep his liver in good shape. Early in 1987, he developed type B hepatitis, which he treated at home with castor oil packs. He was seeing his internist but didn’t tell him what he was doing because he felt the packs would be discredited by the doctor.

He had, however, a rapid recovery and his internist kept saying that his return to health was “miraculous,” considering his sixty-six years and the severity of the case. I told him that the same therapy that helped his liver back to health would help it maintain its health. So he continued using the packs periodically.

A correspondent, Richard Garcia, called me more than two years ago about the gallstones that had been discovered in his gall bladder. He had been doing a three-day apple diet and took olive oil by mouth on the third day. This diet he had continued intermittently for many years. But he was still having episodes of pain and discomfort. He knew about castor oil packs but had not used them, and he was discouraged. I told him that surgery was always an alternative.

His letter came quite recently letting me know that he had gone ahead and scheduled himself to see the surgeon: “But when I met with the surgeon he told me that there was a nerve that ran close by the gall bladder that they couldn’t avoid cutting. That really turned me off, so I got really serious and started a three-month, five-days-on, three-days-off series of castor oil packs. On the fifth evening after each series, I drank a half-cup of olive oil. The treatment did wonders for me and I had had no recurrences.” (Garcia decided on a half-cup of olive oil on his on. Cayce, as far as I know, never recommended that much oil in one dose. More commonly, it was a tablespoonful.)