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There really isn’t a miracle cure for anything, for miracles are just amazing happenings that come about from application of truths lodged somewhere in the realm of the yet-unexplained laws of the universe. However, it seems like a miracle when someone gently rubs a bit of castor oil over and over on a skin cancer of the ear, for instance, and the cancer just gradually disappears. It might take days or weeks or a few months, but it just doesn’t make good sense. For who would attribute miraculous powers to a substance as lowly as castor oil? Yet this has happened, and the owner of the lesion on the ear feels as if he or she has discovered a new world. It’s really a miracle to that individual.

This book is not about miracles, but it certainly has its foundation in the kind of healing that takes place when castor oil is used on—and sometimes in—the human body. Castor oil has a specific kind of an effect which some have called vibratory, when it is used therapeutically. For the present time, however, it probably is proper to say that the method of healing by using this oil is still undetermined. The results, however, have been apparent—not only in my experience, but in ancient times, as well as earlier in this century as reported in the medical literature.

It was twenty-six years ago that I first wrote a book about the use of castor oil in the practice of medicine. At that time, the manuscript was intended to be a simple report on the use of castor oil packs in the healing process of the human being. It was a monograph.

However, after the first couple of years, it became obvious that the book would be helpful for the lay reader in searching out ways of improving one’s health and general welfare, in addition to alleviating the symptoms of an illness. So the monograph became a book. And it came to be called Edgar Cayce and the Palma Christi.

Now, after forty-six years in the practice of medicine and more than thirty-eight years as a student who has put into practice the concepts found in the Edgar Cayce readings, and after thousands of copies of the Palma Christi have found their way into the hands of the general public, I feel it is important to update and add to the original manuscript. I am including some of the more important lessons I’ve learned and some of the interesting happenings that have come my way as my patients, my family, and my friends have used the castor oil packs on their own bodies.

Also, as these years have passed by, I’ve found the Bible and its contents coming into close association with the human being and a person’s amazing capabilities to become healed, and I’ve found the mind (the conscious and the subconscious) to be the link among the body, the emotions, and the spiritual essence of what we really are. The Bible with its wisdom, the Edgar Cayce readings, the mind, and the body are all interrelated through the use of these amazing castor oil packs, as you’ll see as you follow my adventures through the pages of this book. It has truly been an amazing journey for me through this environment we call the earth plane.

My most vivid memory of one part of the Bible—the 23rd Psalm—has me standing with my portable tape recorder in the very center of the Greek theater located just a stone’s throw from the spot where Aesculapius is said to have had his temple of sleeping and dreaming; where legend says that those who suffered with a diversity of illnesses came, slept, dreamed, and—in their sleep and dreaming—they were healed. I was standing there, surrounded by the ghosts of memories, listening to and recording the voice of Hugh Lynn Cayce, the son of Edgar Cayce, as he stood in the highest row of seats in this acoustically near-perfect theater, whispering the words of his favorite psalm.

The latter portion seems especially significant here: “Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.” (v. 5-6) Jesus was called the Christ, the Anointed One, for the Christ means “anointed.” The mind of humanity through the centuries, apparently, has known that oil is necessary for anointing, though one cannot easily say why. One type of union with God, certainly, is symbolized by the anointing with oil. Is this perhaps a healing of another portion of ourselves?

To my mind, this is not unlikely for my experience has taught me that the greatest mystery in the universe is not outer space; it is not what might be found in the depths of the earth; but rather it is in the innermost parts of the human being, you or me, the entity, the soul that God created in the beginning and made in His image as a spiritual being.

These three seemingly diverse subjects—Aesculapius, the 23rd Psalm, and my chosen life profession—all appear to be related: dreaming is not only for the health of the mind, anointing is not only of the spirit, and healing is certainly not only of the physical body.

Perhaps it was, in part, this background which led me to begin investigation into the use of an oil which has its origins in antiquity; which, in turn, has almost been discarded by medical practice today; but which, in his psychic discourses for those who were ill, Edgar Cayce advocated for more than fifty different conditions of illness in the human body and to which he attributed some quite remarkable qualities.

Castor oil is still used in medicine as a cathartic, but my use of it in the form of a pack came about because of my familiarity with the Cayce readings, because of my study of them, and because I saw literally hundreds of instances in which such packs were advised for conditions of the body that seemed to be—in most instances—unrelated to each other. Yet each person was advised to use the same therapy.

It would be difficult to state now for what kind of condition I first recommended the use of the castor oil pack. As results came, however, its utilization became more and more frequent. After three or four years, I began my earlier report, which eventually became the book dealing with my experiences up to that time.

In the years that have passed since that first attempt to record the changes that occur within the physiological functioning of the body from the use of castor oil, literally thousands of individuals have benefited by castor oil applied as a pack and as a substance to be rubbed onto the body. There is probably no portion of the external human anatomy that has not been treated with this remarkable substance.

Then why not call it “the oil that heals”?