Harold J. Reilly - The Edgar Cayce Handbook for Health Through Drugless Therapy

The Edgar Cayce
Handbook for Health
Through Drugless Therapy

Harold J. Reilly, D.Ph.T., D.S.,
and Ruth Hagy Brod

Note to Readers: It is essential that you consult a physician before trying any of the remedies and exercises contained in this book, and in no case should you try any of them without the full concurrence of your physician. It is also important that you do not discontinue the treatment and diet prescribed by your doctor.

Copyright 1975 by Harold J. Reilly

Revised Edition

ISBN 13: 978-0-87604-215-1

8th Printing, July 2011

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Reilly, Harold J.

The Edgar Cayce handbook for health through drugless therapy. Bibliography: p.

Includes index.

ISBN 0-02-601960-4

1. Hygiene. 2. Cayce, Edgar, 1877-1945. I. Brod, Ruth Hagy, joint author. II. Title. [DNLM: Parapsychology. 2. Therapeutic cults. WB960 R362]

Edgar Cayce Readings 1971, 1993-2007
by the Edgar Cayce Foundation
All Rights Reserved

Illustrations by Ray Cullis

Cover design by Richard Boyle

Printed in the United States of America

To Betty

Who I feel was sent to me by Edgar Cayce to help me carry on the work which has made this book possible.

H. J. R.

To Albert

Beloved husband, friend, and partner who makes all things possible.

R. H. B.

This, thenthat the spirit, the soul, the elements of the active forces, use those portions of the physical body as their temple during an earths experience. (311-4)

For, all healing comes from the One Source. And whether there is the application of foods, exercise, medicine, or even the knifeit is to bring [to] the consciousness of the forces within the body that aid in reproducing themselves[which is] the awareness of Creative or God Forces. (2696-1)

... at least one week out of each month should be spent in beautifying, preserving, rectifying the bodyif the body would keep young, in mind, in body, in purpose. This doesnt mean that the entity should spend a whole week at nothing else. (3420-1)

Editorial Notes for This Edition

Care has been taken in the preparation of this edition to preserve the content and intent of the authors, while reformatting the layout to make the book easier to use.

Wherever possible, ancillary concepts, quotations, and anecdotes have been shifted into boxes or margin spaces for handy reference. Footnotes have been gathered as endnotes at the end of the book, while titles of books, which the authors either referred to or quoted from, have been consolidated in a bibliography at the back. Updated lists of reference books on Cayces life, diet, health, and remedies have been inserted in appropriate chapters. Some of the statistical charts have been updated along with the Sources of Supply.

N OTE : Quotations from the Edgar Cayce readings are identified by two numbers, e.g., 262-15. The first set of numbers refers to the individual or group who received the reading, while the second refers to the sequential number of the series of that particular reading. In the example cited, 262-15, this was the fifteenth reading given to Study Group #1 assigned the number 262.

The Editors

Completing this book has been a three-year project that would have been impossible without the dedicated help of many people who believe in and were inspired by the spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical wisdom in the Cayce readings.

The authors wish to use this opportunity to thank those who shared their personal experiences with us and the many friends and colleagues who have assisted us in our work.

We wish to acknowledge and thank the following for their very special help:

Hugh Lynn Cayce for his perceptive Foreword and reminiscences;

Gladys Davis Turner, Lucille Kahn, Hugh Lynn, Dr. Pat Reilly, and Dorothy Reilly for helping us reconstruct the history of Edgar Cayce and our family;

J. Everett Irion, Violet Shelley, and the editorial, library, and administrative staffs of the A.R.E. in Virginia Beach, Virginia;

Volunteers Rhoda Boyko, who assisted Mrs. Brod for two years in researching and typing the excerpts from the Cayce Medical Circulating Files; Rudolph Boyko, who helped his wife; Albert T. Brod, who did endless copying, checking, correcting, and reading; Andrew Grossman, who assisted with many chores;

Artist Jacqueline Mott, who added last-minute illustrations to those commissioned and executed by Ray Cullis;

And Doctors William A. McGarey, John Joseph Lalli, and Edith Wallace for reviewing the manuscript and for their helpful criticism and suggestions.

A special tribute to the significant leadership and courage in fighting for the consumers right to health and pollution-free air, water, and food of the following congressional committee and subcommittee chairmen and appreciation for the transcripts of their hearings:

Senators Richard S. Schweiker (R.-Pa.), Gaylord Nelson (D.-Wis.), William Proxmire (D.-Wis.), Philip A. Hart (D.-Mich.), and Congressman James J. Delaney (D.-N.Y.).

To Dr. Roger J. Williams, director of the Clayton Foundation Biochemical Institute of The University of Texas, our profound appreciation and respect for his great book, Nutrition Against Disease (New York, Pitman Publishing Co., 1971), from which we have quoted extensively.

We also wish to extend our thanks to the following:

E. M. Abrahamson and A. W. Pezet, Body, Mind and Sugar, New York, Pyramid Books, 1951;

Ted Burke, Recipes for Rejuvenation, Harpers Bazaar, March 1973;

Cathryn Elwood, Feel Like a Million, New York, Pocket Books, 1965;

Frank Glenn and Arthur J. Okenaka, Study of a 167-Year-Old-Man, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, July 1964;

Mrs. Edward Henderson, director of the American Geriatrics Society and editor of the Journal;

Josef P. Hrachovec, Keeping Young and Living Longer, Los Angeles, Calif., Sherbourne Press, 1972;

William A. McGarey, Edgar Cayce and the Palma Christi, Edgar Cayce Foundation and Medical Research Bulletins of the Edgar Cayce Foundation;

The Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., for its weight and longevity charts;

Proceedings of the Conference on Aging, sponsored by the Huxley Institute, New York, March 6, 1972;

Corinne H. Robinson, Normal and Therapeutic Nutrition, New York, Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1972;

Neil Solomon, The Truth About Weight Control, New York, Stein & Day, 1972;

Jess Stearn, Edgar CayceThe Sleeping Prophet, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday & Co.; New York, Bantam Books, 1968;

C. M. Taylor and O. F. Pye, Foundations of Nutrition,