William A. McGarey M.D. - The Oil That Heals: A Physicians Success with Castor Oil Treatments

THE OIL THAT HEALS

A Physicians Successes with Castor Oil Treatments

(Expanded and revised edition of Edgar Cayce and the Palma Christi)

by William A. McGarey, M.D.

A.R.E. Press Virginia Beach Virginia

Copyright 1993

by William A. McGarey

19th Printing, October 2012

Printed in the U.S.A.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

McGarey, William A., 1919

The oil that heals : a physicians successes with castor oil treatments / by William A. McGarey.

p. cm.

Expanded and rev. ed. of: Edgar Cayce and the Palma Christi.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 13: 978-0-87604-308-0

1. Castor oilTherapeutic use . 2. Cayce, Edgar, 1877-1945. I. McGarey, William A. Edgar Cayce and the Palma Christi. II. Title.

RM666.C375M38 1993

Edgar Cayce Readings 1971, 1993-2007
by the Edgar Cayce Foundation. All rights reserved.

Cover illustration and design by Sally Brown

This book is simply, but with a great deal of love, dedicated to two individuals who have together shaped world thought in a way that benefits every individual living in it.

Edgar Cayce was born in 1877 in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and lived a life that was sometimes painfully eventful. He had developed a gift in former lifetimes, however, which gave him the capacity to lie down and enter a state of altered consciousness that could then be tapped. He was able to touch in on the akashic records and the information in what we call universal consciousness.

He could contact the unconscious mind of individuals far distant from where he was giving a reading and could describe not only past lives, but also the state of the inquirers physiological functioning and what needed to be done to return that individual to full health.

His legacy for the world was a library full of nearly 15,000 psychic readings of such depth that they have not been equalled in this century, if, indeed, in any century. Hundreds of books have been written about this man and his readings, and thousands upon thousands of men and women and particularly children have awakened to new life through the use of the information he left. I have not seen such a legacy rivaled in the thirty-seven years I have spent working with psychic data and this material as it related to the practice of medicine.

Edgar Cayce called his work the work of the Christ, and anyone who studies these readings to any depth would most likely agree. I certainly find it to be so.

I could not stop there. For, without the lifetime that Hugh Lynn Cayce (Edgars eldest son) spent working with the readings, bringing the Work of the Christ to the attention of the world through his leadership, his traveling, speaking, writing, and enthusiasm, the A.R.E. would probably not now be in existence and the work of Edgar Cayce would lie in a dusty corner somewhere.

Too, this book and hundreds of others would not have been written. Nor would my life have been spent moving in the direction that Edgar and Hugh Lynn pointed out to all of us.

Hugh Lynn Cayce, like his father, has shaped thousands of lives with his love and his insights into the nature of humanity and what this world is all about. I would be deficient in my dedication if I did not place these two men together as world leaders in developing the understanding of why this world exists and what we are doing on it. Such an understanding is needed in the world today.

Edgar passed through Gods Other Door in 1945 and Hugh Lynn in 1982. But I know that the future will point to these two men as examples of how the world can be changed by dedicating ones life to Gods work. Thus, it is with a great deal of love and appreciation that I dedicate this book to Edgar and Hugh Lynn Cayce, who (if they could be heard) would want me to include the hundreds and hundreds of those who followed and made that work that much more important. And, Hugh Lynn, I hear you talking!

William A. McGarey, M.D.

There is no Zealot like the nonbeliever who has seen the light. I suppose I fit that description when it comes to castor oil. As a child, I had too many distasteful encounters with a concoction my mother made by adding a liberal dose of castor oil to my orange juice and making sure that I forced it down. I hated the taste, and for years afterward avoided orange juice because of the unpleasant association.

Today, thanks to having been enlightened by Dr. William A. McGarey, Im a true believer that we can enjoy the health benefits of the oil that heals without drinking a drop of it. Consequently, I keep a bottle of it close at hand and use it often. Castor oil often seems miraculous, for who would expect so many beneficial medicinal effectseverything from preventing abdominal surgery to dissolving gallstones and eliminating wartsfrom a common, inexpensive lubricant, used mostly today for industrial purposes.

In describing cases of magical recoveries by his patients who applied castor oil, Dr. Bill reminds me of a New Eng-land doctor who years ago proclaimed the health benefits of drinking water laced with honey and vinegar. It is so simple and inexpensive, one wonders why all doctors dont recommend it.

But Dr. Bill does much more here than tell poignant success stories of sick people who got well by applying the oil he often recommends. He offers us a basic education about the healing process itselfa process misunderstood by those who believe that it is the doctor or the drug, or both, that heals us. Not so, says the author, based on his long experience as a family physician. Healing is a natural God-given function of the body, in collaboration with the mind and spirit. Disease or a failure to heal signals a dysfunction in one or all systems.

Dr. McGarey, a true medical pioneer, has shown great courage in betting his professional reputation on this concept, which he learned from studying and testing the concepts found in the Edgar Cayce readings, because it is very disturbing to many elements of the health care community. Many mainstream practitioners scoff at this unscientific theoryalthough it is one that is much more widely accepted today than when Dr. McGarey began practicing it over twenty years ago at the A.R.E. Clinic he founded in Phoenix, Arizona. Many patients reject this concept of healing because they would rather believe they are the victim of an external cause than take personal responsibility for their condition. And the disease-care industry, as Dr. C. Norman Shealy describes the hospital-health insurance business, finds this concept threatening. It could reduce health problems if we learn to give our body-mind-spirit all the natural advantages needed to promote self-healing. Dr. Bill is doing his very best to teach us how.

While some health practitioners may regard the oil that heals as just another snake oil or placebo, readers will learn that Dr. McGareys clinical research has demonstrated that the application of castor oil externally to the abdomen can increase significantly the total lymphocyte count, thus strengthening the bodys immune system. The results of this preliminary testing at the A.R.E. Clinic, financed by a grant from the Fetzer Foundation, should be enough to justify much greater research into the healing mechanism triggered by castor oil.