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Small amounts (ranging from a few drops or sips to one-fourth, onethird, or one half a teaspoon up to two teaspoons), taken often
(every few hours or four to five times a day), are more effective
than one large dose (one or two tablespoons or half a teacup) taken
at once. A possible explanation for this advice? Not sufficient that
this becomes rancid in the system, see, but that acts as a lubricant
and as a food for the digestive system (Cayce) As a laxative, it
was to be taken no more or less than what ones body could
assimilate. Belching or feeling nauseous would indicate that too
much has been consumed; in that case, reduce the quantity. Usually
the person was told to continue the small doses until there is good
evacuation from the alimentary canal. (Cayce)
Numerous other references in the readings mention the use of olive
oil as a food, its easily assimilated quality,
and its helpfulness to any intestinal disturbance. (Cayce) As a
cathartic (a medicine to stimulate or increase the frequency of
bowel evacuation; a purgative or laxative), it was considered the
least irritating and most effective remedy in improving ones
eliminations, as noted in this reading:
For, as we have oft indicated, the Olive Oil is a real food value for
the whole of the digestive system, as well
as an assistant to the better eliminations or activities of the
peristaltic movement of the bowels themselves. (Cayce) The
peristaltic movement refers to the wavelike motions, alternating
between muscular contraction and relaxation, by which the food
content is moved throughout the alimentary canal. Olive oil, taken
periodically then in small quantities, assists this process and is good
medicine for improving eliminations.
WITH CASTOR OIL PACKS
Anyone doing a series of castor oil packs is usually advised to ingest
a one-time dose of olive oil after the final pack of the series. (Only
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earlier reading she was told to place the pack across the intestine
and lower bowel, where these troubles show in the walls of
intestine (Cayce)
A two-year-old girl, also suffering from colitis along with fever,
received her fifth reading on June 3, 1928. It noted that whenever
she had pain or a hardening of the region about this portion where
trouble occurs; that is, in the right side, in the ascending colon,
she was to apply hot packs, or very warm packs, just so it will not
burn the body (Cayce) The mother later reported that her
daughter was much improved.
Another woman was told to mix equal amounts of olive and peanut
oil and apply the heated heavy flannel or toweling pack to areas
on her back that needed relaxation; she was advised to do this each
time prior to her osteopathic adjustments (Cayce).
In the last case drops of spirits of camphor were added to the
heated oil, and the pack placed across the lower end of stomach,
liver, and the right side, changing the pack every twenty to
twenty-five minutes, until a reaction is produced in the liver
(Cayce). This case was an eight-year-old girl, suffering with a fever
and cold, whose parents obtained this emergency physical reading;
coincidentally it was obtained on June 11, just eight days after
[608]s reading mentioned above. Three days later her mother
reported that [4611] was getting along very nicely now.
STEAM BATHS
For a forty-year-old man, suffering from toxemia and past physical
problems, the reading advised a cabinet sweat bath in which a little
olive oil mixed with witch hazel was added to the boiling water to
create a fume for a moist heat bath. This is the only occurrence of
olive oil being used in such a way.
MASSAGE
The most common suggestion for external applications of olive oil is
as a lubricant for massage. One reading states succinctly: As given,
as known and held by the ancients more than the present modes of
medication, olive
oilproperly prepared (hence pure olive oil should always be used)
is one of the most effective agents for stimulating muscular activity,
or mucus-membrane activity, that may be applied to a body.
(Cayce)
Another reading adds: for few oils there be that are as much food
for the tissue and muscular forces of the body as of the olive oil.
(Cayce)
Considered a skin food (noted in several readings), olive oil can
also be combined with other substances (tincture of myrrh, castor
oil, or peanut oil; equal parts) and rubbed into the body, as much as
the body can absorb. Its absorption makes for greater elasticity (in
the abdominal walls, when massaged into the abdomen), prevents
adhesions from forming, relieves soreness, stimulates blood and
lymph circulation, and is very strengthening to the body (Cayce)
ADDITIONAL NOTES
Although the adjective pure was mentioned a little over one
hundred times andvirgin mentioned just once, it can be generally
assumed that the readings meant the type of oil is to be of high
quality, less refined, and the least processed. Contrary to some
misconceptions, the following oils are not mentioned in the Cayce
readings: almond, canola, grape seed, safflower, and sesame.
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