More than a year ago, I received a letter from Sharon Roznik telling me about the plight of her two-year-old boy,
who "has had fluid trapped in his ear tubes for six months."
They had an appointment with an ear doctor who was plan-ning on placing drainage tubes in his ears. She wanted to know what Edgar Cayce would have suggested, because she believed that there must be a better way to get fluid out of Jesse's ears.
By the time she received my answer, she had taken ac-tion and had already seen the doctor. Her story in response to my letter is provocative:
"Guess what! I just played it by 'ear,' giving him 250 mg. of vitamin C; castor oil drops in ears a.m. and p.m.; high-alka-line, low-acid diet; a couple drops of Glyco-Thymoline (see Appendix) orally every few days; castor oil soaked on the front of his diaper at bedtime; upper back massages; laying on of hands (mine) with white healing light in mind. He wouldn't tolerate Glyco-Thymoline packs to the neck! I started this ten days before he was to see the ear specialist.
By the way, Jesse was going in because he's had fluid in his ears for six months straight, without any signs of clearing up, after taking various antibiotics and decongestants, and being checked regularly by a doctor every three weeks.
"When the ear doctor looked in Jesse's ears, my husband said there was a look of shock on his face. His right ear was completely clear and his left still had some fluid remaining in it. I was so relieved and grateful.
"The doctor asked if he'd been on any medication this past month and I said 'no.' I don't know why I said that. Next time I go in (in five weeks to check the other ear) I'll tell him.
"I realize that tubes in the ears aren't really a serious health threat, but I just felt deep inside my heart that a little boy shouldn't have to have tubes put in his ears. There should be a natural way to get fluid out of those ears.
"Thank you for the book, The Edgar Cayce Remedies,9 where I found the answer to this health problem. This is the first time I ever tried an extensive remedy like this. Thanks
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for answering my letter, and thank God for simple truths!"
I've always thought that simple truths are the best. After all, if we are destined to be one with Creative Forces and if there's a oneness among all of humankind, then there may be little that can be more basic than the simple truths.
Hearing loss can come from a variety of causes, but it is always a barrier to full participation in life as it is lived on this planet When an eight-year-old boy is afflicted, we may not think that it is as detrimental to him as to an adult, be-cause he can adjust better. However, we seldom listen carefully to such a person to see what he thinks of the prob-lem. Loss of hearing, partial or complete, is a real problem to anyone.
Jonathan had such a problem, but his solution—thanks to his mother and some ideas from the Cayce material—
was a happy one. This is from his mother's letter:
"My son Jonathan, age eight, has had tubes put in his ears twice. The last time was about two years ago and in one ear he has not heard well for about a year and a half. (I knew this because he couldn't hear the buzz tone on the tele-phone.) I followed the Cayce instructions of massage, head and neck exercise, and the lamb tallow mixture for four eve-nings. Then, the next evening I put a drop of castor oil in his ear. The following morning, I looked in his ear and the tube had fallen out! One side of the tube looked fine, but the other side was crusted over with dried blood!... needless to say, I am thrilled to report that he now hears normally in both ears! God answered my prayers."
In our work with the Cayce readings and the concepts of healing found there, we ventured outward to use castor oil in a number of ways that would either activate the immune system or quiet down the autonomic nervous system. We found that castor oil drops in the ears would often take care of minor problems there and sometimes influence major difficulties toward healing.
A California woman wrote to me about her experience with a problem of minimal hearing loss: "About three months ago I noticed my hearing diminishing in my left ear.
I had several colds, plus my travels take me up and down a mountain to get to work.
"A month and a half ago I went to an ear, nose, and throat specialist who gave me some strong decongestant tablets and a spray. Those dried up my cold and sinuses and some-what relieved the problem, but not completely. I went back and he punctured my eardrum and blew medication into it to loosen and help drain the tube. It helped for two days, but then my hearing worsened again. I decided to use cas-tor oil packs directly on the ear, with heat, at night when going to bed—I used them for one hour.
"After the first treatment, I was much improved and after the second night there was very little hearing loss." No long-term report on this, but when one experiences the kind of benefits she felt in her own body, it excites her and opens her mind to the concept that the body indeed can be helped toward a better level of homeostasis, a condition we call health.
SNORING
We are all familiar with it and many of us do it. It is de-fined as rough, noisy breathing during sleep, due to vibration of the uvula and soft palate. Some husbands and perhaps more wives suffer insomnia when their spouses snore. But there is a story that I remember reading about a woman who had just been married back in the Depression era. The newlyweds took residence in the second-floor apartment of a rickety wood building. As her husband fell asleep, she began to hear the sound of rats or mice inthe walls of their apartment, and she was terrified. Then her husband began to snore, and the rodents ceased their movement. As long as he was snoring, the rats were quiet.
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She has associated snoring ever since with peace and tran-quillity, and, I suppose to her, it was like the sound of the waves would be to others who live by the ocean.
Snoring was the subject of several questions given the sleeping Cayce. They provide another perspective on this condition:
(Q) Is there any way of sleeping on the back without snoring?
(A) Not that has been invented yet! (1861-18) (Q) May anythingbe done to correct or prevent sleep-ing with mouth open?
(A) Close it!
(Q) When asleep, how may this be done?
(A) Make the suggestions to self as going to sleep.
Get the system balanced. And this will be done. (288-41)
In the early 1930s, Edgar Cayce and a group of devoted individuals worked together to write a book called A Search for God.™ It has become the guiding light for thousands of people since that time as they join together in study groups once a week.
From a study group member comes a story of a unique application of castor oil packs. It seems that this young woman's mother and dad were at the point of sleeping in separate rooms because of his snoring so that the wife could get some sleep. The daughter wrote me: "My parents are both sleeping better now, thanks to the castor oil pack. My mother has insisted that dad wear a pack every night for the last two weeks.
"Now, instead of her being kept awake by loud guttural, choking snores and frequent angry outcries originating from nightly dreams of fighting, the snoring has ceased
to-tally and she is occasionally awakened by the most soft, whimsical giggling coming from the original offender—my dad! Mom also reports an enhanced sense of humor, a very affectionate husband, and a spirit of cooperation that just won't quit"
Psychotherapy? I would think not, unless we were to de-fine that word a bit differently. In the field of endocrinology, the adrenal gland is called the "fight/flight" gland and is symbolized in the texts by a man, crouched with his fists ready, eyes wide, alert, and prepared for combat or for run-ning;—if that seems to be the best course to take.
This kind of response by the adrenal gland excited my wonderment once more. Why should a pack placed on the abdomen alter the emotional nature (and dream patterns) of an adult person? Did these packs actually create within the consciousness of the adrenal gland and the accompa-nying sympathetic nervous system a more peaceable vibration? Jesus said, "Peace is my parting gift to you, my own peace, such as the world cannot give. Set your troubled hearts at rest, and banish your fears."11 And the castor bean plant was called the Palma Christi (the palm of Christ) sev-eral hundred years ago.