One of our correspondents, who has been an active A.R.E. member for many years, wrote about his experience with castor oil packs as an adjunct to childbirth. He reports that his wife “used the castor oil packs during labor with our second child, and she very strongly feels that it was responsible for the brief […]

From the Journal of the American Medical Association, April 21, 1900, comes a communication by a Dr. Harold Moyer of Chicago about our old friend, castor oil. Dr. Moyer was interested in the treatment of facial neuralgia – which gave even more trouble in those days than it does today. Dr. A. J. Ochsner had […]

Castor oil … again comes into the spotlight, along with Camphorated oil. Harvey Rose, a GP from Sacramento, California, sent us the following report: “With regards to the skin … a man about 68 years old had a mean-looking lesion on his ear which was probably an early squamous cell carcinoma; biopsy was not done. […]

A Virginia veterinarian related to me some of his experiences with the suggestions from the Cayce material. It seems that many doctors start off with the use of castor oil locally because it is so simple and is always so effective. It seems that vets occasionally come in contact with raccoons, and the raccoons often […]

Castor oil can be used in a variety of ways. Hemet Pathak, M.D., brings us this story from his native India: five drops of castor oil each morning, taken on an empty stomach in a little juice or water, is often beneficial therapy for allergic manifestations in the G. I. tract, as well as with […]

One of our correspondents reported the use of castor oil as an antiallergic therapy. She has a severe allergy to sugar and caffeine and when she takes in these foods, she reacts with “itching, running, scaling of the eyelids, red, inflamed and bloodshot eyes, and microscopic ‘bumps’ under . . . top eyelids.” About three […]