Castor Oil Stories: Head Injury

We recently received a letter from an A.R.E. friend of ours whose son (six years old) took a nasty spill on his bike. Her written story is an excellent report on what happened with Rowan: “He had a ‘goose egg’ partially over his right temple and surrounding area. I checked his eyes, and they seemed to focus all right. I asked him if he wanted to go to church or stay home. He opted to go to church … but instead of going to his class, he stayed with me, head in my lap. When we got home he complained of not feeling well, and vomited. In talking to him, I discovered he couldn’t remember what had happened from the time he fell off his bike until sometime on the way to church. I was very concerned by this time-felt he must have a minor concussion. I put a castor oil pack on the bruise and around his head, and asked him to lie down, and remain comparatively quiet. If I recall correctly, in about an hour and a half he was asking for something to eat, playing a game on the bed with his sister-and when I checked the swelling, it was all gone. I removed the pack, and he got up. That night I put it back on until morning. No repercussions that I could see.”
The therapy? It consisted of a mother’s concern, youth’s ability to recuperate, and castor oil. And don’t underestimate any one of the three.
[† March, 1976, Volume 11, No. 6, page 276, Copyright © 1976 by the Edgar Cayce Foundation, Virginia Beach, VA.]