Hepatitis

Jerrie Welch, an A.R.E. member, wrote us from a village in Lampan, Thailand, about a little 11-year-old girl who developed jaundice, later diagnosed as hepatitis. She was sent home from school at once and apparently given antibiotics, but her condition worsened. On the seventh day, she was severely jaundiced, weak and quite ill. Here is Jerrie’s story:
“Not being sure of the time needed for the packs to be effective, I told the mother to massage her daughter’s abdomen with very warm castor oil for 10 to 15 minutes, then apply the hot packs for an hour at a time, twice a day, for 3 to 4 days. I stressed keeping the packs hot and massaging the liver area. At the fifth day I returned and found the girl energetically playing with her friends. Her strength had returned, although her eyes still had a little yellow cast to them.”
The doctor in the city saw her a bit later and pronounced her well and ready to go back to school.
In addition to the castor oil packs, infectious hepatitis reacts well with a strong supportive dietary regimen. One of the most pleasing responses occurred in the case of a 59-year-old man, who developed hepatitis in the guise of intestinal flu. On his second visit to the Clinic, it became obvious that our original diagnosis was incorrect, and infectious hepatitis was verified by laboratory findings. Because of the distention and discomfort of his abdomen – which brought him to the Clinic in the first place – he had already started castor oil packs on our recommendation. And thus on his second visit he was feeling somewhat better. We found his liver to be enlarged 2-3 finger breadths down from the rib margin. The diet prescribed consisted mostly of clear liquids and was very low in starch and protein. On the fifth day he was started on a blender mix prepared from water, unsweetened frozen fruit, protein powder and yeast powder. Fish was added then to his diet. Each day a clinical improvement in his condition was reported. His laboratory findings ranged from a high on the second day to a normalization of all reports on the 28th day. The SGPT was the last to return to normal, moving from a high of 755 on the first test to 40 on the final test. The icterus disappeared rapidly; the total bilirubin in the blood returned to normal on the 15th day. On the 19th day the patient felt well enough to return to work.
His diet remained light, high in vegetables and fruits. The only proteins were fish, fowl and lamb, supplemented with the blender mix. castor oil packs continued over a three-month period, given daily the first three weeks and thrice weekly thereafter. This case indeed responded well to the treatments.
[† July, 1978, Volume 13, No. 4, page 173, Copyright © 1978 by the Edgar Cayce Foundation, Virginia Beach, VA.]