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I had my 5-gallon drum of activated coconut charcoal out last week while putting together a Radial Appliance Kit order. I thought of Cayce's recommendations for charcoal, so I put a couple tablespoons of these charcoal granules into a little glass and sent them to my stomach with water (juice also works).

Edgar Cayce often recommended charcoal tablets for 'gas' and other gastrointestinal problems. Charcoal binds and/or destroys some of the substances that cause problems for humans when they're in our digestive system.

'Toxin' is the generic term for substances which aren't so good for humans. Most plants have toxins in their leaves to prevent insects and animals from eating them. Some plants are made more-edible for humans when their toxins are deactivated with heat: "cooking" (spinach, kale, etc).

In addition to his dietary recommendations, Edgar Cayce also told how to better prepare foods to provide superior nourishment for our bodies.

Some vegetables can be eaten raw, while most vegetables need to be cooked - to deactivate anti-nutrients (enzyme inhibitors, anti-thyroid substances, etc), and to start the process of breaking down the starches (carbohydrates) and proteins to facilitate digestion. Cayce incorporated this wisdom into his advice: carrots, celery and lettuce can be eaten raw, while the nutrients in kale, collard greens, spinach and other vegetables are more accessible when they're cooked.

One of the great tragedies of the modern diet is how people don't realize that boiling potatoes and steaming green vegetables causes many of the nutrients in these foods to be lost to the cooking water.

Cayce frequently recommended cooking foods WITHOUT adding water. Often this was by preparing the foods, putting them in a heavy water-resistant paper called Patapar Paper, then submerging the paper-encased food in boiling water for 35+ minutes.

Magnesium is one of the alkaline minerals that's important for human health. Calcium signals muscles to contract, while magnesium signals muscles to relax. Magnesium is a significant percentage of chlorophyll in plants, and is an important cofactor in hundreds of the different chemical reactions that scientists have described in our bodies' physiological processes:

Magnesium basics - National Library of Medicine

Modern foods have less magnesium than in years past because industrial farmland has been depleted of Calcium, Magnesium and the trace minerals. (Industrial farmers only fertilize with Nitrogen, Phosphorous and Potassium).

Epsom salt - a magnesium sulfate salt, MgSO4·7H2O - was first described in the western world in 1806. These natural magnesium salts were found near Epsom, Surrey, England.

Hi Friends,

Breathing is something we all do for basically 24 hours a day. We can briefly control our breathing consciously, but after a while our minds flutter away to other activities and the body resumes breathing on its own.

Breathing facilitates the lungs exchange of carbon dioxide (CO2) for oxygen (O2).

Hyperventilation is when a person breaths too fast. The fundamental problem with breathing too fast is that the body loses more CO2 than is optimal. CO2 is important for balancing blood pH level, for example. While too much CO2 can suffocate us, too little CO2 is a problem too.

Keeping our teeth healthy should be a primary concern, but the conventional advice for oral hygiene is not especially helpful: by the age of 65 a significant percentage of the population have no natural teeth remaining.

I reluctantly go to the dentist once a year for a cleaning, as I do get plaque in spite of my oral hygiene regimen. On reconsidering the Cayce Readings, this is certainly because my 'superficial circulation' is not yet optimal (reading below).

My last email was about making your own version of Ipsab, Cayce’s liquid preparation of toothache bark (Prickly Ash Bark) to maintain and restore gum health. This product is created by boiling Prickly Ash Bark in seawater, then adding iodine and other ingredients - visit the link for Cayce's instructions.

One of you responded with some sources for herbs:

Edgar Cayce's health readings used the technology of his day to maintain and restore human health. Many interventions called for herbs. Prickly Ash Bark was known by Native Americans as 'toothache bark' for its ability to help with pain in the teeth.

Edgar Cayce told us how to use this simple plant to keep our gums healthy, or to restore their health if they've started to recede. The readings gave a process for turning the bark into a liquid product that could be applied directly to the gums. The name Ipsab was coined for this product.

The founder of the Heritage Store, Tom Johnson, wrote this article about Ipsab in 1972: IPSAB - AN HERBAL REMEDY FOR GUM PROBLEMS

I've gotten two emails in recent weeks about sourcing this item. The Heritage Store's catalogue business was sold to a supplement company in Utah. It seems like the new owners probably don't appreciate many of the specific details of the products in their catalogue. The ARE's "official supplier" has two liquid prickly ash bark products. One is a straight prickly ash bark extract made with water, glycerin and alcohol. Their Ipsab-substitute has ethanol added (presumably as a preservative). Search for "prickly ash bark" on their website to find these products.

Hi Friends,

I've been thinking about Glyco Thymoline again recently. I originally used this as a mouthwash. Cayce also recommended Glyco for its antiseptic properties. This was covered in a previous newsletter: Cayce's Intestinal Antiseptic - for 'rheumatism', etc (January 2022).

There are other mouthwashes - by the ARE's "Official Supplier" and others - that are similar to Glyco-Thymoline. After that email I received a couple responses from people sharing their preference for genuine Glyco-Thymoline: it's is much better on their sunburns than the 'knock-offs', etc. (I used this feedback to edit the archive linked above.)

Glyco-Thymoline was originally formulated as an eye rinse. This is an antique branded eye cup:

My mom had itchy red eyes last summer. I told her about using Glyco as an eye rinse: she thought it absurd to use "mouthwash" on her eyes. But she was miserable, and decided to experiment with putting Glyco-Thymoline on a piece of cotton. She held the Glyco-moistened cotton to her eyelid, and found it provided rapid relief. The standard dilution to use Glyco Thymoline as an eye rinse is 50% Glyco, 50% water.

Hi Friends,

A larger version of my ‘Cayce Grounding coin’ is now available. If you don’t need to know anything about Cayce’s advice for using electric massagers, just skip to the bottom.

I have a new friend who was in a series of car accidents. She went to modern bone-setters for help with chronic neck pain. While initially she seemed to benefit from their treatments, after a certain point she was just a repeat customer. The ‘neck adjustment’ that left her neck more uncomfortable than it was before motivated her to try out the physical therapist I recommended, even though the cost was significantly more than the “copay” for the back fitness franchise that billed her insurance.

For the most part, manual treatments should be more than just popping bones back into place, as there is usually a reason why the bones aren’t where they should be.

I recently posted on my facebook page about how I helped my mom’s 86 year old friend recover from her super-virus infection without having to resort to conventional medicine. I’ve copied an excerpt from this post below - the version at the link above has a few more details about how I came to appreciate the power of Cayce’s Keg for rejuvenating lungs.

The barrel in this picture is for my mom’s 86 year old friend, who came down with a case of the super-virus 1.5 weeks before Christmas. I helped her open the little vials for the test. After 5 minutes it was obviously positive. I said “this test is positive, but you’re not that bad. Even if you called the paramedics, they probably wouldn’t take you to the hospital.” I told her about how we can use apple brandy fumes to take care of our lungs, and loaned her my barrel. She said she’d give it a try.

The 86yo didn’t magically get better overnight - I think she used the barrel once, maybe, but her friend had deteriorated so quickly and she didn’t want to end up as bad as he was…

Hi Friends,

Years ago “Mr. Cayce” told me that I would do well to start drinking coffee, to help me concentrate better.

Metabolism refers to the chemical processes our bodies use to convert the calories in food into ATP, the chemical fuel our cells are able to use. Our brains are said to be about 2% of the body’s weight, but use 20% of our energy (ATP) production.

Stimulants are chemicals that help the body increase its metabolism and ATP production. Nature’s most common stimulant is Caffeine. This is the primary stimulant in coffee, tea, chocolate, and the Kola nut (the primary flavoring used in Coca-Cola or Pepsi-Cola).

Hi Friends,

(Grounding pendant “holiday sale” - see bottom)

In recent decades scientists have figured out a lot of the minutia about how our bodies work. These discoveries basically confirm Edgar Cayce’s health philosophy.

I recently posted on twitter about my efforts to help a friend implement a Cayce-inspired approach to ‘mental health’, using modern science lingo:

Hi Friends,

The 15-second summary of this email: Aspirin is much safer than Tylenol and ibuprofen. Cayce’s readings allowed for the use of aspirin, with caveats. While other non-prescription pain medications are now available, these are all much more problematic than plain old aspirin.

(At the bottom of this email is a bit about my petition asking the U.S. Supreme Court to establish “Medical Freedom” as humanity’s natural right that existed before the U.S. Constitution came into effect. If you’re not interested in this discussion of aspirin vs. Tylenol, just skip to the end. Thanks!)

Earlier this week I asked a lady at my coworking space if she used Tylenol. At the time I was looking at Cayce’s readings about coffee and tea, and thinking about Tylenol poisoning. She had a bit of a story…

One of Edgar Cayce’s oft-repeated mantras was “Spirit is the life, mind is the builder, physical is the result.”

Around 2009 “someone” decided they were going to channel Edgar Cayce for me. I protested, “no, leave Edgar Cayce alone!”, but she insisted. One of the things channeled-Cayce told me was that I was to meditate on “Doing God’s Work”.

In 2015 I had a job where I met a lot of people. I always took a little extra time, as needed, to connect with people who were having a rough day. One of the more memorable people from this job was very … ‘chatty’. After 45 minutes I realized she was certainly ‘ungrounded’. I had a few of my grounding coins on me, so I dug one out: “I have these made for me in Prescott Valley, and I’d like to give this to you.” (Cayce’s steel coins are also on my facebook shop

She accepted the coin. Her voice changed (becoming more centered), and she asked, “What is this?”

Hi Friends,

Cold and Flu season is rapidly approaching, for those of us in the northern hemisphere.

Two weeks ago I sent out an email about an option if you need to sanitize your lungs, but don't have a charred oak keg in your supplies:

Alternatives to Cayce's Charred Oak Keg for herbal lung treatment • Buttondown

Hi Friends, It's been over 2.5 years since I ordered my first 2 oak barrels to implement Cayce's recommendation to 'inhale the fumes of apple brandy from a...

Hi Friends,

Edgar Cayce covered most of the various health problems people have. Sometimes the wording he used was a little different than what we might say today.

"Mental Illness" is a commonly used modern term, but it's not very useful: the causes of these symptoms are more than just 'mental'. The tragedy of monopoly-medicine's approach to "mental illness" is how doctors diagnosis their patient, but don't often look for the causes behind their patient's symptomatic presentation.

Sometimes people are labeled as being schizophrenic: "Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by continuous or relapsing episodes of psychosis. Major symptoms include hallucinations (typically hearing voices), delusions, and disorganized thinking."

Hi Friends,

It's been over 2.5 years since I ordered my first 2 oak barrels to implement Cayce's recommendation to 'inhale the fumes of apple brandy from a charred oak keg'. One was to treat my own sporadic cough, the other was for a friend who had a chronic weakness in her lungs.

I saw this friend recently. She'd inadvertently let her barrel dry out, as her chronic lung problems are resolved and the barrel isn't being used regularly anymore.

I told her what I've started telling people at the Market: 'you don't necessarily need one of my barrels, you can just use a glass bottle or a large container as an evaporation chamber.'

Hi Friends,

At the end of May I sent an email out about my latest blog post, which is about Cayce's recommendation for 'Bulgarian Milk'. But the 'Bulgarian tablets' that Cayce recommended are no longer manufactured.

This week I found a substitute for the Bulgarian Tablets at my local grocery store:

A Modern Substitute for ‘Bulgarian Tablets’ (for making cultured milk) - Edgar Cayce’s Radial Appliance

My last blog post was about Edgar Cayce’s recommendation for ‘Bulgarian Milk’ and Yeast to balance the intestinal microbiome. This quote from Edgar Cayce’s letter was the crux for my figuring out what the Readings meant when they referred to ‘Bulgarian milk’: R2. 5/15/33 EC’s letter: “Now, I wish I could give you the name … Continue reading “A Modern Substitute for ‘Bulgarian Tablets’ (for making cultured milk)”

Hi Friends,

Books written on the Cayce material often say the Readings only recommended consuming raw milk. Was this the case? I believed the books at first, then I came to question the various authors' interpretation of Cayce's readings. Today I figured out what Cayce actually said, and put it in a blog post:

'Bulgarian Milk' and Yeast to balance the intestinal microbiome - Edgar Cayce's Radial Appliance

When I first started reading books written based on the Cayce health readings, most of the authors said that Cayce only recommended the consumption of raw milk. Indeed, some readings told of Cayce telling the recipient to have milk “with the heat of the cow”. This would have been fine advice for someone who lived … Continue reading "‘Bulgarian Milk’ and Yeast to balance the intestinal microbiome"

While looking for quotes for this blog post I noticed that Cayce often counseled people to consume "Bulgarian Milk", which was a form of cultured milk. Read the link for more details.

Hi Friends,

Gardening can be somewhat challenging. I haven't been especially successful, on account of my living where things only grow when they're watered. My Rhubarb plants do fine, and I've gotten a few sweet potato crops. Here are two blog posts from years past:

Pie Plant (Rhubarb) as functional food in the Cayce Readings

Cayce-inspired vegetable garden

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Just finished up a new blog post, titled Probiotic Sourdough Bread, which builds on the email I sent last fall about Cayce's recommendation for whole wheat bread. Here's the link:

Probiotic Sourdough Bread - Edgar Cayce's Radial Appliance

Often the easiest way to get better foods is to do more of the work yourself. If you have all the money in the world there are some commercial whole grain sourdough breads that might be okay. But no bread company uses probiotic yeast in their ingredients. In a recent newsletter I told of the … Continue reading "Probiotic Sourdough Bread"

tl/dr: I've started using a probiotic yeast to make sourdough bread.

Hi Friends,

Last month I came across a statement that said doctors knew, circa 1900, that cases of rheumatism - "conditions causing chronic, often intermittent pain affecting the joints or connective tissue" - were often caused by microorganisms in the intestines, and that "intestinal antiseptics" could help with these conditions.

Someone dropped a link to the ARE's page about Glyco Thymoline: https://www.edgarcayce.org/the-readings/health-and-wellness/holistic-health-database/therapies-glyco-thymoline/

I'd heard about Glyco as a mouthwash before, and read about using this internally, but I finally got it: Glyco-Thymoline (originally formulated in 1894) has potent anti-microbial properties, and can be taken internally, a couple drops at a time.

Hi Friends,

Some scientific reports were published recently that anyone who's interested in preserving their vision should be interested in.

tl/dr (too long / didn't read): 3 minutes of deep red light (670 nanometers, not quite infrared), applied to the eyes in the morning, helps older eyes improve the ability to perceive colors.

Red light found to improve vision

I took a tour at a local distillery a few weeks ago. The owner said she doesn’t do much with fruit because it’s messy, and mostly makes gin (juniper berries), whiskey, vodka, etc. Last Sunday I went back, to talk to them about making a batch of apple brandy for me. The master distiller said their local supplier of apple cider has 2000 apple trees in their orchard.

While waiting for the distiller to become available, I recognized a patron, whom I hadn’t seen in a year and a half. She was there with her friend, whom I also knew, to watch the band. The older of the two (maybe around 70) had gone to the hospital twice a few months ago. The second time they sent her home with a note. When she eventually read it, she learned she’d tested positive for the Super-Virus. Fortunately, she wasn’t in bad enough shape for the hospital to need to admit her, or even tell her about the test. Hmm.

Someone figured out for her that there’s also an inflammatory type of reaction to the super-virus. While her lungs weren’t infected bad enough to warrant extreme medical treatment (with oxygen), her overall achiness was caused by the virus.

Shortly after mostly recovering from the super-virus, she developed a case of shingles. This is the re-activation of the chicken pox virus, usually in people who are stressed. She said she’d gotten the shingles jab, in years past, for whatever good that’d done.

One of Edgar Cayce's consistent recommendations in his psychic health readings were whole grains, as whole wheat bread, rye bread, oatmeal, etc.

The world has changed in many ways since Edgar Cayce gave his last readings in 1944. One important difference between modern breads and the breads available when Cayce was active is that modern grains are rather different than the grains that were farmed before the "green revolution" of the 1950's-1970's.

I started on a blog post Saturday afternoon about whole wheat bread. Then I got distracted by searching about the history of fortification. When did the food industry start fortifying everything? An answer was found at this link, on the history of fortification: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK208880/ (Army recruits in 1941 weren't in the best of health, so the government and industry decided to add thiamin, niacin, riboflavin, and iron to make 'fortified flour'. Later they added folic acid to the standard fortifications.)

By the 1950's Wonder Bread was fully fortified with 8 essential nutrients. The joke is they're only putting back some of what was originally taken out when the wheat was refined into white flour. Did Cayce ever give a reading about fortified bread? Hmm, professor google?

I received an email from a customer in Australia on October 1st:

Thank you for the 2 [grounding] coins. I tried to buy a cold coin from [Official Supplier] last year but they wanted $70 to deliver it to Australia, and they wouldn’t move from that price. Mate, if you can, start selling more Edgar Cayce products. Thanks again, Good Wishes for the future!

The same day I unfortunately had to take Australia and New Zealand off the places I can ship to: Temporarily Suspending Shipments to Australia / New Zealand, on account of the Postal Service suspending package service to these two countries. Click the link for my blog post with more information.

It's unfortunate that no one told the Australian and New Zealand health ministers that the proper treatment for lung problems is huffing on Apple Brandy, and that treating inflammation is the most important factor for helping people survive their inevitable infection. If our leaders had known to consult with Edgar Cayce, there would have been no need to throw out all the science from 2019 and before about how to best respond to a wave of sickness.

Hi Friends,

Edgar Cayce's readings were given from 1901 to 1944. Some of the foods available at modern grocery stores aren't quite the same as they used to be. Some are better, some have been changed in subtle and/or substantial ways.

Two staples Cayce frequently recommended were citrus -- oranges, lemons, limes, and sometimes grapefruit -- and Welch's Concord Grape Juice.

Modern Welch's grape juice has "citric acid" on the ingredient list. Citric acid is added to many foods to make them seem more tart, or as a preservative.

Hi everyone,

Last week I filmed a video about how I’m preparing for Cold & Flu season:

Hi Friends,

Last summer I wrote about Cayce’s instructions for light:

https://buttondown.email/teslabox/archive/edgar-cayce-on-the-importance-of-sunshine/

tl/dr (too long, didn’t read): Cayce generally advised to get plenty of sunlight, but to not get sunburned. Last summer’s email told of a reading where Cayce advised a 16 year old woman to not try to get tanned, because it would not be good for her on account of her complexion.

Hi Friends,

Part of the Q&A of a Cayce reading was posted to a facebook group dedicated to Edgar Cayce. I noticed the section about vision and glasses:

(Q) What can I do for my eyes, that I may have a better vision? (A) The application of the vibrations, especially in the 1st cervical - or at the base of brain and over the head as given, will stimulate for a better vision. Practice the circular motions for the head and neck, closing the eyes and SEEING self SEEING better. This will create that reaction which brings practice of the nerve and muscular forces to that portion of the sensory system which has been disturbed. (Q) Are my glasses correctly fitted? (A) Very good at present. In six to eight weeks we will change them.

(303-2) F 45, August 5, 1932 (Emphasis added)

A month ago I went to a new optometrist (O.D.) for a contact lens prescription. The doctor was given the prescription from the glasses I was wearing, and the readout from the eyeball-scanner (the computer that O.D.s now use to measure the shape of your eye). He said it looked like my eyes had changed. He gave me a prescription that was a full diopter stronger than what I was using, and some sample contacts.