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Vol. X January 1958 No. 1

Pharmacology in the Edgar Cayce Readings

By Gladys Davis Turner and Margaret H. Gammon
(Based on the material given by Gladys Davis Turner at the 1957 June Congress A.R.E.)

What is Pharmacology? Webster the number of times suggested to each

says: The Science of drugs, including person has been counted. For instance:
materia medica and therapeutics. Atomidine —103 times . . . down
By definition, materia medica is: through the list to Zilatone Tablets 11
Medical science treating of the nature times.
and properties of all the substances The total number of times all
used in curing diseases. And the remedies were suggested to these 670
definition of therapeutics broadens the people during this period amounts to
concept of Pharmacology still further: 1,712. Thus it may be seen that each
Medial Science which treats of the person received about 2.5 remedies and
application of remedies for diseases. detailed descriptions of remedies - plus
All of the treatments, remedies or some whys and wherefores – in physical
applications given in the readings thus readings obtained.
fall well within the concept of The first part of this article will
Pharmacology; with one exception - consist of the list itself, and the second
prayer and meditation. part will give some extracts explaining
A complete index of all remedies the philosophy of some of the remedies -
or Pharmacology given in all of the or the whys and wherefores. These
physical readings has not yet been made extract will not be taken necessarily
– a monumental study requiring much from the two year period.
time and research. Yet we do have To get the most significant picture
definite data from physical readings of Pharmacology in the readings, the A-
completely indexed from A to Z. to-Z arrangement has been abandoned
covering the period from May 9, 1934 to and the remedies placed in the order of
July 24, 1936. From this we can get a highest number of times mentioned,
broad picture and many details, showing second highest, etc. When we do this, we
the scope of pharmacology and the get a list of 80 classifications ranging
proportions of various types of curative from 242 times-mentioned down to 10
remedies suggested. times, and below this - t0 complete the
During this two-year-two-months data —a brief list of remedies mentioned
period, 670 persons had physical once to ten times.
readings from Mr. Cayce and some of Although the highest number of
this number, of course, had more than mentions is to Osteopathy, it should be
one reading. The remedies advised have noted that the majority of all these
been placed in broad classifications, and classifications referred to in the readings
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make use of standard pharmaceuticals Includes Castor Oil Packs (48

and prescriptions involving the use of times; Epsom Salts Packs (25 times);
drugs and substances familiar to the Plantain and Onion poultices; heated
medical profession. Some of the salt, clay and mud poultices, turpentine
prescriptions given in the readings may and salt packs; Mutton Tallow,
be original or unorthodox from a Turpentine & Camphor on flannel; salt
medical standpoint; and some standard and vinegar poultice; wet sand packs;
pharmaceuticals may be used in an grape poultices; mullein stupes, etc. etc.
unorthodox way. The fact is still very 6. Massage........................99
clear that the readings made full use of Includes massage using all kinds
drugs and substances for healing, of oils such as Tincture of Myrrh,
according to the broad definition of the Camphorated and Castor Oil, Mutton
word Pharmacology. Tallow; Turpentine and Camphor, etc,
etc.
The Significant First Seven 7. Prescriptions..................87
Remedy No of People Includes the readings' own
1. Osteopathy …................ 242 combinations of various ingredients
2 Wet Cell and Radio- such as Valerian, Podophyllin, Stil-
active appliances..............196 lingia, Sarsaparilla, Wild Ginseng Wild
These appliances were not on the Ginger, Sage, Ambergris, Wild Cherry
market, and readings had to be taken to bark, Calisava, Gentian, Indian Turnip,
get directions for making them. Refer to Eucalyptus, Horehound, etc. etc.
an article with this title which was sent These seven classifications above
to Sponsoring Members in January add up to 938 mentions and 938 is 55%
1957; on pages 6 and 7 there is a of the total of 1712 mentions in the
description of what is accomplished by entire list. Since 670 people had the
introducing various properties (such as readings covered by these mentions, we
iodine, iron, camphor, silver, gold) into may logically conclude that each one of
the body vibratorially. the 670 had at least one of the seven
3 Hydrotherapy..................109 remedies itemized above.
Includes colonics, enemas Epsom Completing the List of 30:
Salts baths, sitz baths, Turkish baths, 8. Alearoid …......................55
sun-and~sea baths; sweat baths carrying An anti-acid digestant powder.
iodine, tolu & benzoin, Atomidine, Pine, 9. Animated Ash..................53
SuIphur Witchhazel, etc., foIIowed by See Selections for Sponsoring
oil rubs; mustard foot baths; hot and Members,
cold needle showers and baths. 10. Electrical Treatments.... 49
4. Atomidine ….................103 Includes Violet Ray, ultraviolet
Recommended for many ray, vibrator, sun-ray lamp, x-ray, infra-
conditions but always with specific red, Diathermy, Sun Lights; radiation
directions, and in conjunction with method, vitalization method; Mercury
other needed treatments. Not included Quartz, etc.
in Prescriptions, below, though 11. Fletcher's Castoria... .........47
Atomidine is a new form of Iodine and For grown-ups and children.
was developed by independent research 12. Caroid abd Bile Salts.... .... 31
aided by the Edgar Cayce readings. 13. Chiropractic........................28
5. Packs ............................ 102 14, Inhalants..............................27
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Includes Eucalyptus combined remedies mentioned to fewer people (up

with other ingredients such as Benzoin, to 10), we give the following remedies:
Oil of Turp, Rectified Creosote, etc.; also Grain Alcohol: Anidex Salve: Alophen
apple brandy fumes from charred oak pills; Aspirin; Asaphoetida: Agarol;
keg; for clearing mucus and congestions Adenine Sulphate: Fowler's Solution of
in nose, throat, bronchials and lungs. Arsenic; Antiphlogistin; Bromidia;
15. Ventriculin..................25 BiSoDol; Breathing exercises; Bichloride
Tonic, with and witbout iron. wash; Crazy Crystals; Calomel; Charcoal
16. Olive Oil......................23 Tablets; Castor Oil; Citrate of Magnesia;
To be taken internally, as Colorbak; Dentistry; Dues Mixture;
intestinal food and laxative. Digitalin; Dried Milk; Dobell's Solution;
17. Gold Chloride ….........21 Exercises; Elm Water; Syrup of Figs;
Includes internal use combined Fleet's PhosphoSoda; Glyco-Thymoline;
with Bromide of Soda solution, and Gynecologist; Grove's Chill Tonic; Gray's
vibratorially through the Wet Cell Ointment; Hydrochloric Acid (with
Appliance. other ingredients); Hypnotism; Iodex
18. Calcidin …................... 20 Salve; Ipsab for gums; Incretone;
19. Milk of Bismuth ..........19 Insulin; Sauer Kraut juice; Limewater;
20.Neuoropathy................17 Lenoir's Eczema Remedy; Luminal;
21 .Girdle Belts..................13 Lavoris; Lithia; Liver Extract
22. Expectorants …...........13 (Valentine's); Lemon Juice; Magnetic
23. Operations (Surgery)..12 passes; Maltex; Maypop (Passiflora);
24. Elliott machine............12 Milk of Magnesia; Mellins Food; Manan;
See May, 1954 article in Readers Murine Eye Wash; Naturopathy; Nitre,
Digest, Young Doctor Heat; also Sweet Spirits of; N.R. Tablets;
November 1934 A.M.A. article on Optometrist; Oxygen Tank; Elixir of
deafness, new treatment for sinus, Lactated Pepsin; Phenolphthalein wafer;
mastoid, etc. This machine was later Psyllium Seed; Prayer and meditation;
taken off the market and diathermy used Pyrosan; Ragweed Tea; Rochelle Salts;
instead. Radium; Resinol; Salt (plain); Syrup of
25. Nasal Spray.................12 Squill; Sulphur; Stearate of Zinc &
26. Yellow Saffron Tea......12 Balsam powder; Strychnine; Thyroid
27. Diet …............................11 extract or tablets; Transfusion; Toris
Outlining foods containing special Compound; Tim SaIve; Timothy Hay
elements needed. Tea; Tonicine; Upjohn's Citrocarbonate;
28. Zilatone Tablets …...... 11 Vaseline; Vinol; Wyeth's Beef Iron &
29. Injections …..................10 Wine; Water (boiled with salt and meal;
Includes Protolack, Adenine Watermelon Seed Tea; White's Cod
Sulphate, Iodine, Digitalis, etc.; als0 Liver Oil; Yogurt; Yeast; Yellow Oxide
warnings against bad effects of some Ointment.
already taken.
30. Simmons Liver Extracts Illustrating the Seven
ReguIator ......................... 10 Highest Mentions
Osteopathy—The value of osteopathy, as
Balance of the List stressed in the readings, is so well
To complete our list of 1,712 known to members as to need only the
mentions and show the variety of barest summary, or recapitulation of the
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curative principle. the lack of peristaltic movement in the

"As a system of treating human lower portions of the colon. Take a
ills, osteopathy is more beneficial than colonic irrigation occasionally; have it
most measures that may be given. Why administered scientifically. One colonic
so? Because in any preventive or irrigation will be worth about four to six
curative measures, the condition desired enemas!" No. 3570
is to assist the system to gain its own “Q. Do you advise the use of colonics or
normal equilibrium. It is known that Epsom Salts for the body ?
each organ receives impulses from other “A. When these are necessary, yes. For
portions of the system, by the suggestive everyone everybody—should take an
forces - sympathetic nervous system; internal bath occasionally …..They
and by circulatory forces - cerebrospinal would be better off if they did." No. 440
system; and the blood supply itself: “As indicated there are channels
These course through the system in very or outlets for the elimination of poisons
close parallel activity, in every single - that is, used energies - where there
portion of the body . Hence, stimulation exist effects of the activity of the
of the ganglia from which impulses arise circulation upon foreign forces ... All
(either sympathetically or functionally) these, segregated in the system, produce
must be helpful to the bodies efforts forces, which of necessity must be
towards gaining that equilibrium.” eliminated.
No. 902-1 "We eliminate principally through
The Radio-Active and Wet Cell the activity of the lungs, of course; and
Appliances—Again we must refer the the perspiratory system, the alimentary
reader to the January 1957 article, which canal, and the kidneys. . . The headaches
is available to A.R.E. members. The here are sign or warning that
whole theory of bodily vibrations and eliminations are not being properly
electrical currents in the body is a new cared for. In this body, most of the
and exciting field of therapy, forecast in disturbance comes from the alimentary
the readings and awaiting scientific canal and conditions existing in portion
research. The A.R.E. will cooperate fully of the colon itself; so that a pressure is
with any accredited scientific group produced upon those centers..... Hence
desiring to research along these lines the suggestion for osteopathic
which were described in the readings. corrections which aid but do not
Hydrotherapy - Third highest in the list eliminate all of these conditions, which
of seven, advised 109 times, are like accumulations through portions
Hydrotherapy (colonics, enemas, special of the colon. Consequently, colonic
baths, etc.) was stated to have the irrigation are occasionally necessary, as
following values: well as genera] hydrotherapy and
"For hydrotherapy and massage massage." No. 2602P-2
are preventive as well as curative "Best that there be first a
measures. Cleansing of the system cleansing of the colon by a colonic
allows the body-forces themselves to irrigation, followed with sufficient
function normally; thus to eliminate antiseptic solution to prevent further
poisons, congestions and conditions that toxins in the system. Then a thorough
would otherwise become acute cleansing of the alimentary canal,
throughout the body." No. 267-P-61 preferably by substances of an alkaline
"Rather, there are pressures from nature such as may be found in Milk of
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Magnesia, Petrolagar..." No. 719P-1 as much as the body can assimilate ...
Atomidine. This prescription is so Then following same - say the next
familiar to members of the A.R.E. It was evening - have a colonic irrigation, using
advocated for both internal and external a colon tube for same." No, 2451-P-1
use; antisepsis being one of its major "As we find, there are acute
external uses. conditions.... Though the disturbance is
The dosage for each individual in the bursa of the arm and shoulder,
was very specifically adjusted; hence the the source of this arises from a colon
following extracts must not be distress.... Begin applying a saturated
considered to apply generally. solution of Epsom Salts in packs over
Atomidine was taken off the market the affected area of arm and shoulder.
some years ago, except for external use. Also begin immediately with an
"We would also begin taking eliminant, preferably mineral salt such
Atomidine internally as a purifier for the as Eno, Sal Hepatica or Rochelle Salts ...
glands and to stimulate better thyroid Then when these have acted, do have a
activity, This may change the heart's good colonic. This will remove the
regularity for the time being, but if it is pressure and alleviate the distresses."
properly administered and the No. 340-P46
osteopathic corrections properly made, "We would add at the present
we will find changes in the activities in turpentine-with-salt (packs), not over
the epidermis..." No. 3904-P-1 the affected parts where the injury has
"We would take small doses of been made, but around same. Saturate
Atomidine internally, to assist in the salt with turpentine, not making a
purifying the system.... Also we would saturated solution, but dampen salt with
take a good eliminant (Eno Salts, 1 turpentine and apply around and not on
heaped teaspoonful each morning for the parts. . . It will be more helpful, we
eight to ten days) for flushing the system find, to let the salt and turpentine
from poisons and accumulations that extend the whole length of the member
naturally come with irritation in the that is afflicted, thus drawing more of
superficial circulation." No. 2441-P-2 the poisons from the body. Use the
Packs—We have chosen extracts heavy salt, not the crystals ... and the
pertaining to Captor Oil and Epsom spirit of turpentine. Apply two, three,
Salts Packs; and only one additional to four times each day. These will produce
illustrate another type of pack. The the perspiration that comes from such
readings advised various kinds of packs drawing of the circulation..." No. 670-2
for a variety of ailments; and as will be Massage. Sixth in our list of seven
noted the packs were to be used in highest, has already been mentioned in
connection with other treatments. connection with other treatments in
"First we would begin with the use extracts given above. The following ones
of Castor Oil Packs for about an hour show something of the variety of uses
each day, for at least three days a week. for massage:
These should be applied especially "For disturbance already existent
across the abdomen in the caecum or by absorption from mucus into
right area of the body. Following each circulation have hydrotherapy
three-day period of using the packs, we treatments, 3 to 10. . . Not dry heat, but
would take pure olive oil internally—not fume baths using witchazel... Then
too great a quantity at the beginning but shower and then have massage with
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olive and peanut oil." No. 5147-1 throat and bronchials, and those organs
Following use of a Wet Cell above the diaphragm.
Appliance: "A thorough massage after "The Yellow Root is for the
each of the thirty-minute treatments, pneumogastric forces, and gastric juices
using peanut oil. Begin at finger tips, go of the pyloric end of the stomach itself.
toward the body - all that the body will "The Red Root is a stimulus for
absorb of the oil. Then begin at toes . . . the secretions from the pancrean forces
then along spine from first cervical and the spleen, in its functioning from
downward on each side of the spine to the blood cell force destroyed there.
ninth dorsal ... and from end of spine "The Prickly Ash Bark is for the
upward to ninth dorsal. Use a circular blood supply, as acted upon in the
motion." No. 5150-1 emunctory forces of the liver itself,
"Have Epsom Salts Baths, about proper.
once each week Be 10lbs of Epsom Salts "The Elder Flower is for the
in about 40 gallons of water, pretty functioning of the organs of the pelvis
warm . . . each week for 3 weeks; omit with the action of the kidneys; as is the
for 6 weeks, then another series, stimulation from the alcohol and the
increasing the amount of Epsom Salts to Balm of Gilead in these organs" No.
15 pounds. Massage over spine during 2790P-1
the bath. Afterward, massage with "For the condition, have these
peanut oil." No. 5169-P-1 properties made into an inhalant as
Prescriptions: The readings follows: To 4 ounces of pure grain
seemed to be thoroughly familiar with alcohol (not 85%, but pure grain alcohol,
the pharmacopoeia! The following 190 proof), add: Eucalyptol, or oil of
prescription was given as a tonic for same 20 minims; Benzosol —10 minims;
"stimulation to the body, in order to give Oil of Turp or Rectified Oil of Turp – 5
the correct vibration through the minims; Tolu in solution 40 minims;
system.” Benzoin, Tincture of, 5 minims,
"To one gallon of rain waters we "Keep in a container at least twice
would add: Wild Cherry Bark the size, or an 8 ounce bottle with a glass
(preferably from the north side of the cork. Shake solution together and inhale
tree) 4 ounces; Yellow Root, 2 ounces; deep into the lungs and bronchi, two or
Red Root, 2 ounces; Prickly Ash Bark, 1 three times each day..." No. 5682-P-1
ounce; Elder Flower, 1 ounce. Reduce "Also once a week, after the
this by simmering, not boiling, to one regular massage with the Peanut Oil as
quart; strain, and while warm add 2 given above - say, as a Saturday or
drams Balm of Gilead, 6 ounces of Grain Sunday dose - we would massage the
Alcohol. body with a combination of oils,
"The dose of this would be a prepared in this way and manner, as to
teaspoonful four times each day, before prevent any irritation.
meals, The effect of this on the system is "To 4 ounces of Russian White
to give the stimulation to the organs and Oil, Usoline or Nujol as the carrier, add
to the eliminating forces in the system; —in the order named: Cedar Wood Oil—
as - 1 ounce; Olive Oil—1 ounce; Oil of
"The active principle from the Sassafras Root 1/4 ounce; Witchhazel—1
Wild Cherry Bark, with other ounce; Lanolin, dissolved—1
ingredients, is a stimulation to the lungs, teaspoonful.
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“This, to be sure, will separate cannot answer this question, but present
when it stands; but when ready to be the data as far as we have it available, in
used it should be shaken together. Pour an attempt to present an overall picture
a quantity in a saucer and massage the true as far as it goes.
body thoroughly with it." No 2778-1 Growing numbers of physicians of
It may be asked how typical of all all schools are studying the Edgar Cayce
the physical readings is this list of data very careful. A group of such men
remedies indexed for the two-year and women constitute an Advisory
period from mid-1934 to mid-1936. We Board for the Association.

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