Edgar Cayce’s Quick & Easy Remedies - Elaine Hruska

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out an S.O.S. to you. Do you suppose you could get me any pure Apple Brandy out there and send it to me! I can’t get any here {in Kentucky}, and with Hay Fever just around the corner I would like very much to be prepared to fight it . . . As you may probably remember, in your reading of November 8, 1940, you prescribed the Apple Brandy to be inhaled from a charred oak keg and I feel that it was very beneficial . . . ”

      2395-1, Report #7

      Cayce wrote a few days later that due to war conditions it was impossible to obtain the brandy.

      Perhaps the most well-known account of the keg’s use comes from the Cayce family itself. Gertrude, Edgar’s wife, distraught after the death of her almost two-month-old son, Milton Porter, stopped eating and spent much of her time in bed. Two months later she was coughing up blood. The diagnosis: tuberculosis, a disease that had previously claimed the life of her brother. Her eventual reading in 1911 contained, among other suggestions, the remedy of inhaling brandy fumes from a charred oak keg. Gertrude followed the suggestions, and her lungs eventually became less congestive. It was a slow process, but finally Gertrude was healed.

      ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

      In March 2000, the Heritage Store in Virginia Beach, VA, sent out a brief questionnaire to people who had purchased a charred oak keg within the last few years. Twenty-nine individuals responded. While the majority of recommendations from the Cayce readings concerned those with tuberculosis or TB tendencies—with a few cases of asthma, pleurisy, and various lung problems—a wider range of respiratory ailments was noted by the survey responders: bronchiectasis, bronchitis, chronic cough, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, colds, congestion, emphysema, fibrosis, nasal drip, pneumonia, sarcoidosis, and smoker’s lung. Several even used it to help quit smoking and others to achieve better athletic performance.

      In rating their success with the keg, consistency of use seemed to be the main factor influencing a better outcome; those individuals using it on a regular basis reported good or better results.

      Some of the differences noted by the survey participants included: coughing less often, breathing more easily, and experiencing a decrease in the number of colds and respiratory infections, the loosening up of congestion, as well as the alleviation of pain. One individual, taking oxygen for emphysema and chronic bronchitis, commented that inhaling from the keg “loosens mucus to cough up, expel; medicates lung and bronchi, keeping down infections.”

      Remedial use of the keg was found to be effective at the onset of congestion to help cough up mucus, when losing one’s voice, and to open breathing passages. Another individual, susceptible to colds, noted: “I took so many antibiotics that I became allergic to two of them, so the charred oak keg was always a rescue mission for me.” Two respondents commented that the keg helped reduce their desire to smoke; one mentioned taking a whiff from the keg each time the urge to light up arose. Another used it “to enhance oxygen intake for extreme sports training.”

      With proper care and use, the keg can be a healing influence on the lungs. One excerpt succinctly stated: “Keep the keg. This is as life itself . . . ” (1548-4)

      Coffee Foot Bath

      Foot baths are one of the most useful and easily applied hydrotherapies. Requiring only a minimal amount of equipment, the foot bath can be accomplished while seated on a chair, a sofa, or on the edge of the bathtub. A foot tub may be purchased, but one may use any basin or pan that is waterproof and encloses the feet comfortably.

      Eleven individuals were given this very specific kind of foot bath: it is made with used coffee grounds that are boiled just prior to the bath, letting the solution cool a bit before soaking the feet in the warm mixture. This mild tannic acid solution, derived from coffee, has beneficial effects, according to the readings, when applied externally.

      Tannin or tannic acid is a yellowish astringent solution whose designation is generic for a wide assortment of vegetable products that are used to tan raw hides, converting them into leather—hence its name. Tannic acid is responsible for coffee’s sharp, bitter taste, as well as for causing stained teeth and cups. When drunk, it has been recognized for its harmful effects such as inhibiting the body’s absorption of calcium and B vitamins, causing heartburn, acid reflux, and indigestion, interacting with a wide range of medications—reducing their effectiveness—and in large doses causing cancer in animals. Yet its application externally, as mentioned previously, has important and useful benefits.

      INDICATIONS

      Cold and congestion; heaviness in throat, head, and feet; need for better rest; peeling skin on feet; poor circulation; poor eliminations; tiredness; weak foot arches; OK to apply during menstrual flow

      CONTRAINDICATIONS

      Check heat tolerance; diabetics or people with poor circulation in feet need to be cautious of water temperature

      MATERIALS NEEDED

      Small tub, wide bucket, or large pan—to place feet in

      Used coffee grounds (not over a day old)—amounts range from 1 to 6 teacups

      Pot to boil the used coffee grounds; ratio of amount of grounds to amount of water: 1 teacup of grounds: ½ gallon water; 1 cup: 1 or 1½ gallons; 2 cups: 1 to 1½ gallons; 2 to 3 cups: 1 to 1½ gallons; 6 cups: “ . . . sufficient water for a good foot bath . . . ” (2268-1); “ . . . sufficient {grounds} that the water is colored well from the hardboiled coffee grounds.” (243-33)

      Towels (optional)—to place around tub to protect floor from drips

      Bath towel (optional)—to dry off feet after soaking

      FREQUENCY OF APPLICATION

      Occasionally; daily; each evening before retiring; 1, 2, 3, or 4 times a week; until the cold dissipates

      LENGTH OF TIME TO BOIL GROUNDS

      Two to 2½ minutes, 10 minutes, 20 to 30 minutes, some readings mention no time length

      LENGTH OF TIME OF APPLICATION

      Five to 10 minutes, 20 minutes, no time frame given in most readings

      LOCATION OF APPLICATION

      Lower limbs—feet and ankles; heels, arches, toes, and bottoms of the feet; you can bathe and massage limbs up to the knees with the solution while feet are soaking

      EXPECTED EFFECTS/PURPOSES

      Enhances circulation

      Relieves cold and congestion

      Improves functioning of feet

      DIRECTIONS

      Collect the used coffee grounds from your coffee pot or filter. The grounds should be rather fresh—not over a day old. The amount of coffee grounds ranges from 1 teacup up to 6 cups. Boil the grounds in water from 2 minutes up to 20 to 30 minutes. The amount of water to be boiled ranges from ½ gallon to 1½ gallons. (For the recommended ratio of grounds to amount of water see Materials Needed section.)

      After the water has been boiling for the specified length of time, allow it to cool somewhat, until it reaches a warm enough temperature (not hot or tepid), so that the feet and lower limbs can be comfortably placed in the water. The grounds may be kept in the water, and the whole solution poured into the foot tub. (Some readings say to strain or remove the grounds; others say not to.) Bathe and massage the feet and lower limbs, using both the water and the grounds (if not strained) as a lubricant, from five to twenty minutes. To do a thorough job, the limbs and knees may be continuously

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