The Oil That Heals. William A. McGarey M.D.

and spirit portions of the human being.

      Joel Buchanan, a patient of ours who earlier had been through one of these programs, called me from Texas for some advice. He wanted to keep his liver in good shape. Early in 1987, he developed type B hepatitis, which he treated at home with castor oil packs. He was seeing his internist but didn’t tell him what he was doing because he felt the packs would be discredited by the doctor.

      He had, however, a rapid recovery and his internist kept saying that his return to health was “miraculous,” considering his sixty-six years and the severity of the case. I told him that the same therapy that helped his liver back to health would help it maintain its health. So he continued using the packs periodically.

      A correspondent, Richard Garcia, called me more than two years ago about the gallstones that had been discovered in his gall bladder. He had been doing a three-day apple diet and took olive oil by mouth on the third day. This diet he had continued intermittently for many years. But he was still having episodes of pain and discomfort. He knew about castor oil packs but had not used them, and he was discouraged. I told him that surgery was always an alternative.

      His letter came quite recently letting me know that he had gone ahead and scheduled himself to see the surgeon: “But when I met with the surgeon he told me that there was a nerve that ran close by the gall bladder that they couldn’t avoid cutting. That really turned me off, so I got really serious and started a three-month, five-days-on, three-days-off series of castor oil packs. On the fifth evening after each series, I drank a half-cup of olive oil. The treatment did wonders for me and I had had no recurrences.” (Garcia decided on a half-cup of olive oil on his on. Cayce, as far as I know, never recommended that much oil in one dose. More commonly, it was a tablespoonful.)