Heal Arthritis: Physically-Mentally-Spiritually : The Edgar Cayce Approach [Paperback]

William A. McGarey (Author)

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Publication Date: April 1, 1998

Beyond the pills and potions, there is a way to successfully subdue this often-debilitating disease. In fact, according to the author, arthritis can be cured. This book examines physical conditions that contribute to arthritis and what can be done to eliminate them, including mental and spiritual courses of action.

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About the Author

Dr. McGarey is a family physician and an author or coauthor of eleven books. His most recent book is In Search of Healing (Perigee Press). The Oil That Heals (A.R.E. Press) was published in 1994 and chronicles his research into the use of castor oil packs. He is cofounder of the A.R.E. Clinic in Phoenix, Arizona, and a founding member of the American Holistic Medical Association. For more than forty years, Dr. McGarey has been a student and advocate of concepts found in the work of Edgar Cayce. McGarey's books are centered on the healing aspects of those concepts.

Product Details

• Paperback: 147 pages
• Publisher: A.R.E. Press (Association of Research & Enlig (April 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0876043996
• ISBN-13: 978-0876043998
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,016,980 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Book On Healing Yourself, June 3, 2006

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Ellie "Eilean Siar" (North Shore of Boston, USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Heal Arthritis: Physically-Mentally-Spiritually : The Edgar Cayce Approach (Paperback)

Dr. McGarey wrote this tour de force of alternative treatments for arthritis based on his years of experience in applying treatments based on what Edgar Cayce said on the subject before his death in 1945. We have one body with integrated systems which is itself integrated with the eternal, universal, healing energy. We were not created solely for allopathic medicine to poke, probe, scan and medicate. Separateness is not our nature.

We are responsible for what we are. What we eat, do, think and select as our ideals determines much of how well our body systems maintain their integrity. In this excellent book are suggestions such as avoiding chocolates and meat, massaging with peanut oil (too simple for the drug companies to profit from), spinal adjustments by an osteopath, taking up meditation (does anyone now really believe in the discredited mind/body duality?), and a number of other modalities of treatment of the integrated body/mind/spirit creatures we are.

These are not 'take a pill and call me in ten days' kinds of healing methods. If you are willing to persevere in changing yourself in an integrated way for the better you must be prepared to make these challenging applications for a couple of years before you are entitled to gainsay them. The writer of this review has for year and a half applied some, but not all, of the recommendations (giving up chocolate is hard, but can be done) and can say as a personal recommendation that stiffness and pain in the spine, knees and hip are much reduced, to the point of simply no longer being a consideration.

The offshoot: this book is recommended reading - but listen! don't just read, apply! Begin! Change yourself. You can do it.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Feeling so much better..., June 25, 2009

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This review is from: Heal Arthritis: Physically-Mentally-Spiritually : The Edgar Cayce Approach (Paperback)

Thanks to this book and it's timely suggestions my arthritis is much improved. Alkaline diet is mentioned as a solution to the stiff joints and inflammatory process and I have found this to be true. While I am gradually changing my diet, rather than going "cold turkey" (from things like chocolate) I have noticed a big difference in how I feel. This book is the missing piece in my program (which includes Qigong and drinking grape juice & Certo). Many thanks for a beautifully written and sensitive look at this common condition (one third of all Americans will be diagnosed with some form of arthritis).

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars OK book..., November 30, 2009

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Barbara Miller "Cottage Queen" (Minnesota) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Heal Arthritis: Physically-Mentally-Spiritually : The Edgar Cayce Approach (Paperback)

I of course am an arthritis sufferer. I was really excited to get this book. The book claims that all you have to do to get "rid" of arthritis is to eliminate such and such foods or add such and such foods to your diet and lifestyle. Ok, I have tried several of these things including a fast to ready my body for this... and I have certainly had no miracle cure... not even close. Something tells me that if this were all that were necessary to eliminate arthritis, there would be a lot less arthritis in this world... and there is not. I will continue to try some of the methods in this book to see what I can accomplish... with a positive attitude as well, but to sum it up? I don't think this book has the miracle cure any more than any of the other books out there do. I do agree with some of the philosophy in the book and there may be some useful information as well... but certainly no healing cure.