The Edgar Cayce handbook for health through drugless therapy [Hardcover]

Harold J Reilly (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1975

Hundreds of practical tips for excellent health resulted from physiotherapist Harold Reilly's use of the Edgar Cayce remedies in his practice. For more than thirty years the Reilly Health Institute in New York City's Rockefeller Center was a health mecca for prominent people. Government and business leaders such as Nelson Rockefeller, David Sarnoff, and George Meany; actors and actresses such as Mickey Rooney, Gloria Swanson, and Leslie Caron; international jet setters such as the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and the Dowager Empress of Egypt; and the famous from all walks of life, from Norman Vincent Peale to Robert Frost; credited Dr. Reilly with helping them to enjoy life to the fullest. This book covers those tips -- for healing, diet, nutrition, fitness, beauty, and longevity -- in a format that is easy to understand and follow.

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The Edgar Cayce Handbook For Health Through Drugless Therapy is a compendium of Edgar Cayce's natural, drug-free techniques for restoring a healthy body, mind, and spirit which often anticipated the discoveries of modern medical research by decades. The Edgar Cayce Handbook For Health shows how the reader can cope with the common cold, control arthritis and psoriasis, protect the heart, increase sexual fulfillment, fight fat and fatique, improve the figure, banish constipation, enjoy health-spa benefits at home, and much, much more. Harold Reilly has done an especially noteworthy job of adding his own experiences and organizing Edgar Cayce's insights into health and medicine for the reader's benefit. -- Midwest Book Review --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Edgar Cayce's natural, drug-free techniques for restoring a healthy body, mind, and spirit often anticipated the discoveries of modern medical research for decades. Now, a world-famous practitioner's 45 years' experience with the Cayce therapies is combined with the renowned psychic's own words to show how you can: cope with the common cold, control arthritis and psoriasis, protect your heart, increase sexual fulfillment, fight fat and fatigue, improve your figure, banish constipation, enjoy health-spa benefits at home, and much, much more. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 348 pages
• Publisher: Macmillan (1975)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0026019604
• ISBN-13: 978-0026019606
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.3 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #600,726 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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69 of 70 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A few Almonds a Day Keeps the Doctor Away?, April 24, 2004

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I've owned this book for several years. Although I can't say that I practiced all of the treatments diligently or with regularity, it's surprising how much of the health and diagnoses information given by psychic Edgar Cayce in the 19th and 20th centuries, coincides with modern-day medical advice.
I'd like to begin this review with a disclaimer. Please don't follow the advice in this book without being under the care or supervision of a doctor. In fact, Reilly suggests this before undergoing any of the treatments in the book.

Although we now know most of the dietary advice that Cayce gave is now common knowledge, you have to remember that Cayce was born on March 18, 1877. He started readings at the age of 21 when he was afflicted with a paralysis of the throat, and continued his readings up until the time of his death in Virginia Beach,VA on January 3, 1945. Much of the advice we take for granted now was not known by dieticians, doctors, and the like when Cayce first gave predictions. Harold Reilly was the man who practiced many of Cayce's treatments. He's treated stars like Mickey Rooney, Robert Frost,Gloria Swanson, Bob Hope, Mae West, Jessica Tandy...among others.

Cayce's dietary advice is as follows. For example, Cayce cautions against eating red meats, and instead encourages people to eat healthy portions of fish, fowl, and lamb. Also, pork is a no-no, except for crisp bacon. And encourages people to eat one raw salad a day - - composed of 4 plants that grow above ground to one below. Fried foods, starches and the like are to be avoided. Surprisingly almonds are the stand out as the miracle drug. Cayce says they're a great disease-prevention tool because of it's combination of phosophorus and calcium.
The advice is amazingly detailed. It discusses how certain foods can affect the body's acidity/akalinity that can cause or prevent disease. There is also a section in the book which advises which "food combinations" are better-digested in your stomach than others.

This book covers naturopathic treatments for a variety of ails from the teeth/hair down to the blood/toes/bones. According to Cayce's advice, eliminations are also essential to curing diseases. Eliminations are carried out through osteopathic adjustments, massage(with peanut oil,olive oil,etc;), colonics, packs(usually composed of cold pressed castor oil or other enemas, baths (steam, sitz,etc;). Also there are sections, with pictures, on exercise and massage. There are also internal cleansing diets (such as the apple diet) which are discussed. Reilly's book even has a small section on meditation.

The massage is interesting because it coincides with what some Hindus do daily - - the self-abhyanga(abeeyanga) - - or daily massage to satisfy their doshas. Usually done with sesame seed oil or some other kinds of oil, right before bathing.

My only quip with the book was the way it was organized was sometimes confusing. If Reilly gave advice on certain exercises, it was difficult to flip through another part of the book to find them. The indexes were helpful to find them - - but sometimes - - not always. Then again, I do possess an old old copy of Reilly's book. Hopefully, there will be an updated versionother edition that makes it easier to find some of the examples he discusses in the book.

I know there are a few skeptics out there. And if you're going to use this book - - please do so under medical supervision.

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My health bible, April 26, 2004

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I own two copies of this book just so I am sure to always have one and can loan one to a friend. I trust the remedies of Edgar Cayce and have used them for over 20 years. I have lots of other books on health, including professional ones for doctors. This book includes all the basic info on diet, exercise and daily living to keep healthy. Having read many books about Edgar Cayce and spent many years experiencing the truth of his work I have great respect for him and trust his suggestions.

23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An apple a day can keep the doctor away., April 18, 1999

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This book is a good shortcut past trial and error. It's a bit depressing that a lot of the foods, activities and attitudes we grow up with arn't good for us but it's nice to know what they are. With knowlage one has the ability to plan and re-invent ways to live better.

If you would like to know the effects of your actons, attitudes or foods, this book is for you.