Digestive Ailments 61
could stand, fi xed in a variety of different ways to make it more palat-
able. Martha tried the garlic remedy, and it worked just as her doctor
said it would.
John started having digestive problems when he was twenty. By the
time he was thirty-fi ve he had developed Crohn’s disease, an extremely
severe infl ammatory bowel disorder. He tried to avoid foods that gave
him indigestion, but his job took him all over the world, and his diges-
tive tract couldn’t adjust to foods that differed from one country to the
next. His intestines became so infl amed that the doctor prescribed
prednisone, a steroid hormone. When that didn’t work, he had three
feet of his intestines and his ileocaecal valve removed. Fearing that if
his infl amed bowel condition continued to worsen he would end up
with no intestines at all, John began investigating alternative remedies.
I suggested castor oil, the best remedy for a sluggish gut and one that
has been used for many ailments since biblical times. The oil is extracted
from the castor bean, which grows on a tree called the Palma Christi.
According to Edgar Cayce, castor oil activates peristalsis in the colon
by triggering a chemical action in which water splits oil into glycerol
and the fatty acid ricinoleic acid.
John placed a castor oil pack on his lower abdomen for one hour
every day for one week and took one tablespoon of the oil every morn-
ing before breakfast. In a week his stools, which had been either too
loose or too hard, assumed a normal consistency. His abdominal cramps
and pain, however, hadn’t gone away because his intestines were still
infl amed, a sign that his bowel was still hyperacidic. To increase the
alkalinity of his intestines, John slept on a far infrared pad (see
Resources). He also drank alkaline water. A month later he broke out
in a rash and had open, running sores all over his abdomen. The acidic
waste in his gut had been dissolved and excreted through the skin.
With this removal, the pain and infl ammation in John’s intestinal tract
vanished.
As the personal stories in this chapter reveal, the way to cure diges-
tive tract problems is to neutralize the acid wastes in the body. While
this can be done with alkaline-based products such as the infrared mat
and alkaline water, clearly the most effective treatment is an allergy-
free diet that takes into consideration an individual’s metabolic type—
meat eater, grain eater, or the balanced metabolism.