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ASSIMILATION AND ELIMINATION
These are the two keystones of what makes us tick, in fact Cayce said if we could control these aspects of the human form we could extend life to whatever we chose, that's how important these two principles are.
Assimilation is defined as the measure of the ability of any body to utilize foods that we eat.
Some people think that having massive doses of nutrition will give them all that they need, they could not be more wrong, it is all right shoving nutrition in but it is quite another thing if the body can absorb it and use it in that form.
Typical assimilation rates might vary from 20% to 80% and nutrition supplied in some forms will not be absorbed at all.
What happens to the food after you swallow it depends to a large degree on the other three principles of your body namely circulation, relaxation and elimination.
Circulation is crucial if assimilation is to be maintained at high levels. Circulation is helped greatly by some important factors; exercise, massage, hydrotherapy treatments and osteopathic adjustments.
Because the blood stream carries the rebuilding forces to the body it is the circulation channels which need to be clear and stimulated so that the blood will flow to feed the cells and tissues.
It’s not what you ingest, but what you usefully absorb and Dr. F.X. Mayr’s insights into the intimate relation of intestinal health to general health and beauty.
Everything which your body does, every activity produces waste and we get rid of that waste through the skin, the lungs, the kidneys and the intestines.
Major problems start to occur when any of these channels are stopped from doing their job, we start to accumulate waste, bacteria start growing at alarming rates which leads to all sorts of problems as we become toxic.
The fact that poor eliminations are the most cited cause of disease within the Cayce papers totalling over 14000 gives you some idea of just how important this aspect really is: getting rid of toxins.
In extreme cases of toxemia Cayce recommended a controlled fast or a three-day raw apple diet to clear the system and restore balance.
A great deal of elimination takes place through the lungs by means of deep breathing and Cayce placed great emphasis on this aspect recommending some of the breathing techniques as used in yoga.
Of course exercise plays a very important role here driving out wastes into the lungs and speeding up circulation, helping digestion, helping elimination of wastes through the skin.
Cayce used certain foods to help elimination such as leafy vegetables and in the mornings or evenings stewed figs, raisins, apricots or pears occasionally.
Cayce said that it would be good for everyone to have a colonic occasionally.
Recommended in hundreds of readings was the Cayce detox, the elimination process was found to be poor in thousands of people and the subsequent build-up of toxins and poisons was found in hundreds of people.
The Cayce detox was to help rid the body of these wastes.
The lay person can easily appreciate the situation, as in your very own kitchen if you did not clean up after every meal, bacteria would have a great time multiplying and contaminating places everywhere.
So many thousands of people have been helped greatly by helping the body get rid of waste, the importance of which cannot be overestimated.
Cayce prescribed the three-day apple diet where for three days you would eat nothing but apples of the sheep-nosed type, preferably organic types like Jonathans, Delicious, Oregon reds, Arkansas black, and water.
At the end of the third day, a two spoons full of olive oil was taken.
The words people used to describe their success having done this regime are ”uplifting”, ”revitalizing”, ”feeling great”, an euphoric feeling, greater mental clarity and physically more energy.
It is one of the most effective ways of preventing disease.
In fact Cayce said that it would cleanse all toxic forces from any body.
According to Harold Reilly’s book he himself tried to detox three times a year.
[A world-famous practitioner who successfully treated many celebrities ranging from Nelson Rockefeller, George Meany, Mickey Rooney, Gloria Swanson and Leslie Caron to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Harold Reilly condensed his 45 years experience with the Cayce therapies into The Edgar Cayce Handbook for Health Through Drugless Therapy.]
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What Cayce said above looks so logic to me.
I had another post on fasting to help lyme. I didn't do the apple fasting he proposed (i had never heard of it before), but did a pear fasting, that was gorgeous.
That was during active lyme, and I swear my lyme went into remission using just a pear a day!
The relation between TOXINS and BACTERIAL infections is also described by Cayce.
He gave extreme importance to detox.
I always keep saying that detoxing is what makes the whole difference between a successful lyme treatment and a failure.
No detox = no healing.
I do feel it's almost that simple!
No detox = you help bacteria and fungi / candida / mold / parasites.
Like in the bathroom: if you don't wipe those corners, you breed bacteria and mold/fungi.
It's not chlorine or chemicals that kill the bacteria, but simply washing, scrubbing with water will do about 90% of the job.
Same as in the body : give it antibiotics, anti microbials, but do not clean the debris = no way you'll get rid of chronic infections.
They will still thrive in the dirt, due to dirt.
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Very good info. Makes sense to me too. Thanks for posting!!
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You're welcome.
Here are some more of Cayce's ideas (I mean, he was in trance when he said these things, I don't think he had any memory when he woke up....).
But when I read what he said, so long ago, when processed food was just starting, it makes SO MUCH sense.
How could he know all that?
Below, some recommendations for eating right, according to Cayce.
Source: the same website above.
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Just as mass-produced foods were beginning to appear, and decades before the whole-food movement became popular, Cayce was issuing warnings.
He repeatedly stated that refined foods, sugars, red meat, and fried food were generally harmful to the body.
Cayce did not just warn patients away from certain foods, he encouraged the consumption of others.
For instance, in keeping with what is now known about the importance of ingesting active food enzymes, he recommended eating one meal per day of primarily raw vegetables.
He also consistently instructed patients to eat whole rather than refined grains, saying that refined products not only lacked nutrients the body needs, ...
...but that such foods, with all enzymes and other elements removed, are actually toxic to the human body.
And although he didn't use the contemporary term phyto-chemicals—the nutritional element related to the color of foods—he often recommended foods of a certain color for particular ailments.
Cayce also spoke of the acid-alkaline balance in the body, which he said was affected by the foods we eat—an area of nutrition that was virtually unheard of in the 1920s, and has only recently become popular.
Cayce's general diet guidelines recommended the consumption of 20 % acid producing foods, such as meats, starches and sugars, and 80% alkaline producing foods, such as vegetables, fruits and dairy products.
To a 48 year-old woman, Cayce said: "The less physical exercise...the greater should be the alkaline reacting food taken.
... Energies or activities may burn acids, but those who lead the sedentary life can't go on sweets or too much starches."
He also recommended that vegetables from below the ground, such as carrots, beets, and potatoes, should constitute only 25% of one's diet of vegetables, while above the ground vegetables, such as lettuce, squash, and tomatoes, should account for the other 75% percent.
He recommended that only 10% of our diet be fats, another 10% proteins, 5% refined starches and sugars and the other 75% complex carbohydrates such as vegetables, fruits and grains.
Long after Cayce's death, many of the seemingly radical guidelines he offered in the 1930s would be seen as having merit.
But some of Cayce's recommendations still seem strange to this day.
For instance, he stated in several readings that while tomatoes contain more nutrients than any other single food, when not vine-ripened, they are toxic to the human body.
He also stated that carbonated drinks were to be almost always avoided, not just because of the sugar or artificial sweetener in them, but because they interfered with the interaction between the liver and the kidney.
Other gems offered by Cayce included such statements as: apples should never be eaten raw, only baked or cooked, unless used for fasting purposes;
only the peel of the white potato was of any real nutritional value;
and coffee and tea become toxic when combined with milk or cream.
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