Edgar Cayce on
SAND PACKS(Question)
"Are sand packs beneficial?"
(EC) "Be beneficial, if they are not taken
for too great a period of time. Every other day
should be sufficient for these, ten to fifteen
minutes for such treatment. Wet the body, but
cover in dry sand."
From Reading #5475-4 (M 50) given on 7/07/30:
(Question)
"How often should sand packs be given?
(EC) "Dependent upon the weather and upon
the reactions of the body to same. Not when the
sands are damp or wet, are they well for the
body."
From Reading #2504-8 (M 64) given on 6/23/30:
(Question)
"Would you advise sand packs [for
2504]?"
(EC)
"Too much of a stimuli to the capillary
circulation, for same. May sweat in the SUN, but
wouldn't cover the body with the sand. Too heavy
for the heart stimulant."
From Reading #340-12 (F 42) given on 05/26/30:
(Question)
"Would you advise sand packs for this
body?"
(EC)
"No. Now, the differentiation between
conditions of this kind and sand packs: WATER -
water or salt water baths would be VERY good; not
sand packs - for sand packs are to stimulate the
capillary circulation, and are more for the
EXTERIOR forces - while we are to STIMULATE a
circulation that is INTERNAL."
From Reading #3838-1 (M 42) given on 2/18/31:
(Question)
"Would some other climate better suit body
than at Perry Point, Maryland, upper end of
Chesapeake Bay?"
(EC)
"The more sunshine, or the more activities
that may bring the better condition. As soon as
weather permits, as we would find in the present
surroundings, sand packs would be the MOST
beneficial - that that carries radium and
gold."
From Reading #2597-5 (M 61) given on 7/26/29:
(Question)
"Which is best for full recuperation of
body, northeast United States or Virginia
Beach?"
(EC)
"Virginia Beach would be where they could
set more of the applications as to meet the needs
of conditions for the physical forces of the
body, in radium as may be obtained in sand packs
- which carry both the gold and the iodine and
for the appliances that may be applied to the
body that would aid in alleviating these
conditions as seen in the thyroids."
From Reading #758-18 (M 8) given on 5/24/30:
(Question)
"How often should sand packs be given?"
(EC)
"About every OTHER day. ...In administering
sand packs, first there should be chosen that of
dry sand - and preparations made for same, see?
Then the body should be wet with sea water, by
dampening same - or wading into same - being wet
all over - then covered in the sand, of course
not the face or the mouth, or eyes, see? Eyes
should be kept well shaded during such
treatments, and for ten - fifteen to twenty
minutes such should be given, with the dry sand -
see? Then, IMMEDIATELY after same the body SHOULD
be drained off - or bathed off - and REST, see?
for fifteen to twenty minutes, at LEAST, SO THAT
the body has the OPPORTUNITY to RESPOND TO those
vibrations set up; for the pulsation is EQUALIZED
by such applications."
From Reading #421-4 (F 21) given on 8/11/31:
"Well, too, that sand packs, or sand baths be taken. These will be helpful and beneficial for the iodine as may be obtained by absorption, through being wet with sea water and immediately covered in DRY WARM sand; not wet - but dry, warm sand, for fifteen to twenty minutes; following same by a fresh bath and a spirited rubdown along the spine."
From Reading #357-1 (F 31) given on 06/16/33:
"Keep in the sunshine a great deal; this is helpful to the body. Also sand rubs, sand packs, would be well. This increases capillary circulation. Wet the body in salt water, cover in dry sand for twenty minutes - it's a good treatment!"
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