OF PACK
Large enough to cover injured or painful area
EXPECTED EFFECTS/PURPOSES
Produces “ . . . a drawing from the glands and from the soft tissue of the body those poisons in the form of a perspiration . . . ” (829-1)
Helps knit broken bones and dissolves fluids accumulated at ends of broken bones
Strengthens muscles and bruised tendons; gives better elasticity
Stimulates circulation
Brings “ . . . a renewed activity of cartilaginous rebuilding . . . ” (33-1) Relieves tension, strain, pain, soreness, and swelling
Gives strength to the vertebrae
Promotes relaxation
Will “ . . . enliven the tissue.” (4876-1)
Takes away inflammation in cartilage
Supplies nerve energy “ . . . to retract, rebuild . . . ” (538-10)
DIRECTIONS
Several ways are given for using apple cider vinegar and salt. One way involves applying the vinegar by itself; this can be done for treating a muscle strain or sprain. (In medical terminology a sprain is a sudden twisting or wrenching of a joint, which results in the tearing, stretching, or partial rupture of a ligament. Subsequent damage to blood vessels creates hemorrhaging into the tissue, as well as nerve, muscle, and tendon damage. The area can also become swollen and inflamed. Closely related, a strain is an injury due to excessive tension, force, or overexertion of some part of the musculature, or from a wrenching or twisting that results in undue stretching of muscles or ligaments. Swelling does not occur in a strain.)
To care for either of these conditions, bathe the painful area with the vinegar, then apply a cloth or a towel rung out (not entirely dry) with vinegar and lay it on the skin. After twenty-four hours following the injury, you may add heat to the pack by means of an electric heating pad or a hot salt pack.
Application of heat soothes tired, stiff muscles and achy joints and can speed the healing process. While an electric heating pad may be convenient and useful, salt is also an excellent retainer of heat. The additional weight of salt adds a comforting quality to the treatment.
Directions for making a hot salt pack can be found on the Web site eHow.com, since the treatment is not as frequently used today as in the past. While the readings usually suggest ordinary table salt (sodium chloride, iodized), this Web site recommends the use of kosher or sea salt. Heat about two pounds of salt in a pot over medium heat and stir it with a wooden spoon. Stirring will evenly distribute the heat. After ten minutes, pour the hot salt into a cotton pillowcase or double-bag it with another pillowcase to help hold the salt inside the bag. Twist the ends or tuck them in so that the salt remains in the pillowcase. Next, place the pillowcase either on the painful area or over the vinegar pack. Some readings mention adding vinegar to the salt after it is placed in the pillowcase. When the heat subsides, the salt can be reheated up to five times before it no longer retains the heat.
Another way of utilizing salt, noted in the majority of cases from the readings, combines it with the apple cider vinegar. It can be applied in one of two ways: dampened with the vinegar and rubbed over the painful joint—massaged into the tissue, or sprinkled onto a vinegar-soaked cloth and placed on the affected area. Leave it on as long as you wish or have time for. Afterward, remove the pack and bathe the area with a weak solution of baking soda and water (a teaspoon of baking soda to a cup of warm water), followed by a rub with grain alcohol. This final rub will help close the pores and prevent congestion. (1100-35)
DIRECTIONS FROM THE READINGS
For a female adult suffering with a strained ligament (reading given on September 20, 1927):
(Q) How long should the massage with the vinegar and salt be kept up?
(A) For at least three weeks. Each day. If there is severe pain, heat same and apply it in a pack. There will be some retractions from the application of these properties if these are massaged well, see? One saturated solution—that is, dissolve all the salt that the quantity will hold, which would be about three to four tablespoonsful of the vinegar and near the same quantity of the salt, see? Make this at each time. This may be made sufficient for three to four quantities or two to three days’ use at one time. Well that this be warmed when applied, but massage well (by the hand) into the limbs. This will remove the soreness and trouble, for this is from strained muscular tissue . . . 4511-2
For a sixty-seven-year-old man with neuritis tendencies (reading given on December 16, 1940):
. . . apply the heavy salt pack (coarse heavy salt, you see) saturated with Pure Apple Vinegar. This heated and applied will relieve any tension or strain, and the reaction of the sedatives and also the healing forces, as well as the rubs given as indicated, will continue to keep improvements. Put the salt in a sack or bag, see? then saturate—with the vinegar.
2051-3
Mrs. [5364], a forty-one-year-old woman, suffered from pelvic cellulitis that caused severe back pain for sixteen years (reading given on July 25, 1944):
Should there be periods when there is greater pain, take a single cloth saturated with apple vinegar (this is not to be used until the adjustments have been made, see?). Dip this in vinegar, rinse it out and then cover same and apply to the area aching, and apply salt heat to this. These will relieve the tensions.
5364-1
For a fifty-eight-year-old woman with a sprained ankle (reading given on November 10, 1940):
Each evening, when ready to retire, apply a hot wet bandage about the ankle and the irritated area. Do this for five to ten minutes, to open the pores of the skin thoroughly. Then follow this with a massage using an almost saturated solution of iodized salt and pure apple vinegar; not put on in packs, but massaged gently—not hard, as to break the skin, but do not merely pat it on. Massage it with the fingers, gently, for about twenty minutes; and we will find that this will prove very beneficial. This may then be sponged off, of course, and a gentle bandage may be put on if so desired—not tied on, nor as a rubber bandage, but a gentle bandage for the evening. But in a few days we will find great relief from this distress here . . .
805-5
A forty-year-old woman had a fractured leg and was still on crutches; she had been hit by a truck in September 1942 (reading given on January 29, 1944):
We would here add a massage, after each hydrotherapy treatment, for keeping the system purified, using table salt, (preferably iodized) saturated with pure apple vinegar. Don’t rub so hard as to break the skin in the joint itself, but so that the body will absorb all that it will. This will help strengthen the tendons and muscles and give better elasticity, as well as aiding the general body.
3608-1
TESTIMONIALS/RESULTS
Mrs. [1100], a forty-seven year old, received her thirty-fifth reading on January 27, 1943. On the first of February,
