are not so well for the body . . .
543-26
For a fifty-nine-year-old woman with debilitation and neuritis, stiffness on the left side of her face, and a swollen stomach (reading given on October 19, 1937):
. . . the regular Apple Diet would be well for the body—but don’t try to work like a horse when you are on the apple diet! or else we will find it will be more detrimental than helpful! But these cleansings will prevent the accumulations of gas, the pressures that make for the neuritis through the portions of the body. But just be consistent.
307-14
For a twenty-four-year-old woman with nervous system incoordination, spinal subluxations, and poor eliminations (reading given on February 21, 1944):
Here, one good eliminant for this body would be to go on the apple diet—at least every three months; that is, eat nothing for three days except raw apples, preferably the Jonathan variety or a kindred variety. Follow this with at least two to three teaspoonsful of Olive Oil; that is, after the three days. This is to change the activity through the whole alimentary canal.
3673-1
TESTIMONIALS/RESULTS
Mrs. [639], who received her second reading from Cayce on August 21, 1934, when she was sixty-three years old, wrote a letter to Cayce dated March 21, 1935:
“ . . . in your March 1935 Bulletin {former A.R.E. publication} under ‘Health Hints’ {regarding the apple diet} . . . Will you kindly advise me what the Jenneting variety apples are, where they grow, and where they can be purchased . . . ”
639-2, Report #6
(See also Additional Information.)
On April 23, 1935, Edgar Cayce wrote that he had made some inquiries and thought it was the same variety as Delicious, Arkansas Black, and the Russet: “ . . . and there is one, of course, called the original Jenneting. Haven’t tried this out myself as yet but as I usually do am going to try it, for would never want to be the means of giving something for someone that I wouldn’t try myself.” (639-2, Report #6)
She later reported on her experiences on April 19, 1936:
“I have been taking the apple diet once a month for three months; I think it a splendid thing and I get along with it very well with the exception that the olive oil makes me so sick at my stomach. I am wondering how it would do to take it {the apple diet} every two weeks for one day and a half with ¼ glass of oil? Maybe that amount of oil wouldn’t affect me so badly. Mr. [550] took it the last time I did but the oil didn’t make him sick. I believe you wrote once that you had taken the diet for half the time prescribed and would like to ask if you used half the amount of oil in doing so.”
639-2, Report #11
On May 6, 1936, Edgar Cayce replied:
“Perhaps you take too much of the olive oil with your apple diet. I only took half a teacup—that, it seems to me, is less than the glass, isn’t it? Have found excellent results with only a day of the diet, and decreasing the oil according to the days taken. Try that and see if you do not have good results.”
639-2, Report #12
In one instance, in a reading on himself, Cayce received this information: “Too much picric acid has been a part of the diet here.” (294-194) Gladys Davis made this notation: “I think EC had been on an apple diet for a day; had to stop, he was suffering so.” This reading on September 29, 1939, was given several years after the above correspondence.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Apples are a good source of vitamins and minerals: A, C, B complex, calcium, potassium, phosphorus, and magnesium. They contain pectin, a fiber which has a gentle laxative effect, and are also high in bioflavonoids (antioxidant compounds).
Water and coffee (one reading, 1597-2, mentioned the choice of “ . . . a cereal drink . . . ”) were the only food items that might be consumed with the raw apple diet; not to be consumed: milk, bread, and yeast were specifically noted.
. . . Raw apples are not well {for the three-day apple diet} unless they are of the jenneting variety . . .
820-2
. . . The jenneting or Jonathan variety is better than those of the woody stock; as the Winesap.
257-167
“Jenneting,” according to one dictionary of obsolete words, is an early pear resembling the jenneting apple, so named because it ripens on St. John’s day, June 24. Webster’s New Twentieth Century Dictionary defines it as “a species of early apples.”
Other varieties of apples suggested in the readings include Arkansas Black, Sheep Nose, Delicious, Oregon Red, and Jonathan. The Delicious (the yellow and red) might be the easiest to locate in grocery stores. Some people prefer the yellow variety, which contains the most pectin (noted by Dr. Reilly), a substance which helps reduce cholesterol.
Though the three-day apple diet is intended in the readings as a purifying and cleansing diet rather than a means of losing weight, weight loss may be a natural result of decreasing food intake while on the diet.
Atomidine
Although mentioned in the Cayce readings over 2,500 times as Atomidine (pronounced ah-TOM-uh-deen), this highly useful product, discovered in 1914, was originally sold under the name Beslin (as well as other designations) and distributed by Schieffelin and Company in New York City until the early 1940s. At that time the two-ounce bottle of liquid sold for $1.00. Now it is available under the label Atomic Iodine™, a description, according to the readings, of just what Atomidine is.
From the multiple uses to which the readings refer, it can appear to be a “wonder drug.” Diluted internal uses include it as a mouth and gum wash, as a nasal and throat spray or gargle, as a solution in enemas, as a douche, and most often taken in small doses in a glass of water for glandular and iodine deficiencies. Used externally, it can be applied as a local antiseptic, a steam bath additive, a pack, a massage lubricant, a stupe, and as a solution for the Radio-Active Appliance.
Almost always, Atomidine is used in conjunction with other treatments. Its value lies in that it is iodine in a form that is apparently less toxic to the body than what is available from other commercial sources. Though probably safe for external use by most anyone, it should be used with great care when ingested internally. Its high iodine content can be harmful to some who might take too large a dosage, while others could be sensitive to even minute amounts. Each drop of the solution contains approximately 1/100 grain of iodine, supplying about six times the minimum daily requirement of iodine; “legally (it) is a prescription item when used internally,” and should be taken only under a physician’s care (An Edgar Cayce Home Medicine Guide, p. 5).
INDICATIONS
(Internal) Arthritis, asthma, baldness, cysts (on womb), dizziness, excessive hair, glandular disorders, goiter, hypertension,
