Castor oil is a very strange catalyst. I use it to keep cold sores from incessing, heal abresions, prevent severe sunburn, stop Arthritis pain and muscle pains, heal rashes, integrate surgery scars into pliable, properly healed skin tissue, cure the insane itching on my nose at times when I need to pay attention to my work and keep my hands from drying up. if you'll notice all of these have to do with the epidermis (skin). I think what happened is that the castor oil packs destroyed the protien that protects fat cells from being absorbed into the body. Then it just tightened the stretched out calls in her stomach or even removed the excess cells of the stomach and asked the body to redistribute them to areas of much more need. For you information, Jesus blessed the Castor plant. It might help others if you offer your recipe on your pack in the next post.

Thank you for sharing this information. Even though you wrote in with a question, you are helping motivate me closer towards doing something along this line, since my body sounds similar to hers in this repect..

In addition to what was just offered as a possible explanation by longthought21 about the oil destroying cell protein coating, I am wondering if the castor oil also managed to penetrate the liver and intestines to loosen up and pass old plaque and whatever else was in there, perhaps some Gallstones or sludge from the liver, that kind of stuff, and even perhaps stuff left over from the changes of pregnancy as well. There may also be an energetic charge to it on some level that penetrated deeply into the organs and assisted them in correcting imbalances of different types--just my thought. As longthought mentioned, it does have an amazing ability to penetrate the skin barrier and change all sorts of things. It's quite powerful stuff, regardless.

It's interesting that you mentioned that she kept the pack on overnight, which might account for a big difference in how fast this happened. The general instructions for the packs that I have run across are to use them for 1-2 hours, although folks like Schulze and other healers sometimes recommend the entire night for different problems. Cayce recommended rubbing 1-2 tablespoons of castor oil onto the belly and breasts, then soaking in a hot tub for awhile to break up abdominal fat and possible breast cysts, etc, but it sounds like your wife really took it to a more intense level. I have never read of this as a result, either quickly or in a longer span of time before, but I have also not been able to read many of the stories of those who used them overnight, other than resulting a healing, to one degree or another, for their specific ailments and issues. Then again, there's a lot I haven't read...

I know these reportings really keep some of the rest of us who are perhaps more timid or apprehensive or chicken (such as myself) about doing the different healing procedures and protocols encouraged and fascinated enough that we start moving more in that direction. These stories really help me personally to gather steam and courage to get on with it and try something new.

This is good news!! Perhaps what she is doing now may, if not for this cycle, help ease future cycles because of the deep cleansing effect it has had. Please keep us updated if there are any more noticeable changes or insights on this. I hope your wife's problem with her cycles becomes a thing of the past and completely disappears. Thank you for sharing this.

Dr. McGarey author of "Oils that Heal" suggests that castor oil packs can strengthen the Peyer's Patches, which are tiny patches of lymphatic tissue in the mucosal surface of the small intestine. The Peyer's Patches produce a substance which facilitates electrical contact between the autonomous and the cerebrospinal nervous system when it reaches those areas via the bloodstream. Dr. McGarey says that the health of the entire nervous system is, to an extent, maintained through the substance produced by the Peyer's Patches when they are in good health. Although the Peyer's Patches were discovered in 1677, it is only recently that medical Science has begun to recognize them as constituents of the body's immune system.

Current research appears to confirm Dr. McGarey's theory. A double-blind study, described by Harvey Grady in a report entitled Immunomodulation through Castor Oil Packs published in a recent issue of the Journal of Naturopathic Medicine, examined lymphocyte values of 36 healthy subjects before and after topical castor oil application. This study identified castor oil as an anti-toxin, and as having impact on the lymphatic system, enhancing immunological function. The study found that castor oil pack therapy of a minimal two-hour duration produced an increase in the number of T-11 cells within a 24-hour period following treatment, with a concomitant increase in the number of total lymphocytes. This T-11 cell increase represents a general boost in the body's specific defense status, since lymphocytes actively defend the health of the body by forming antibodies against pathogens and their toxins. T-cells identify and kill viruses, fungi, bacteria, and cancer cells

Our thanks to everyone who replied. This information has been extremely helpful to us as it provided excellent explanations of how the castor oil packs work and how it helped to deflate my wife's pot belly.

Thanks again for sharing your information!

Raymond