Mustard
Botanical Name: Sinapis alba (White) Brassica nigra
(Black)
Common Names and Synonyms: White Mustard, Black Mustard
Background: In addition to its common usage as a food and seasoning,
mustard has been used medicinally as a plaster for lung congestion and
bronchial problems. Used externally, mustard can blister and should
be used sparingly, in small amounts.
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Mustard in the Cayce Readings
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Edgar Cayce recommended mustard externally
as a bath, plaster or oil to stimulate circulation. Several readings mentioned
hot mustard baths of the feet and lower legs to prevent or minimize colds.
Mustard was also recommended in over 70 readings as a green, leafy vegetable.
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When used as an ingredient in massage oil formulas, oil of mustard was
typically recommended in the following amounts:
| 1/4 ounce |
18 readings |
| 1/2 ounce |
7 readings |
| 20 drops |
6 readings |
| 1 ounce |
4 readings |
| 10 drops |
4 readings |
| 5 drops |
3 readings |
| 2 drops |
2 readings |
| 2 ounces |
1 reading |
| 4 drops |
1 reading |
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When used as an ingredient in massage compounds, mustard was most often
mentioned in the same readings as the following substances:
| Olive Oil |
51 readings |
| Oil of Cedar |
47 readings |
| Sassafras |
32 readings |
| Camphor |
29 readings |
| Peanut Oil |
23 readings |
| Benzoin |
20 readings |
| Pine Needle Oil |
16 readings |
| Gasoline |
16 readings |
| Turpentine |
16 readings |
| Witch Hazel |
9 readings |
Cayce Quotes on Mustard
487-3
Keeping the body from drafts, keeping feet warm.
Well that of evenings hot mustard foot baths be given, until cold and congestion
is relieved from system, and corrections made.
3776-9
Well if the feet and limbs be bathed in very warm
water, to increase the circulation in this portion of system, putting mustard
in water when same is done, see?
191-1
Well that each evening, before retiring, the feet
- to the knees - be bathed in hot water, to which MUSTARD is added.
To the gallon of water, half a teaspoonful of mustard - rubbing in the
sole of the feet, following same, those of mutton tallow and camphorated
oil. This acts in THIS manner:
This will produce a circulation through the extremities
that, added with the stimuli to the hepatic circulation, will aid in EQUALIZING
and caring for the conditions as PRODUCE drosses in the body.
325-33
(Q) Which eased the back this morning? the salt packs or
the mustard plaster?
(A) The mustard plaster.
1377-6
Take 1 quart of Russian White Oil. To this
add 1/2 ounce Oil of Cedar, 1/2 ounce Oil of Mustard, 1 ounce Spirits of
Camphor - or, better still, 1 DRAM of Camphor Gum dissolved in as small
quantity of alcohol as will suspend same. Mix these together and
use about 2 tablespoonsful to massage the limbs and the spine. This
will aid the manipulations to be more easily given in the following treatment,
make for suppleness of body - but keep the eliminations through alimentary
canal. Use the irrigations to assist in same, to remove toxins.
4754-1
Massage, especially over the left portion of body
- from base of brain to the end of spine - with that prepared as this:
To one-half gallon of coal oil, add:
Oil of Mustard.....1/4 ounce,
Oil of Cedar.......1/4 ounce,
Camphor Gum........1/4 ounce.
Dissolve this thoroughly and massage along the spine.
949-3
At least twice each week we would massage the lower
portion of the spine, across the sacral, coccyx region, and to the ends
of the nerves - especially that make for the LOCOMOTARY actions in the
lower limbs, with this solution: Take one gallon of PLAIN or ordinary
gasoline; to this add one and a half ounces Oil of Cedar; then one ounce
Oil of Mustard; and cut up one and one-half drams of Gum Camphor.
Shake the solution together. Use in the massage for the sacrum, or
sacral region, and upper portion of the hips, about one ounce; and about
half an ounce in the massage along the limbs, ESPECIALLY along those of
the sciatic nerve root and about the knees.
558-4
Keep the body quiet. Particularly keep the
feet warm; and it would be well if the feet were bathed once or twice a
day in hot mustard water, a level teaspoonful to about two gallons or two
gallons and one half of hot water - as hot as the feet can stand, rubbing
the feet and limbs to the knees or above the knees THOROUGHLY when the
feet are put into the water. See? This would stimulate the
circulation to the lower extremities and take it away from the head, until
the eliminations have cleansed the system sufficient that there may be
started the proper circulation.
632-13
(Q) Would onion packs or mustard packs dissolve the fluid in
her chest?
(A) This may be told more by following those suggested massages
and pressures following the light. And should there still sound the
gurgle or the fluid of same, then use the counter-irritant; the raw onions,
ground, would be the more preferable, the more penetrating. While
the mustard makes for more of a superficial stimulation, the onion would
be penetrating and not as irritating.
715-6
Put the feet in hot mustard water AFTER the Pack
has been used, pulling the water up on the lower limbs to the knees, rubbing
down thoroughly; and when taken out of the water and sponged off dry, massage
with rub alcohol from the knees down. This will prevent taking cold,
or more cold.
816-9
As we find, we would empty first the stomach, either
with an emetic as mustard or salt - or with the pump.
1400-1
Do not overload the stomach when there is the regurgitation
from nervous reaction, or the sick stomach. At such times we would
settle same first by using an emetic - with a little mustard water.
556-17
And then it is necessary that the body keep out
of colds, keeping the feet quite warm; and at times rubbing the feet and
lower limbs with any good stimulating activity such as mustard water or
an equal combination of Mutton Suet (melted), Turpentine and Camphor.
2858-1
There will be required a mustard poultice applied
close to the base of the brain, and extending to the 3rd cervical.
Before this application, it would be well to sponge off the body with warm
or hot water. Change the poultice sufficiently often to draw from
the circulation to this portion of the brain - not enough to blister.
After this has drawn somewhat, or when it has irritated a great deal, remove
and let it remain off possibly for four to five hours, see? Then
apply again, and it will not require so long to redden the skin the next
time, see, but bathe off each time before the application. Musterole
would be better here, - this will not blister so easily, see? Heat
the poultice, of course, before applying. Just make a poultice of
the Musterole and apply on gauze, to the area from the first to the third
cervical.
3612-1
For this body we would begin first with Fume Baths
or Cabinet Sweats twice each week, using witchhazel. Each of these
treatments would be followed with rather a violent massage, or violent
for this body. Use this combination of oils:
Olive Oil.....................2 ounces,
Peanut Oil....................2 ounces,
Oil of Mustard...............10 drops,
Cedar Oil.....................1 ounce.
Massage these especially in the lumbar and sacral
and the sciatic nerves down to the knees, feet, throughout bursa of the
feet and the heel, to the center of the toes. Especially go downward,
not towards the body, go away from the body in giving the massages.
Don't just slap this on but do massage it thoroughly into the body.
If this produces a rash, bathe off with lukewarm
soda water. Then leave off the massage for a day or two and then
begin again, reducing the quantity of the Mustard Oil; though we must get
this counter-irritation, else we will have nerves that will not respond.
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