This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, this 20th day of February, 1911.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; L. B. Cayce, Conductor; Katherine Faxon, Steno.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading Unknown. ..., Oregon.
1. LBC: You have before you Mrs. [17], ..., Oregon. She is before you now. Go over her thoroughly, examine her, and tell us what is the matter, if anything?
2. EC: Yes, we have her here. She is a neurasthenic. This is a condition here of the nerve force in the body - of the whole system, that is, action on to the other organisms of the physical body and mental too, at times, especially do we have most of the action shown in its forces to the physical body, through the action on to the lung here; to the forces here through the pelvis, to the lower extremities, acting on to the locomotories of the system, or forces which govern the lower extremities here from the pelvis, on the inside here, along to the lower limbs, and especially at the knees on the side here, along the line of the sciatic nerve, acting in conjunction with the sciatic nerves from the appendages thereof, here at the joints. The action on the forces here, through the lung, is through the respiratory system, or more to the lymphatic circulation, with its nerve appendages to it here, in the action of the air into the lung, which forces out, or the action of the same force on to the action of the heart, or through the blood force, where the blood is cleansed or purified by the air in the lungs. Therefore, we have some of the cells in the lower part of the lung, closed, from the action of the force of the nerves proper in the system, wherein the force of action in itself is Neurasthenic - in the acting force in itself or from the mental action between the nerve and self proper, or to the branches of those effected by the Neurasthenia, to the action of the sympathetic nerve system and the cerebrospinal.
3. At times, we have these forces impaired or circulation, as through these things we have formed - indigestion in the system or the stomach, producing a burning sensation to the stomach itself proper, from the action of the juices of the blood, all thrown out by the hepatic circulation at the duodenum just before it is acted on by the pancrean juices in the system, and the body in itself, proper becomes emaciated by lack of nerve force or nutriment in the system, from the condition of the system that we have in general
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over the whole body.
4. (Q) What other conditions do you see? (A) There are other conditions arising at times in the system from the condition of the whole body, as we have through the capillary circulation at times, throwing out discharges from these in abrasions on the skin from the exterior, but these all come from the troubles we have in the system through the nerve force. That is the condition between the physical body and its appendages on the system, with the circulation and nerve tissue here, and muscles, or to the mental body with its brain and appendages, and nerve force through the system. The action then in these forces the neurasthenic condition - a condition existing either by physical means, brought to action on the body through the nerve action on the physical system, that is, to the circulation and muscular force, as the nerve force acting on these in the system of this body that we have here.
5. (Q) What treatment would you prescribe? (A) Hot applications to the solar plexus nerve center at the ninth dorsal; electrical forces followed after all along the whole spine, and make an impression to the mind, through the mind in itself, or action of one mind on another, and it will quit it. One is action to the physical body, with application you see; throw off this coldness here to the feet. Get away this soreness here, or burning at the stomach, or heartburn in the system. Eliminate that from the system through the physical means, the action of the electrical forces, that is static, on to the body here along the spine and the whole body to its finger tips, along the limbs, along the line of the sciatic nerve force, along the limbs, extremities where they come in contact with these nerve forces, rebuilding in the body, at the armpits where we come close to the circulation in the body. Then, the impression on the nerve force through the mind on itself proper, or to the mental body.
6. (Q) Any other treatment you would prescribe? (A) When we eliminate these forces, we produce a condition in the system, or the body becomes stronger in itself. As we have in the system, a digestion here, but the new blood in the body is fairly good, except at times we have a state in the lung of the force producing this non-clarification of the blood - forced back in the heart with particles here left in the cells, closed, and become then particles through the hepatic circulation; forced in there, producing a condition we have in the body. These distribute in the forces in the body, producing abrasions of the skin, on the outside. Remove these forces from the physical and mental
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body, then we remove the forces from the body and produce then a clarified condition of the system, and the rest of the body will be in a better condition.
7. (Q) What condition is the mind in at present? (A) The mind is alright, if it will act. The condition of the mind is acted on by the mental force into the brain in itself, producing the condition we have now, of the neurasthenic, we have hundreds of them here. The action of the nerve force on the brain itself proper, and it thinks it is sicker than it is. s.