This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce, in Hopkinsville, Ky., this 14th day of November, 1911, in accordance with request made by self - [132].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; LBC, Conductor; Katherine Faxon, Steno.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 4:15 P. M. ..., Ky.
1. LBC: You have before you Mr. [132] who is in this room with you. He is before you now. Go over him carefully, examine him thoroughly and tell us what is the matter with him, if anything.
2. EC: An impaired condition we have in the body, of the removing of used forces, or supply of the blood that is carried to the head, or an unequal removing of used tissues carried by the blood to the head, a condition we have in the body of Mr. [132].
3. We have the circulation, the flow of the blood over the whole system, the blood produced by the digestion of food or particles taken into the intestinal tract, carried to the head, aired by the oxygen, carbon taken on here in the lungs, distributed then to the parts or particles in the body to be used for the force of rebuilding into the system, or the body, as in this body. This should be perfect, in its working of its organs of the system in the body. The used forces in the body, the blood is circulated to organs of the body as to the head itself, the whole structure of the brain and of the sensory organism of the system. The seat of the trouble we have here is produced from the lesions formed along the muscular force of the spine leading to the head, and the blood supply to the head in itself until we form an out of channel of the supply of blood to the head. The blood don't go to the head right, or the supply is changed from the ordinary or normal channel of the supply of the blood to the head, which shows itself more in the eyes than we have in particles in other parts of the body, producing then, to the eye in itself, not a removing of the used forces by the sense of sight in its action onto the brain through the optic nerve of the eye. Now we have the eye in itself. We see through the eye, on the brain, - that is sight. We have the eyeballs then, themselves - the eyes, windows of the man, wherewith we see material objects outside. The action of the sight with the comparison to other objects taken on by the sensory organism, produces the sense of sight on the brain. The make-up of the eyeball is of lobes overlapping each other through the ball proper,
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connected by its blood vessels, its tissues, its lymphatic circulation, to the optic nerve proper, to the eye. The blood supply to these goes from its forces, or exterior forces, along the spine from the first and second cervical, the second lumbar and second dorsal. They come down as low as the second dorsal down into the back. The second lumbar, the second dorsal and the first and second cervical, supplying from the branches of the blood channels of the body in its forces carried to these. The sense of sight destroys cells to the brain here along the channel of the optic nerve - impressions of the white and gray matter in the body. The used forces not taken away from the cells, used by the sense of sight on the eye, produce an inflammation into the eye caused by the congestion of these particles or lesions along the spine, at times back, with the impression left by the body at the time of its being into life here, at the beginning. Hence we have the conditions in the body of Mr. [132], of a non elimination from the eye proper and its appendages here, branches, of the blood supply and the eye ball or the eye lids and around the used forces in the matter here of eye sight eliminating from the system, producing then irritation to the eye in itself - pains to the eye, pains to the lid, to the back of the eye ball. If we have an over congested condition of these we would form in the eye itself proper a forming over of skin of these, forming through the mucous lining, but we have a congested condition, as it were, of removing portions of blood supply, hence we have the condition we have, not checking the lesions, or the blood vessels or blood supply to the eye forming along the channel of the optic nerve and appendages, plumb to the second lumbar, down the spine, through the head, through the neck, and through all the cervicals here, in its force along these. Instead of the blood supply going through these directly, through the second dorsal, and second cervical, we have the supply coming to the left side of the face and neck through the cervical instead of to the right.
4. To remove these conditions from the system, it can be eliminated by the removal of the conditions from the system, both by assisting of the assimilation of this refused matter, as it were, used by the sight of the eye and by the strengthening of the nerve and blood supply to the head, over-stimulation to produce here over-taxation to the organs of the mouth, ear and head and self proper and blood supply to the brain, or to the blood supply to the eye and nose which comes around the sides from here.
5. To remove the conditions from the body - you see we have
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a good digestion in the body. We have plenty of strength in the system from the nerve supply to the trunk of the body. We have nervous condition of the head or upper part of the body from the sixth cervical, on up here, producing at times you will find it cold along here - non-elimination of the blood supply to these forces in the head, facial muscles and nerves to these, coming in contact with the eye around from the ear to the nerves - the blood of the channels to the eyes themselves proper.
6. We strengthen these forces by taking into the system into the intestinal tract that which will act on to the blood in itself or properties of the blood itself. First strychnine, small quantities here, until we produce to the supplying forces of the heart, strengthening of the throwing out of the blood force. Producing then more irritation by eliminating these forces. By strengthening the nerve supply along the spine first and second cervical, second dorsal and second lumbar, with electrical forces, outside over the spine. We strengthen the nerve supply and eliminate that which has been increased by the increased circulation by the properties taken into the body itself. Then remove the condition of these, and rest then as much as possible. No strong light to the eye, and remove the inflammation produced to the corners here - we have through the ducts coming to the nose, ear ducts here - remove that by into the eye a soft lotion, not irritating.
7. (Q) What would that be? (A) Anything that would produce non-irritation to it. If we produce an over-stimulation it becomes of the character of saline, and produces a counteracting from the soda. We produce then an over-stimulation to the iron forces, the opposite here. We can be governed by this, by the kind of formation that we have eliminated through the ducts, or by the water that is thrown out, helping or assisting to wash out the eyes. They can be improved.
8. (Q) Any other treatment you would prescribe for the present? (A) Not for the eyes.
9. (Q) Any other for the body? (A) No. No.