This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the Halcyon Hotel, Miami, Florida, this 8th day of February, 1927, in accordance with request made by self, through Mr. [550].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mrs. A. C. Preston, and Mr. Frank E. Mohr.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 11:00 A. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., Arkansas.
1. GC: You will go over this body carefully, examine it thoroughly, and tell me the conditions you find at the present time. You will diagnose the case thoroughly, giving the cause of the existing conditions; also the treatment for the cure and relief of this body.
2. EC: Yes, we have the body here.
3. Now, we find there are abnormal conditions with this body. These are the outcome of hindered elimination and effects as have been produced in the body by the attack, as it were, of these drosses as left in system on various portions of the organisms of the body, until there is existent specific conditions affecting the functioning of specific organs, and these are of the sensory system particularly; though the seat of trouble is deeper than that for which most of that administered for the relief has been given.
4. Now, these are conditions as we find them in this body, [148], we are speaking of, and behold he prayeth!
5. First: IN THE BLOOD SUPPLY, in this we find there are the evidences of the hindered circulation, as is seen both in the pressure in the venous strain or in that of the heart's pressure; also this is seen in the capillary circulation, and in the effects of the emunctory discharges. In the elements in the blood, this shows that there is a sedimentary condition in many of the eliminating centers; as is seen in the congestion in liver and the condition in the kidneys.
6. IN THE NERVE SYSTEM, in this we find the real seat or the basis of that condition existent in the body; for there are those subluxations in the cerebrospinal center, in which ganglions of the cerebrospinal nerves are so pressed upon as to give improper incentive in functional reaction, as well as that of improper functioning - for, as is seen in the 11th and 12th dorsal, and in the 2nd and 4th lumbar, these hinder the normal reaction from nerve energy of the system to the kidneys in such a way that the system, becoming
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overcharged by the improper conditions or improper functioning, has left in the system that which, when distributed to the various portions of the body, becoming imbedded, as it were, in the tissue of the capillary circulation and attacking various portions of the functioning system, produces the detrimental effect to the body, or making, as it were, such lazy reaction or improper coordination between the two great poles of the body's functioning - the liver and the kidneys.
7. Now, in the reaction from these subluxations we find other minor lesions; especially those in the hypogastric plexus, as well as the brachial plexus. Now, taking properties in the system that have exercised that portion of the digestive system to such an extent as to cause so much irritation that an increased hepatic circulation assisted in eliminating some of the poisons, we find this produced such pressure through- out the whole cervical region as to leave in the facial portions of the body those poisons to that extent that the eyes have become dimmed, and this is that which causes the greater distress to the body at the present time. This, as we see, is attacking - through the facial nerve reactions from the cerebrospinal and sympathetic plexus in the cervical region - even directly that of the optic nerve; rather as strangulation at the present time than as of an atrophied or deadened condition. So irritation exists in the cavity itself, as is seen in the lachrymal ducts and in the orb of the eye proper; yet this constant skimming - this constant leadened condition as covers the optic itself - produces an irritation in its OWN centers. This, then, is another evidence of the deflected circulation, and especially of the poor eliminations - both through the capillaries and through the normal eliminations through the great arterial forces; especially through the carotid artery, which is one of those direct large channels of the blood flow to the head and to these portions of the system.
8. All of the system becomes involved, then, under the nerve strain and under the improper elimination, but these are the conditions to be met.
9. Now, to meet these, we would find THIS is the manner and way in which to reach the SEAT of the trouble:
10. The hot baths are GOOD, as is also those purgatives for the digestive system, and for the congestion as shows in liver and in kidneys; but rather in THIS manner would we reach these various conditions:
11. Those of the baths, preferably in that form of the Turkish; but wherein the manipulations and adjustments for
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those subluxations in the cerebrospinal system may be carried out immediately following such steaming and such baths - see? So these would be given, then, every other day, and the adjustments osteopathically or chiropractically - preferably the osteopath, for the massaging of the muscular tissue, the awakening of the various centers, is as necessary as the adjustment of the cervical centers themselves. This will allow the system to overcome these conditions and bring about the normal elimination, and assimilate those conditions in the system that are hindering in the vision - as in the other portions of the sensory system.
12. In that of the local application for the condition existing in the facial nerves, and the facial condition as respecting the eyes, every second day there should be applied to the temple (not the eye itself, see? but the temple and temple nerves) those of a portion of a pig's liver, warm with the animal heat, and as soon as this has lost the animal heat, remove; cleansing the eye following same with any of those antiseptic solutions that are especially prepared for such - for no irritation should be produced by antiseptics, see? Hence these should be of the alkaline nature, see? And following such cleansing, we would then place OVER the eyeball itself that of scraped potato - Irish Potato (old - not new), and then when this has hardened, remove, cleansing again with the antiseptic - boracic acid solution being that preferable, which is alkaline in its reaction.
13. For the condition as appears in the throat from time to time, through this same condition, use a gargle of Listerine and of Glyco-Thymoline - one is acid and one an alkaline in the reaction; but one following the other - NOT mixed together, see? Use the acid first, the Listerine - then the Glyco-Thymoline following, so that we have this reaction in the system.
14. Follow this condition and this outline as given for at least twenty-three (23) such adjustments and treatments. Then there would be given that necessary for the full restoration of normalcy through this body of [148]. Do this at present.
15. We are through.