This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 322 Grafton Avenue, Dayton, Ohio, this 12th day of June, 1925, in accordance with request made by Mr. [195].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 5:30 P. M. Dayton Savings Time. ..., Ohio.
1. GC: You will tell us if it is possible to make synthetic morphine; not a substitute but one that will exactly duplicate morphine in its action. If so, you will tell us how this may be made.
2. EC: There may be a substitute made synthetically. Not one with all the qualities or actions of morphine, though there are three distinct plants from which this may be made, not synthetically; those that partake of the properties of morphine as made from the Hop poppy. These we find grow in many climes; especially, though, the bean that grows in the valleys of the North Nile. This we find has all the qualities of the Hop poppy in action on the nervous systems of individuals. This, too, may be made from the Tarsius [?] Nocus [?], that grows in the plains in the South and West, or field poppy; gathered with the dew on same, when the pollen is just forming, before or after seeding, would prevent from obtaining, in distillation, the effect that is found from the Hop or poppy from which this is made.
3. We do not find a synthetic with all the properties. There must be the base for such properties, to have the same effect. In the same manner, in distillation, as the cocaine is made, may the morphine be made, or its substitute, yet without the full effects as seen in morphine. The manner in which the better substitute may be made is from the bloom, in the pollen stage, of the South and West field poppy, made or grown in this country. They change in color. Made in this manner:
4. Gather with the dew on same, when the pollen is forming on the blossoms, and then distill in pure water (distilled water). This would be clarified through the distillation, and with the evaporation, the crystal formation in sediment would then be redistilled, and the second sediment forming that white crystal that may be used instead of the morphine as prepared at present.
5. (Q) Will the action of this be the same as morphine? (A) The same, with the after effect and habit-forming properties.
6. That is all the questions.
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7. Not necessary in the distillation to add any properties to this, other than with the water heated to temperature of the two hundred and eighty (280) degrees, and the distillation gathered through the form of the steam in the coil. Then this steam distilled a second time and allowing the crystals to form in sediment for use.
8. There must be the dew, and it must be at the stage when the pollen is forming, before it is seeded, and after the pollen is impregnated, which is in its first day's bloom - the next morning, then, gather.
9. (Q) What States can this be grown in successfully? (A) Southern Tennessee, north Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma, northeastern portions of New Mexico. It grows wild in the field, changes in colors as seasons pass; the pink and red being that preferable.
10. (Q) By what name is it commonly known now? (A) Field daisy poppy. Not the daisy that grows in the daisy field, but poppy fields. We are through. Copy to Mr. [195] " " EC file