This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 20th day of August, 1934, in accordance with request made by the self - Miss [636], through Study Group #3 of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Miss Esther Wynne.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Miss [636], and Mildred Davis.
R E A D I N G
The ... Beauty Time of Reading Shoppe, ... St., 10:45 to 11:20 A. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., Virginia. (Body and enquiring mind, in regard to her work in the ... Beauty Shoppe, and the change which she contemplates making. Questions as to her mental, material and spiritual well-being.)
1. EC: Yes, we have the body, the enquiring mind, [636]; those relations, conditions and circumstances.
2. Ready for questions.
3. (Q) Is the scalp treatment I am now giving to men to make the hair grow really good? (A) For certain characters of disorder, yes, this is really good. In any scalp treatment there enters so many factors that there is no one form of treatment that may be said to be perfect, for there are certain types of disorders that arise from gland disturbances in the physical body that take away the sources of the elements that produce a coat or the basis for the growth of hair. If the activities being used in the present (by [636]) were considered with a diet and with a gland treatment, they might be made near perfect. While in the immediate capacity as a treatment suggestions may be made in the matter of diet, no internal applications may be made. A diet that works with the glands of the thyroid and especially with the sweat glands of the body would be more efficient; hence when such a scalp treatment is given there should ever be the suggestion that at least two or three meals a week should consist of seafoods; no fried or very greasy diet at all, or no fried meats at all; skins of Irish potatoes rather than the pulp. Such a diet together with an application to the scalp or to the skin will be much more efficacious in growth of hair.
4. (Q) Where is the best location to start? (A) Any choice may be made, so that it is accessible and of an easy accessibility - of course is the better; just so it
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does not produce an overhead that is beyond the present or the immediate future returns for the activities. For, as it has often been said, when there is a better application or a better treatment it will be found by those seeking; or, as it has proverbially been given, a better mouse trap in the middle of the woods will lead all people eventually to its door. Hence, in making same, to be sure keep those channels open; that is, the correct type of advertising; which is the spending, as it were, on printers' ink in such a manner that it is put before others; or by observation find those that are in need. Begin there. Of course, the word of mouth is the better way of advertising; but printers' ink or papers are the more efficient.
5. (Q) Please give me a better and sure formula and the treatment for bald heads. (A) There has never been a better than the crude oil treatment. This would be given about two or three times each month, followed with a cleansing with a 20% solution of grain alcohol and then massaging White Vaseline into the scalp in such a manner as to leave the whole surface of the scalp not too greasy, but as sufficient into the scalp to produce the better application of whatever may be used. But this will grow hair on MOST bald heads, unless - as we have indicated - it is of the germ nature that has destroyed the bulbs that GROW hair. But this will prevent four-fifths of all types of disorder, and will be especially efficient with such a diet as outlined; and occasionally specific gland treatment. So, when there is the necessity, make association with a physician that will give a GLAND treatment; such as thyroid, adrenal and the like, or as will be found in forms of iodine, adrenaline, thyroid extract or liver extract. Of course, such an association may be made with a skin specialist or one that makes a specialty of such gland treatments. Parker [James R. Parker, M.D.] would be very well to make an association with in this connection.
6. (Q) Please give me a formula for a medicine to be taken internally to restore natural color to hair. (A) This would necessarily be put up under the direction of a pharmacist, unless it was formed into an organization for the manufacture of same; which would be a combination in these proportions, whether making two ounces or four hundred gallons: To 4 ounces of Simple Syrup, add: Lactated Pepsin..............................1 ounce, Black Snake Root Extract...................1/4 ounce, Essence of Wild Ginseng....................1/4 ounce,
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Atomidine...................................40 minims, Extract of Liver (preserved in alcohol, of course, or Armour's Liver Extract)...1/2 ounce, Grain Alcohol..............................1/4 ounce. The dosage of this would be half a teaspoonful three times each day, just after meals, for periods of ten days with five-day rest periods. This taken in such a manner over a period of several months will be effective to glands, to those secretions that will not only make a digestion that will be much improved in health but - with any good scalp treatment, especially such as we have indicated - it'll turn graying hairs back to normal; or where it has been streaked even by various forms of dyes, it's GROWTH will come normal.
7. (Q) Please give me a formula to improve and recondition the nails. (A) There is not much better than that already prepared by Cutex for the care of the nails, provided the glands (which are from the thyroids, of course) are producing the proper amount of secretions in the system. So, then, what you use to care for the hair will care for the nails also, you see; for they are the OUTGROWTH of the same secretions in the system. While there may be occasions when a person with very thin or brittle nails may have very excellent hair, it's because such persons eat their own nails!
8. (Q) What am I best fitted to do? (A) Do that thou art doing!
9. (Q) For what did I come into the world plane at this time? (A) This should be approached from another approach, rather than from that associated with present activities in this particular line of endeavor. We will seek. In the approach to same we find, in those records that have been made by the soul-entity of [636], that insomuch as others served the entity in those capacities that were for the endearing of the physical body to certain and specific offices during the French sojourn and again in the Egyptian, the entity or soul in the present seeks - by natural tend or bent - to know through experience that which is experienced by an entity, a soul, in such services to its fellow man. Would that each soul, each body, each mind, would get the import of that, "As ye do it unto my brethren ye do it unto me." The manner in which one denies or submits, gives expression of feelings or activities of any relationships to a fellow man, is that by which such ones IMPRESS, or imprint, or stamp that imprint upon their own souls as
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relations to Creative Energy, or God. So, the judgement is to be as He has given: "Depart from me, I never knew you," or "Come and rule with me. As thou hast been faithful over the few things, I will make thee ruler over many." We are through. [GD's note: GC started with waking suggestion, then EC continued:] To turn again to why such a formula as given would affect the body-functionings, as to change the outward activity of the functioning of glands in a body: The Syrup, surely, is the carrier. The Pepsin is active such that the ingredients given may be effective upon the basic influences within the body that would produce in the varied offices of the body those proper functionings to stimulate in the proper proportions the activities of the cuticle and the epidermis. So the basis of not only the complexions of body would be changed as to be more in a healthful and thus in an activative force to beautifying of that which is to man his crown of strength and to woman her head of beauty; for to man hair in the head is as strength - to women is as beauty. Then, the Essence of the Black Snake Root is an active principle with the lacteal ducts that make for secretions in the system that stimulate a capillary circulation; Aided in same and purified through the Wild Ginseng Essence, that is - according to the ancients - the basis of the stimulation of life in its very essence in the body of man. The Atomidine - that is activative in the glands, especially the thyroid, the adrenal and all the ductless activities through the atomic forces in iodine, the one basic force with potash - makes for a balance throughout the functionings of the body itself. While the Extract of Liver with the preservatives, in the activities with the other portions of the body, become beautifiers. Hence, proportioned as indicated, are activative with a body - healthy; the nails, the cuticle, the epidermis, and the adorning of the beauty of the body
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BEAUTIFUL!
10. We are through.