This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Virginia, this 21st day of August, 1934, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [639], Active Member of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. L. B. Cayce, Mildred and Burt Davis.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 3:50 to 4:10 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., Fla. (Physical Suggestion)
1. EC: Yes, we have the body, [639].
2. Now, as we find, there are disturbing forces that prevent the better physical functioning of the body. These are rather a complication or a multiple of minor disorders that find, in the various disturbed factors, different manners of manifesting themselves.
3. When a physical body is at dis-ease, the pain or dis-ease is as a warning that some portion is in distress; and the body sends out the warriors within itself automatically to ward off. If there is lacking that which will supply the proper defense, or proper ammunition for the warding off of disorders, then conditions array themselves - as it were - against the better physical functioning of the body. Then organic disorders arise.
4. As yet we find in this particular body only FUNCTIONAL disorders, that may - if the proper precautions are taken - be not only so arrayed as to destroy but as to set the whole house in order against the inroads or destructive forces that have hindered and do hinder the better physical functioning.
5. The BLOOD SUPPLY indicates that toxic forces are abroad in the blood stream, causing the lack of proper elimination through the channels that dispose of the drosses and poisons of the system. Hence we have these effects in the system:
6. Torpidity of the liver. Bad taste in the mouth at times, especially of mornings and at others after certain kinds of meals. Aching through the feet, through the limbs, and in portions of the shoulders and arms. Tendency for dull headaches. Burning in the eyes. Pains through portions of the abdominal area. Burning sensations at times with the urine and the activity of the kidneys and bladder. Heaviness through the abdominal area. Choky, sticky feelings at times in throat and head.
7. All of these are the effects of improper eliminations.
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Not only through the alimentary canal but through the respiratory system, through the kidneys, through the perspiratory system, and even in the breath at times. All of these show. These are effects, not causes. The CAUSES are from the repressions in some portions, or many portions of the system; for the stress and strain under which the body has labored for some time is as much a contributory cause as any other ONE thing. Not merely an attitude of mind, BUT with the attitude of mind, or repression, has brought - and gradually creates - repression in the sympathetic reaction to the vital energies in the body; thus producing the excess of dross in the system.
8. The NERVE SYSTEM becomes involved under these repressions, as in those portions of the body where there have been the accumulations - as in the locomotories, where these distresses from this repression are shown from the accumulation of toxic forces and drosses and excess of the dross in centers - that make for acute pains that are not only neurotic but neuritic in their effect upon the system. Thus there is caused an excess of poisonous salts to be shown in the muscle and tendons of portions of the extremities, specifically.
9. As to the ORGANS in their functioning, these - as we have indicated - are rather under a SYMPATHETIC condition; rather than being a specific condition or organic disorder they are sympathetically reacting to the reactions and these drosses in the system.
10. Then, in meeting the needs of the conditions for this body, of [639] we are speaking of, we will find this will require some persistence and some consistent activity on the part of the body. Not because it is relieved in a very short time should it relax its vigilance in KEEPING the proper incentives THROUGHOUT the system FOR the proper activities to be not only maintained but sustained by the repletion and resuscitating of the vital energies in the system; thus restoring the vitality and making for near normal conditions.
11. First we would begin with the Toris Compound. Make two quantities (that's an ounce of each one, you see), one with the Simple Syrup and the other with the Spirits Frumenti. Then add the two together. Shake well together before the dosage is taken, which would be a dessertspoonful three times each day, AFTER the meals, for three or four days; then leave off for two days, then begin again.
12. After these properties have produced an excess or the reaction of increasing eliminations throughout the system, which should be by the sixth day, then we would begin (this
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is extra - don't leave off the Toris Compound) taking IMMEDIATELY after each meal a quarter teaspoonful of AL-CAROID, first dissolved in a small quantity of water and then a whole glass of water added, then an extra glass of water taken afterwards.
13. When the AL-CAROID has been taken for three days, then leave it off and take a tablet of Calomel and Colocynth. This will stir the activities of the secretions from the bile duct as to PURIFY the system, see?
14. This tablet would be followed, in the next week, with Fletcher's Castoria; taking a whole bottle of the nine hundred drops in VERY small doses; about a quarter teaspoonful every half hour until the whole quantity has been taken.
15. Throughout the period the Toris Compound would be continued at the intervals as indicated, until the whole quantity prepared has been taken.
16. As to the diet: This should be less of starches. More of fruits and vegetables. The fruit and vegetable salts will help dissolve the destructive forces that have been as accumulations in the system.
17. When there is the tendency for the accumulation of gas through the colon, use the high enemas occasionally for the alleviation of the fullness through the colon.
18. Do these, in a consistent way and manner, and we will find in a few weeks all of these conditions will disappear.
19. Ready for questions.
20. We are through for the present. Copy of Self " " Ass'n file (You can get two quantities of the Toris Compound and prepare at home as indicated. This is manufactured by the Globe Chemical Company, Dayton, Ohio, but I think you can obtain it from local druggist. The AL-CAROID digestant powder is manufactured by The American Ferment Co., Buffalo, N.Y., but I think most drug stores carry it. Probably a two and a half grain tablet of Calomel-Colocynth would be that needed. This you can get already prepared. If everything is not understood, please ask. GD.)