This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the Hirn home, 6844 Nansen St., Forest Hills, L.I., N.Y., this 27th day of November, 1934, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [748], through Active Membership of her son-in-law, Mr. [668], in the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Hugh Lynn Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mrs. [748], Mrs. [726], and others.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 11:50 to 12:10 A. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., New York. (Physical Suggestion)
1. EC: Yes, we have the body here, [748].
2. Now, as we find, while the physical conditions are very good in many respects, there are those tendencies and disturbances the correction of which in the present would create a much better response; not only removing some conditions that disturb the body in the present but preventing greater disturbances from being created in the body.
3. These, as we find, have to do with the circulatory system and the assimilating and eliminating forces as respecting same.
4. Then, these are the conditions as we find them in the present, in the physical forces of this body, [748] we are speaking of, present in this room:
5. In the BLOOD SUPPLY the circulatory influences are at times impoverishing portions of the body through a poor or disturbed circulation through portions of the system; as specifically in the head, the neck, the throat, and the effects to these - or effects FROM these are those disturbances that are indicated in the sensory organisms - as the auditory forces, as to the hearing, as to the tastes even at times that do not respond in the normal manner.
6. The soft tissue in the face, as in the antrum, gives distresses; producing in the mouth or the gums, in the throat, conditions that show a poor circulation, an allowing of the accumulations from refuse forces by the poor eliminations to become more active in the body.
7. The centers from which these disturbances arise, as we find, are from the 3rd and 4th dorsal, even to the 1st and 2nd cervical. The structural portions here at times make for interferences through those segmentations becoming so jammed in their activity as to produce the cartilaginous forces in the segments where there is little or very poor
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circulation through same; the body having builded such activities in other directions as to carry on - but these are now being hindered. Not from the segmentation, but from disturbances that we find arise from the assimilating forces or influences in the body.
8. These are the reflexes, then, through the 3rd and 4th dorsal area, where the impingements there make for the slowing of the heart's activity through the secondary cardiac plexus - and all these make for reflexes with the digestive system. THESE are the greater disturbances, and with the corrections from these we will bring a much more normal force for the body, and PREVENT - as indicated - further disturbances in the creations of those fluids that produce regurgitation from the duodenum portions of the body, through the pylorus forces to the gastric juices of the stomach. Hence we have at periods the heartburn, as it were - or as it is termed, or indigestive fluids coming back to the body. These create pressures in such measures and manners as to hinder this circulation from calling for those activities from these particular centers - or dorsal and cervical areas - as to keep a near normal balance. For, as is ever manifested, the body attempts to keep a balance under whatever stress or strain may arise - and to build through normal influences those conditions that will make for keeping a collaboration and a coordination in the functioning of organs, in the secretions of glands, in the activities of the system to keep a balance. These becoming disturbed through these conditions have brought about these disorders. But they are not so far advanced as some, for with the removal of the pressure, with the creating of a balance for the influences and forces of the body, we will make for better eliminations; and the poor eliminations have at times also produced reflex actions that become contributory causes to this portion of the distresses in the eliminating systems.
9. The NERVOUS FORCES also indicate that these very same conditions exist. Hence while the nerve impulses are disturbed, these in the nervous forces are reflexes to the conditions rather than causes of the conditions. Yet these must be taken into consideration as the corrections would be made.
10. Through the functioning of the ORGANS themselves, we find the indications as given in regard to the organs of the sensory system - that are disturbed through the activities of the poor circulation; the poor circulation being produced by disturbances in the sympathetic and dorsal forces of the body itself.
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11. Thus the heart's reaction and the digestive fluids are disturbed, and through the activity in the spleen, the pancreas and the gall duct, in the liver area, there are created the poor eliminations that are carried on through the alimentary canal.
12. Then, in meeting the needs of the conditions as we find them - to make for the most helpful influences, so that we may overcome those tendencies for the extremities at times to become cold or non-reactive to the general system (these are as indications and are as warnings for the body):
13. First we would make the corrections in the lower cervical, all the upper lumbar to the 9th and 10th dorsal - easily to this portion of the system itself; then to the upper cervical and through the head and neck by stimulating the centers from which the system receives the impulses along the whole of the cerebrospinal system. Such corrections in the cerebrospinal or the eliminating systems of the body would be coordinated throughout the whole of the body by the massage, and the corrections that would be made about twice each week during the first two or three weeks, and then about once each week.
14. We would take internally the properties in very small quantities that will act with the glands of the system, as would be created in a compound put together in this form and manner:
15. To 4 ounces of Simple Syrup, add: Syrup of Sarsaparilla Compound......1/2 ounce, Tincture of Stillingia..............1/2 ounce, Syrup of Rhubarb....................1/2 ounce, Glycerine...........................1/4 ounce. Shake these together very thoroughly before the dose is taken, which would be half a teaspoonful three times each day; before the morning meal, after the noon meal, and before retiring.
16. Do these, and we will bring for this body the nearer normal conditions.
17. Ready for questions.
18. (Q) Would you recommend any specific treatment for the gums? (A) These corrections outlined will aid materially in increasing the circulation. Specific aids may be found in the use of any good antiseptic that will cleanse, or stimulate the circulation; such as may be found in those compounds that are made for such activities.
19. (Q) Will you outline a diet for the body? (A) We would keep rather to those foods that are the
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alkalin rather than too great a quantity of the acid- producing; or rather this: No heavy red meats, though - of course - fish or fowl or lamb or such natures may be taken. Preferably no fried foods of any kind. Do these, and we will make for the bettered conditions in this body, [748].
20. We are through for the present. Copy to Self " " Ass'n file (See letter [which was enclosed] to Osteopath and to Druggist; also an Alkalin-Producing Food list, of which your principal diet should consist with the exception of the variations mentioned in reading above. For local application to the gums, we would recommend the use of Ipsab. GD.)