This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 7th day of October, 1935, in accordance with request made by the self - through her niece, Miss [5416], through Active Membership of Mr. Morris Rome in 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.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 3:50 to 4:15 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., Michigan. (Physical Suggestion)
1. EC: Yes. Mineral baths.
2. Yes, we have the body here, [1017]. Now, as we find, there ARE disturbing conditions in the better physical forces of this body, [1017].
3. These, as we find, have to do with the eliminations in the system and with the manner in which the effect of disturbed eliminations has had and does have upon the lymph circulation. And this disturbance in the lymph, or the lack of the quantity or amount of lymph, is produced by subluxations and by specific conditions that have been caused in the system. The effect of these disturbances then is to produce the disorders. Hence these have varied in their reaction at times. And the condition has been called two or three DIFFERENT things.
4. Then, these are the conditions as we find them in the physical forces of this body, [1017] we are speaking of:
5. First, we find the BLOOD SUPPLY distinctly disturbed as to its manner of circulation in various portions of the system. Some portions become (as in the lower extremities at times) so slow as to cause not only some swelling but discoloration, in spots. And in the joints (as in ankle, as in knee, as in groin at times) there is a great deal of distress, very much like neuritis or a rheumatic condition. But it is more the effect of the pressure upon the circulation produced by a subluxation existent in the 4th lumbar area, as coordinant with the area at the end of the spine - or in the coccyx plexus. If these were relieved, as we find, with those pressures that have caused or been caused by the nerve reflexes - as we shall see, by the adhesion, or such a condition produced in portions of the system from this lack of the lymph or of the blood supply that aids in circulation in tissue - it would MATERIALLY aid the headaches that arise from the disturbances in the blood
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supply, the nerve system and the eliminations of the body.
6. Again in the blood supply we find the circulatory forces as related to heart's activity making for a change, or quite a difference at times in the pulsation; at times near to normal of eighty-four - at others we will find it below even 70 or 72, and at others we will find it to be to 90 or 94. A variation. This may be at times two or three days in its variation, and then again for several days be near to normal.
7. In the NERVE FORCES of the body, we find:
8. With those changes that have come and are coming about in the eliminations that affect the organs of the pelvis and through the eliminating system associated with same, with this subluxation and the pressure that has existed in the coccyx and the lumbar area, there has been the tending toward the creating of an IRRITATION. This has produced a coherence, or an adhering - as it were - of the organs of same, in the area itself.
9. Hence we have at times some minor, and at others some quite disturbing and aggravating discharge, that makes for quite an irritation upon the nerves of the system. And this reacting to the body, with the various disturbances that have been indicated in the nerve forces of the body, assists in bringing on these periods of very severe headaches. These are from the BEARING down pains, as it were, or on top of head and to the base of the brain - these appear as if they were SEPARATING; and, as it were, the feeling that if the top could be lifted a bit - it would let the steam off - as it might be expressed.
10. The pressures indicated, coming between or in the area where there is the coordination between the cerebrospinal and the sympathetic or vegetative nerve systems, make for a great deal of disturbance physically - or the internal nervous forces of the body. They produce the inability, as it were, for the body to move about; disturbing the equilibrium; also affecting the vegetative forces so that the eyes become - as it were - dimmed; there appears to be a great deal of humming in the ears; there's a fullness in the throat and a nausea that comes with all of same, such as to produce a reaction through the sympathetic forces of the body.
11. These react or make for disturbing factors in this manner through the forces of the body, as we find.
12. In the functioning of the ORGANS themselves, we find:
13. Brain forces are very good.
14. Pressures as indicated in the nervous forces, of course, find their reaction in the SENSORY forces of the body, and
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the sensory nerve reaction; as well as to the sympathetic reaction to the bodily forces.
15. Throat, bronchi, lungs and larynx: These organically are very good, yet the disturbance through the circulatory forces makes for disturbances spasmodically or at times, at intervals.
16. The lungs, the bronchials and the heart's activity: The heart's activity organically is very good, though through the circulatory forces as indicated there is the heaviness felt in the lung area when the pressures on the body attempt to make for a clarifying. Or as the blood is slow in same, in the deeper portions of the body, or the extremities, it makes for this heaviness through the lungs, though organically not disturbed to a great extent.
17. In the digestive forces do we find sympathetically a nervous reaction and a lack of the proper eliminations through the alimentary canal. These make for a heaviness through the right portion, or through the liver, the gall duct area, and ESPECIALLY in the lacteal ducts; a little heaviness is felt at times in the caecum or the lower right side.
18. The hepatic circulation being disturbed, with the disturbances as indicated, naturally the inflammation through the area in the uterus and in the vagina and organs of the pelvis causes a scant and yet at other times rather an active elimination through the bladder or the activities of the kidneys. Yet these leave poisons by the very activity, or slow activity of the hepatic circulation and the disturbance in the whole of the circulation as an organic activity.
19. Then, in meeting the needs of the conditions of this body, as we find:
20. We would first take the chiropractic adjustments, ESPECIALLY that adjustment which is made from this coccyx and lumbar center. Take such an adjustment treatment, chiropractically, every day for a week to ten days.
21. Then at the end of that time, leaving off the adjustments for a week, take during the rest period week each day a douche. To each quart of tepid water we would add two teaspoonsful, or one dessertspoonful, of Atomidine - as a solution for the douche, see? This, as we find, will make for not only cleansing but revivifying the activities with especially the adjustments as may be made in the lumbar and coccyx area. And such adjustments would be for not only the relieving of the pressures as indicated, but to stimulate a general activity and make for a specific correction of the circulatory forces of the body. Thus we
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will correct those conditions in the extremities, in the nervous forces of the body, and those of the more specific nature as we have indicated.
22. After the douches have been taken for a week (one each day), we would begin again with the chiropractic treatments and take them for a period of THREE WEEKS - once each day an adjustment and a general treatment.
23. In the meantime, if there hasn't been a stoppage of the discharge, and the pressures and bearing down pains through the pelvic organs, take again a few - two, three or four - of the douches. For the douches use about a quart to two quarts of water (prepared as indicated), holding same as long as convenient without causing pain.
24. Then at the end of the three-week period of the chiropractic treatments (not before), begin with the deep therapy as may be had from not the sinusoidal - but that rather with the sinusoidal machine which is of the reverse coil, or a very low treatment of same. And we would make the attachments so as to empty or as to cause an activity of the GALL duct, and the circulatory forces through the upper hepatics; that is, making the connections at the 3rd and 4th dorsal (one plate) and the other plate over the lacteal duct or the gall duct area. We would only take six to eight of these treatments; it should not be necessary to take more than that.
25. However, if it becomes necessary to take other chiropractic ADJUSTMENTS, then another week of the electrical treatments should be sufficient - or two weeks.
26. During the whole period we would keep the diet tending more toward the alkalin-reacting nature; body and blood building. But the diets that have been indicated for the body are very good.
27. As to the baths that have been taken - those of some electric spray, or the electric baths - unless and UNTIL there is this pressure removed, these CANNOT be VERY beneficial. They may make for temporary relief, but, as we find, following these suggestions, in a few weeks - six to eight weeks - the body should be near to normal.
28. Ready for questions.
29. (Q) Am I suffering from what the medical world calls migraine headaches? (A) No. Not in toto. True, there are some symptoms of same; but it is rather that as we have indicated - a disturbance in the circulation that has borne upon the system in such a manner as to make for irritations in such measures, in such ways, that it has borne upon not only the sympathetic but the cerebrospinal nervous system. So,
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correcting those segments and aligning the cerebrospinal system as indicated, with the electrical treatments following same, should - with the douches and the diet, etc. - correct the condition.
30. (Q) When these headaches occur, what means can be taken for immediate relief? (A) An adjustment (chiropractic).
31. (Q) In what condition is the uterus? (A) As indicated. Follow these suggestions as they have been outlined and they should bring very much nearer normal forces for this body, [1017].
32. We are through for the present. Copy to Self - thru Miss [5416] - Special Delivery, Air Mail " " Ass'n file [33-Q submitted: "What causes the pain in the right knee?" [?]] (GD's notes at time of reading: See letter [which was enclosed] to CHIROPRACTOR with directions for his treatments. Be sure you get a Chiropractor instead of an Osteopath or Naturopath or some other, because it seems that the Chiropractor is especially trained in making that coccyx-lumbar correction referred to in the reading, where the other schools of treating are not. See letter [which was enclosed] with directions to ELECTROTHERAPIST for the electrical-sinusoidal treatments as indicated. The Chiropractor may be able to give these treatments also, if he has the necessary equipment; but be sure they are given AFTER the periods of chiropractic adjustments...and in the order indicated. This is very important. See booklet [which was enclosed] explaining the Atomidine and where obtained, to be used for the douches. See Alkalin-Reacting Diet List [which was enclosed]. If everything is not clear, let us know. GD.)