This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 6th day of May, 1936, in accordance with request made by Hugh Lynn Cayce, Manager of the Ass''n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., and Thomas B. House, Manager of the Health Home Remedies Corporation.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Hugh Lynn Cayce and Thomas B. House.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 308-9 Essex Bldg., 12:50 to 1:20 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. Norfolk, Va. (Preparations being manufactured by the H.H.R. Corp. under the supervision of T. B. House, also the experiments, connections and research work in connection with these products. Questions regarding each product.)
1. EC: Yes, we have the preparations, those experiments, those associations, connections, and the enquiring mind of T. B. House, present in this room.
2. Ready for questions.
3. (Q) First: T-I-M, a remedy for hemorrhoids, a jar of which T. B. House holds in his hand. Does this product carry enough Tincture of Benzoin to act as an effective astringent in reducing the surplus skin or sac left by the hemorrhoid after it has been assimilated in the system? (A) In this particular jar here, not sufficient; though it will act as an astringent. But a small quantity added to same would make it more effective, though in some types more irritating.
4. (Q) Should the amount of Benzoin now being used according to the formula that has been given be increased for general distribution? (A) Should be increased about one percent.
5. (Q) How many drops to each ounce should it be increased? (A) In the preparation of this there is a great deal of difference depending upon the time it is added to the solution, see? and in the temperature and in the condition of the oil that is reduced from the butterfat, or the butterfat oil; the condition of this as the base, as well as the quantity of the tobacco that is absorbed by same - or snuff. And when this is added then, to the whole amount we would add - for the ounce - five more drops. Instead of from six then to twelve, add fifteen drops. For in this the proportion is ten.
6. (Q) Please explain the reactions and effect of the
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Atomidine and the Snuff in this preparation. (A) The Atomidine being broken up from kelp (carrying an effective activity upon irritation) makes for an activity upon the tobacco, which also is as a preservative as well as a deodorant, as well as an activity that enhances the action of the atomic forces in the iodine, see?
7. (Q) At what temperature of the Butterfat should the Benzoin be added? (A) Hundred and one degrees.
8. (Q) At what temperature should the Atomidine be added? (A) At ninety-eight.
9. (Q) Is a sufficient quantity of the Atomidine being used? (A) Sufficient quantity, provided this same strength is kept.
10. (Q) Is the one percent solution of the Atomidine the proper amount? (A) There's more than that in this!
11. (Q) What percent solution of Atomidine should be used in this? (A) The REGULAR solution that is put up for commercial use, which makes it about one and one-half percent of the atomic forces in same.
12. (Q) Is the pack of Tobacco now in the office of the Health Home Remedies Corp. as good to use as Snuff? (A) No.
13. (Q) Do you recommend any changes in this product for use in internal hemorrhoids? (A) Necessary that those put in tubes be MORE of the Butterfat and less of the Tobacco.
14. (Q) Just how much should the Tobacco be cut down? (A) When this is put in the solution, it would be stirred until it is the consistency of soft soap - or in proportion this would be, for each ounce of Butterfat there would be added half and a quarter of the Tobacco, see, or Snuff.
15. (Q) Which of the two types of tubes held by T. B. House is best suited from its composition to use as package for Tim? (A) That which has the most lead and the less of tin, see? This is a little bit more expensive but the activity or the action of properties as they are packed will be held more into their normal state, see?
16. (Q) Is the tube now held by T. B. House the best to be used of any type for this product? (A) Well, there's many different TYPES - but this will be correct.
17. (Q) Is my present method of approach in contacting doctors the proper one to use? Advise.
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(A) This will naturally mean that personalities are to be dealt with, in contacting those that may become users or suggestive users. These are not the greater numbers to whom or even through whom the product will be distributed, but these are necessary for their reports, for their aid, for their help in the various ways or manners that will ENABLE the body, or those distributing same, to know the BETTER approach to individual users. Or in the preparing of data, or preparing of ads that WOULD be the means of influencing those who are sufferers from such, to at least give the try. As to the approach to these, these will be individual, meeting the personalities as they are found. In the general it's very good. The changes - use common sense in personal approach.
18. (Q) Any other suggestions for improving Tim? (A) These may come after preparations have been attempted or tried, and various characters of containers and the effect of oxidization of same in same. But in the main this is ready for distribution.
19. (Q) Second: Ipsab, a remedy for pyorrhea. A report [1800-26, Par. R1] submitted by the Norfolk Testing Laboratories is held by T. B. House, which indicates the results obtained from bacteriological tests on streptococcus and bacilli germs with Ipsab. Should Ipsab kill these germs, if so what is wrong with the product as prepared by us? (A) These are preparations that are made for the activity upon another form, as has been indicated. If it is the desire that these are to be included, then these are to be changed somewhat in the formula of the preparation. Increasing the strength of the solution of the toothache bark, as well as increasing the quantity of Atomidine and its strength IN the solution, see? and these will destroy those also!
20. (Q) Is it advisable to do this, considering our present formula and its value for distribution? (A) It may be well to do so, if this is desired to be activative in this kind or character. Or it may be used the TINCTURE of Iodine and thus require that there be a different CHARACTER of test made when these are combined in their order. But STRENGTHENING the solution or the elixir of the bark, strengthening the quantity of the Atomidine will make it for a more activative influence upon such. But not more effective upon the germ of the pyorrhea. And these then become at times in specific cases or other
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character of cases an irritant. But these - should they be required - we would make a density of seven (this is double the strength, almost doubling the strength); but it will require a different form or manner of extracting the juices from the properties, see? And to the quantity of the Atomidine that would be the ordinary strength, or half the quantity of the CONCENTRATED solution, see? using the concentrated solution as may be procured for such, using the same quantity or adding the ten minims to the ounce MORE, see?
21. (Q) Do we understand ten minims more than is being used now, of the concentrated solution? (A) Of the concentrated solution ten minims more than is being used now of the REGULAR strength. Another condition here - as this is a portion of that: Do not change the specific gravity or the quantity of the calcium, see; but INCREASE the density of the seawater, by REDUCING (by boiling, see) before the other properties are added. Why? The seawater carries many properties that CHANGE, see, as to the varied effects, the character, where it is obtained, how it may be obtained, etc. Portions of these are to be destroyed, the bacilli that's in same. The density of the salt in same is to be intensified, see? This then will make for a more concentrated solution and more effective upon the activity of bacilli. But these WILL destroy that which produces Riggs' Diseases. Reducing the quantity for the gallon to a half, and then adding the other solutions.
22. (Q) How should the juice of the bark be extracted as indicated? (A) Put to soak for twelve hours before it is taken off, or put into the solution, or soak twelve hours and THEN boil, see? Boiled in the same water it is soaked in, to be sure, and with the other ingredients added until the solution is extracted.
23. (Q) Please indicate how tests should be made to prove the value of Ipsab. (A) Only upon cases where there are disturbances of loosening of the teeth, the bleeding gums; such conditions on individual cases may the tests be made.
24. (Q) Would the suggestions made by Hunt of the Norfolk Testing Laboratories for testing the antiseptic power of
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each ingredient be advisable or useful to us? (A) Not as INDIVIDUAL tests but as those combined. For many antiseptic solutions are strengthened in their activity by combinations when they are less effective in their own individual activity. Others become less effective by combinations, see?
25. (Q) Should WE attempt to give Ipsab antiseptic value? If so, how should this be done? (A) There may be added alcohols for such a purpose. But that these are all natural or nature's preservatives indicates the greater value of this FOR a specific purpose. It is not for the breath, it is not for decayed teeth, it is not for any of the numbers of mouth disturbances, but for disturbed GUMS that ARE affected by certain character of diseases! If it is desired or required that this be added, then add it to those proportions that it BECOMES then only a ten to twenty percent solution.
26. (Q) What is the reaction of the Prickly Ash Bark on the gums? (A) It is nature's preservative for STRENGTHENING the tissue about the teeth themselves. The very NATURE of it, from its name as given by the aborigines - that toothache bark indicates its very nature!
27. (Q) Any suggestions for getting this preparation ready for general distribution? (A) Many tests, many varied ways and combinations will be well. Make them to suit not only laboratory tests (NOT for gargles nor for others) but for the gums; not for whitening teeth. Rather does it tend to make for a skim, but of such a nature that this as even prepared into a toothpaste, using only iodine AND salt, and then a combination of the properties for a toothpaste in its combination, will make all the others look silly!
28. (Q) Third: Hair Curler [See 289-1, Par. 11-A; See 255-13]. T. B. House holds a solution prepared according to formula given through this channel for a hair curler. (A) (Interrupting) Not by a whole jug full! This is made AT it, but not like the formula given! First the bark of the same trees from which the fruit are taken, and the fruit or the seed of the fruit are to be crushed. They are to be crushed when the FRUIT has been taken from same and not when they have been dried or polished or rubbed off, and most of that which goes into the making for the curling solution has been lost! Do this way and you'll have it correct!
29. We are through for the present.
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