This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 23rd day of July, 1927, in accordance with request made by her father, and self - Miss [1916].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mr. & Mrs. [...] and three daughters - [1916], [...] and [...], Mr. [257] and wife, and Mr. L. B. Cayce.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 4:45 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., Virginia.
1. GC: You will go over this body carefully, examine it thoroughly, and tell me the conditions you find at the present time; giving the cause of the existing conditions, also the treatment for the cure and relief of this body. You will answer the questions which I will ask you regarding same.
2. EC: We have the body here.
3. Now, we find the body very good in many respects. There are those physical conditions existent with the body that cause distresses at times, and these conditions are brought about by specific conditions as are existent, and these cause at such periods deflection in the normal functioning of organs. Hence the disturbance.
4. These, then, are conditions - irrespective of those that are given for correction of conditions; yet these given produce their effect in the physical condition in the body - for the body is bettered than it HAS been in times back as respecting these deflections; yet these may be brought to the full correction, were the condition - rather than results or effects - treated.
5. IN THE BLOOD SUPPLY, we find as these:
6. The supply sufficient.
7. The elements and constituents show the effect of those conditions as are applied in the blood stream. Not as deficiencies. Rather as excesses.
8. IN THE NERVE SYSTEM, these we find the greater deflections, in and about the centers - these are those conditions needing corrections, and through which those physical conditions that are as deflections to the action of the nerve system, and to the whole physical organism at times, may be corrected.
9. These deflections and these pressures as are produced in centers in the body are seen in the first of the lumbar plexus and in the last dorsal plexus.
10. This began in the early period of the life here, and has
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grown with the body, and in the changes as have been brought about, these are - in the physical changes of the body - normal for the body; yet with such deflection there comes the pressure that produces to the body in the nerve reaction - especially in the sympathetics - that which gives distress, and gives the excess of the nerve action in the body.
11. These affect, and are affected in the present conditions through those of the glands as are affected by this pressure, that have to do with the endren [adrenal] glands and with that of the gland [pineal?] that operates direct to the base of brain. This in an enlarged condition in the 2nd lumbar and in the 12th dorsal, giving then a spasmodic reaction to the system.
12. To correct these conditions will be to bring about the normal development and to bring about the normal action in the whole system.
13. IN THE FUNCTIONING OF THE ORGANS OF THE BODY:
14. Brain forces good. Brain reaction, at such pressure, not coordinating - though not defective.
15. The action of the sensory system only depressed through such pressure, or such state of pressure.
16. The condition in throat, lungs, bronchials, very good.
17. The conditions in the upper portion of nasal cavities have much to do with the nerve condition, yet a result rather than a cause of the deflection.
18. Teeth need correction, as does also those of the glands in the throat - or about the thyroids, which will come with the changes as will be wrought through the application of those properties and those conditions to correct the normal structure of the body.
19. In the heart's action ABOVE normal at present, though not an abnormal condition for the body - as is the pulsation, through the same causes.
20. The digestive system very good, THOUGH there is often seen, felt - and sometimes the cause of the peculiar contraction as occurs with the digestive system. This a reflex condition. Not a cause, nor is it the direct result of other conditions, than the reflex to the cerebrospinal plexus as is governed through the plexus in the last dorsal plexus and its connection with the solar plexus, which gives contraction to the hypogastric and pneumogastric plexus. Hence the deflections, or the causes of contraction, and the nausea as occurs at periods.
21. The reaction through pancreas, spleen, liver, and the ducts that give the distribution to that assimilated by the body, very good - though over-active. Hence that condition
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in pulsation and heart's action.
22. In the action of kidneys, these are shown as an effect, and would in TIME prove detrimental to the body. Hence the change as would be given for the full correction of those conditions in this body, [1916] we are speaking of.
23. In the glands and in the organs of pelvis we find the seat or the cause of those conditions as have been disturbant to the physical organism of the body. The pressure caused here to the glands, by the pressure in the 1st lumbar and in the lower dorsal, has produced enlargements that bring about - with the contraction of the organs of the pelvis - this reaction, or this regurgitation to the gland in the system lying at base of brain [pineal], extending entirely through the system and connecting with the lyden [Leydig] gland of the pelvis.
24. To bring correction, then, to the body - first through the application of heat at the time that there is to be made the corrections, osteopathically, of those pressures and subluxations as are existent in the last dorsal and first lumbar; and after thirteen to sixteen such adjustments have been made, apply that of the Ultra Violet Rays to the body in the region direct of this in the lower portion of lumbar and of the lower portion of the dorsal region.
25. With the diet, be careful of those conditions that would produce too much activity to the kidneys, thus causing retraction through the system of those properties that should be eliminated through these channels. Not disturbing any of the eliminating centers from their NORMAL channel - for, as seen, the body with the tendency of contraction at periods is lax in capillary elimination through periods that cause an over-abundance of elimination through the hepatic circulation. In the diet, then: Be rid of meats, save fish or fowl. All of the vegetable forces, let them grow UNDER the ground, and little above ground until the full correction is made for this body.
26. Do as given - persistent, consistent - and we will bring about the normal forces for this body in at least sixty to a hundred and twenty days.
27. Ready for questions.
28. (Q) What was the cause of this condition, and when? (A) As a child, or baby - pressure produced by fall here, striking at the 12th dorsal, see? Thirteen to sixteen months. [1/25/72 See husband's ltr. under 1916-5 Reports saying she had skull fracture which required the operation at Johns Hopkins.]
29. (Q) Why did they have an operation at Johns-Hopkins? (A) Of exploration, rather than of intent as to the cause
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of same. Follow these directions, as have been given for the correction of this body, [1916] we are speaking of, and we will bring to the body the best physical, mental, reactions - for much may be expected in the particular lines of endeavor to which THIS body will give itself in this physical plane.
30. We are through for the present. Copy to Cayce Hospital [GD's note: It seems that the parents' main concern was epileptic attacks which had been occurring since the child was four and one-half years old.]