This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 18th day of February, 1944, in accordance with request made by the husband - Mr. [...], new Associate Member of the Ass''n for Research and Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by the book, There Is A River.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 10:35 to 10:45 A. M. Eastern War Time. ..., Mo.
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 suggestions for help and relief of this body; answering the questions, as I ask them:
2. EC: Yes, we have the body here, [3670].
3. As we find, there is a complication of disturbances and one is at variance with the other.
4. These, then, are conditions as we find them with this body, [3670] we are speaking of:
5. The blood supply indicates how that there is a blocking in the flow of the gastric juices or that from the gall duct and liver to the gastric juices in digestion. And this in combination with a stop or disturbance in the heart causes the activities to be at variance one with the other. This would make it very, very doubtful as to whether the operative measures could be the best for the body under the present conditions. For this would cause too great a strain.
6. The nerve forces about the gall duct and liver are inflamed. These as yet have not caused a great amount of temperature, and there is not a great amount of inflammation, but the blocking has caused a great deal of nausea and the lack of proper assimilation; thus depriving the body of those vital energies that would be possible under a better condition.
7. We find that the body may be aided in this manner:
8. Begin by using hot Castor Oil Packs for an hour at the time, three times each day in the beginning - morning, noon and night, or morning, afternoon and night - until there is the alleviating of the conditions in system. Use three to four thicknesses of flannel, preferably old flannel; saturated, not just pouring the oil on same. Put this over the liver and gall duct area, warm - directly on the body, of course. Keep this hot enough to cause absorption through
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the pores of the skin, by applying an electric pad for one hour at each application.
9. Follow each of these Packs with a gentle massage, not so as to cause a rise of temperature or of the inflammation but as to rest the body, along the spine. This should be given neuropathically or osteopathically; not a correction, but a massage to relax the body. Then massage also gently over the abdomen and the gall duct area, using Cocoa Butter for the massaging.
10. Begin taking small quantities of Olive Oil internally, about half a teaspoonful - beginning this after the first of the Castor Oil Packs, each time sponging off the area with tepid soda water. Give half a teaspoonful of the Olive Oil every hour at first - of course, don't wake it up to give the oil, but give it every hour during the waking state in the beginning.
11. Keep these up, the Packs, the massages and the Olive Oil, until there are the eliminations. We will find that the body will pass these stones, or gravel - as it will become.
12. The diet should be strengthening in the nature of vegetable and chicken soups. Don't use rice, or that type of thickening, though barley may be used if it is desired by the body in the chicken broth. Not too much of the chicken but small pieces may be had. Potato soup. Carrots and beets may be made into a soup, and those of such natures. Do use beef juice whenever possible or practical. Coffee or tea may be taken, but not with milk in either one, especially with tea.
13. Do these - we may save the body from an operation, from which it would never fully recover. But if there is high temperature, better have the operation - should the very high temperature arise. But if these applications are followed consistently, persistently there should be found relief.
14. We are through with this reading. Copy to Husband - Air Mail, Special - Wired also " " Ass'n file " " Loose-leaf book in Library on Gall Duct Disturbances (See directions [which were enclosed] for preparing Castor Oil Packs and Pure Beef Juice.) 2/18/44 EC's wire: UNLESS HIGH TEMPERATURE ARISES USE THESE IN PREFERENCE TO OPERATION APPLY FOUR THICKNESSES OLD FLANNEL SATURATED WITH HOT CASTOR OIL FOR ONE HOUR THREE
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TIMES DAILY OVER LIVER GALL DUCT AREA WITH ELECTRIC PAD TO KEEP SUFFICIENTLY WARM FOR ABSORPTION EACH TIME AFTERWARD BATHING AREA WITH TEPID SODA WATER AND NEUROPATHICALLY OR OSTEOPATHICALLY MASSAGING GENTLY WITH COCOA BUTTER ALONG SPINE AND OVER ABDOMEN TO RELAX BODY ALSO TAKE INTERNALLY CONTINUOUSLY DURING WAKING STATE HALF TEASPOONFUL OLIVE OIL EVERY HOUR UNTIL GOOD ELIMINATIONS USE STRENGTHENING DIET OF VEGETABLE CHICKEN AND POTATO SOUPS FULL INFORMATION AIR SPECIAL