This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, this 1st day of June, 1911.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; L. B. Cayce, Conductor; Katherine Faxon, Steno.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading Unknown.
1. LBC: You have before you Mrs. [3776] of ... Go over her carefully, examine her thoroughly and tell us what is the matter with her.
2. EC: Yes, we have had her here before.* There is a good deal of difference in the body now from what we had before. Now, you see, we have in this body a condition in the lungs, produced by that of hard breathing, or shortness of breath, produced from the lesion we have had here at the 6th dorsal, until we have produced in the lungs themselves, an opening of the cells of the air chamber in the lower part of the lungs, until the blood in coming into the cells in the body, fill it full and make a shortness of the amount, or space of air in the chambers of the cells in the lungs in themselves. The diaphragm of the body pushed up between the lungs and stomach is dilated up, most of the time, because the air is being more expelled than to take in, until we gasp or get the breath by hard breathing, by main force, as it were. The expulsion from the lungs has been produced by that of throwing out of matter in the forced circulation through the lungs in the capillary circulation in the lungs, which has been forced until we throw off that of saliva, or the lacterial covering or coat of it, in themselves, where we throw off the discharge of the body in itself more than through its ordinary channels, until we have produced a weakened condition in this body - the opposite from the condition of that thrown off, or eliminated by the kidneys, which is the other pole or force wherewith we eliminate from, is thrown off some time by this. The poison of the system is produced more extensive on account of the shortness of the lungs to clarify or liquify the blood enough to eliminate those particles which should be carried by the right channels through the pulmonaries. Hence it has produced a capillary circulation of exceeding force, which carries perspiration through the body, and is especially shown in the face and head and upper part of the body.
* [GD's note: No record of earlier readings. Mr. LBC told me he remembered that she had been a great sufferer with asthma for some time.]
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3. (Q) What other conditions do you find? Any trouble with the stomach? (A) Very little except dilation or throwing off from here produced a fullness. We have a large stomach, you see, a good deal of fat around from either side. The folds come up between that of the diaphragm, and stomach in itself, the diaphragm being in the concave condition most of the time, the condition of the air cells and chambers above. The condition of the stomach is produced more from lack of nutriment of blood supply to its forces than of a condition it [in?] itself, or the stomach itself. Correct the condition of the other. Overlending of the stomach produces the same condition - hard breathing in the body.
4. (Q) What treatment would you suggest to relieve these conditions and bring the body back to a normal condition? (A) Change of air, or climation. That of a clarified condition of air, or that which will produce deep breathing or a forced deep breathing from here taken at the times we have these spells, or the condition we find in the body now, will be helped through that, or quiet to the body as much as possible, and taking in the system that of Heroin - small quantities of course. It opens the cells and clarifies the condition and acts directly on the mucous coats made up of saliva, and cilia, and other force of blood and mucous matter, combined with these of saline forces, which act immediately through those of Heroin.
5. (Q) How shall that be taken? (A) Take it in the mouth of course.
6. (Q) Mixed with anything? (A) Heroin as it is.
7. (Q) What other treatment would you suggest? (A) That is all now.