This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce in Selma, Alabama, this 24th day of February, 1923.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; (?), Conductor; (?), Steno.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading Unknown.
1. EC: Yes, we have the body here. Now, we find there are many abnormal conditions in the body. They are produced from one specific cause, though their effect over the system is varied in its action over the various portions of the body as we will see, and the functioning of the organs of the system are in different ways at different times effected by the condition. It involves the condition in the circulation, the condition of the nerve forces and the nerve centers and the effect that these have on the entire system. Now, these are the conditions as we find them in this body, [4134] whom we are speaking.
2. First, in the blood supply we find a deficiency in the quantity rather than in the quality, yet some of the constituents of the blood are lacking at times in the supply, hence the lower number of red blood cells or the over-abundance at times, but not always so, of the white blood cells. The elements that are lacking are produced within the system by the action of the corpuscular circulation producing the red and white blood cells in their functioning. Hence the weak tired feeling that comes to the body over various portions of the body, depending upon the action or exercise of the body at the time, though the organs directly involved may not be the condition, or the organ, involved in the weakened condition. Hence we have at times the dullness that appears through the body above the diaphragm, again the weakness appearing to be through the digestive tract, again through the hepatics and the lower limbs, as if leadened - not necessarily any exercise of the organs causing the weakness but the condition of the blood supply in producing the elements necessary to supply the rebuilding cellular force to those portions of the system needing the same at the time. The heart action does not become involved from this condition but rather from the condition of the nerves, as we will see, in the system. The functioning of the hepatic circulation, however, does become involved, for through the functioning of the hepatics and its auxiliary portions of the system do we find the seat of the trouble, and at times the lacteal glands become involved, hence the pain on the right side of the body you
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see. Through the nervous system we find that which produces most of the distress to the system, but we do not have diseased nerves. The centers along the entire spinal column are in a state of excitement most of the time, you see. Especially those of the sympathetic centers and their connection with the cerebrospinal centers, hence along the lower portion of the cervicals, at times through the base of the brain, where the headaches come in at times, and to portions of the side, through those at the secondary cardiac plexus centers and we find the body is unable to eat at times - through those of the ilium plexus or at the fourth lumbae [lumbar?] centers do we find this heaviness, and especially the condition of the nerves involved between the cerebrospinal and sympathetic centers. The body itself is over sympathetic in its action. The body uses the reserved forces of the mental to force the physical. The body uses its energy too much - overtaxes its entire system too much, you see. The body worries too much - the brain forces and the physical forces are overtaxed. The mental and spiritual forces of this body are above normal.
3. Through the functioning of the organs themselves we find the sensory nervous system not involved as much as would be found ordinarily under such condition with both the nerve and blood supply. Through the lungs we find the body at times suffers some inconvenience from lack of blood supply to be enacted upon by the air as taken into the lungs, and at times temperature is produced, but the condition is not organic. Through the digestive tract we find at the cardiac end of the stomach the reflexes from the condition of the cardiac plexus in the nervous system. At times when food is taken, or attempted to be taken into the system, the body feels as if one mouthful would be sufficient for the entire system, but the hunger is not appeased in the body. Through the pancreas and the duodenum we find the action normal, save as of the poor circulation that comes at times to the body. The spleen is engorged, but not organically involved in the condition to be corrected in the system. It will be of the normal force when other conditions are corrected. The liver we find does not function normally, but rather of a spasmodic condition. Through the intestinal tract, the upper portion we are speaking of, we find the condition that has produced from times back the condition of the system and the condition to be corrected for toxins are taken into the system that cause the destructive forces in the blood supply and give excite- ment through the action of the lymphatic circulation to all of the nerve centers. The emunctories become involved sympathetically - this is in times back.
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The system then became involved through the emunctories that is through the kidneys and the liver and they produce then in the system an overtaxation through the alimentary canal and the condition that existed through the ascending portion of the colon. At present we find the body suffers from this same condition, but absorbed in the system through other channels and effects the system in a different manner. The inflammation through the pelvis we find comes more from the condition in the hepatic circulation then from the organs directly themselves. These are the condition we find in this body.
4. To relieve and to bring the normal condition to this body would be to give that into the system. First, we would correct the condition as produced in the system and give the incentive to the blood supply to create those properties that will give rebuilding force necessary in the system. It will be necessary then to take two different courses of properties in the system to act on the system and the organs directly and give the incentive to the rebuilding forces. Then a stimulant to the nerve centers that will give the correct vibration to the body. We would take this into the system first:
5. To 1 gallon of rain water we would add:
Wild Cherry Bark.........4 ounces, Yellow Dock Root.........2 ounces, Calisaya Bark............2 ounces, Elder Flower.............2 ounces, Yellow Root..............2 ounces.
6. This we would reduce by simmering not boiling to two quarts. Strain and while warm add four ounces of grain alcohol with three drams of balsam of tolu dissolved in it. The dose would be two teaspoonfuls three times each day after meals. After one half of this has been taken begin with this: To 1 gallon of rain water add 8 ounces of Clary flower.
7. Reduce by simmering, not boiling, to one quart, strain while warm and add four ounces of beet sugar dissolved in sufficient water to dissolve it. Add six ounces of gin, preferably Gordon's gin, 15 grains of ambergris dissolved in one ounce of grain alcohol with three drams of cinnamon. The dose would be one tablespoonful just before retiring.
8. For the correction of the nervous condition, which should be begun at once and kept up all the time while the medicinal properties are given, a gentle massage from two to three minutes over the entire length of the spine, but especially at the 4th and 6th dorsals and at the 4th lumbae
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[lumbar?], of electrical vibration as we would find in the violet ray without the amperage. Do that. We are through.