This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at Tutwiler Hotel, Birmingham, Alabama, this 20th day of December, 1922.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Frank E. Mohr (?), Conductor; (?), Steno.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 8:00 P. M.
1. EC: Yes, we have the body here.
2. Now, the abnormal conditions as we find in this body begin in times back, and with very poor eliminations and by the lack of excretions through the portions of the system, for the blood carried those bacilli known as that of a malarial nature, and so congested the forces in the body as to produce the same effect over much of the body. Now, these are the conditions as we find them in the body at the present time, though the trouble antedates the present condition, and is of a different nature than that under which the effects now produced were brought into the system, physically speaking. The blood supply in the body we find is anemic, due to lack of both red and white blood corpuscles. The circulation is laggard in its flow through the system. With the leaving of the impurities and toxins in the system, it has caused the condition that exists through the ligaments of the body - that is, the extremities here, head and shoulders and across portions of the body, across the sacrum and brachial plexus, being the centers that have to do with the forces, the emunctory glands becoming enlarged through this condition. Through the nervous system we find the body has reached the stage as to where with the action over the system of the natural forces in the body attempting to relieve that, many of the centers have become engorged, and the ends of these nerves have begun to lose their reaction or reactive force. The brain itself proper is very good, the cerebrospinal centers being those that have been able to control the system through itself. The action of the sympathetic has become the propelling force in the functioning of the organs, so that which the body does or accomplishes through the nerve energy of the system has become of an automatic rather than a volitional nature. The functioning of the organs themselves do as the biddings rather of the sympathetic system than of those of the cerebrospinal action, and become automatic again in their functioning. The liver is atrophied in a manner, certainly not wholly so, but is hardened to an extent. The action through the digestive force becomes slow and only indirect, though through the action of the pneumogastric forces, they
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present a better condition than would be ordinarily with the hepatic circulation grown so dormant. Hence through the cuticle and capillary circulation there are places over the system that show the emunctory forces attempting to eliminate from the system those things that should have been eliminated in times back. To give the physical forces within this body the opportunity to be rejuvenated as it were, and to bring the functioning of the organs to sufficient activity as to produce elimination again through the system in any manner near normal, we would add those elements to the body that will give the incentives to all of the system. Give these:
3. To one gallon of distilled water add:
Sarsaparilla Root...................6 ounces, Dogwood Bark........................2 ounces, Prickly Ash Bark....................2 ounces, Dog Fennel........................1/2 ounce, Buchu Leaves........................1 ounce, Purple Top Clover Blossom, Dry....1/2 ounce, Peruvian Bark.....................1/2 ounce.
Reduce by simmering, not boiling, to two quarts. Strain while warm. Add six ounces of grain alcohol, with three drams of Balm of Gilead.
4. The dose would be a dessertspoonful or two teaspoonfuls three times each day. When half this quantity has been taken into the system, rub the whole spinal column and the sciatic nerves - that is, the whole length of the limb here - with [Golden Seal] salts, and after being rubbed well into the body, give electric vibrations over the whole portion so rubbed with the violet ray, high voltage, low amperage. Special centers would be at the brachial plexus, that is, the second dorsal; the solar plexus, ninth dorsal, sacral plexus; then at the lower portions of the sciatic nerve.
5. Do that. [4608], ..., Livingston, Ala., four miles east on Demopolis Road, in white house. We are through.