This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 26th day of July, 1927, in accordance with request made by her husband, Mr. [...] via Mr. Alfred D. Butler.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. L. B. Cayce.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 4:10 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., Fla.
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 existing conditions, also the treatment for the cure and relief of this body.
2. EC: Yes, we have the body here.
3. Now, we find there are many conditions that cause the distresses and dis-ease for the body. These are the outcome of complications and neglecting minor conditions until there arose conditions that were hard to combat with, and the effects of physical condition and forces have been treated, rather than the cause or seat of the trouble.
4. These conditions, as we find, may be assisted and helped a great deal, while it will be necessary at first to build that there may be some resistance in various portions of the functioning system, then change the environmental forces in the functioning of the system - so that a general rebuilding may be accomplished.
5. These, then, are conditions as we find them to be met at the present time:
6. IN THE BLOOD SUPPLY, this very weak from many standpoints. Little resistance is stored in the body, either as to red blood supply or to white - using, as it were, practically all energy as is created in the physical forces of the body, and more often than otherwise the body feels as if another strain or another exertion would be most too much for the body. That as is seen, then, saps or keeps down the abilities of the body to recuperate, in the sense that it lasts. While there are periods when the body feels much improved, yet these do not last - for, as is seen and as given, the complications seem to hinder the body from recuperation in a general way and manner.
7. IN THE NERVE SYSTEM, we find much of the seat and cause of the trouble in the nerve system, for where specific conditions have existed in the physical forces of the body, the taxation from same to the nerve system has brought such racking conditions that the body first itself in that
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condition of being neurotic in nature; that is, while specific conditions exist in portions of body, the wearing and tearing on nerves - especially to the sympathetic - has been such that one portion suffers in sympathy with another. Hence there are times when the head, nose, throat, lungs even, seem to be that most affected. Again the stomach, the heart, the digestive system, all out of balance. These, as we see, are the EFFECTS of pressure produced in specific centers in a way and manner that the whole system becomes involved, through the solar plexus and its tributaries throughout the lower portion of body. The pressure created in this same plexus region causes the cardiac - the secondary cardiac - the contract at times. Again we find the hypogastric causes distress, through the condition as is produced in the mesenteric system. Again we find the pneumogastric gives that distress as to the upper portion of body - head, arm, limbs, give distress.
8. In the general physical functioning of organs, we find there show their strain, as may be from blood supply and from the EFFECT of strain produced on the organs; yet little or no organic trouble exists in the present conditions. Rather that same pressure as is seen in the 10th and 11th dorsal, and in the 3rd and 4th lumbar.
9. Now, to meet the needs of the conditions of this body, [4728] we are speaking of, first we would begin with this:
10. Prepare these as properties, that we may have that which - in the vibratory forces of the digestive system, of the blood forces as are to be builded from - may be added TO in the GENERAL way. Prepare as this:
11. To one-half (1/2) gallon of rain water, add: Sarsaparilla Root................2 ounces, Wild Cherry Bark.................1 ounce, Burdock Root.....................1 ounce, Mandrake Root...................10 grains, Buchu Leaves....................20 grains, Calisaya Bark..................1/2 ounce, Sassafras Root Bark............1/4 ounce, Prickly Ask Bark...............1/2 ounce.
12. Reduce this by simmering (not boiling) to one (1) pint. Strain while warm and add: Fluid Extracts of Peppermint ten (10) minims. Cut two (2) drams Balsam of Tolu in two (2) ounces pure grain alcohol and add to solution.
13. Shake solution well before each dose is taken, taking half teaspoonful three times each day, before meals.
14. Do not overtax the system through the eating - for, as has been seen, that is necessary to be changed from time to
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time. Do not eat MUCH meats, though the JUICES of same are well for the body. See? As much GREEN vegetable forces as may be assimilated by the system. Watch the assimilations! Do not allow any of the foods to FERMENT in the system. When such is found to disagree (for the body finds this changes very often), do not use same. Fruits and nuts, or fruit juices and nuts are best - if they will ASSIMILATE for the body.
15. Also wear those vibrations - or receive BY wearing those vibrations as will be found in the Double X Radium Appliance.
16. After these have been taken, and this appliance worn for thirty-five (35) days, we would give further instructions for the normal forces to be brought to this body.
17. This is the beginning of the BUILDING, or preparation for the application of other forces to this body, [4728].
18. Do as given for the present.
19. We are through.