This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the Tutwiler Hotel, Birmingham, Ala., this 9th day of January, 1923.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; (?), Conductor; (?), Steno.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 10:00 A. M.
1. EC: Yes, we have the body here. Now, we find the abnormal conditions that need to be corrected in this body have to do with the nervous system, and the functioning of the organs, and the effect as produced on the system from these conditions. Now, these are the conditions as we find them in this body, Mrs. [4780], we are speaking of.
2. The body is very good throughout, yet there has been and is carried in the blood supply itself those elements that should be eliminated through the organs themselves of elimination, and these conditions have so enmeshed themselves in the glands about the system, until they begin to form the conditions as exist in the tissue in parts of the body itself.
3. There is sufficient blood supply, but the pressure is above the normal, this being involved as we will see, the effect being of nerve conditions rather than organic.
4. In the nervous system, we find in the nerve forces in the body we do not always have perfect coordination between the cerebrospinal and the sympathetic nervous systems, hence there are, at times, with the condition in the circulation being imperfect, or when tissue becomes involved that nerve forces and solar plexus, become so involved in nerve action, as to give almost the nervous break-down between the cerebrospinal and the sympathetic nervous system. The body becomes lax through the nerve energy, and the resistance becomes negative. There is a tired, dull feeling in the diaphragm, lower in the lungs, head, or seat of pneumogastric nerve centers, sympathetic then, you see, producing through its lung forces the over-stimulus to the secondary cardiac plexus, then we have the effect to the circulation proper, and a high blood rate and pressure, then often a sub-normal temperature afterwards.
5. The organs from the sensory nervous system show the effect of the condition in the system by their refractory functioning rather than direct. At such times, the functioning of the organs themselves, we find, the brain forces are very good in this body.
6. The mental forces can control a great deal better than it does by the constant strain over the system, and the body
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shows the effect. The action of the cerebrospinal with the system, through training, may effect the more perfect coordination between the sympathetic and the cerebrospinal.
7. The condition as we find through the throat to the larynx and the lungs, where, at times, the condition gives the reflex forces and produces the trouble to the pulmonary action as produced by the nerve forces and the tissue, create the functioning by the organs themselves.
8. In the digestive tract, we find the same effect, though governed by the reflex conditions as much as by the effect produced to the nerve center there.
9. The lung shows the condition as produced by the overcharge of the blood forces and of the condition of the excess tissue created in the body, and the imperfect elimination produce there, at times, so the body has distraught conditions produced and about this portion of the body, and the pain that comes to the lower end of the lungs and between the liver and the pyloric end of the stomach as produced by the liver attempting to create the proper equilibrium in the system. It is not a condition to be alarmed over, though one to care for.
10. The overtaxed condition also produces an overtaxed condition, at times, through the kidneys and the deranged condition in the accretion from the bladder.
11. The greater part to become balanced in the body to bring the equilibrium, will be to reach in this body through its mental and spiritual forces, by their control over the system, and producing coordination in the sympathetic and cerebrospinal nervous centers. That may affect the ducts and glands of the tissue to absorb and eliminate and use, or the forces as now show through the tissue and produce the dis-eased (not diseased) condition through portions of the body.
12. For the physical effects, to produce and assist the proper elimination in the body, we would add this: To one gallon of rain water, add: Yellow Dock Root............2 ounces, Burdock Root................2 ounces, Black Haw Bark..............2 ounces, Prickly Ash Bark............2 ounces, Elder Flower................4 ounces.
13. Reduce by simmering, NOT BOILING, to one quart. Strain. While warm, add: 4 ounces grain alcohol, with 2 drams Balsam of Tolu. The dose would be a teaspoonful four times each day. While this is being taken, be careful of the diet, and not produce too much constipation through the
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system, but keep the intestines free and full. Do that. Train the mind well. Care for the conditions corrected.