This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce, this 5th day of August, 1911.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; L. B. Cayce, Conductor; Jno. C. King, Steno.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 10:00 A. M. ..., Arkansas.
1. LBC: You have before you Mr. [4980], who is in ..., Arkansas.
2. EC: [4980], ..., Arkansas. Yes, we have him here.
3. LBC: I want you to go over him carefully, examine him thoroughly, and tell us what is the matter with him.
4. EC: [4980], ..., Arkansas. Now, you see, we have here a body which has become impoverished, or thin, from the conditions existing in that of the circulation, produced by the lack of nutriment in the blood to supply the rebuilding forces to the system, until we have set up a seat of trouble here in the left side, the lower extremity of the lung itself, onto that of the diaphragm coming in conjunction with the muscular nerve supply of the eighth and ninth dorsal vertebra, until we have produced within this lung itself that of an opening of the cells whereby the blood is exposed to the air taken into it to produce oxidization into the blood, or whereby oxygen is taken into the system and used as a force to rebuild into the system, hence the lack we have of red blood corpuscles in that of the blood, or that of the hemoglobin itself. The inability of the white, or leukocytes, in the blood to supply enough of the cellular force thrown around these organs themselves that became emaciated through the lack of nutriment supplied to them, we have a breaking of these cells at times, until we produce through the bronchial or trachea a spittle of the mucous supplied by this in itself - not a sloughing of the walls or the cutting of the mucous gathered by the destruction of matter, but of a thin, frothy nature.
5. The action of this force, or condition existing in the body, to the mental man has been of such nature that we produce to the sensory system, or to that portion of the brain situated here in the frontal part above the left eye, a sense of fear, until we allow the whole nervous system to get under the control of this condition, in the body here, in the left side, until we reduce the whole physical body to a state of collapse, or that of improper eliminating through any of the other branches of the eliminating powers in the body: that of the secretions of the kidneys, that of the excretion from the system of forces thrown off in the sweat
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glands, until we produce a chilling of the whole body in itself, or that of the fear of itself of the destruction of the body. The reflexes from these conditions existing in the body show themselves through the proper channels of digestion throughout the system, or the lack of these channels themselves to supply the proper nutriment to itself, until it became of a degenerate nature, hence the inability to the stomach in itself to digest those of a hard, or of a nature whereby we would rebuild or produce carbonate to the system, or oxygen. The same force as produced here through condition, not necessarily of an alarming nature to the physical body, but the sense of fear in the body, the lack of proper nutriment to the nervous force, and rebuilding properties through that of the splenic force, which supplies that of the rebuilding to the brain itself, through the reflexes in the nervous system in the body becoming to such temperament as we have in this physical body, produced more by the fear of the condition that exists in the system through the abnormal condition of the body, or through the mind in matter.
6. The chilling sensation over the whole system has produced some of the forces in the blood, or the weakened condition of the blood. And this chilling sensation has allowed more of the forces, as we have thrown out by that of the liver in itself, to drift back into the blood until we have a form of temperament produced by the condition we have existing here in the side, the formation into the blood of that of a malarial or bacterial nature, as we have by microscopic examination of the blood itself, or by the condition of the forces as we have here through the microscopic examination.
7. To remove these conditions from the body as we have here, now existing in this [4980], we would first have the body at an altitude whereby we gain more of a rarefied air, until we produce a deep breathing to the lungs themselves, or to the inhalation and exhalation of as much as possible of the air from the body. You will have to take it by degrees. You can't go up at first, you see.
8. We would have to the system, or to the physical body, as much of a roughness as we could produce; that is, outdoor life. Live out in the air; keep the body warm by the application of clothing; rub the body well night and morning with cold water along the spine; warm baths just before retiring; sleep warm, but with plenty of air. We take into the system here those of calcium and iodine, and at intervals of 48 to 60 hours, 1/60 [grain] of heroin internally. The diet should be that of courser foods. Not too much of fruit and vegetable matter, but more of the
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carbon nature to produce heat in the body. It would have to be by gradual course from what we have been using.
9. But do this and this body will become improved.