This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce in Selma, Alabama, this 29th day of July, 1922.
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, we have had it before. [No copy of earlier readings in E.C.F. files.] Now we find as much of the same condition in the seat of the trouble within this body here at present as when we had it before, though there are some changes at present time from what we had it before; those especially that have to do with the reflex conditions that lie between the action of the negative and positive poles within the body - that is - hepatic circulation. There is not much trouble or congestion shown through the lower portion of the body as there was when we had it before, you see. Yet as the condition about the stomach or about the duodenum acts in the pancrean juices in the body, we find the same seat of the trouble producing now as did then, though we find that some of the body has been relaxed in such conditions in some portions to assist some parts in the body to gain its growth and equilibrium.
2. We find, of course, still the condition in the stomach where the viscera is small, the stomach still being too small for the action of the food in the stomach, that of passing into the duodenum from one to be acted on by the pancrean juices and by the excretions and secretions from the liver in those that lie torpid in the upper portion of the body. We still have the same trouble in this portion, lack of enough mucus to carry out through the colon the feces from the system, so that we have intestinal indigestion and autointoxins or autointoxication in the system from things taken into the body. This is we find is produced from the seat of the glands or the condition of the glands that effects digestion and all of the digestive tract throughout supplying and resupplying the reflexes as their action is shown over the intestinal tract.
3. To bring about a normal condition in this body we would give this into the system: this should be the dose that should be given, and we will find that it will be necessary to give different things to produce a balance in the system at different times. First we would have all of the water that is given to this body to drink - we would carry an intestinal antiseptic and one that is of a lactic state in
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such as is found in Blackothermalin, just small quantities of this water when it is taken in half glass of water, it will be 2 drops of Blackothermalin in this much water.
4. For the medicinal properties we would give this system:
Cascara............2 grains, Licorice...........1 grain, Rhubarb..........1/2 grain.
This will be given only when it is necessary to allay the condition arising from the stomach or when we have sour stomach or congestions shown in this way, to make it pass from one to three times each week here.
5. We would give in the evening, Tea made from Yellow Saffron carrying with it one to two drops of tea that is made from Life-everlasting - here it is called - Goldenseal. It will be necessary from time to time that there be given small quantities of Sweet Spirits of Nitre to this body. Watch carefully the difference here.
6. Do not with this condition in the system, with the trouble we are having in the stomach, allow much sugar to be given this body at this present time. Cereals with milk that has been scalded, not boiled, not much sugar. As much fruit as is possible without sugar, but not at anytime, but at regular intervals should this body be fed. Crisp bacon is good, but it must be very crisp. This body will need to be watched carefully of course with this condition for some two or three weeks. Then we will find that the body will begin to get enough then within the stomach to make it expand and act from within itself. These are only given in small quantities to those that are given in active principles of those to the system.
7. It will be necessary at times here that we use the enema with this body so as not to allow much of the feces to remain long in the colon - the higher the enemas the better it will be for this body, and will not produce so much irritation as we have sometimes before.
8. This we will find will bring this body of [5566] to a normal condition.
9. (Q) Mr. Cayce, what causes the swelling in the feet? (A) The reflex condition as we find in the action of the hepatic circulation with its active forces to the locomotion is why we should keep sweets out of this body, because we are taking it in the lymphatics which causes much of these portions in the blood supply to go to the lower extremities, that is it goes into the feet.