This psychic reading was given by Edgar Cayce in Selma, Alabama, this 29th day of August, 1923.
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; L. B. Cayce, Conductor; Harriet McSwain (?), Steno. Mr. [5688].
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading Unknown. Selma, Ala.
1. EC: Now we find there are abnormal conditions in this body that may be corrected. They have to do with the functioning of organs and with some specific conditions as exist and the effect that the improper functioning has produced and does produce upon the system in the various ways as we shall see.
2. Now, these are conditions as we find in this body, [5688], we are speaking of, present in this room.
3. First in the blood supply we find the body deficient in quantity and some conditions in the elemental forces in the quality. There is a lack of rebuilding cellular force and at times an over supply to meet the needs of expedition [secretions, excretions ?] being eliminated improperly and the system exercising to meet this need brings the unbalanced condition that exists in the system and, as we have had in times back and shows at present through the body, the capillaries in attempting to eliminate the poisons have produced within the cuticle [skin] that effect as poisons being eliminated will; sores, boils.
4. In the rebuilding in blood we find the lack of sufficient iron and silicon in the hemoglobin so, the cell forces in the rebuilding organs keep the body in the strained condition, not at all times at the point of distress but never feeling just well all over, see? The strain through this comes to some centers of the nerve system 'til these are overtaxed as we have through the sensory organism.
5. Hence the conditions we have in the eye, the ear, the taste, at times chokey condition or the excess of secretions in phlegm forming in the throat and larynx, the condition as nerve force as attacked by this blood supply produced from the condition as we shall see.
6. In the functioning of organs as this:
7. The brain force very good. One better than ordinary in that of discernment, and elemental forces toward the spiritual above the ordinary.
8. In the organs of the sensory system there are times when, as with the condition as shown, the eyes burn; they produce too much secretion to carry the excess of the used forces to
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be eliminated; that is, the ducts that produce secretion show their activity.
9. The ear at times, buzzing, in the throat, excess of phlegm as given.
10. The lungs are very good with the condition as we have shown and as is shown in the blood supply.
11. The heart action near normal. No organic condition, above the normal in its beat at times, but rather from the condition of the blood than of organic forces.
12. In the digestive tract we find the seat of the trouble. In the pyloric end of the stomach itself we find there lacerations and healings of these that produce this taxation to the whole intestinal tract. This has produced the anemiatized forces or elements in the blood until the excess we show in the system and the development of unit or cellular force is below the normal. The sympathetic condition here gives, through the pneumogastric nerve and cardiac, that vibration making the excess to the sensory system at the junction of the nerves of the cardiac plexus center at the 7th and 8th dorsal. There we will find a form of lesion through the liver and pancrean forces, the excess as created in system to eliminate properly and give the inactivity of these in their normal way.
13. (Q) Well, what else do you find? (A) The enlarging of the lobes of the liver show how the excretory functions through the emunctories are exercised by increased amount of lymph, as produced by the system to meet the needs when the body is attempting to perform the function of elimination with the blood supply; and nerve forces [are] affected as this condition in the stomach and pancreas and duodenum show. In the small intestines we find there the effect of excess secretions being produced from time to time to carry on the proper functioning, and the system rather absorbs poison than eliminates. This, too, is a condition to be met with rather than that of the colon, as some have given, see? To give the balance for this body to overcome these conditions, we would take first that in the system that would prepare the system for the forces that would give the balance of vibration in the body. Take this in the system: To one gallon of rain water we would add: Wild Cherry Bark...............4 ounces, Yellow Dock Root...............2 ounces, Yellow Root....................2 ounces,
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Elder Flower...................2 ounces. Reduce by simmering, not boiling, to one quart. Strain while warm and add four ounces of Grain Alcohol with three drams of Balsam of Tolu cut in it. After two-thirds of this quantity have been taken, the dose being one tablespoonful four times each day, we would take then the Honey and Charcoal Tablets as prepared by the Battle Creek, Michigan Sanitarium with [...?] tablets as prepared by same institution, see? Vibration or rest for the system will be produced by the vibration as found in this: Two pieces of steel, carbon preferred, tempered; 1/2 inch wide, 1/4 inch thick, 4 1/2 inches long; fasten together with a nonconductor between. Two wires, attach one to each piece. These in turn attach to the two plates. Separate each evening when ready to retire. One plate to be attached to left wrist, other plate to be attached to left ankle, same side of body. The steel bars should be placed in cold or ice water and remain from 30 to 60 minutes each evening. [Radio-Active Appliance] Begin at once. [5688], present in this room.