This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 322 Grafton Avenue, Dayton, Ohio, this 4th day of October, 1924, in accordance with request made by self - Mrs. [42].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mrs. [42].

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1. GC: You will go over this body carefully, examine it thoroughly and tell me the conditions you find at the present time. You will also give the cause of the existing conditions, with suggestions for the treatment and cure for same.
2. EC: Now, we find there are abnormal conditions for the physical forces in this body, while we find the body very good in many respects, and the abnormal conditions may be corrected when the proper conditions are accorded the physical forces of the body. Now from the psychological and pathological conditions in this body, we have one that would be a real study for any interested in such, for there are conditions in this physical manifestation that are contrary to the rules in many as now understood. The biological effects change many of these conditions, and through this the psychological forces are manifested.
3. The abnormal conditions that we find have to do with the condition of the blood forces in the body and the effect that this condition has produced under the direction of patho- logical forces, biological forces and psychological forces in the entity. Hence many conditions from the physical standpoint are hidden, or hard to be understood, and the ordinary conditions we find do not respond in the manner as should be expected in pathological conditions.
4. Now these are conditions as we find them in this body. First:
5. IN THE BLOOD SUPPLY, in this we find the quantity sufficient, the quality in many ways deficient. While the red blood cells are numerous enough, and the white blood cells sufficient to meet and produce coagulation, the action of this through the circulation, on account of bacilli as is carried in the body, has affected and does affect the organs of circulation, especially the centers and plexus governing the heart's action, until we have a pathological condition, produced by the biological effect of bacilli apparent in the bloodstream. Not that we produce organic conditions, but, as in this: We find that there are times when pressure is above the normal and that the heart's action in some instances and conditions skips or misses in its pulsation, produced by the condition in centers that have been depleted in their reaction and refractory action through the biological conditions. Without the psychological forces manifested in the body we would have produced destructive forces long since. Then, from psychological conditions, we would have one wherein the entity through sheer will has held and kept itself from deteriorating in mental and physical attributes of the body. In the constituents and elements of blood force, we find that the plasmatic cell producing energy is often attacked by this bacilli. This bacilli we find has been, and was, produced by conditions that have existed in the system from times back, and has to do much with a physical condition that existed when the psychological conditions of mind and of mental conditions acted with the mental forces to produce this flow in the system that brought about this change in the lacteal ducts, and during such time there was much anger in the body (this she understands better than others). In the reaction then this brought those conditions in the hepatic circulation and the eliminating forces in the emunctories of liver and kidneys, and the body has in the past had trouble with both of these organs in the physical sense, purely a refractory reaction in the physical body.
6. IN THE NERVE SYSTEM, in this we find the greater trouble, physically, in the sympathetic nerve system, for the refractory nerve centers in the system show how this system is magnified in its action in the body; that is, in those centers where organs function through the physical action, and become the involuntary action, such as digestion, sight, pulsation, heart's action, the body unconsciously has reached the condition where it must, with its voluntary forces, keep all functioning. That is, occasionally, and often, at times keep on its mind that all MUST function rather than being the condition of a normal body, functioning normal, for the organs are organs nominally. In these centers we find those of the secondary cardiac plexus, the hypogastric and pneumogastric ganglion plexus, or that governing the centers ruled from the solar plexus center. Hence just above the umbilicus, and to the left, the body often feels the pressure as if the heart's action was abnormal, or that the heart hurt. This is not a heart's action at all, refractory reaction through nerves of the sympathetic attempting to create an equilibrium in the carotid artery feeding the ganglion of the hypogastric and pneumogastric plexus. In the cerebrospinal centers that should control such reaction, we have the lack of muscular tissue in these plexuses to govern this condition. Then the force of the sympathetic act, as it were, to control of the body. It is through such reaction from sympathetic system that the sensory organism often gathers the reaction through the abnormal functioning of all of the sensory system; that is, often the body sees, feels, hears, recognizes conditions not perceptible to the ordinary functioning of the normal sensory system. Not a condition of brain reaction, not a condition of mental forces, rather the psychological effect on pathological conditions, biologically acted upon in blood stream.
7. THEN THE CONDITION IN THE ORGANS THEMSELVES:
8. Brain forces GOOD.
9. The organs of sensory system abnormal in the conditions as given, through the action of sensory and sympathetic nerve system, coordinating when they should not.
10. In the rest of the system we find normal conditions in organs, but functioning under the strain of the nerve system, deflected as given.
11. Then to bring the normal conditions to this body, we would first take in the system those properties that would bring the correct incentives to the whole system, taking then this:

    Syrup Sarsaparilla...............1/4 ounce,
Fluid Extract Wild Cherry........1/2 ounce,
Fluid Extract Stillingia.........1/2 ounce,
Fluid Extract Poke Root..........1/2 ounce,
Fluid Extract Yellow Dock Root...1/2 ounce,
Iodide Potassium..................20 grains.

12. Mix well together and add sufficient simple syrup to make 8 ounces. The dose would be half teaspoonful 4 times each day.
13. Then have the massage of the Neuropath that follows out each nerve center and plexus, stimulating these in the dorsal region, from the 2nd to the 12th dorsal. Also equalizing the circulation to the extremities, keeping all well under the influence of the mental forces of self, knowing that all healing properties must come from within, and as the mental holds the relation to self, and to the I AM within, just so will the response of each applied force from without respond from within.
14. Do that, and we will find we will bring the normal conditions to this body.
15. The medicinal properties should be taken before each meal and before retiring.
16. The equalizing of blood forces through the manipulation given as outlined, with the changed condition in the physical body, will bring much relief to the body when held in the mental in the proper manner. Without that response we CANNOT gain the correct equilibrium as thoroughly, for healing MUST come from within.
17. We are through for the present.

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