This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the Tutwiler Hotel, Birmingham, Alabama, this 16th day of January, 1923, in accordance with request made by the daughter, Miss [47].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Alf Butler (?), Conductor; Fay Autry, Steno.

TEXT

1. EC: Yes, we have the body here, you see. Now, there are many abnormal conditions in this body. Some may be corrected. They have to do with the functioning of the organs; some organic conditions, the blood supply and the elimination in the system.
2. Now, these are the conditions as we find them in this body, [46], we are speaking of:
3. We find the blood supply in the body is above the normal, both in quantity and in pressure. We find the blood carries bacilli - that is of the streptococcus variety. The white blood is deficient, and poor coagulation insues.
4. We find the nerve forces in this body very good.
5. There is a lesion about the tenth dorsal that produces the over-taxing to some of the digestive functioning of the body.
6. Through the organs themselves, we find some functioning very good. The condition through the lungs is very good.
7. That through the digestive forces, we find: The overtaxation to the system, both from nerve forces and from the superconscious forces attempting to care for the physical forces give rise to the condition existing in the stomach itself proper, and the poor eliminations through the correct channels have to do with this same condition.
8. The liver, we find, does not function in the proper manner and form.
9. The bacilli that effects the blood supply prevents the functioning properly of the excretory glands of this organ, as does the over-taxation, at times, to the kidneys give off to this portion of the body the excess secretions.
10. The glandular forces about the pelvic organs, and down the venus forces of the extremities show the effect of high blood forces, and the bacilli carried in the blood supply.
11. To rid the system of this condition, may be done by absorption, or by operation and then by absorption. This can be removed but will take patience, PATIENCE and time. We would take this into the system, first:
12. To one gallon of water, add:

    Sarsaparilla Root..............6 ounces,
Dogwood Bark...................2 ounces,
Yellow Dock Root...............2 ounces,
Black Root.....................2 ounces,
Prickly Ash Bark...............2 ounces,
Mandrake Root.................15 grains,
Buchu Leaves..................30 grains.

13. This would be simmered, NOT BOILED, until reduced to one quart. While warm, strain, and add:
    6 ounces Grain Alcohol, with 2 drams Balm of Gilead.
14. The dose would be a dessertspoonful three times each day.
15. The body should not eat meats or fats of any kind. If meats are eaten at all they would be fish or wild game. Better eat nothing except vegetables. Do not overload the stomach, but keep that which tends to keep the bowels free and open.
16. After the first full quantity is taken, and the second begun, then we would apply to the limb here for the infectuous forces, for the discharge to be removed from the blood veins, first would be mullein poultice. The body should keep off the feet while this is being applied to the limbs more than before. Then each evening apply a balm made of Plantain Root and Stalk, in this proportion: To half gallon of water, add six ounces, preferably in the green state, reduced until it begins to show a jelly formation - black color - stem and roots together. Then add oil of butter fat, without salt (with the water and salt taken out) until it makes a salve, and apply this each evening, but not until after the first quantity and part of another is taken of the medicinal properties. Do that. We are through.

BACKGROUND

1. 1/16/23 Request in person by daughter, Miss [47].

REPORTS

1. 5/18/27 Mr. [3982's] letter: "Mr. [46] died and they buried him in ..., Texas."
2. 1/09/35 Miss [47]'s letter: "Did you know that I lost my father? He passed away on Easter Sunday, 4/17/27."

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