Edgar Cayce Readings, 62-1

Time and Place: Unknown. ..., Nebraska.

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LBC: You have before you, Mrs. [62], ..., Nebraska. She is before you now. Go over her carefully, examine her thoroughly, and tell us what is the matter with her if anything.
EC: There is plenty the matter. We have in this body of [62], the seat of the trouble, of the beginning, and its actions, or the reflex and organic conditions, have arisen from conditions that have existed for a time in the body, by the improper elimination in the circulation, and improper treatment of the digestion in the body and nervous temperament of the system itself. In all these, we bring up the condition that we have here in the body now, at present.
We have above normal temperature, produced by a sediment, or leaving ends, as it were, in the liver, or blood in its action through the liver, or what we term a malarial condition existing in the blood in itself, as we can find here by a test of the blood. A decrease in the normal condition of the red blood, and above normal of the white. The leucocyte power, or resistive force in the body, is low. Now we have in the whole body, or organism, this condition. The excess amount of the blood, or the quality that we have in its passage through the system, in its condition as it is, produces, of course, an over-taxed condition to the whole system, into the rebuilding and replenishing of the body in itself. The trouble has begun from inactivity of the pancreas and its action on the digestion in the body. Hence the reflexes through the duodendum, and to the diaphragm, or the muscles and nerve force governing these, - the inhalation or the air passage in the lungs, hence the condition of resisting force we have in the lungs. The lower extremities come open. The cells are below the number of normal con- dition. Should be covered by the air that is passed into the lungs here. Hence we leave the blood in a bad condition to be carried through the system from here. The cells have become opened. Not those of closed cells, or from bacteria from the outside, but a reduced resistive force in the organism of the system in itself. The body losing its resistive powers, the force or quality of the kind of blood assimilated or thrown through the system, being retarded and restrained by the forces taken into the system, to rebuild or replenish the qualities of the blood, as it passed back into the system, produced an over-taxed state, or condition.
The minor troubles we have in the system become an aggravation, then, of the troubles themselves, here, as we see the resisting of the condition on the nervous system through the pelvis, the condition in the colon, ascending and transverse, and the reflex pains we have from above to here. Spleenic action of the forces, of course is low. That is, to the forces to the brain, in themselves. Hence the condition we have in the mind itself.
To remove these conditions from the body, by the minor conditions first, and assist the resistance in the body, take first in the body, that which will cleanse the system thoroughly. Not that which produces a taxation or excitement to the muscular and nervous forces of the intestines, or excitement to act on the liver, or that which would produce an action through the action of the organ itself. That is, we have the liver, the largest organ in the body, excreting and secreting its juices to act on the digestion, taking from the blood these particles that should be used or eliminated from the system. If we excite the intestinal tract, through that of excitement, as we have through those of mercury, or salts of mercury or any stimulation to the secretions. We then produce a similar effect to the action on the kidneys here, which is fairly good at present, except from the reverse or reflection pains from the action of the kidneys and liver in themselves. We remove these conditions from the system by something that would act on the system through nature in itself, or that of water, filling the system full. Pure water with salt; not very much in the water.
(Q) Then what treatment should follow that?
(A) We stimulate the whole body along the posterior regions here, by the manipulation of the hands; relax the muscular forces; excite the nervous forces enough to act through their waking state and allow the body to rest. We have offensive, or closeness of breath, or air, as we have the passage of air into the lungs. Shortness of breath. We will take that into the lungs, and into the body which acts directly on to the matter which is used by the rebuilding of the cells in the lungs, on the blood, or that of iodine.
(Q) What other treatment would you prescribe?
(A) The treatment for the condition we have in the body of [62] is - Cleanse the system first with water, or that which does not excite the specific actions of the liver and kidneys in the body. The action of the water taken into the system, with salt, acts on that of the kidney to eliminate more than the excitement to the liver in itself. The manipulation with the hands along the spine and over the limbs of the body, relaxes the muscular forces; and action of the nerve supply and blood forces which lie inter-lateral with these be excited to operate or work better. We stimulate the hepatic circulation by this, and reduce the temperature in the body. The close breath, or shortness of breath, by taking there iodine into the system which produces a balm to the cell force of the lungs, which should be carried there by the blood that is going into the system. This is the treatment we have for Mrs. [62].