This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 18th day of October, 1928, in accordance with request made by self - Mr. [111] via Mr. [779].

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

TEXT

1. EC: Yes, we have the body here. Now, we find rather a complication of conditions as bring about the unsatisfactory conditions as regarding the physical functioning of the body. In times back there came about those conditions in the physical forces which, in the attack upon the mucus and the tissue building organisms of the system, brought about something of the catarrhal effect or condition with the body. This has been well distributed through the system, in the manner that same has affected the body - affecting same through the lymphatic circulation. Hence the condition - in being separated, segregated, or in attempting to bring about clarification of the blood supply sufficiently to eliminate conditions - has, while settling same, only segregated the condition to other portions of the system. Hence we have that as exists in the exterior, or in the capillary circulation, with the condition existing in portions of the body, as is seen, and the effect as is brought about in the action of digestion and assimilation. Changing, as it were, from this, that, the other portion of the body being affected by the condition. This being, then, rather subtle in its nature, shows not only in the blood supply itself - though at TIMES the blood would be found nearly normal, at others we find this reacts in the capillary circulation, and the lymph glands then exhume, as it were, a secretion that brings about a rash, or a breaking out on the body. Again we find direct reflexes from same, affecting those ganglions that govern the sympathetic nervous system, and easily does the body take cold, cough resultant from same - weakness in the kidneys, across the small of the back, the liver, and in activity of the eliminations - these are VARIED conditions as come from the condition as we find that attacked the system. Body was seventeen or eighteen years old at that time.
2. Then, to meet the needs of the conditions as existent in the system at the present time, rather would we build upon that vital force as is shown that exists in the system, adding to the vitality of the body so that the system receives the proper reaction throughout in the vibratory forces of its nervous system, its circulation, its reaction and retractions throughout the physical forces of the body. These, as we find, would be brought about to the nearer normal conditions in a SERIES of changes as will be NECESSARY to administer to the body as the various portions are set in order. First we would prepare as this for the body: This is in the form of a tonic, yet so active in its principles as to set that vital force NECESSARY for RESUSCITATION of the vitality and vitim (?) [elanvital?] of the system; replenishing in the blood supply, reacting in the assimilating and eliminating system and, as it were, setting the house in order for those conditions that will bring about the near normal condition for the body. Prepare then as this:
3. To 1/2 gallon of rain water, add: (Preferably will these be added in their original, or in the herb, state.)

   Sarsaparilla Root.............1 ounce,
Wild Cherry Bark..............1 ounce,
Yellow Dock Root............1/2 ounce,
Burdock Root................1/2 ounce,
Black Snake Root............1/2 ounce,
Elder Flower..................2 ounces,
Dogfennel...................1/4 ounce,
Prickly Ash Bark............1/4 ounce.

   Reduce this by simmering (not boiling) to 1/2 the quantity (1 quart). Then add, after this is strained, the properties of this:
4. Cut 2 drams Balsam of Tolu in 3 ounces pure grain alcohol and add:

   Sarsaparilla Compound.......1/4 ounce,
Sassafras Oi1................20 drops,
Mullein Oil..................40 drops.

   Shake solution together before the dose is taken, and take teaspoonful 4 times each day. Same be taken AFTER the meal. EAT the meal. Let the diet be principally those of vegetables, but those that grow BENEATH the ground - all tuberous; and nuts and such. Not too much fruit, though orange juice may be taken liberally. Little of meats save the juice of same.
5. When the whole quantity of these properties as given are taken, then we would give further instructions for this body, [111], we are speaking of.
6. We are through for the present.

BACKGROUND

1. 9/06/28 [111]'s letter: "...I want a Physical Reading as I have tried all the best doctors here without results..."

REPORTS

1. 10/26/28 [111]'s letter to EC: "...I received your reading given on my physical condition which I think is in keeping with symptoms that I have undergone in the years gone by... I have at times thought that I was predisposed to hypochondria and have done all in my power to overcome it and to think that there was nothing wrong with my physical condition, as all the doctors that I have been to said that I was normal. I am just wondering if the change that you speak of in your reading, that came to me when I was about the age you mention, 17 - 18, referred to the peculiar change I underwent about that time. I was at a loss to know what to do or where to lay my hand. Since that time I have continued to undergo changes, making a tri - of what I am going to call bi-sexual change, and I know from experience that this has not been natural or normal. It has not come from environment nor habit but it is purely innate and at times it seems to dominate my whole being, as though I was another person, miserable of course. I have consulted hundreds of medical doctors but in vain, not one ever gave me any encouragement nor hinted a suggestion worthwhile. They would give a little laxative or pepsin for the digestive tract, and that was all they would say. I have had X-rays made and they would find nothing they said to be alarming, and that of course would help me to keep myself together.
   "I want to say that I am going to carry out your every suggestion just as near as can be possible. I have a druggist who is filling the prescription; he has had to order some of the compound in the original from N.Y.; as yet I haven't begun to take the medicine. I am going to give you in a very confidential way just how I have suffered as I understand it, and about myself in a general way:
   "As a boy I was perfectly normal; went swimming, played ball and did everything that other boys do. At sixteen I began to have pains; these pains varied in intensity and the locality of the body. They started in my stomach, as I thought, and then shifted to my side and back, and by the time I was eighteen I had to resort to drugs to allay the pain, as it had become so intense. My father carried me to the family doctor and he made an examination with his brother, both being doctors; they said that I had neuralgia; they prescribed and I took the medicine and received some benefit, as I thought, from it. I was always kept in school as my family had an idea I was delicate. I finished high school and college and began teaching and studying. I have had advance courses in sociology and psychology, making special study of sex and child mind, still fighting for normal health, as I realized that contemplation of tragedy is a barren futility unless we can take heart and build anew on the ashes of disaster. O, but how much lighter the task if we knew what caused the calamity! How much more worthwhile if we knew exactly what we would build! Today I am still having that same pain in my stomach-back-side. Dr. Brandon Hubbard gave me a lengthy cystoscopic examination, making X-ray at the same time, and found as he said nothing. Then he gave me a series of prostate gland massages both hand and electrical; they did little good...
   "I want you to know because I want you to help me and I believe that you can..."
2. 5/20/46 [111]'s letter to EC [GD's note: Not knowing EC had died]: "...Dr. Cayce, I am in need of your help again, as for the past few years I haven't been too well..."

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