This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 23rd day of March, 1929, in accordance with request made by self, through Mr. J. W. Lee (of Hunt & Lee, contractors who built the Cayce Hospital).

Present: Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mr. Newman, J. W. Lee, [118], and L. B. Cayce.

TEXT

1. EC: Yes, we have the body here - [118]. Now we find, while the body physical very good in many respects, and the reactions in and through the physical forces are nominal, there are those conditions that cause distress at times, and an uneasiness to the physical forces, that are not normal for this body. These conditions, as we find, have to do with the assimilation, and the causes as resultant in the physical organisms of the functioning system, as a result of these conditions, producing a variation of feelings or conditions in the system from time to time, dependent upon the cycle of the functioning system as related to the replenishing of the system from the general vital forces of the body, or stored energy.
2. These, then, are conditions as we find them with this body, [118], we are speaking of, present in this room. First:
3. IN THE BLOOD SUPPLY, this we find shows a nominal or normal reaction most of the time, which would - at first thought - seem to be a disagreement with the condition of poor assimilation, yet we find there are in the blood forces a discrepancy in the numbers of the corpuscles and their division of same as for a normal body, and these are not ALWAYS the same - for a blood count at one period would be entirely different from that at another period, with this particular body - yet this condition in itself is only a symptom and not a cause, save as affects the vitality of the system in other directions, as will be seen.
4. IN THE NERVE SYSTEMS OF THE BODY, here we find again a reflex condition as is evidenced in the system, as to a cause or a condition produced by an existent cause, yet causes to the functioning system is at times changes, or caused, or produced by the disturbance as is produced from other causes in plexuses as are governing from various centers of the nerve system, but more especially in THIS body may it be seen in that plexus as governs the reflexes, or the sympathetic and cerebro-spinal in the ganglion about the radial center of the 6th and 5th dorsal vertebrae, and that plexus as radiates from the cerebro-spinal nerve center to the left portion of the sympathetic nerve center especially. Hence there are seen these reflexes at times as are produced in the system from this condition existent:
5. At times there is apparently the reflex of a fullness to the head, and the blood supply - while not of a vertigo nature - feels apparently as if there was too much blood at the base of brain, and of a throbbing in temples, burning of eyes, dryness of throat, nasal cavities are either dry or over-charged with secretions - both of these conditions occurring as reflexes. These, understand, are symptoms - NOT the cause of the condition, other than produced BY the condition existent in the radial plexus as has been indicated. We also find the sympathetic system, as radiates by ACTIVITY from this same condition as is produced here through the LOWER limbs, when the feet feel heavy, and there are - as it were - pains, yet not as pains but rather uneasiness, across the upper portion of the lower or the locomotary plexus, or just across the upper part of hips - these are reflexes entirely, and NOT from the lower portion of body at all.
6. IN THE FUNCTIONING OF ORGANS, and the conditions as are existent that produce the distress as comes at times to the body:
7. The brain forces very good.
8. The reflexes to the sympathetic system, as are governed and as govern the sensory organism, show - as has been seen - that these affect at times the auditory, the visionary, and the nerve forces of the auditory system - dependent upon the effect of either congestion, excitement, relaxation, or as to the CONDITION of digestion - for, as is seen, the body may feel entirely WELL, buoyant, strong, and of a sudden - from apparently some unknown reason physically to the body - there becomes a general depression to the whole system; sick - but where the body could not say. This a sympathetic reaction as is given here to the auditory or to the sensory system, in its activity becomes depressionary to the whole of the sympathetic forces of the system.
9. Throat, bronchials, lungs and larynx: Here again, from the same plexus, do we find sympathetic conditions - varying according to the conditions of the system, as related to the body in its activity; that is, there may be depressions such that cold or congestion affects the body easily, or there may be such buoyancies that apparently cold does NOT affect the body easily. These are as conditions, as reflexes, from the dependency of the blood supply - as radiates through the central nerve system from the influences of the conditions existent in the cerebro-spinal and sympathetic system, in the region as given - as to whether there is sufficient blood supply, or there is a deficiency in blood and nerve supply, to these portions of the body.
10. Heart's action shows this same sympathetic condition, though nominal - or near normal - in pressure and in pulsation, though the pulsation in itself may vary even from the upper portion of body or the lower portion of body, dependent upon a variation in the system. This would seem then, apparently, as if conditions as were at variance in the system - as is indicated in the character of the conditions existent in the nerve system, of the digestive organism of the body - and through this comes the radial forces of those conditions that bring disturbances to this physical functioning. We have, then, an indication of the condition in the digestive system and the assimilating system as related to the liver, and the spleen ESPECIALLY, and to that of the distribution for the system those replenishings of the vibratory forces as are set up in the system to create the energy necessary for the continuation of the plasmic cell force, that build or destroy in a physical organism. These radiating, then, from the ABILITY of the system to assimilate that that may be taken as food for the body, acted upon by the gastric juices of the stomach and assimilated, stored as energy, and distributed throughout the system by nerve impulse, as carries the blood supply through the circulation of same in the system. The deficiency at times, as is seen in the amount of the plasmic cell forces as show in the lymphatic circulation, show that this condition is the disturbing element, as does the radial forces as are seen in the effect on the nervous system in its various effectiveness, in that the inability of the body to feel at the normal reaction for the necessary activities of the body.
11. The liver then, in its excretory functioning, normal - in its SECRETIVE functioning subnormal, as is seen by the high amount of activity often necessary to carry about the proper elimination from the system, as is shown in the activities of the kidneys in their functioning with the body; for over-excitement and over-activity may increase these activities through this portion of the system, while apparently at another time the same things would decrease the activity of same. Not other than a disturbance in the functioning of the organs, and not organic conditions.
12. Then, to meet the needs of the conditions in this body at the present time:
13. The diet and the proper vibratory forces set for the system will bring this about NEARER than in most conditions of this nature. That is, create for the system - in the quantity and quality of the diet - that as will be properly assimilated by the system, creating in the nerve energies that proper vibratory force as to create an equilibrium and a proper coordination of the nerve system, the blood supply, the functioning organs, and the radial forces from the sympathetic, cerebro-spinal nerve centers, will BRING then to the system the proper and properly distributed forces as NECESSARY to create the proper activity. The diet, then, should be of a well balanced diet, especially to those that are of the iodine producing foods and of the salines that are non-acid in their activity or of those forces that will create the proper AMOUNT of salines; making corrections of those conditions existent in the upper dorsal and lower lumbar regions, osteopathically, though these should not be taken - or not necessary to be taken - oftener than once or twice each week, until the corrections are made, but use EACH day, before retiring, those vibrations from the ordinary Radio-Active Appliance, for at least one hour each day. Do that, and we will bring - in sixty days - the near NORMAL active forces for this body. Ready for questions.
14. (Q) Should the body take any medicine during this time?
    (A) If these conditions are gone about at once, properly, we will find no medicines would be necessary for the system. Otherwise, we may take medicinal properties - these are only allaying and NOT correcting conditions. We have given that that will bring the near normal conditions for this body. Do that if the body would be corrected. We are through for the present.

    Copy to Cayce Hospital
    (Copy of Radio-Active Appliance portion to Thos. B. Brown, 139 W. 2nd St., Dayton, Ohio.)

Edgar Cayce Readings © 1971, 1993, 1994, 1995 by the Edgar Cayce Foundation