This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 28th day of July, 1934, in accordance with request made by the self, Active Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., Mrs. [133].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mildred Davis, L. B. Cayce and C. H. Capps.

TEXT

1. EC: Yes; there's a good deal of improvement in the body from that we last had. While there has been at times some misconstruction placed upon the properties given for the correction, the use of same in the manner that has been applied - and especially with the corrections that have been made in the cerebrospinal system - has brought great improvement.
2. At those periods (which should be from one to two days at a time) the ONLY diet would be grapes; not grapefruit, but at other times grapefruit juices are to be taken as a one diet at one meal or a period of the day, see?
3. The grape poultices across the intestines and bowels have been most helpful. These should be worn each day for periods of three days, and the grape diet should be the whole diet during the three days, you see; letting about three days elapse between each period of such treatments at first, and gradually increase the time elapsing between the use of these until there would be ten days between each period of grape treatment. But the grape poultices should be made a little bit thicker. Let them be an inch and a half thick rather than half an inch or spread. You see, the heat from the body will cook the grapes. Don't cook them. Apply them raw. Only mash them and put in those containers, you see; with the hulls, yes, but mashed.
4. Between the periods of the grape and grapefruit diet, in the beginning use a liquid diet consisting of the citrus fruit juices of mornings (such as grapefruit, oranges, lemons and limes) and the vegetable juices at other meals; gradually - that is, in eight to ten days - beginning to add the semi-solid foods as in this manner:
5. Mornings - citrus fruit juices (either the juice of one or the other of such fruit), with browned whole wheat toast that may be buttered if so desired, and a little coffee; or preferable to coffee would be Ovaltine or any CEREAL drink, though if coffee is taken it should be without cream or milk.
6. Noons - not too much should be taken at this meal, and that only of vegetable juices. And the preferable way to prepare such juices would be through cooking the vegetables after tying them in Patapar paper; not putting them in water to boil, but cooking either in the Patapar paper or in a steam steamer, so that only the juices from the vegetables may be obtained - and no water added in the cooking at all. Then these juices should be combined and seasoned to the taste. This activity will build into the system the proper associations with that which has been indicated by the corrections in the spine, and make for the corrections in the activities throughout the digestive system.
7. Evenings - (these foods only added gradually, after the eight to ten day period) - a little chicken or mutton broth, but very little of the meat itself. A little later the body may begin with stewed chicken, or broiled chicken or broiled fish, and well-cooked vegetables - but not with too much grease in same. Even these vegetables and the chicken or fish would be better cooked in the Patapar paper or a steam cooker.
8. With the spinal corrections and doing these, we will find we will bring the improvements.
9. Ready for questions.
10. (Q) Should colonic flushings be repeated daily?
    (A) It is too much for them to be repeated daily; gradually they should be farther and farther apart; about once a week, a little bit later about every other week, until all the inflammation and all the mucous is removed from the colon itself.
    Keep up the manipulations and massage.
11. (Q) Are the spinal treatments being given correctly?
    (A) VERY good!
    But be consistent and persistent with all of these.
12. (Q) Would sun baths be beneficial; if so, what portions of the body should be exposed most to the sun?
    (A) Sun baths would NOT be beneficial JUST at the present. The light baths may be given; that is, a shaded light over whole portions of the body - or with the body perfectly nude. But the body should not be in the direct sunlight, for this - as yet - would be more harmful than beneficial. A little later it may be done. At present the shaded light would be more beneficial; and before such is used it would be well for the body to be massaged all over with olive oil then be placed in the shaded light.
13. (Q) Is it best for the body to try to sit up?
    (A) In a week or ten days, yes.
14. (Q) What makes the hamstring leaders in the legs draw so?
    (A) Poisons from those accumulations in the system, and the tendencies for the contraction of these. Keep these massaged, and we will find this will be overcome as the poisons are eliminated and a fresh blood supply is made. For the blood supply is added to three times each day if meals are taken, else we would never recuperate or change a whole body every seven years; it is a CONSTANT growth. No condition of a physical nature should be REMAINING unless it has been hamstrung by operative forces or strictures or tissue that may not be absorbed; and even this may be changed if it is taken patiently and persistently - in ANY body!
15. (Q) Can the bowels be raised off the bladder without an operation?
    (A) With these corrections, and with the changing of those activities throughout the system, these of themselves will be PLACED - as it were, and not with an operation. An operation will put them closer - make MORE pressure!
    Do these, consistently and persistently, and we will see results coming for this body.
16. We are through for the present.

    Copy to Self
    Copy to Ass'n file
    [The Patapar paper for cooking the foods should be obtained at any ten cent store or department store, or the like. It is made by the Paterson Parchment Paper Co., Bristol, Penna. I am enclosing a sample for your use. Prepare the vegetables or any other foods for cooking...that is, clean and cut in small pieces...and tie up in the paper, using a stout white cord. Put in Boiler of water (not letting water get inside of paper) and boil from thirty-five to forty-five minutes, depending on what is being cooked. The paper may be washed...just as a cloth...and used again and again. GD.]

BACKGROUND

1. See 133-1, 133-2, 133-3 with Reports correspondence.

REPORTS

1. 11/14/34 Letter: "I am going to write and let you know how I am. Doctor, I went on the diet as best I could and the lady gave me treatments and I got so thin, and bedsores came on my left hip. The longer she gave me the treatments the worse my kidneys and bladder got. Doctor, I did not have everything to do with that I needed but I did the best that I could. I had no one to fix my diet just as it ought to be fixed. If only I could get enough money to come there 2-3 weeks so that I would get able to fix my own diet. I am sending you $1; it is not much but I will send you more just as soon as I can, for you are the only one that has been able to tell me what caused my trouble. I found the mucous in the lower bowels and washed lots, but I haven't got the proper things to do with to get rid of it. Just don't know what to do next. Times are so hard. I should have been sending you money for what you have already done for me... Doctor, is this a catarrhal condition of the bowels and bladder? They seem to be inflamed. Tell me what to do next and I will send you some more money just as soon as I can."
2. 1/15/35 Letter: "I would have written you sooner but I hated to ask you for another reading and not send you the money I know that it costs you to give them. I have spent so much with doctors that did me no good, and know you are right, for I found the mucous in my bowels like you said and I washed lots of it away but it just keeps collecting - seems that can't get rid of it. Is not an inflamed condition of the kidneys and bowels. I had to stop taking treatments from the lady [Dr. Carolina Woodruff]; she didn't seem to want me to stay on my diet, and got thin and I had a bedsore on my left hip and my legs draw so bad. Of course I did the very best I could - didn't have everything necessary to do with. Give me another reading, examine my back, kidneys and bowels and tell me which is causing trouble and what to do next. If I had the money I sure would come there where I could get the right treatment, for I know that you have everything to do with and we don't."
3. 1/19/35 See 133-5, her fifth and last reading.

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