This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 3rd day of June, 1929, in accordance with request made by her husband, Mr. [...].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Messrs. [...], Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Smith, Mrs. E. W. Griffin, Dr. MacChesney, and Mr. L. B. Cayce.

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1. EC: Yes, we have the body, [153]. Now, we find there are disturbing conditions in the physical forces of this body. These conditions have principally to do with the nerve systems and the effect that various changes as have come about produce upon the system, and the reactions as are brought about through same.
2. These, then, are the conditions as we find with this body, [153] we are speaking of. First:
3. IN THE BLOOD SUPPLY, naturally, with the character of the disturbance, there are disturbances evidenced in the blood stream itself. However, these conditions as exhibited here are very changeable. That in such a nature of the disturbance there would be found a different reaction, were tests made of same. At times there are found drosses from used forces in the system. At others we will find the white blood overabundant and the red blood deficient. Again we would find the red blood cells numbering near normal and the white deficient in the character of the leukocyte exhibited in same, coagulation being improper; at others an over exaggerated condition. These have their effects in the nerve supplies in the system, as well as this disturbance being reduced on the nerve energies in other directions.
4. IN THE NERVE SYSTEMS, here, as we have given, are the greater disturbances with this body, as we find in the changes that have come about that have to do especially with the glands of the system. These disturbances and pressures as are produced bring about the exaggerated activity of the body at periods, or times, and at others are the cause of the exhaustion that is exhibited in the actions of the body. Not that of the mental reaction deficient, or overactive, but that the reactions from nerve impulses are misdirected by the amount of pressure created in various centers, and the ganglia in the sympathetic and cerebrospinal, responding in a like manner to the condition, brings this change in the reaction produced from the brain centers that govern same.
5. In the cerebrospinal system, then, we find in the lower dorsal, or 12th, and in the 4th lumbar plexus, evidences of the condition as exists with the glands and the activities of same in the system, especially in the reflexes as are produced to the pineal, also to that of the lactic fluids as come from the lactics and from the lacteal glands. These, then, suppress in the activity of digestion, also in the impulses in activity, and the resultant forces are overabundance of nerve energy to move, or the corresponding, or the activity to produce depressions that produce nerve exhaustion through the activity of the vegetative nerve system and their action upon the glands in the lactic regions, or lacteal regions, also in the brush end of the cerebrospinal to that of the pineals.
6. In the reaction of these conditions as existent through the functioning of the ORGANS THEMSELVES;
7. Brain forces, as we see, are under the suppression or overactivity of the sympathetic, cerebrospinal reaction, and the and the gland depression or suppression in various cycle activities of the physical body.
8. In the general reaction in brain forces, body good.
9. In the activities of the sensory system, these we find are good in normal ACTIVITY, yet the respondence to the various effects created, produce an oversensitiveness, both in feeling and in the activities of the auditory, or any of the nerve senses. Hence the body becomes, through psychological and pathological reactions, very susceptible to outer suggestion, or to activities from without.
10. In the throat, bronchials, and the heart's action, these are nominally in the normal reactions, though the heart's action, with the disturbances in the nerve forces of the body, is respondent, or responds to the various effects as are created in the system.
11. The digestive system, these are overactive and underactive varying according to those impulses as are meted out through both the activity of the mesenteric and of those plexus governing the glands' reaction throughout the pelvis, and of the impulses as come from the systems through the activity of digestion. Hence at times we find the liver apparently oversupplied with the blood supply, on account of conditions as created in the digestion. Again we may find the respondent condition apparently exhibited in the functioning of the kidneys. These are, as is seen, the result of an oversensitiveness throughout the nerve forces of the body, as are being impelled by these pressures produced in the lower dorsal and lumbar regions. Not that the pressure has not been relieved, so far as the cerebrospinal CENTER [is] concerned at TIMES, yet there continues to gather about these centers, from the resultant condition in the lyden [Leydig] gland, in the pineal gland (in its brush end effect the body), and in those of the lacteals. These, then, produce abnormal coordination throughout this reproductive centers of the system, as to whether in the replenishing of energy for body or from the activity of blood supply in the system, or of the general energy for the replenishing and resuscitating of forces in system. The resultant conditions below that of the lower plexus, find responsiveness in that condition created in the lower extremities at times, when the tendency is to move, whether the body is desired to be moving or not; that is, the tendency of the nerve reflexes through the lower plexuses.
12. To meet the needs, then, of the conditions of this body at the present time:
13. There is necessarily seen the necessity of the producing of that in the system wherein the normalcy in reflexes from nerve energies shall be brought into proper coordination throughout the system. Not only by the relieving of the pressure in the cerebrospinal centers, but by changing the vibratory forces within the body itself as respond through the heart's impulses, and as to the creative energies as are brought about in assimilation and the creating of energy within the body. These, then, must be met in more than ONE direction, but each coordinating with the other.
14. First we would prepare those of the battery forces as will add that to the system that will create in the glands' reaction with the cerebrospinal, sympathetic, and vegetative nerve energies, that necessary vibration of coordinating one with another. So that when pressure is removed from the centers, as are seen in the dorsal, lumbar, and upper cervical regions (that come reflexly), the energies in the nerve impulse will be a NORMAL flow in its activity. This should be prepared in this manner:
15. To 1 gallon and a half of rain water, add:

    Copper Sulphate..................1 pound,
Sulphuric Acid C.P...............1 ounce,
Common Zinc......................3 drams.

16. This of itself will charge itself, but well that, after the the mixture is put together, that half a pound of common charcoal be stirred in same. This should be put in a glass container at least one-third larger than the amount of solution, and a wooden cover placed over same. Two anodes, or plates, should be inserted through the pole into the solution. One should be of copper, the other of nickel, and should be at least quarter of an inch in diameter. To the ends of these poles attach wires, insulated, flexible - so that may be easily handled, and each day these should be attached to the body as it rests; one to the ankle, the other at the base of the brain, or at the 1st or 2nd cervical. The next period, attach one to the solar plexus center, the other to the wrist. The period of the vibration from this should be at least twenty minutes the first day, and increasing ten minutes each day until the solution has drawn down all of the content and does not produce a vibration from same - which would be at the end of eighteen to twenty-two days.
17. In this same interim there should be given those properties in the system in medicinal properties, of these:
    To 2 ounces of simple syrup, add:

    Tincture Valerian..............1/2 ounce,
Extract of Stillingia..........1/4 ounce,
Elixir Calisaya................1/4 ounce,
10% solution Iodide Potassium...20 minims,
Oil of Sassafras.................4 minims.

    Shake the solution together before the dose is given. For For the first ten days give five drops every three hours, unless the body is resting and every other day the [osteopathic] manipulations of the whole of the cerebrospinal and muscular systems should be given, and on each third treatment the ADJUSTMENTS of those conditions existent in the the 12th dorsal, lumbar, and in the 4th of the lumbar region. In this general manipulation, necessary that those forces in the upper plexus in the cervicals, where the hypogastric and pneumogastric enter the brain through the centers in this portion of system, have thorough attention.
18. Keep the body quiet. The nominal forces in digestion should be kept from proteins. Rather those of those foods that will add the nominalcy of iodine with potash, normal, the irons and the salts. Vegetables, fruits, and nuts. Ready for questions.
19. (Q) What size plates and of what material should be attached to the wires of the battery?
    (A) Those about the size of a fifty cent piece, of the same metals that are in the poles. One nickel, the other copper, and the nickel attached to the nickel pole and the copper attached to the copper pole; the wires of sufficient length to give elasticity to the handling of the conditions. Be sure this is cared for, for the solution overflowing, or on floors, would be disturbing.
20. This will bring about the near normal conditions for this body, were these carried out in the proper way and manner. Be a little patient, be consistent, be persistent, for these conditions may be created to work nominally with this body. We are through for the present.

    Copy to Cayce Hospital

BACKGROUND

1. 6/03/29 Her husband and his brother were present for the Reading. Husband stated that Mrs. [153] had been suffering with melancholia and had been afflicted with catarrhal deafness for 32 years. Previous treatment had been of the alopathic, homeopathic, osteopathic, chiropractic and electric nature, without results.

REPORTS

1. 6/11/29 Mrs. [153] was admitted to Cayce Hospital for treatment.
2. 6/21/29 She returned home to continue treatment.
3. 6/24/29 She returned to Cayce Hospital and was treated there until 7/06/29 when she again returned home.
4. 9/13/29 She and husband were present for her Check-Physical reading, 153-2.

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