Edgar Cayce Readings, 175-1

Time and Place: Unknown. ..., Ark.

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LBC: You have before you Mr. [175], of ..., Arkansas, who is before you now. Go over him carefully, examine him thoroughly and tell us what is the matter with him, if anything.
EC: Yes, here we have him here. Now, you see, we have here in this body of [175], as we have in all bodies, abnormal conditions existing in it.
We have trouble with the circulation, or the flow of blood in the body, by improper eliminating quantities or particles from the circulation or from used parts of the body.
We have also improper distributions of the properties of the blood to rebuild certain portions of the system. We especially find this through the trunk of the body, or from the solar plexus nerve force and ganglia, and in the supply of the nerve forces to the lower extremities of the body. That is, through the hepatic circulation, through its blood forces or supply to the intestinal tracts themselves, along the colon, along the sides of the body themselves, and to the pelvis or to the lower part of the lower ganglia of the cerebrospinal nerve forces.
Then we have from this condition, to these, the existing condition we have in the body, though we find the first condition that produced these troubles was farther back from these. These have formed then, themselves, lesions in the spine, at the first lumbar and ninth and tenth dorsal.
That is the condition as existing in the intestinal tract, and through the intestinal forces themselves, with the stomach and all of the digestive organs of the body, the condition that has produced these first.
Then we have these conditions produced from the first condition, until it makes it of an aggravated, longstanding condition, hardly noticeable at first; increasing into its properties here and the condition of the body until the forces of the body eliminating through the blood, in the liver, show themselves in the most active state here. Thus there is produced the condition we have through the intestinal tract,with the improper elimination or improper distribution, or both (we have both in the supplies to these).
We lack then the quantities and qualities of the mucous or mucous-muscular forces in the intestinal tract to carry on the proper digestion which takes place into these. We have the digestion in the stomach, duodenum, pancreas and intestines themselves, taking up all these forces secreted to the organs of the body carried into the blood force, into the forms we have of corpuscles, distributing through the body, or eliminating from it as should be, through the respiratory system, through the hepatics, liver and kidneys.
This, then, leaves the condition of the body as we have here - a torpid liver secreting, as it were, these ends and leaving them in the liver in the form of lobes or granular force - not the stone formed by gall, but ends of nerves used - the corpuscles deadened, not eliminated by the proper secretions to carry these from the forces, on account of the condition we have in the intestinal tract in the body, the straining condition we have had in the intestinal tracts.
We have taken into the stomach that which excites the muscular forces of the intestinal tract and stomach themselves to act, or to produce action, - an overactive liver. These forces then, with the condition we have of the mucous force in, and supply to, the nerve force and blood supply to these, only tend to produce overstimulation, and weaken.
Bearing down pains we have, from the hips to the feet, which are produced from these conditions; a sick, languid condition of the body.
It allows, then, particles of malaria to creep into the blood, until we have at times quick pulsations to the head, that shows in the blood itself. An aggravated condition, but not serious, - this condition of the body of [175], of ..., Ark.
(Q) What treatment would you prescribe?
(A) A stimulation of the spinal nerve supply to the trunk of the body, by a strong manipulation of the hands [osteopathy?] all along the whole spine; kneading of the intestinals here, or of the stomach and bowels, with the hands, or the same forces, first, until we have the body thoroughly relaxed. It takes a little time here, about two moons.
Then we would give stimulating forces to the supply of the digestive organs of the body, that is, through the stomach. A sedative to the body forces of gin, sugar, sage and cinnamon mixed together. An active principle for the kidneys, liver; stimulation for the secretions of the intestines. The body then will be kept in better condition.
If we have an overstimulation to these [by the internal stimulus], we would eliminate by the muscular force [of osteopathy] and action onto the blood supply by the manipulation of the body. Not the two together.
First the relaxation of the body by the [osteopathic] manipulation, then the [internal] forces in the intestines to keep them like they should be. But stimulate them both [liver - kidneys?] to act.