This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 12th day of January, 1939, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [263], Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

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

TEXT

1. GC: You will give the physical condition of this body at the present time, with suggestions for further corrective measures; answering the questions she has submitted, as I ask them:
2. EC: Yes.
3. There are a great many changes in the general physical and mental body since last we had same here. These as we find are in those conditions where, if there are the proper precautions taken, now, and the activities are in such a way and manner that the body may be rid of the after effects of the uric acid arising from the effects of the ether and gas, there may be the near to normal mental and physical reactions.
4. As we find, precautions must be taken as to getting the feet damp and wet, of being in the open without a covering on the head and neck; and added to the system we would have such a stimuli as to correctly balance the blood and especially the lymph supply of the system.
5. Hence we find it would be well for the body to take two White's Cod Liver Oil Tablets each evening, and two Codiron tablets each morning with the meal, you see. The amount here of the cod liver oil and the vitamines as come with or through the activity of these being assimilated by the system will build greater resistance, especially to the lymph and emunctory circulation - which is needed to rid the system of the effects of those activities which were given to suppress the nerve forces.
6. For these tend to clog and clot through the network as it were of the lymph and emunctories, especially.
7. Hence a gentle massage taken about once a month, as a Swedish massage, would especially be good for this body; first a little sweat produced by a cabinet bath or by being wrapped in a sheet or flannel, and THEN A THOROUGH MASSAGE with cocoa butter AND olive oil - over the whole body. Massage TOWARD the center of the body always, so that the eliminations may be kept the better.
8. KEEP AWAY FROM SEDATIVES OF every nature! Not even Coca Cola or ANY drink that carries any influence, as of wine, beer or spirits frumenti - these are especially harmful! Coffee and tea should be eliminated, for the time being, as much as possible.
9. Do this.
10. Ready for questions.
11. (Q) What causes nausea, and what may relieve same?
    (A) The effects in the lymph of that as indicated.
12. (Q) Headaches?
    (A) The same.
13. (Q) Is the thyroid gland functioning properly?
    (A) Will function better with the activity and the effects of the cod liver oil in the system.
14. (Q) What should be done to produce normal eliminations without cathartics?
    (A) Correct diet, correct activity, and especially the massage in the manner indicated.
15. We are through with this Reading.

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BACKGROUND

1. 10/13/38 She obtained Ck. Physical Rdg. 263-9 advising pelvic surgery to correct after effects of childbirth on 11/02/29 which had caused other ailments; long standing severe headaches which had caused her to become addicted to B.C. Powders, etc., etc.
2. 12/08/38 She wrote that the surgery had just been performed.
3. 1/12/39 She phoned questions in re recuperative measures.

REPORTS

1. GD's Note: Later that year she married Mr. [1467].
2. 6/13/40 She obtained Ck. Physical Rdg. 263-11 for terrible headaches. Dr. C. F. Hudgins, Jr., the D.O. who had been treating thought the headaches were from B.C. Powders (tablet) poisoning.
3. 6/26/40 She referred Mrs. [2184] for her baby's rdg. 2289-1.

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