This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 19th day of September, 1927, in accordance with request made by self - Miss [369]; via Miss [288].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Miss [...] [aunt], and Mr. L. B. Cayce.

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1. GC: You will have before you [369], who is in her room at home, Whispering Pines, on ... Street, ..., Virginia. You will go over this body carefully, examine it thoroughly, and tell me the conditions you find at the present time; giving the cause of the existing conditions; also the treatment for the cure and relief of this body. You will answer any questions I will ask you regarding same.
2. EC: We have the body here.
3. Now, we find, while there are many disturbing conditions with the physical forces of this body, in many respects physically the body is very good.
4. Those disturbing conditions are produced from specifics as exist with the physical functioning of organs in the body. Not as organic condition. Rather as functional.
5. These, then, are the conditions as we find them with this body, [369] we are speaking of:
6. IN THE BLOOD SUPPLY, this we find below the normal in quantity and in quality. In quality on account of the poor assimilation and the poor eliminations as have existed in the body. In the quantity - this, as seen, by poor elimination and poor assimilation has made quantity deficient, or the used forces of the blood have been so overtaxed as to decrease the amount - as seen by temperature, by conditions in the mesenteric system, and the hepatic circulation.
7. IN THE NERVE SYSTEM, this we find very good in many respects, though the body OVER sympathetic, by the inability of the perfect coordination between cerebro-spinal and sympathetic system. This, as is seen, produced by MANY causes. Principal of these is the system not adjusting itself wholly from subjugation of the nerve reflexes, [during appendectomy within last year or so? Also tonsillectomy? See 369-6] and the eliminations and assimilations poor have kept nerve centers rather irritated, and the mental abilities of the body being such as to control in part these reflexes, has made irritation to the system. In the centers particularly that this is shown: The sympathetic plexus in the 4th dorsal region, in the 9th and 10th dorsal, and in the 4th lumbar. These, as we see, AGAIN, are in that region where the reflexes to those portions of the organic conditions that are disturbed in their functioning are radiating from the upper plexus that of the upper or the cardiac end of stomach, the lower the pyloric end of stomach. Hence we have - with both reflexes contracting, from organic disturbances in organic functioning - that condition as of the stomach turning, as it were, upon itself, and the pains in this portion as of a contraction of the walls of same.
8. The acidity as is produced in the lower portion of the mesenteric or jejunum digestion brings irritation again to the LOWER portion of the intestinal system. Hence the reflex from same is to cause the reaction in the blood stream. Hence temperature.
9. In this functioning condition as exists, the liver is that greatest involved in condition - though the kidneys suffer from being overtaxed. Hence the irritation as exists through this portion of the body. The action of the liver is towards that of cirrhosis. Hence we have a regurgitation to the stomach through the pyloric orifice, and the pancreas suffers from the excretions of those properties thrown through these glands functioning from the spleen.
10. So we have, then, a functional disturbance in spleen, liver, and a stomach regurgitation:
11. The seat and basis of the condition being produced by the unbalanced condition as has been produced in the system by that of the inability of the glands producing the blood supply, through poor assimilation, poor eliminations, these becoming irritated through reflexes throw - as it were - the activity of these organs into distraughtness.
12. The liver becoming hardened in its activity forms, through the ducts that produce the excretory forces of same, that which regurgitates to the stomach. The stomach being in the highly hydrochloric condition [hyperchlorhydria], regurgitating, producing - through that pressure in the cardiac end - that of the trouble of the beginning to act upon the juices of the stomach proper. Hence that to be dreaded, that to be feared - lacerations and ulcerations in stomach, and the pyloric or duodenum proper. [Incipient peptic ulcer according to D. H. Fogel, M.D., 10/52.]
13. In the correction of these conditions, taken in time these may be EASILY corrected, with the condition on the improve, or the RELAXING of the mesenteric system so that there is not the recurrent condition through that absorbing for replenishing of the body.
14. There exists in the ascending colon the effect of the condition produced by the action of the removal of conditions in the end of upper intestine, or the head of colon. Not in the form of adhesions. RATHER in the form of reflex lesions in the centers GOVERNING same in their functioning.
15. To meet the needs, then, of these conditions:
16. These will of necessity be slow, and changing for each condition and change must be met as the emergency, or change in the building of the system.
17. First we would prepare as this:
18. Take six (6) ounces of Yellow Saffron, and make this into at least SIXTEEN (16) ounces of tea, see? Keep this as the water to be taken by the body, and when change necessary use small pinch of elm bark in ice water. Do not put the bark in water until just before it is to be taken into the system, see?
19. Use with this - that is, taken as separate, of course - as much olive oil as the body may well assimilate. Do not have so much that the body belches same, or that there is the regurgitation of same, see?
20. Also take, once each day, tablespoonful of agar and oil, or Petrolagar - see?
21. Do that - keeping the system in the proper condition as to the temperature of the body, by the activities of the system.
22. Do not overtax the body with foods, and do not undertax same. Eat sufficient to keep the stomach active upon foods, rather than upon itself. Let these be rather of those of the JUICES of meats, but not the flesh of same - with cereals and of those properties easily digested and assimilated by the body.
23. When this has been carried for three to four (3 to 4) weeks, we would then change these conditions necessary for the full correction. First we must cleanse the system. Then we must meet the needs of those conditions as exist in the centers as show the radiation of the impulses from the cerebro-spinal system.
24. Ready for questions.
25. (After short pause) We are through for the present.

BACKGROUND

1. Miss [369] was in bed with some kind of stomach trouble - perhaps ulcers. Her aunt came to be present for the reading.

REPORTS

1. 10/24/27 See 369-2.
2. See subsequent Ck. Physical Rdgs.
3. 8/04/34 See 369-11 referring to cirrhosis condition as being cause of current nervous symptoms of shaking hands.

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