This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 22nd day of June, 1926, in accordance with request made by self - Mrs. [464].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Dr. T. B. House.

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1. GC: You will go over this body carefully, examine it thoroughly, and tell me the conditions you find at the present time. You will diagnose the case thoroughly, giving the cause of the existing conditions, also the treatment for the cure and relief of this body.
2. EC: Now, we find this body would be a real study from the psychological standpoint of the physical conditions that have been brought about by seeming small insignificant conditions in the beginning, yet the constant strain as was produced on the body, in the development of the body, has in these last years brought about conditions that are hard to cope with. The vitality, and the rebuilding cellular forces in their coordinating with each other, is the condition produced by this as had to do with the developments of the glands in the pelvic organs, and of the ductless glands, or the effect this condition produced in the general system. Hence we have a body apparent from the exterior conditions as well, yet without the abilities to cope with physical exercise, physical conditions in the normal way and manner. Over strain, over stress of any character, physical or mental, excitement or of sorrow, all bring this reaction in the system, as it were, to destroy the rebuilding cellular units that go to make up each central force in the functioning of the system. Hence we find ALL the organs of the body suffer at various times. It (the condition) has been called almost every name, nature, for the characteristics as are seen in the condition are such as to bring about disturbances in almost all portions.
3. The real condition then, as is seen, is in the inability of the blood as is created in the system to meet the needs of the system, in the system's taking that resuscitation necessary from that assimilated. Hence we have a blood condition. We have one that is affecting the system's white and red, also the lymphatic circulation and the whole of the lymphatic and the emunctories. See how these all connect together?
4. Now, there may be two ways of meeting or coping with this condition. One would be by the body taking that vibration of the In-Mo-Ray (electric) and living entirely on the milk and nut diet, see? doing so all the time that this was being applied to the system, which would necessitate at least thirty to sixty days such treatment to overcome the conditions in the system; or of applying purely the vegetable diet for the body - ALL NATURES - (see? vegetables), with taking internally, beginning with small quantity - that is, one to three drops of solution of Chloride of Gold - one ounce of distilled water and one grain Chloride of Gold, with 6 grains of Carbonate of Soda - that is, 15 grains to 15 ounces of water, see? with 60 grains of Carbonate of Soda. We would take first two to three drops, taking this every day. One drop until ten drops are being taken - this be taken once each day. Then leave off one day, then begin with two to three drops, see? increasing one drop each day until ten taken, until at least this is carried out ninety to a hundred and twenty days, see? Beginning at about half the time - that is, after thirty days of taking the Chloride of Gold, with the Violet Ray over the whole entire cerebro- spinal system, following out each center in its regular order over the nerve centers from the spine, see? beginning with the first and second cervical, following out each all the way - this directly to the SKIN, see? so we will be applying this vibration directly to each center in its regular order. This would necessitate, of course, twenty to thirty minutes of such treatment, so this would be run at the low rate, see? This should be done - the Gold taken of morning. An hour after the dose of Gold is taken, this vibration given, so we will have the re-vibration in the system of the metal with the electricity, and a whole vegetable diet. This, as we see, would take longer, but both will bring their same condition, removing the troubles as are seen with this body, [464]. Do that.
5. We are through for the present.

BACKGROUND

1. 5/29/26 "A small booklet of yours was handed to me by a very dear friend [Mrs. [3934]?] who is determined to see me well and happy, after 13 years of semi-invalidism. The doctors do their best but are unable to locate the cause of so much disturbance. My trouble is a mystery to all of my friends, to see a person to all outward appearance so well. Appearances are deceiving. It is nothing but will power that has kept me alive, and the miseries of my condition no one knows but myself. If you have this gift I read about in your book it is not necessary for me to go into detail. I have prayed for just such a one as yourself, and I hope you are THE one."
2. See 464-1, Par. R7.

REPORTS

1. 6/25/26 "Your diagnosis is correct as far as I know about myself and I certainly am going to take the treatment, the one with the medicine of Gold, Soda and Water, as I do not know what In-Mo-Ray (electric) is and no one else seems to know that I have inquired of, so I decided to take the other one. Must I leave tea out of my diet? I hope not altogether. I will write again later on.
   "In this vegetable diet, does that mean no bread, no cereals, no milk or eggs?
   "And will you please explain the In-Mo-Ray electric treatment?
   "I will want a Life Rdg. later on - just now I am too miserable to appreciate it."
2. 6/29/26 EC's letter: Many thanks for the return of your report, I feel very sure, Mrs. [464], that you will find the results by trying out one or the other of the suggestions as were given for the improvement of your condition. Now, as I understand it, from past experiences, the In-Mo-Ray and nut and milk diet is what is termed or called naturopath treatment, and you would find such a machine used by physicians who give the naturopath treatments. Now, the next one is the Gold and the vegetable diet, beginning with the Violet Ray, after you have been taking the Gold for about fifteen or twenty days. This, of course, you can take at your home, without going to any physician, but it will be necessary for you to have someone to give you the treatment. If you think this would suit you better, I would carry this out and be very consistent, and very persistent, with the vegetable diet and Gold - I should think you would still be able to take small quantities of tea, but with the first treatment as I understand it, you would only have the nut and milk diet. I certainly hope that we will have a more than pleasing report from you very soon. I feel sure we will if you will follow the suggestions closely. We shall be very much interested in this report, and I assure you we would be more than glad to check up on this in thirty to sixty days and see just the progress you have made, for what we are trying to do is for you, yourself, to gain the consciousness of the help and assistance you may be able to obtain through these sources.
   Hoping to hear from you soon, I am Sincerely, Edgar Cayce [EC:GD]
   P.S. With the vegetable diet, as I understand it, it means vegetables the chief or main diet - of course, eggs and cereal may be taken in moderation, or one meal in a day. Cereal, as I understand, is as much a vegetable diet as anything else. The principal thing is DO NOT EAT MEATS!
3. 7/08/26 "I have taken the Gold as prescribed for 10 days so far and will continue as directed. I have felt about as usual. I am not looking for any marked improvement so soon. As soon as the 30 days are up I will start with the violet ray for the period of time specified, and am hoping with all my heart for a return of good health. I will write again and let you know how things turn out."
4. 7/15/26 "Dear Friend: Will you please send some of your literature to me. I would like to pass it on to some of my friends. Enclosed stamps for mailing it."
5. 7/20/26 Letter requesting a Life Rdg., and EC's reply to it on 7/26/26 See under 464-32 Background for the Life Rdg. which she did not obtain until 2/26/41, also her 7/29/26 letter. Reply to Form ltr.
6. 7/28/26 "I have followed all of the instructions given to me by Mr. Cayce so far as I have had time, as the 30 days for the Gold is up tomorrow. I take my first electric treatment then with the violet ray. I am to take them for 60 days with the Gold. I cannot report any marked change so far, but will let you know in about 10 days after taking the violet ray. I am just as eager as you are for the desired results, and hope to be able to make a very favorable report soon."
7. 8/01/26 "Dear Mr. Cayce. I think of you all when I write. I was asked for reports before I started on this treatment. I had sciatica in my left hip. I seemed to be stiff in the knee joints as well. That has gone. My head is the part that has given me the most trouble and naturally that is the part that I think about the most. When my head clears up and I stop reeling like a drunken person and I regain my poise, then I will shout for joy. [GD's note: On 6/04/26 She had written: "Some told me I would have a stroke of paralysis, and that thought has stuck in my mind like a burr in a woolen blanket, and it worries me all the time."]
   "I have taken two electric treatments. After them I couldn't stand up for a matter of ten minutes or so. The doctor laughed at me but said it would be so at first, for a few treatments. You see, I am still with you. I feel what you do for me you can do for others who have the same trouble, and I want to help too, so I am following directions closely. One woman said to me 2 wks. ago, 'When I look upon so much sickness, sorrow and trouble I wonder if God has deserted us.' My answer was, 'Don't ask me, for I do not know but I am hoping, for the best always.' If I am cured I will think it is a direct answer to my prayers. God makes use of all kinds of people to carry His messages, saints and sinners too. I have prayed often that God would give me the gift to heal but if I could not be trusted with so great a gift to give us someone else He COULD trust, only please send us someone, not for me alone but thousands of others who need it, and even a great deal more than I do. So you see how important you are, Mr. Cayce.
   "My letter sounds selfish when I read it over. I could never be happy with joy alone. I do not mean to be selfish. I will write again soon."
8. 8/11/26 EC's letter: Yours of the 1st received and I will have to say again you have a sense of humor that would be a saving grace for anyone.
   We received the card for the Life Reading, and we will get this to you just as soon as possible, though, as you can well imagine, we are kept very busy with requests for physical readings, and we have thought that possibly they were more important - but, from some of the results and reports that we get, I wonder.
   Well, I'm in hopes that you are finding good results from your treatment, I feel sure that you must be. There's one thing that you must get - that when anyone asks you if God has forsaken, just remember to answer this: He has forsaken you, if YOU have forsaken HIM! NEVER does He forsake those who put their trust in Him. While we may often cry even as the Master, "Why hast thou forsaken me?" we know this is of the flesh, and the spirit is willing oftimes the flesh is weak, by our having indulged same.
   I certainly do enjoy and appreciate your letters, Mrs. [464], and I'm in hopes you will let us hear from you whenever you have the opportunity.
   Sincerely, Edgar Cayce [EC:GD]
9. 8/11/26 Mrs. [464]'s letter: "I have been taking the Gold and the electric tr. for 10 days. I have quite a distance to walk every day to take the street car to get to the doctor's office. Not being used to the walking it tires me very much, otherwise I am getting along very nicely. My doctor specializes in electric work and seems to think that the violet ray is not sufficient for my case, however he is following out instructions according to his method of administering the tr. He uses the globe up and down and crisscross my spine for 30 minutes. He says there is no other way to give it. I hope it is correct, for the treatments are rather expensive. He says the electricity reaches every part of my body.
   "My sciatica has gone, but my back is very tired. The unusual exercise every morning is the cause of that, and will no doubt get used to it in time. I feel better for the outing anyway. Doctor is very cheerful and talkative, so I get a good, cheerful start each day. I reach his office at 8 a.m., home at 9 and ready for my day's work. I will write again in another 10 days unless you may have other suggestions to make."
10. 8/14/26 EC's letter: "I was glad to have yours of the 11th, and also glad to note that you feel you are getting along very good. I am sure the walking and the treatments both are doing you good. However, I believe that you would find that it would be very much cheaper to purchase one of these violet ray hand machines and take the treatment yourself, or have someone of your own household to give them to you. I think you can buy one of the machines for $15 or $20, and I suspect you spend almost that much for treatments in a week. However, if you were going to stop taking the walks, why I don't know whether it would be as good or not.
    "Yes, when you have taken this for another 10 days, I think it would be very well for us to make a ck. rdg., and I think it would be very well for you to prepare a list of questions to be asked concerning your condition at that time."
11. 8/20/26 "I rec'd your ltr. sometime ago and I think a ck. rdg. would be a very good thing. I have had 17 electric treatments so far. It costs me $25 for 16, so you see it eats a big hole in my pocketbook, but I am not complaining if the end proves the means. I have had some very bad days. My trip to the doctor's today was not so hard on me as formerly. There were days I thought I couldn't make the trip, and one day I just simply could not do it, so I rested that day and tried it again the next. There is a changing going on in me all the time, but the nature of it I do not know. Of course, I have 120 days for the cure according to the rdg. and I have been under treatment only 46 days. I see no marked change for the better so far. I know that my trouble is very difficult to handle. I will feel good one day and perhaps the next day I will be all in, no good at all. We have been having extremely hot weather every day I have gone to take a tr. until this morning. It has been cooking hot, perspiration oozing out of every pore. That was against me, of course.
    "Here is a joke. Dr. Haney is my doctor [D.C.?] and he is very jealous of the doctor who told me I should have only the violet ray and that only at a low rate. He says 'I don't care who your doctor is, you need the electricity deeper than that,' so I said the proof of the pudding is to eat it. So I said, 'Go ahead, try it.' He did. It almost put me out of business. Seeing is believing, you know. So he cut down the tr. and never said a word. I am not as tough as he thought I was. I think I only had 3 full treatments. "Mrs. Cayce may ask you if there is any improvement, if not what is the reason for it. Ask what is the matter with the back of my knees. I have had weak legs, for years. That is what has kept me a prisoner in the house for so long. I eat well and sleep well. No one knows what makes my legs so weak. It is a mystery to all the doctors I go to.
    "I will look for another rdg. You may give the ck. rdg. and Life Rdg. at the same time. Maybe one will throw some light on the other."
12. 8/28/26 "I rec'd your ltr. today and I will be ready for the rdg. on 9/4th. Enclosed is a list of questions. I have been doing my best to improve taking the electric treatments and the gold. Occasionally I forget it, in my hurry to go, so I wrote a note to remind me each day.
    "I read Mrs. [2672]'s Life Rdg. [2672-2]. She brought it down for me to read and I think it is very interesting, quite different from what we expected. So now I understand better."
    "What is it that disturbs my sleep? Why does my stomach not digest my food? Am I taking the treatments right? What is hindering a quicker improvement in my general condition? Why do my legs swell just below the knee, especially the right knee, and why are my ankles enlarged, seemingly the joints? Will you please give special attention to my eyes and my ears. My eyesight is affected and I am slightly deaf. What causes the large white spots on my hands and forearms? Please tell me if further treatments are necessary beyond the first advice. Why are my arms so strong and my legs so weak?
    "I think this covers it all."
13. 9/04/26 See 464-2.
14. 7/01/81 Mrs. N. G.'s ltr. [who had never had a reading of her own from Edgar Cayce] in re her experience in following EC's advice for Mrs. [464]:
    Mrs. Gladys Davis Turner -
    At a Tuesday Work Readings meeting last summer I met you and spoke with you briefly. I mentioned a dream I had and promised to write to you about it.
    While sleeping in our room at the Marshalls on the night of June 19, 1978, I dreamed the number "464". I woke up, wrote the number on my notebook, and went back to sleep. The next day I followed a "hunch" and looked at Cayce reading [464]. The [464] readings were given for a woman, age 51. I found the physical problems for [464] seemed similar to my own. It's interesting that although asthenia was mentioned, [464] was not included in the general asthenia [CF] file. I feel the reason my dream gave "464" instead of the "asthenia" file was because of various specialized physical ailments which were mentioned in [464] (and the remedies) which were similar to my own problems. Although I do not consider my physical problems as severe as [464]'s, there were many similarities.
    And, if I had not received help, I'm sure I would have gotten worse.
    File [464] mentioned stress and strain causing the disturbances in the body, mentioned a problem with the blood's ability to meet the needs of the system,...a problem with assimilation and elimination...weakness...toxin problems...prone to get rundown...headaches, etc., which seemed to be exactly my problems.
    As I looked through [464], I felt many of the things which were mentioned were for "me", like a "reading" for me.
    Some of the suggestions I worked with from [464] included:
    I purchased a violet ray [hand machine, bulb applicator] and my husband gave me a treatment on my back every morning for a year (avoided any alcohol while having the treatments). Took Gold Chloride. Changed diet to lots of fresh vegetables and fruit, chicken and fish (no meat), and lots of water and juices. Went for chiropractic adjustments. Took enemas and colonics. Tried to cut down on sugars and starches. Began working with more positive thinking. Worked on relaxing the body when I felt stress coming on.
    Dream guidance has helped me greatly, and so have the Edgar Cayce readings.
    Sincerely, N... G...
15. 7/07/81 GD's note: We are adding reading 464-1, with the above report, to our Circulating File on ASTHENIA.

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