This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the David E. Kahn home, 20 Woods Lane, Scarsdale, N.Y., this 5th day of November, 1937, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [480], Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mrs. [480] and Mrs. [601].

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1. EC: Yes, we have the body here, [480]; this we have had before.
2. As we find, in many ways the conditions are very good throughout the body and the physical reactions show improvement in the general physical forces.
3. While as we find, taking all conditions into consideration, there needs to be precautions taken; but if there is the following and the keeping in attune with constructive thinking as well as activity, and the taking of precautions in those directions as we have indicated from time to time, we should keep the physical and mental balance in such a way as to bring about most satisfactory reactions at this time.
4. Ready for questions.
5. (Q) Has the sugar cleared?
   (A) Cleared almost entirely. The reactions to the activity of the pancreas and the functioning of the kidneys as related to same show that there is an almost normal balance.
   These then need only those precautions; as at times eating the food values that carry those elements which in their assimilation make for keeping a balance, or the taking internally of those influences that work with the activities for the assimilating system.
   As we find these should keep a normal balance.
6. (Q) Should the artichokes be taken?
   (A) As just indicated, these should be taken occasionally. Not necessary that they be kept a portion of the diet every day, now. Let the SYSTEM, by the very assimilation of such, act or react in such manners as to keep a normal balance. If there are long periods when these may not be taken, then the Clary Water would be taken for a few days, left off, and then when necessary taken again - in those proportions or manners as we have indicated for this body.
   Most of these reactions may be felt by the body; by a draggy, dull feeling, a little burning at times through the bladder at the time of the urinations or the like. These are signs or indications.
   Those indications that arise from such are then as warnings. Hence either the Clary Water or the artichokes should be taken - which carry the more of the insulin in the form that may be assimilated for the system, or those properties in another form that carry the digestive force that in its reaction through the system makes for the activity in the liver AND in the glands the production of near the same character of reaction.
7. (Q) Are the artichokes more beneficial raw or cooked?
   (A) Depends upon the MANNER of cooking. If they are OVERCOOKED, then they become - of course - less reactive. But if they are cooked just about as boiled potatoes or the like, then they are the more easily assimilated than raw.
8. (Q) When I return home to Detroit, where may I obtain the artichokes?
   (A) There should be the ability to obtain same from the vegetable dealers there, or they may be obtained from those that keep in touch with the distributors from Columbia, South Carolina.
9. (Q) Should the prescription be refilled?
   (A) As has been indicated, not necessary if there is the ability to obtain the artichokes.
10. (Q) In previous Readings it has been given that the haziness would be cleared up. What can be done to get rid of same, now?
    (A) Well, if we will make for those corrections in the dorsal areas that will remain in attunement, as it were. But the general conditions that have produced same, through the lumbar and sacral, are almost in alignment.
    Then those returning conditions at times are rather the effect of the cycle of activity of the system, and should be thrown of MENTALLY as well as - of course - having the manipulations in the dorsal area.
11. (Q) Why has the haziness persisted for such a long time?
    (A) As just indicated, it is that condition in which there is the effect of what is sometimes here referred to as a CONSTITUTIONAL condition - which is in fact, this: The organs and the glands of the system become accustomed to certain reactions, by habit or by the lack of the exercising of the activities of same into the system; so that the effect becomes rather as a habit to the system - just as a desire for smoking or the like, or desire for drink, that is acquired as a habit. Just as the desire for coffee or caffeine, or for tea, or for things that are not the NORMAL reactions, see?
    Hence it is a constitutional condition - or effect of a condition.
    Now that the condition has been removed that has caused most of this (though not entirely until we may bring alignment in the 9th dorsal, as well as accord in the lumbar axis with same), we find that such reactions should get farther and farther apart, gradually.
    But it requires a MENTAL reaction with it to overcome.
    If there is the feeling of same, then exercise the mental self towards something that requires a physical activity and a mental reaction from same, and we will find it will be less - or it will disappear perhaps soon entirely.
12. (Q) Are there any specific manipulations that can help to relieve the haziness?
    (A) As indicated, the 9th dorsal and the 4th lumbar or the lumbar and sacral axis. These need to be kept or brought not only to an alignment but to a coordination in their interrelations.
    For not only is the 4th lumbar, the axis of the pelvis, from which the pressure has been in part at times as we have indicated heretofore, the cause of an activity upon the glandular forces of the system, but the 9th dorsal is that plexus or center from which the solar plexus receives its impulses.
    Then these reactions brought to perfect alignment, then coordinant in their activity, would remove the pressure from the system.
    Now that those areas in the lumbar have been corrected more than we have had heretofore, then stimulate same for coordination with the 8th and 9th and 10th dorsal areas, for coordinant activity.
13. (Q) What is the glandular set-up of the body now as compared to that outlined in the first Reading? [See 480-3.]
    (A) It is almost entirely changed. For now we have a better coordination, or a unification of activity in the organs as related to the glands, that produce that within themselves which is the rejuvenation of the organs themselves.
    As we have the whole unification of the glandular system as related to the ductless glands, or the specific activity of the inner force of the thyroid, the activity of the inner force through the pineal, and through the interrelationships with the pineal and the sealed glands and those above the kidneys themselves; those also in the lower portion of the brain forces. All of these are much nearer to normal.
14. (Q) The nausea and tingling sensation has reappeared since confinement. What is the cause and how can that be stopped?
    (A) That's just what we have been referring to, in producing the coordination between the lumbar axis (which is the brush end of the cerebrospinal as related to the vegetative or sympathetic nerve system) and the 9th dorsal center as related to the sympathetic system. These are the great centers - save the vagus itself, in the dorsal and upper portion of the cervical areas - but these are the great centers from which the cerebrospinal and the sympathetic system coordinate in their activity with the body - or the impulse AND reaction from the brain centers themselves.
    That's what is meant by keeping COORDINATION between the plexus of one ganglia or center and those in another, that the ATTUNEMENT between same is such that their rate of pulsation, their rate of vibration, coordinate one to another.
    How may we use same? Well, these are not osteopathic terms, but there has been perfected or used in the chiropractic association a thermometer, or a gadget that run along the spine shows WHEN they coordinate one with another, see?
15. (Q) Where may same be procured?
    (A) From the chiropractic school in Des Moines, Iowa. [Palmer School, Davenport, Iowa?]
16. (Q) Could the chiropractor do that in Detroit?
    (A) We would rather give the osteopathic than the chiropractic. Because to make an adjustment even in these conditions for the body, without giving the MUSCULAR forces the proper reactions - well, it's not always good, and their reactions are not always the better.
17. (Q) What can be done to correct the skin and keep it so at this time?
    (A) As we find, the use of the sweat baths occasionally would be the better for the skin, and these would be made only occasionally but in a manner like this:
    These are not in cabinet baths but rather fume baths, though they may be taken in cabinets or in a fume bath cabinet. And the fume bath for this body would be rather with the equal portions of Camphor and Olive Oil, or Spirits of Camphor and Olive Oil - a tablespoonful in a pint of water and this kept either once in a week, then again twice in ten days, and again it would be a month before another would be given. These with a thorough rubdown following same will make for quite a change and a satisfactory one in the care of the skin.
18. (Q) Should this be done in a steam bath?
    (A) It may be done in such as Berg's Cabinet Gown [Designed by William M. Berg, Ph.T.] - or it's like this: These are not put in a steam bath, but rather in the vapor cabinet, you see, then the heat applied under same and the steam from this that comes over the whole of the body itself, see? This is fastened around the neck and the water is set under the stool and the fumes rise over the whole of the body.
19. (Q) How would that be applied to or help the face?
    (A) Well, if we correct the rest of the skin we will find we will correct the face also.
20. (Q) Is there a cold in the system at present?
    (A) A little congestion from cold.
21. (Q) What should be done for same?
    (A) Any eliminant that makes for balancing the acidity will be well.
22. (Q) Milk of Magnesia?
    (A) Milk of Magnesia. Follow same, though, with a little Milk of Bismuth with Elixir of Lactated Pepsin in same.
23. (Q) Any further advice?
    (A) Keep optimistic in the outlook upon the experiences of the physical and the mental and spiritual activities, and we will find the outlook becomes more and more worth while.
24. We are through with this reading.

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BACKGROUND

1. See 480-43 on 9/09/37 and subsequent Reports.

REPORTS

1. 11/16/37 See mother's ltr. under 601-22 Reports indicating Dr. Berg's cabinet was $15, so she, Mrs. [601], made one out of oiled silk which was very effective.
2. 11/28/37 Mrs. [480] obtained 1062-2 for her father-in-law.
3. 12/11/37 Mother [601]'s letter: "We expect [480] and [633] here (in Fla.) a week from today and it will be nice to be together again...
   "[480] has been writing every day and am hoping she has been alright while we have been away. I know worrying doesn't help any and know also that sooner or later [480] will have to get on without us ([601], [619]) but I do hope and pray her health will return to normal before long."
4. 1/22/38 She submitted questions.
5. 1/30/38 See 480-45.

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