This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Virginia, this 9th day of April, 1934, in accordance with request made by self - Miss [528] new Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research and Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Mr. [1005].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Mildred Davis, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. L. B. Cayce.

TEXT

1. EC: Yes, we have those conditions that disturb this body, from this address - [528] - [528] - yes.
2. As we find, there are disturbances that in their reaction make for that which may be called the inability of the body to coordinate in the eliminations of the body, and where there is a humor produced in the lymph from this incoordination, finding expression in the cuticle or in the face and body - or portions as exposed; as well as in the muscular forces of the body at times, as in the upper arm and shoulders.
3. These, then (physical), are the conditions as we find them with this body, [528], whose address is ..., Kentucky.
4. As to the BLOOD SUPPLY, in the internal circulation, this we find is very good in some respects. While the numbers in the red and white blood and the lymph or leukocyte do not always coincide, these arise from conditions that may not be said to be prenatal but are as existent from conditions that arose during the period of conception. For, those that make for this unbalancing of the coordinations in eliminations are weaknesses that are of an infusion in the lymph blood supply as a humor - or as producing those forces that make for blotches on the exposed portions of the body, specific, and on other portions of the body also.
5. This tends to make for poor eliminations. For, there is the tendency for the thinning of the walls of the intestines themselves, and a smoothing - as it were - of the natural surface for secretions in the duodenum when the gastric juices of digestion react.
6. These are conditions and the effects that are produced in the blood supply.
7. In the NERVOUS SYSTEM we find conditions that tend to make for periods when the mental reaction is more severe than the actual physical condition, yet this in the nerves of the cerebro-spinal tends to make for an easy fagging. Or, the body becomes easily tired from mental or physical exertion, unless working under a high nervous tension. And after such periods there is the reaction of more severity, or more of the tendency of lividness, and fresher are the secretions from the abrasions that occur on portions of the body. These are natural reactions.
8. As to the ORGANS THEMSELVES, we find there are those conditions that make for weakness from the general condition existent in system. But, if there is the purifying of the blood forces and the balancing of the elements necessary in the body for creating an even balance, and producing in the system a fresh blood supply, as it were, we will find these conditions would be brought to near normal reactions in the functioning organs.
9. Hence, as we find, it will require persistence and consistence on the part of the body to eliminate and eradicate these conditions from the system, as we have indicated. And when these are purified, we will find a much STRONGER body, mentally, physically, and capable of giving better expression to itself in every way and manner.
10. First we would give an outline to be followed for a period of six to ten weeks, at the end of which we will give those changes necessary for purifying the body.
11. Prepare, in the order and manner given, these properties to be taken internally:
12. To 6 ounces of Compound Simple Syrup, add:

    Essence of Wild Cherry (or Extract).....1/2 ounce,
Tincture of Stillingia, Essence of......1/2 ounce,
Essence of Poke-Root....................1/2 ounce,
Essence of Yellow Dock Root.............1/2 ounce,
Essence of Burdock Root.................1/2 ounce,
10% solution Iodide of Potassium..........1 ounce.

    Shake solution together before the dose is taken. Take half a teaspoonful four times each day, before meals and before retiring - ten to fifteen to thirty minutes before the meals.
13. Be very mindful of the diet.
14. Take this consistently for ten days to two weeks, see? Then stop for three days. Nothing. Then for five days take three to five drops each day of Atomidine. See?
15. And for the diet, this would be an outline:
16. Mornings - citrus fruit juices; coddled egg (only the yolk taken), with brown bread or toast. Sometimes there may be taken stewed fruits or cereals, but not at the same meal when the citrus fruit juices are taken. A little very crisp bacon may at times be taken.
17. Noons - preferably, or principally, green vegetables; that is, FRESH vegetables, as lettuce, celery, carrots, tomatoes, peppers, spinach, turnip greens, mustard, and the like. Occasionally such a salad may be altered with broths from vegetables that are well cooked, but no quantities of fats should be taken; that is, not large quantities of gross fat cooked in such broths, see? And perferably when any of the salads are taken, or the green vegetables, that only the mayonnaise or the olive oil dressing be used. Not too much milk at any time, and when milk is taken use preferably the Bulgarian or the dried milk - which is preferable to the raw or animal milk. Or, goats' milk may be taken - if this is preferable.
18. Evenings - a well balanced vegetable diet. Beware of sweets; that is, foods that have quantities of sugar in them - especially cane sugar. No ice creams. No strawberries in particular. Blackberries and those fruits in season may be taken. No green or fresh apples, or raw apples, but the baked or cooked apples may be taken in small quantities. No bananas. Any amount of grapes desired may be taken at any time. Bananas are taboo, as given, even in creams; as these should not be taken, though there may be taken ices or any of the cold drinks - just so they are not made with too large an amount of carbonated waters. There may also be taken in the evening meals the meats such as fish (but no shell fish), mutton, lamb or fowl; but no pork nor any large amount of beef - and NEVER any FRIED FOODS of ANY kind!
19. As a wash to bathe off the blotches or places on body, prepare same as follows:
20. Dissolve 1/2 ounce Bicarbonate of Soda and 3 to 4 grains Corrosive Sublimate [mercury bichloride] in 1 pint of water.
21. To be sure, be mindful that it is not gotten into the eye or in the mouth. But this may be used to sponge off once or twice a day. It is not necessary that this be used EVERY day, as a wash or to purify the external forces; only when needed, but it may be applied with impunity twice each day - morning and evening.
22. And when using the powder for face (as blotches on face), only use the pure talcum with stearate and balsam of tolu in same; that is, the balsam and stearate and PURE talcum AS a powder. None of those that have been highly scented with other ingredients.
23. Of course, when the Atomidine has been taken for the five days, then rest three days and begin with the blood purifier again. And so on, as described.
24. As given, in ten weeks we would give further instructions.
25. Do these, and - as we will find - we will bring, with consistency and persistency, being mindful of the diet and the necessary changes, the better conditions for this body.
26. And we will give, at least in ten weeks, further instructions.
27. We are through for the present.

    Copy to Self
    Copy to Ass'n file

BACKGROUND

1. 3/03/34 "I have a skin trouble on my face which has been diagnosed as acne. If the rdg. suggests an x-ray, please advise the doctor to whom I may go. Also will you please suggest a diet? There is a discoloration left on my face from the pimples. Can this be removed?"
2. 4/06/34 "Could you help me for the neuritis in my shoulders as well as for the acne on my face? I'm more interested in my face, of course, for it is very humiliating to have blemishes on your face. I'm deeply interested in your work and I'm indeed grateful to [1005] for bringing me to you."

REPORTS

1. 6/28/34 "The rdg. said in 10 wks. that I would receive further instructions. I think the 10 wks. have just passed and I don't know whether to keep on the medicine and diet or not. My face is much better. However, I have four new places. The ones that come now are smaller than they were before I was under your treatment.
   "The distressing thing about it to me is that I have lost nine pounds. I wondered if that was natural, being on a diet.
   "I never could get the powder mixed with Balsam of Tolu and Stearate, so I have been using Johnson's Baby Powder. That is the only instance in which I have not followed the rdg."
2. 7/09/34 "I have lost 11 lbs. since I have been on the diet and am thinner than I have been since I have been grown. Is this condition anything to be alarmed over?
   "Please suggest how I should clean my face.
   "Is there anything I could use to take the color out of the places that have come and gone?
   "When the places get yellow should I open them or let them dry up?
   "I have told others about your work and I hope they will let you hear from them."
3. 7/12/34 See 528-2, especially GD's note in Par. R9 in re [528] being cured of scleroderma in '37 by following the treatment recommended but in 5/40 she was still suffering with neuritis. Could the neuritis about which she asked, when writing for 528-1 for acne, have been early symptom of the scleroderma which later developed? Apparently the neuritis was cured after following treatment in 528-1, but in '37 and '38, etc., after being cured of scleroderma, the neuritis returned and remained.

Edgar Cayce Readings © 1971, 1993, 1994, 1995 by the Edgar Cayce Foundation