This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 26th day of April, 1937, in accordance with request made by the self - Miss [528], Active Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., through her mother.

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

TEXT

1. EC: Yes, we have the body here; this we have had before.
2. Now as we find, there is a great deal to be desired - in the eliminating of disturbing forces and in the building up of the activity of the system in such a manner as to prevent those disturbing factors in the glandular system, in the circulatory system, in the blood supply proper, from causing disturbances that from time to time give anxiety and disturbance to the body.
3. These then are the conditions as we find them in the present, and - as has been indicated at other times, there is much improvement yet much to be desired.
4. In the blood stream and in the manner of its circulation in the superficial forces of the body, we still find there are the indications of the effect of those disturbing factors that are a portion of the cause of the disturbing condition, or the hardening and the withdrawal of proper circulation.
5. These arise to be sure from an inherent condition from those things that have disturbed the body. This comes about to be sure by the lack of the ability of the glandular system to effect, through the assimilations, sufficient of the leucocytes to ward off or destroy this form or type of bacilli that has been and is still active. However, the causes are being reached, and the ability of building up in the blood supply is being gradually improved.
6. Then as there is sufficient improvement for the body to become more active in the open and to keep the necessary balance through the diets and through the activities from those influences and forces as may be given, there will be more and more of a gain; and there should be an eliminating of the causes and a building back to normalcy for the body.
7. As to just how long this will require, to be sure depends upon the responses of the system to a great extent to the applications and circumstances as it were for conditions as might cause or produce a detrimental condition in the experiences of the body.
8. In making the applications in the present:
9. As we find, it would be well to keep the Ventriculin for the aid in creating in the assimilating system bettered conditions in the blood stream.
10. It is well to keep the low electrical vibrations carrying the elements that become active with the system through the carrying of same into the body. As has been indicated, keep the connections close or tight, the applications to the body in contact but without too much binding; and keep the anodes very clean when attached; changing the solutions at their regular intervals. When the solutions of the electrical vibrations are changed, change the medicinal solutions also that are to be carried into the system; that is, the Atomidine, the Gold and the Camphor.
11. Keep the inhalations. These as we find are effective in making for the better conditions through the lung supply, that there may be a more perfect oxidization or more oxygen carried in not only by the expanding of the lungs by the gases from the brandy but by the stimulating effect to the whole of the system.
12. We also find that it would be well to use the Castor Oil Packs for the absorbing in whatever portion the stiffness occurs. To be sure, the application of same over the abdominal area was for the specific condition, becoming more effective there; but apply same on the neck, shoulders, hips, lower limbs, any portion where this hardening occurs, for periods sufficient until it is seen that there is the relaxing and the pliability of the skin so that the circulation carries on through same normally.
13. As much as is possible, and as the weather improves, be in the open. Not in the beginnings would it be well for too much of the direct sun rays, but keeping in the wind and the sun if well wrapped is well. While this may produce at times those tendencies of an irritation, if cared for by the massages and by the applications to the portions of the body as indicated, it will be helpful.
14. Then as soon as the body is able to travel, the salt air - and the pines, or the seashore, the sands and the same - will be most helpful for the body. There should not be too great an exposure of the body at first in the sun, but gradually - early morning before ten-thirty, in the evening after three-thirty, would be the proper period for exposure in the beginnings, under such environs; and in such surroundings we find the more the body is able to "rough it" the better.
15. In the diet, keep close to those things that have been indicated, that are body and blood building; easily assimilated but that make for structural forces as well as more blood and cleaner blood.
16. Keep the eliminations in the manners as indicated. These as given must be a little above normal, for the poisons that are carried off from the system in the drosses through the applications of all the influences and forces must be cared for; else we may find the lymph and the emunctory forces building up or picking up refuse forces that become effective in reinfection through other portions of the body.
17. Also keep in the mental attitude of constructive forces as has been given.
18. Let the body, during those periods especially when the Wet Cell Appliance is being used, be in that attitude of putting self - in a meditative, prayerful mind - into the hands, into the arms, into the care of the Savior. Not merely as trusting, not as merely hoping, but as relying upon the promises; and make them cooperative, co-active. Be used for something; not only good but good FOR something; that ye may bring into the experience of others - even by thine own ability to suffer - the glorious knowledge of the working of the Christ-Consciousness within the individual mind.
19. For if these are adhered to, if these are kept, we will find the helpful forces in EVERY manner; not only with the patience to bear the cross of distress or anxiety but with the means and the friends and the hopes to CARRY ON for Him!
20. Ready for questions.
21. (Q) Please tell us what to do for this aching that has been so severe recently?
    (A) As indicated, apply the Castor Oil Packs, heavy, over the areas until not only the flesh but the whole circulation is seen to be - by the "feel" - active and correlative with the rest of the system.
22. (Q) Have they been given correctly so far?
    (A) Only over the areas as first given to hinder the progress there. Now, as intimated, apply these wherever there is the stiffness; whether in neck, in back, in loins, in lower limbs, or in whatever portion there is the aching or heaviness. The deep reaction from the Oil will relieve the distress.
23. (Q) Are enemas given correctly?
    (A) These are very good. As has been indicated, let these be used in preference to so much cathartics, or even laxatives; though vegetable stimulation may be used - such as a little excess of rhubarb or the like in the meals, or the oils as of the Russian Mineral Oils, or even the Simmons Liver Regulator for an exercising of the whole hepatic circulation at times when necessary, when there is not at least one to two activities from the alimentary canal each day. Do not let a day go by without SOME eliminations; better that there be two eliminations.
24. (Q) What causes the suffering with gas in stomach the day high enema is given? Is anything wrong?
    (A) This is a tendency for the slow circulation as exists through same to form pockets, which cause or produce the reaction. When the enemas are given, if the salines and soda are used these will tend to keep this down.
25. (Q) Should there be any change in giving the Appliance?
    (A) Only as has been indicated.
26. (Q) Shall we continue to give Ventriculin?
    (A) As has been indicated.
27. (Q) What causes temperature to return after being normal for a week or ten days?
    (A) The tendency for reinfection, as has been indicated, that must be warred against by the stimulation not only to the circulation internally but to the superficial circulation and the eliminations through the alimentary canal and the whole of the respiratory system and perspiratory system.
28. (Q) Is there any trouble in stomach?
    (A) No trouble in the stomach; only that as has been indicated - the weakness by the using up of the energies through the system's attempting to adjust itself against those active principles in the circulatory system from the lack of glandular reaction, and from the infectious forces.
    Do as has been indicated, consistently, persistently.
29. We are through for the present.

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BACKGROUND

1. See 528-7 on 3/23/37 for Scleroderma.
2. 4/16/37 Mother submitted questions.

REPORTS

1. 5/02/37 Mother [865]'s letter: "What do you think of using one oil pack a day instead of 2-3 a day for 3 days and a rest period of a wk. as we have been doing, since the rdg. suggested more exercise?
   "[528] has so very much confidence in the rdgs. and is so anxious to carry them out exactly as they should be. ["I am putting them over entire body except below knees."]
   "She has ached more severely since Thurs. than at any time since her illness, all over her body and especially along her spine. We really feel so discouraged about her condition, as this was the way she started. However, we do not let her know how anxious we are."
2. 5/08/37 EC's letter: "Use the oil packs as often as she likes. Every day, or if there are times that the soreness comes on, or the stiffness, use them more than once a day, and keep them regularly."
3. 6/08/37 Miss [528]'s letter: "I know you think my case is the most stubborn one you have seen - in fact I think that. I get so discouraged sometime that I feel like giving it up as a bad job. However, I don't intend to, because I intend to get well and I won't stop fighting until I do. But that well day seems so far off.
   "From the way we interpreted the last rdg. we thought we were to keep on with the same thing until the hardness left. I didn't know about getting another rdg. and wanted to ask your advice. We think some of the hardness is still there in the upper legs. I get in the packs from the shoulders to the knees, except the stomach, every day. I still ache awfully bad - of course it is worse in the back and across the shoulders, but the muscles over the entire body are affected. In the right knee, right at the place I bend it, is sore. I can't stoop down because it hurts so bad. It feels like it might be in the joint. The temperature started today after being free of it for about 3 wks. It is just 99 but I know that isn't right. I wondered if it could be pre-menstrual temperature. I take the high enema once a week and the Simmons' Liver Regulator once a week. I don't have as much gas on my stomach as I did after the enema or any other time. I exercise every day and am able to be up most all the time except the 3 hrs. in the pack and about an hour and a half for a nap. I just rest when I feel tired but I am much stronger now than when you gave the last rdg. I just can't understand why the aching doesn't leave, though. The soreness of the skin is better but not all gone.
   "I wanted you to know just exactly how I was and advise about another rdg. Some of my friends want me to go through Mayo's clinic for the aching, but I believe if anybody in this world can help me, you can. I don't believe that it will ever leave."
   "P.S. I have lost in weight from 148 to 141 since the last rdg. I wondered if the diet should remain the same. I don't eat any sweets but the natural sweets, for somebody told us that sweets formed starch in the stomach. I weighed 127 when I went to bed in Nov. but I hate to lose too much."
4. 6/16/37 Wire verified appointment, asking: "Have sore places through stomach and bowels - shall all suggestions be continued? Can anything help aching? What is trouble in knee? Any change in diet?"
5. 6/17/37 See 528-9.

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