This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 23rd day of August, 1937, in accordance with request made by the self - Miss [528], Active Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

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

TEXT

1. EC: Yes, we have the body, [528]; this we have had before.
2. As we find, there is a continued improvement. Not that there are not periods when the body reverts to the inclinations or tendencies for the influences in the system to create a pressure upon the nervous system, because of the activities of those tendencies indicated there.
3. Some little changes in the present, as we find, would be the more beneficial:
4. In the use of the Appliance - this we would keep in the way that has been indicated; that is, charged at the regular intervals; but we would leave off - now - the solution of the Gold AND the Camphor. Take only the Atomidine, and change the solution of Atomidine about twice during the period of one charge - or every fifteen days, see? Make the application to the body for the same length of time it has been given, and the attachments to the same places or positions as given for the Atomidine - not for the other solutions; for these would be left off at the present. But use the Appliance with the Atomidine solution once each day, preferably about the middle of the afternoon; or if the activities have been such as to interfere, apply same of a morning - if the engagements or activities demand - but have a regular period.
5. The inhalations of the fumes from the Brandy had best be kept very near to that which has been indicated.
6. Also the diet, though this may be changed somewhat to suit the appetites of the body; but be sure there is the inclination for the diet to be - whatever is taken - in the proportion of eighty percent alkalin-producing foods to twenty percent acid-producing. Then remember, too, the combinations in this direction as we have so oft indicated. Do not takecitrus fruit juices AND cereals with milk during the same day. Do not eat white bread, white potatoes and spaghetti during the same day; any one of these may be used - but preferably the whole wheat bread, the jackets of potatoes; spaghetti with cheese, yes, but not the same day the potatoes or the white bread - is used. These should be kept in mind in the activities proper. More of the beef juices, liver extracts - these are well.
7. As the cold weather starts, or when cold, damp weather begins, take the Halibut Oil with the Viosterol. This will assist in building body muscular forces as well as work VERY well with the enzymes in the Ventriculin; that should be continued, for this builds blood forces that are resistant to the inclinations and tendencies of the body.
8. NOW we will find, too, that OSTEOPATHIC adjustments would be MOST beneficial. There should not be so much of the adjustments in the first as the manipulations; but a thorough massage OSTEOPATHICALLY, using the structural portions as leverage in making activity of the muscular force through not only the lumbar area but through the lower limbs and those areas above the diaphragm - just a full, general treatment. Not using the upper dorsal and cervical as the sources, but the WHOLE of the ganglia along the cerebrospinal system; then extend same to the extremities - that is, the lower limbs as indicated and the upper limbs also, or the arms, the head and the neck. Such a treatment given once each week should be about sufficient, if it is thoroughly given; but there should be a period of at least thirty to forty-five minutes taken in giving such a treatment. Once a week, at least thirty to forty-five minutes of a full OSTEOPATHIC massage.
9. Keep the activities outdoors in much the same way that has been indicated.
10. The Yeast is well to keep, provided at times the enemas are used (once a month, oftener if necessary) to cleanse the colon; for with the deep manipulations thoroughly given, there will be the inclinations for more poisons to be thrown into channels FOR elimination.
11. For the prevention of cold, and the inclinations which usually arise through the mucous membranes of the nasal passage AND the throat, we would use a weakened solution of Atomidine as a spray. This would be advisable once a day or once in two days, dependent upon the irritation, how much activity, how much in areas where there may be expected particles of dust to accumulate or where there is a great deal of activity of many bodies. As to how often the spray is used, then, depends upon such activities.
12. This will require, then, that the atomizer be cleansed VERY THOROUGHLY each time after it is used, else the tendency will be for the solution to corrode upon parts of the atomizer too greatly. If possible use a glass or rubberoid atomizer, and even then cleanse same with a little warm soda solution and let it dry thoroughly and be wiped AGAIN before solution is put into same. Spray the nasal passages and the throat. The proportions for the solution would be a teaspoonful of Atomidine to an ounce of Distilled Water - or that proportion. Or, preferably, use a medicine dropper and measure how many drops to a teaspoonful. Then once set, it is not necessary to measure in the teaspoonful but in the medicine dropper, or in the glass, which is much preferable to metals of any nature.
13. These done, and kept in most all of the ways that have been given, will keep the better conditions.
14. Ready for questions.
15. (Q) What should be done for blackheads?
    (A) Keep the eliminations and the activities by the manipulations; these will be found to be helpful.
16. (Q) Is there any hardness left and if so where is it?
    (A) This comes and goes. As the very nature of the disturbance is in the epidermis, and between the superficial circulation and the bodily or deeper course of same, this comes and goes. There is at present a little tendency for hardness in the upper portion of the hip, on the left side; and a little at times in the muscular forces of the UPPER dorsal, more to the right side here than to the left. This will be more easily perceived by the manipulator. We would give that Beard would be very well, though take time - and be patient with her as well as with self for same.
17. (Q) Is there any tubercle infection in the body now?
    (A) The weaknesses and tendencies exist. So long as there are rigors, so long as there are the inclinations for such hard aching, KNOW that the weaknesses - if not active forces - are present. But leave them off, don't study them, don't think them! Do and act to keep those away!
18. (Q) Is 98 3/5 my normal temperature?
    (A) About the normal temperature of the body; the normal temperature.
19. (Q) Am I able to go back to work now?
    (A) Gradually we would find that such activity would really be beneficial. Do not tire self out too much, but classes we would resume in - say - October. This would depend, to be sure, upon the feelings and activities of the body. The practice and the other service or activities, well - by the first of September.
20. (Q) Will that make the nervous condition and the aching any worse?
    (A) With the precautions kept, and those others added as given here, it should really make the condition better rather than worse.
21. (Q) Are the olive oil rubs being given correctly?
    (A) These are very good, and keep them up. They feed the skin, feed the circulation.
22. (Q) Any further advice?
    (A) These do for the present. By the time there has been - or say ten to fifteen days after beginning the activities, then it would be WELL that these be checked.
23. We are through for the present.

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BACKGROUND

1. See 528-10 on 7/15/37 for scleroderma, and subsequent Reports.
2. 8/12/37 She submitted questions.
3. 8/19/37 "Is there anything I can do to avoid colds and flu? When I was taken with this trouble [last Nov.] the doctors called it flu. That was before we found the hardness, though. I was taken the same way as I have been with every spell of flu. I sometimes wonder if it hasn't been this trouble coming on for a long time. Would the flu shots do me any good? I would do anything to escape it. I dread the first cold spell until spring on account of flu. I have had it from once to twice every winter for about ten yrs."

REPORTS

1. 9/06/37 "I was encouraged from the last rdg. but I wouldn't write you until I had started to work. Yesterday was my first day and I wanted to see how I got along before I wrote you. I think the choir practice on Friday night made my shoulders hurt a little more - at least that pulling sensation was a little worse. They have hurt me worse since then but I don't want to lay every extra pain to that. I was careful not to use my head in directing the choir but I forgot several times and did it. I was awfully nervous yesterday morning especially when so many came up to the organ and talked to me. That made me more nervous than playing the service. I broke out in a perspiration all over my body. Last night, though, I got along better and wasn't so nervous. I was thrilled to death over going back but I knew the first time would be hard on me. I want to do it so bad and I wish this old back and neck of mine would get better. Do you think part of the aching between the shoulders and neck could be a nervous trouble? I know that is the nerve center. I ache worse there than anywhere else - however, the rest of the body aches bad enough. I didn't tire, though, very much and I was glad of that...
   "I have had two treatments from Dr. Martha D. Beard, D.O., and I sure hope she can help me. She told me this morning that the vertebrae between the shoulders were too far apart and that is where I ache so bad. Just to sit and hold my head over and shoulders drooped just sets me wild, it hurts so bad. I know I'll be better, though, because you haven't told me anything yet to do that hasn't helped me...
   "I gave a woman in Tenn. [Mrs. [2514]] your address. She has turned hard something like I did."
2. 9/27/37 "The day before you gave the last rdg. I had a rigor and that is the last one I have had. I live in dread of those rigors - so afraid they will happen close to Sunday. I have been having a lot of gas in the stomach for the last few days and the eliminations have not been so good. I took an enema and some magnesia two different times. I probably ate the wrong thing or something. The yeast has lost its charm with me as to eliminations but my face is better, however I have a bump now and then on my face.
   "I don't feel like the work at the church has made me any worse. It may cause the shoulders to ache a little more when I get tired, but they ache all the time anyway. This past week I got awfully nervous and upset over something and let myself worry unnecessarily and I ached much worse. I wonder if part of that aching isn't caused from nervousness. I know my circulation isn't right because I sleep with cold feet most every night. Dr. Beard says the are all inflamed and are so sore that they cause the the muscles to be sore and and that's where the aching comes from. You know I don't know whether she knows what she is talking about or not, or just trying to run my bill up with her...
   "Must I continue the olive oil rubs following the battery treatment? The sticking sensation has just about gone. If the general condition is improving, why doesn't the aching improve?...
   "I will start [1352] next week... I can't take money from you after what you have done for me, I'll never make enough money to pay you - in fact, money can't pay you for helping me the way you have."
3. 10/05/37 She submitted other questions.
4. 10/08/37 See 528-12.

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