This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Virginia, this 6th day of June, 1934, in accordance with request made by the self, through Miss Esther Wynne, sponsored by Study Group #3 of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mrs. [573], Esther Wynne, Mrs. [574] and mother, Helen Ellington and Mildred Davis.

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1. EC: Yes, we have the body here, [573]. Now, as we find, in many respects the body-physical is very good, yet there are those inclinations and specific conditions which if corrected would make for better physical functioning and add many years to this body's experience in the present.
2. As we find, these conditions have to do with the eliminations and the overactivity of some of the glands and UNDERACTIVITY in others.
3. These, then, are the conditions as we find them with this body, [573] we are speaking, present in this room:
4. First, in the BLOOD SUPPLY, here we find the tendency - through conditions which we will indicate - for a too heavy flow and not sufficiently clarified in the functioning of the organs as related to the eliminations and purifications; and through same toxic forces are left in the body, forming congestions in extremities, in portions of the muscular forces of the body, in the form of toxic reactions as neuritis and inflammation that will eventually - unless some corrections are made - bring rheumatic reactions in the system also.
5. In the NERVE FORCES of the body we find that these are not causes, yet they are contributory to the conditions - just as the conditions indicated in the blood supply are active and effective, but are the results of conditions rather than causes; though, to be sure, as in the blood supply, some of the reactions are contributory to conditions that cause acute pains - or the nerves make for the awareness of the existent conditions; and, as many forms of disease, are as signposts or indications of disturbances in some portion of the body.
6. Here we find, in the nerve system also, especially in that as related between the upper and lower hepatic circulation, disorders in the assimilating and eliminating system; so that kidneys at times (and bladder) give off - through the nerve reaction - some distresses for the body, and these conditions are the result of the nerve reflexes; yet other conditions produce or are the basis of the disorders.
7. As to the functioning of the ORGANS themselves, brain forces and discernments of the body are very good.
8. In the bronchi, throat, lungs, larynx, in the activity of the circulation with disorders as we shall find that exist in the glands - in the adrenal and in the lacteal, and in the internal - the thyroids work with the nature to create too great a distributing of forces that produce in the outer portion of the body their activity. Hence, while the thyroids are overactive, the unbalancing in the system through the lack of activity in adrenal and lacteal glands prevents normalcy. Hence we find, from injury to the exterior portion, the tendency for growth in the cuticle itself, and in the epidermis, that forms accumulations through the activity of an unbalanced thyroid activity.
9. In the bronchi, from subluxations in the upper dorsal area, we find a tendency for a roughness at times; tendency to clear the throat of phlegm, and this from the poor circulation that is disturbed by nerve pressure there and the influence of the gland activity on the system.
10. These make for those conditions as in the soft tissue of the face and nasal activity that has not developed, yet in the present there is caused a character of drainage that produces this burning and this tendency for irritation at times.
11. Lungs themselves, the area - good.
12. The heart's activity, with the heavy blood supply slowed at times, as is the pressure at times abnormal, though it is reflex wholly.
13. In the digestive system we find much about which to be concerned. As indicated by the activity of certain glands; that is, the adrenals, the lacteals, in their relationships with the gall activity - this is all awry, as might be said; as also the accumulations from the spleen and pancrean activity. Hence the tendencies towards obesity in the body, produced through this tending for starch and sugars to be reacting in the system according to the effects in the glands of those portions as indicated. This allowed to continue must eventually bring complications that would make for not only the influences in portions of the locomotaries, as is indicated through the neuritic activity in that direction, but the organs themselves must become involved also.
14. The inflammation produced by the accumulations of poisons at times, that cause the overactivity in the kidney and in the eliminating system - as in the bladder irritation at times - causes the disorders with the pelvic organs' activities.
15. Then, in meeting the needs of the conditions in this body at the present:
16. As we find, it will require consistent and persistent care, yet there need be no fear of the conditions not responding - if taken in time.
17. First we would begin by taking internally the Atomidine, that would cause the activity of the glands to be more normal, reducing the activity in some directions and increasing it in other glands in their assimilating and eliminating activity.
18. We would also begin and use the high enemas; at least once a week until four have been taken, and then twice a month for four to five months. This will relieve those pressures in the colon area and make for an activity from the properties taken internally. And the activity of the diet would be balanced in such a manner as to make for the supplying of the necessary forces in the body to create a normal balance.
19. We would also have, at least once or twice each day for a week to two weeks - and then once or three times each week, the deep manipulations in the upper dorsal and cervical area with the electrically driven vibrator, that we may stimulate the superficial circulation; and also using these reactions for the drainages in the whole system to become more normal.
20. On those portions where there is the activity of the glands for producing accumulations, in the throat or upper portion of chest, we would massage GENTLY with pure Castor Oil; (not hard, but sufficiently that the system may absorb same, and with the activity of the eliminations take same away entirely.
21. As to the diet, be mindful here. Not that the body is to starve self, but no potatoes of any kind; not a great deal of bread. The browned whole wheat bread should be the only character of bread taken. One meal each day should consist of only fresh green vegetables. No large quantities of meats; but butters, vegetables, things that carry oil in same, are very good. Take olive oil in most of the foods, or the dressings.
22. And we will find we will correct and bring about the better activities for this body.
23. Ready for questions.
24. (Q) How much Atomidine should be taken?
    (A) Begin with one minim twice each day in half a glass of water. Every other day increase same one minim until five minims are being taken twice each day. Then reduce again to the one minim. In this second series, after arriving at the five drops keep on increasing until ten minims are being taken twice each day. Then leave off for five days. Then begin again and go through the whole procedure.
    In making for the eliminations through the enemas, we would use salt and soda in the enema water, and in the latter portion we would use a tablespoonful of Glyco-Thymoline to a quart and a half of water. Do not use merely the ordinary enema, but use the colonic tube - see?
25. (Q) Should I try to reduce in weight?
    (A) You do this and you'll soon see you'll reduce in weight! You don't want to do it too fast.
26. (Q) What treatment would remove the mole on my chest, or is this advisable?
    (A) Haven't we just given it? The massage with the Castor Oil twice each day; not rubbing hard, but GENTLE massage around and over the place. And it will be removed. [Miss Wynne reported on 3/09/35 that mole had entirely disappeared.]
27. (Q) What is the cause and relief for the soreness and aching in my body?
    (A) Poisons, accumulations, from toxic forces; that will be relieved by the diet, the eliminations, and those vibrations that will create the balance in the glands' activity and the circulation of the body.
28. (Q) In my right arm?
    (A) The same. Neuritis; which is a symptom, not a disease.
29. (Q) What caused the birthmark on my baby's [2595]'s arm? How may this be removed?
    (A) By massaging it with an equal mixture of Olive Oil and Castor Oil it will be prevented from increasing. Marks on many bodies, as on this one, are for a purpose - and if a Life Reading would be given it would be seen that it has a purpose to perform in the affairs of those in its own surroundings and in many others. A mark!
    This would be well for Miss Wynne [Esther Wynne] to follow:
    Take individuals everywhere, where there has been or is a mark in the body, and analyze their activity and associations among individuals; for their lives and their associations are different from the ordinary ken. Many will be found to have almost caused or averted tragedies (as called in the earth) in the lives of individuals. This is given her, for many are close about her.
30. (Q) What are my colors?
    (A) Blue with mode in same, or with same. [Mode - Webster's: A color approaching drab, but of somewhat lower saturation and higher brilliance.]
31. (Q) Any other advice for my better welfare?
    (A) The PHYSICAL we have given.
    In the mental and spiritual body, keep in self the ideals that were set by self in much of its (the soul's) association through the various periods in the earth; as was seen especially as the wife of Joshua - as a close association with the Master: "Let others do as they will or may, as for ME and my house we will serve a living God." [See 573-1, Par. R1.]
32. We are through.

    Copy to Self
    Copy to Ass'n file
    (Booklet was enclosed on Atomidine.)

BACKGROUND

1. 12/19/33 See personal message in Group #3 rdg. 473-1, Par. 22-A.

REPORTS

1. GD's note: In other rdgs. a mention is made of Joshua's sweetheart who died of T.B. on the way from Egypt to the Promised Land. Evidently Mrs. [573] later became his wife.
2. 6/06/34 P.M. Mrs. [573] referred her sister, Mrs. [574], for a Physical Rdg.
3. 8/16/34 She obtained Ck. Physical 573-2.
4. 3/11/35 See 562-3, Par. 32-A indicating Mrs. [573] also had early American incarnation as friend of daughter [562].
5. 4/19/39 "Am writing to let you know that we are having the weekly group meeting at my home now... We just can't do without these teachings - they mean so much to us in our everyday life."
6. 1/22/42 She and husband sent this note in answer to EC's ltr. [See under 2678-1 Background]: "Yes, we will gladly join you to set aside a few moments each day in prayer for divine guidance."
7. 4/19/48 Florence McGinley's letter from Chicago: "I removed ten moles from my neck by using the Castor Oil massage as recommended in your health hints for Cases 573-1, 678-2 and 1424-4.
   "I started the treatment on 2/17/48 and diligently massaged each mole twice per day with Castor Oil and the last one disappeared on 3/13/48."
8. 8/22/51 Ruth D. LeNoir wrote out a progress card report: "I used Castor Oil at night and Spirits of Camphor in the morning, just about one month, for a wart which appeared suddenly on my hip. I must have rubbed it or scratched it because it became irritated and began to grow, and black seeds were on the top. In about a month the whole thing disappeared." [9/02/70 GD's note: She tells me that it has never returned.]
9. 10/18/52 Dr. David H. Fogel, M.D. (heart specialist), read 573-1 and said he would index it under Neuritis; Incipient Rheumatism; and Thyroid Gland overactivity due to the lack of activity of adrenal and lacteal glands.
10. 9/23/60 Mrs. Ruth Berkshire, Berkshire Photo Service, Orfordville, Wisc: Imagine my astonishment when I turned to page 158 [I.R.F.] and read about moles and castor oil!
    When I was five or six years old a mole or seed wart suddenly sprouted out on my right eyebrow. As a teen-ager I was always knocking and/or picking off the dried points that kept forming...making it bleed, trying to burn it off, etc., etc. Some years later an osteopath suggested that I have it removed electrically and he took me to a nearby office of the man he recommended. In a matter of minutes I was shown the nasty little object with its cone-shaped long base.
    Twelve years later I felt the familiar gnawing-itching sensation that meant but one thing to me: my wart was again growing. I refused to believe it and tried to kid myself into thinking it was imagination, but within a week or so my fingers and the mirror proved that several little points were sticking up in the scar. Frankly, I was tortured with fright...and my thoughts and half-prayers whirled around like a mouse in a live-trap.
    "Use castor oil" finally flashed into my mind. I dabbed on castor oil and the itching-tingling growth soon stopping its "gnawing". For several days I repeated the dabbing and then forgot until one day about a week later I looked into the mirror and saw that the scar area was again smooth!
    A number of times in the years since I have felt it growing and "subdued" it with castor oil. I see by the Edgar Cayce reading that the area should be massaged (and I judge that the treatment should cover MORE than a day or so of "dabbing". Incidentally, in the early part of this year (1960) I had some skin irritation and itch on the bridge of my nose and towards the left eyebrow. The skin scaled off in tiny particles around this eyebrow and I kept "wondering" for weeks and doing nothing until one day I thought about castor oil. I believe it was three applications that removed this condition.
11. 10/09/66 Mrs. [934] wrote GD; after GD referred her to the IRF page 158: "The castor oil massage worked beautifully. That great big old brown mole just dried up and fell off. It was in the middle of my right cheek and looked like a bug. It didn't seem to take any time. Just about ten days, I guess."
12. 6/67 Mrs. Thomas Lagios, Sr. wrote: "I think you may be interested. I used the soda and camphor mixture [1101-3] on my son's wart, and within two weeks it completely disappeared.
    "Castor Oil is being applied to my husband's mole which is on his face and it shows signs of lightening.
    "My mother-in-law also is using the Castor Oil on her breast mole which she says is now flaking off after two weeks of application."
13. 8/30/67 James Richard Peskor of 60 Lawrence Hill Rd., Huntington, N.Y. 11743 phoned A.R.E. and talked to Mae St. Clair, who noted: "This man said he had reduced a wart on his face the size of a golf ball to the size of a dime by following the directions from a reading quote he saw in a book. The doctors had told him he would have to live with it. So now he wants everything we have!"
14. 9/08/67 Rev. Lou Love, Barnardsville, N.C. 28709, wrote: "For cysts I'm using Castor Oil on eyelids [Case 1424-4] and thank God it is working. I'm grateful to Edgar Cayce for his help."
15. 3/11/68 Bertha L. Wittig, P.O. Box 91, Chelan, Washington 98816, wrote: Two weeks ago I went to a dermatologist with some darkened spots on my face (around a hundred small spots). They are a form of tiny, flat warts which spread. He prescribed an acid mixture and demonstrated on a few places on my face how carefully it was to be put on with a toothpick which had to be dipped into the solution, Four hours later I had one of the worst reactions the doctor had ever seen to this medicine. Large burning blisters. I threw the acid away and am now using Cold Pressed Castor Oil. Am happy to report that the warts are already beginning to come off. Thank you.
16. 12/01/72 R. J. Marciniak, 2651 W. Belden Ave., Chicago, Ill. 60647, wrote: "About 3 months ago I had a large mole on my neck right at the collar. The shirt collar kept irritating it. I read about using Castor Oil, so I swabbed some on and put a band-aid on it. In about a week it started to shrink and I kept up the swabbing. Then by the end of the second week it was very dry with a thin strand holding on. A few days later it fell off and since hasn't come back."
17. 9/09/75 Alice Staszowski, 289 Pineridge Rd., Torrington, CT 06790 wrote: "...I also had a brown spot that appeared under one eye; no pain, no problem. But friends mentioned that I should have it checked to be sure it wasn't serious. Well, I finally did after looking at it for over a year. He said it wasn't cancerous, but to remove it, I could go to a surgeon for a simple operation. I mentioned castor oil to him. He said, 'Oh, no, that would change the tissue.' But I did put castor oil on morning and evening fairly faithfully for about six months. It slowly crusted, formed a center as it grew smaller in size and has now disappeared not to return for over a year. I now do nothing with the spot where it use to be..."

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