This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 28th day of September, 1934, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [585], Active Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mrs. [585] and Mildred Davis.

TEXT

1. EC: Yes, we have the body here, [585]; this we have had before.
2. In many respects we find the general physical condition very good. While there are many changes since last we had same here, few are in excess or in greater distress than has been indicated. In so far as there has been the completion and the fulfilling of all those suggestions, changes for the better have come about.
3. As we find in the present, as related to the changes that are being wrought in the physical relationships and activities of the body, it would be very much better for there to be created a more coordinating perfectly of the glands as related to the secretions in the system, as related to the activities of creation in the body itself. Thus there may be brought about the more normal channel for those things being brought about in the changes.
4. We would begin, then, as this: For the period of about three days at a time, begin with one minim of atomic iodine. [Atomic iodine meaning Atomidine] The next three days take one minim twice a day. The next three days take two minims. Then for the next three days two minims twice a day. The next three days three minims, and following the three minims twice each day. Rest three days. Then begin again with the one, and repeat to the taking of the three twice each day. Then we would discontinue for the time being.
5. During all these periods, and for the better reaction and coordination of the muscular forces - that have produced and do produce the tendencies for the contraction in blood centers and blood forces in the system, where there have been the adhesions in the pelvic organs and in the right portion of the body as related to the caecum area - we would use a compound for massaging, prepared in this manner:
6. To 1 ounce of melted Cocoa Butter, add - while still hot; not while boiling but while still warm, before it has congealed again:

   Oil of Cedar.......................10 minims,
Oil of Peppermint..................10 minims,
Carum Oil [Carron].................20 minims.

   Allow this to congeal again. Take a small quantity and massage just what may be absorbed by the body; not only, then, over the abdominal area, but reaching down low toward the groin, over the abdomen, and especially over the cerebrospinal system - from the base of the brain to the solar plexus center, or the 9th dorsal; and from the end of the spine TOWARDS the 9th dorsal area. The ingredients are of such a nature that the properties will strike INTO the activities of the lymph and the bursae circulation around each of the ganglia along the cerebrospinal system, if massaged in a rotary motion from the head to the middle - or to the 9th dorsal; then from the end of the spine to the 9th dorsal, in a rotary motion, along each side and over the cerebrospinal system. This we would do about twice each week; at the same time, of course, going over the areas of the abdomen as indicated to overcome the tendencies for the drawing of the organs of the abdomen during these periods that make for pains, contractions of the organs of the body.
7. In the diet keep towards those things that carry plenty of iron, silicon and lime; or the vitamins A, B and D, that the developments in the body itself will be for the greater strength-giving forces for the system.
8. Ready for questions.
9. (Q) How may I correct the conditions so I may have a perfectly normal body?
   (A) As indicated.
10. (Q) What is the protruding or apparent growth that at times drips blood?
    (A) This is an abrasion from the activities of the system where the folds have become broken in the tissue. The application of the massage, the activities as indicated, should overcome these conditions. [See 585-8, Par. 11-A on 10/15/41.]
11. (Q) Was my face injured seriously about a year ago, and why is the side of my nose still sensitive?
    (A) This is a joining of tissue in the superficial circulation, that has made for the nerves to be more in a center; thus producing a sensitiveness. This injury produces the nerves' activity, of course, though not a permanent injury necessarily; for with the correct incentives from the impulses to the cerebrospinal and sympathetic centers to feel out their ways - though it may oft at times return to those feelings where there is the appearance as of something CREEPING under the skin, this is only the rejuvenation of nerve centers - it will gradually disappear.
12. (Q) Why do I feel so tired and weak at times?
    (A) Lack of strength and vitality in the system from the great strains that have been put upon the body. With the building of the system in strength-giving forces and influences, and making for the activities through the body as indicated, there will be given the greater strength.
13. (Q) Any other advice for my better welfare?
    (A) Keep the mental attitudes in an activative growth. Not making applications either in diet or physical activity, as has been indicated for the body, as rote; but as an application of the influences of Creative Energies that are materialized in the form of the properties used for its application in and on the body to make the body more aware in every atom of same of that influence that is to be the rejuvenating force in the body itself.
14. As every soul should know, as it contacts those influences in its material experiences that awaken or arouse the awareness of the spiritual energies that may quicken the atoms of the body itself to a physical manifestation of the spirit of truth in its own self, however the contact may be made it is of Him - IF the contact is spiritualized in truth.
15. We are through with this reading.

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BACKGROUND

1. See 585-1, a Mental-Spiritual reading, on 9/14/32, answering some health questions.
2. 9/28/34 Mrs. [585] said that for about a month she had been experiencing extreme weakness and terrible pains in her abdomen; menstruation irregular; she was afraid it might be cancer. She was very depressed mentally.

REPORTS

1. 9/28/34 GD's note: FOOD LISTS [Copied by GD from a diet book]
   IRON: Beets, whole wheat, whole barley, lettuce, spinach, lentils, peas, green peas, red cabbage, carrots, asparagus, yellow corn, ripe olives, unpolished rice, onions, blackberries, cherries, blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, pears, loganberries, gooseberries, peaches, raisins, apples, concord grapes, rare beef, calf's liver, raw egg yolk, walnuts, almonds, beechnuts, rye, currants, cucumbers.
   SILICON: Steel cut oats, spinach, apples, barley, egg yolk, strawberries, peas, figs, goat's milk, beechnuts, grapes, almonds, walnuts, chestnuts, carrots, shredded wheat, unpolished rice, rye, peaches, cherries, whole wheat, asparagus, cabbage, gooseberries, cucumbers, endive.
   CALCIUM: Spinach, steel cut oats, whole wheat, whole rye, halibut, cheese, onions, garlic, rhubarb, milk, raw cabbage.
2. GD's note: [585] remarked after the reading that she was greatly relieved, to know the condition wasn't as bad as she first thought.
3. 1/15/35 Report: "I feel so much better; in fact, cured. The Atomidine has helped me wonderfully. There is so much more peace and harmony in my home now."
4. 10/15/36 Mrs. [585] obtained her second Mental-Spiritual reading, 585-4.
5. 6/41 Dr. F. C. Hudgins couldn't understand, he told Mrs. [585], why her reading on 9/28/34 [585-3] didn't recommend an operation, since the growth existed then, the large one, and she asked about it. See Par. B1 on her reading, 585-8; also Par. 11-A.

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