This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 3rd day of August, 1934, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [623], Active Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mildred Davis and L. B. Cayce. Also Ethel and Edgar Parry and Mrs. Brown.

TEXT

1. EC: We have the body, [623]; this we have had before.
2. Now, as we find, there are considerable changes in the general physical forces of the body. While many of these show improvements, there are still those conditions which cause throughout the alimentary canal, and especially in portions of the colon area, the disturbing effects. While these have been greatly relieved in some respects, there are still those reactions in the organs of the body that cause or produce a great deal of the strain and the tendencies for the fermentation of those things taken into the system, where the digestive forces of (or juices of) the pancreas, spleen and from the gall ducts do not assimilate in the duodenum; producing then an acidity there that sets up the inflammation that causes the portions in the jejunum and more specifically in the colon to continue to be in the positions that produce nausea, headaches, heaviness, bearing down pains in the organs of the pelvis; producing pressure at times even on the bladder, and making for shortness of breath through the pressure on the diaphragm area.
3. All of these, as we see, are effects.
4. We would find in the present that these applications would remove this condition entirely, and give to the system the PROPER reactions by balancing in the body the necessary forces that will not only cleanse but make for better physical conditions in this body, [623].
5. First we would begin - preferably in the evenings, or just before or after retiring - with the use of Castor Oil packs for at least three to four hours each evening over the liver, the area from even the LEFT side of the abdomen, above the hip to the caecum and the area in the right side and over the liver area. Apply at least three to four thicknesses of flannel well oiled, directly to the body. Keep these up for at least three days, before we would then begin taking medicinal properties as follows:
6. For a whole day, just after each meal take internally a quarter teaspoonful of AL-CAROID.
7. That evening take at least two CAROID Bile Salts tablets.
8. Then two days later begin with the Castor Oil packs again, and continue for at least nine days. See?
9. On the second or third day of the last series of packs, begin taking once each day a teaspoonful of Milk of Bismuth in which there would be put six to ten drops of Essence of Lactated Pepsin - and two glasses of water, see? Keep THIS up for nine days.
10. After the twelfth or thirteenth day from beginning the above outlined treatments, we would take an enema. But be sure that in the two and a half gallons of water that would be used during the whole enema there would be put a level teapoonful of common table salt and a heaping teaspoonful of baking soda. In the last water for antiseptic injection put two tablespoonsful of Glyco-Thymoline to two quarts of the lukewarm water. This will prevent irritation and cleanse the mucous and the refuse forces that are loosened by the application of the oil packs and the absorption of the properties taken within the system through the Milk of Bismuth.
11. Be mindful of the diets, that during these whole periods there would be rather the liquid and semi-liquid diet; so that we may cleanse the whole system.
12. And we wouldn't use the water around the body's present environs; too much of the lime in same! We would use rather that which has been intimated to use heretofore.
13. Do these, and we will find we will bring near normal conditions to this body.
14. Ready for questions.
15. (Q) What causes the soreness in my left waistline and under the ribs?
    (A) The pressure in the colon area.
16. We are through with this reading.

    Copy to Self
    Copy to Ass'n file (8/03/34 GD's note: If it is not understood fully about the application of the Castor Oil packs, let us know. The AL-CAROID and CAROID Bile Salts tablets are both made by The American Ferment Co., Buffalo, N. Y., but you can get them at most any drug store.
    Dip the flannel in hot Castor Oil and apply as hot as may be stood; keep them hot during the whole three hour period each treatment. This is so the pores of the skin are opened and as much Oil as possible is allowed to soak in.)

BACKGROUND

1. See 623-1 and 623-2.

REPORTS

1. 8/14/34 Letter: "In answer to your note [8/6th] regarding my recent reading, I received same and started that same evening, as directed. I went up town and bought a half gallon of oil and a half yard of good wool material. As my husband gets home in the evening any time from 6 to 12 it makes my evenings uncertain, so when I go to bed I ring this flannel out of the hot oil and apply it 4 thicknesses, cover it with a Turkish towel 2 thicknesses, then use the electric pad plenty hot, the sheet over this holds the heat in very well and the pad can be adjusted from side to side so I get nearer 6-7 hours heat (and I think plenty of oil) much easier than you might think.
   "Saturday was the day for the medicines and I took that per schedule and have the other medicine in the house ready.
   "I do not feel very well; it seems to make me more bloated even than I was.
   "I am having some trouble with the liquid diet, but am eating as little as possible.
   "Thank you for all your trouble."
2. 8/21/35 Letter: "I don't seem to get along very fast and my spine has bothered me for about 5 months. If it continues I may have to have another reading."
3. 11/16/38 Mrs. [623] obtained her next physical, 623-4.
4. GD's note: During the next few years Mrs. [623] referred several other people to EC for readings.

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