This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 29th day of April, 1942, in accordance with request made by the self - Miss [630], Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

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

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1. GC: You will go over this body carefully, examine it thoroughly, and tell me the conditions you find at the present time, especially regarding the eyes; giving the cause of the existing conditions, also suggestions for help and relief of this body. You will answer the questions, as I ask them:
2. EC: Yes, we have the body here, [630]; this we have had before.
3. In the present the disturbances are rather of a constitutional nature. There are disturbances with the glandular system, especially as related to the activities of the adrenals. This makes for an unbalanced condition as to the supply of energies in the circulation to the sensory forces; hinders or impoverishes the supply to the optic forces; producing a relaxation that causes the expression in the eye reflex itself.
4. These are the characters or natures. Of course these hinder in the kidneys' activity in elimination, and a flow of secretions that are a part of same deflect through the supply to optic forces.
5. As we find, taken as it is, this condition may be stayed - if there is a consistent effort, and especially as related to the general building up of the health itself, and especially as related to the circulation that exists between the liver, the kidneys and to the supply of blood AND nerve energies in portions of the cerebrospinal system - as related to the assimilation and glandular activity towards same.
6. In making applications, little that is applied directly to the optic forces themselves will be beneficial, other than keeping the cornea and the eyeball itself cleansed occasionally with a mild antiseptic.
7. The condition to aid, then, is the DIET - AND that which IS a stimuli to the glandular forces AND the forces of body where assimilations are carried on.
8. Do these, then, in the general:
9. Each day have plenty - or quantities - of carrots, raw and cooked; lettuce and celery.
10. Do take a stimulation in B-1 vitamin, other than the activity from assimilated foods - the combination that is prepared by the Miles Laboratories of the B-1 Complex; One a Day. This would be sufficient of these properties for the body. Take it rather in series; one each day for at least three weeks, leave off one week, and then take again. But continue with the various manners of preparation, especially of those diets that carry the properties indicated.
11. Beets and beet tops also should be a part of the diet.
12. DO take also the Jerusalem artichoke three times each week; twice cooked, once raw; one not larger than a medium hen egg. When cooked, let it be cooked in its OWN jacket - or in Patapar Paper, and mix the juices as come from same with the pulp that is eaten. Season to suit the taste.
13. Do have quantities of fish in the diet, and sea foods.
14. Do have each day a thorough massage with a combination of oils which we will indicate. This need not be professionally given, but SHOULD be given thoroughly; not something to be gotten through with, but take care and precaution. This would be especially from the base of the brain, or 1st cervical, to the 9th dorsal along the spinal system. The oils would be combined in this manner:
15. To 4 ounces of Russian White Oil, or Usoline, as the base, add - in the order named:

    Peanut Oil................1 ounce,
Oil of Cedar Wood.......1/2 ounce,
Oil of Sassafras Root...1/4 ounce,
Lanolin (dissolved).....1/4 ounce.

    Shake these together thoroughly before being poured into an open container in which the fingers may be dipped to massage along the spine. This would be especially at the base of brain, at the lower portion of the cervicals and on the upper dorsals - these areas especially; just what the body will absorb. Preferably do this of evening when ready to retire.
16. These, as we find, offer the better conditions to allay, to stay and to build the body for resistance to this glaucoma.
17. Ready for questions.
18. (Q) Can any of the sight be restored?
    (A) This may be materially aided. This depends upon how consistent and how well the body responds, and as to whether there is the overstrain in the use of the eyes from day to day. Do not sit in a dim light to attempt to read, or do not sit where the light reflects directly on the face when working.
19. (Q) What causes the pressure in my eyes and what corrective measures will stop it?
    (A) Read what has just been indicated. These are the conditions. Meet them in these ways.
    Most of these things can be applied better by self than others, save the massages that should be given daily.
20. We are through for the present.

    Copy to Self - Air Mail
    Copy to Ass'n file

BACKGROUND

1. See 630-1 on 8/06/31 and subsequent Reports.
2. 4/27/42 "About 8 mos. ago Dr. Karl Benkwirth (eye specialist) told me I had Glaucoma and Iritis Pigmentosis, but being an optimist I thought they would be alright. I promptly went to Fla. to work for Uncle Sam's Army. Now I am at home and Dr. Benkwirth says my eyes are decidedly worse. As you well know I MUST work and I don't want to be blind anyhow!! If it's at all possible can you give me a rdg. on my eyes and tell me if there is anything that can be done to save what sight I have left. Is Dr. Benkwirth giving the proper tr.?"

REPORTS

1. 10/25/42 "The Rdg. you made so promptly for me, and particularly your follow up letter, was such a comfort to me. My letter in reply is being withheld for the time being until possibly another three weeks treatment, then a Ck. Rdg. before returning to work. I've been here at home since Aug. 15th and will have to return to my job by Dec. 1st or no much needed pay envelope! I've had some fine results, which as I said I will take up in another letter. At the moment Mama is my biggest worry." [She submitted questions for 2843-3 for her mother.]
2. 12/03/42 Letter from [2843] to EC: "...I have wanted to write you and thank the power vested in you for the great benefit the suggestions have been to [630]. It is very plain to me now that I should have insisted on her taking sick leave when she was home for couple of days in April. She was a sick child then, but thought she had to return to duty after getting her glasses checked. She needed many days for it, instead of two or three. There is no telling what the improvement would have been if she had been home to carry out the suggestions, because when she did come the 15th of August she was ill from nervous exhaustion. She remained over three months and the change was marvelous. When I had my fall, which I regretted as much on her account as my own, because I didn't want anything on her mind of an unpleasant nature and she did take charge and tried to make comfortable. There were a few days I was not able to massage her back. She said it was interesting to notice the difference it made.
   "Even here we couldn't carry out the suggestions fully as to diet. I wrote all over the country trying to get artichokes for her. Just the last month they came into market here.
   "[630] is quiet about her affairs. I didn't see the reading. I wished her to get a check reading before she left, but they called her back earlier than she expected to leave. We do wish a copy of There Is A River but it will be known as [630]'s. She mentioned she would try to get one. Hope you sell a million..."
3. 8/19/43 Mother [2843]'s letter: "...She [630] has been put in charge of the Army Emergency Relief Organization, in Indiana, where she lives. She is humbly proud of this responsibility because she is happiest when she is doing something for someone. She was fortunate enough to find a furnished cottage and likes keeping house to the fullest.
   "I learned from the book (THERE IS A RIVER) what the artichokes were used for. I can never be thankful enough for the suggestions given. As soon as she was coming back to life, so to speak, and progressing, I lost my equilibrium [see 2843-3]."
4. 5/15/49 Mother [2843] wrote that [630], now Mrs. [...], is at home recuperating from a very serious eye operation.

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