This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Virginia, this 21st day of August, 1934, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [639], Active Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. L. B. Cayce, Mildred and Burt Davis.

TEXT

1. EC: Yes, we have the body, [639].
2. Now, as we find, there are disturbing forces that prevent the better physical functioning of the body. These are rather a complication or a multiple of minor disorders that find, in the various disturbed factors, different manners of manifesting themselves.
3. When a physical body is at dis-ease, the pain or dis-ease is as a warning that some portion is in distress; and the body sends out the warriors within itself automatically to ward off. If there is lacking that which will supply the proper defense, or proper ammunition for the warding off of disorders, then conditions array themselves - as it were - against the better physical functioning of the body. Then organic disorders arise.
4. As yet we find in this particular body only FUNCTIONAL disorders, that may - if the proper precautions are taken - be not only so arrayed as to destroy but as to set the whole house in order against the inroads or destructive forces that have hindered and do hinder the better physical functioning.
5. The BLOOD SUPPLY indicates that toxic forces are abroad in the blood stream, causing the lack of proper elimination through the channels that dispose of the drosses and poisons of the system. Hence we have these effects in the system:
6. Torpidity of the liver. Bad taste in the mouth at times, especially of mornings and at others after certain kinds of meals. Aching through the feet, through the limbs, and in portions of the shoulders and arms. Tendency for dull headaches. Burning in the eyes. Pains through portions of the abdominal area. Burning sensations at times with the urine and the activity of the kidneys and bladder. Heaviness through the abdominal area. Choky, sticky feelings at times in throat and head.
7. All of these are the effects of improper eliminations. Not only through the alimentary canal but through the respiratory system, through the kidneys, through the perspiratory system, and even in the breath at times. All of these show. These are effects, not causes. The CAUSES are from the repressions in some portions, or many portions of the system; for the stress and strain under which the body has labored for some time is as much a contributory cause as any other ONE thing. Not merely an attitude of mind, BUT with the attitude of mind, or repression, has brought - and gradually creates - repression in the sympathetic reaction to the vital energies in the body; thus producing the excess of dross in the system.
8. The NERVE SYSTEM becomes involved under these repressions, as in those portions of the body where there have been the accumulations - as in the locomotories, where these distresses from this repression are shown from the accumulation of toxic forces and drosses and excess of the dross in centers - that make for acute pains that are not only neurotic but neuritic in their effect upon the system. Thus there is caused an excess of poisonous salts to be shown in the muscle and tendons of portions of the extremities, specifically.
9. As to the ORGANS in their functioning, these - as we have indicated - are rather under a SYMPATHETIC condition; rather than being a specific condition or organic disorder they are sympathetically reacting to the reactions and these drosses in the system.
10. Then, in meeting the needs of the conditions for this body, of [639] we are speaking of, we will find this will require some persistence and some consistent activity on the part of the body. Not because it is relieved in a very short time should it relax its vigilance in KEEPING the proper incentives THROUGHOUT the system FOR the proper activities to be not only maintained but sustained by the repletion and resuscitating of the vital energies in the system; thus restoring the vitality and making for near normal conditions.
11. First we would begin with the Toris Compound. Make two quantities (that's an ounce of each one, you see), one with the Simple Syrup and the other with the Spirits Frumenti. Then add the two together. Shake well together before the dosage is taken, which would be a dessertspoonful three times each day, AFTER the meals, for three or four days; then leave off for two days, then begin again.
12. After these properties have produced an excess or the reaction of increasing eliminations throughout the system, which should be by the sixth day, then we would begin (this is extra - don't leave off the Toris Compound) taking IMMEDIATELY after each meal a quarter teaspoonful of AL-CAROID, first dissolved in a small quantity of water and then a whole glass of water added, then an extra glass of water taken afterwards.
13. When the AL-CAROID has been taken for three days, then leave it off and take a tablet of Calomel and Colocynth. This will stir the activities of the secretions from the bile duct as to PURIFY the system, see?
14. This tablet would be followed, in the next week, with Fletcher's Castoria; taking a whole bottle of the nine hundred drops in VERY small doses; about a quarter teaspoonful every half hour until the whole quantity has been taken.
15. Throughout the period the Toris Compound would be continued at the intervals as indicated, until the whole quantity prepared has been taken.
16. As to the diet: This should be less of starches. More of fruits and vegetables. The fruit and vegetable salts will help dissolve the destructive forces that have been as accumulations in the system.
17. When there is the tendency for the accumulation of gas through the colon, use the high enemas occasionally for the alleviation of the fullness through the colon.
18. Do these, in a consistent way and manner, and we will find in a few weeks all of these conditions will disappear.
19. Ready for questions.
20. We are through for the present.
    Copy of Self

    " " Ass'n file

    (You can get two quantities of the Toris Compound and prepare at home as indicated. This is manufactured by the Globe Chemical Company, Dayton, Ohio, but I think you can obtain it from local druggist.
    The AL-CAROID digestant powder is manufactured by The American Ferment Co., Buffalo, N.Y., but I think most drug stores carry it.
    Probably a two and a half grain tablet of Calomel-Colocynth would be that needed. This you can get already prepared.
    If everything is not understood, please ask. GD.)

BACKGROUND

1. See 639-1 on 6/02/27.
2. 8/08/34 "For a long time I have ached all over my body one place and then another. It has been much worse lately and my knee and elbow joints are sore and ache a great deal like it might be something like neuritis. I would like to know cause and remedy. What diet for proper assimilation and elimination? I have pyorrhea and about 6 mos. ago had 6 badly abscessed teeth extracted. My gums are not in a healthy condition at all and I may be getting a lot of poison in my system from them. While I hate to give them up I have a feeling it would be much better to have them all pulled. Please ask about this also. Lately I have had such a dull heavy ache in the back of my head and neck but presume that is the effect of general condition."
3. 8/17/34 "Extremely bad taste in mouth."

REPORTS

1. 8/29/34 "Will begin tr. as soon as the Toris Compound arrives and follow instructions exactly."
2. 9/10/34 She wrote that the Toris Compound had just been rec'd and she would get started. She requested 550-6 for her husband.
3. 9/26/34 "I have completed one round of the prescription, except finishing up the Toris Compound, having completed the Castoria yesterday. I think on the whole I feel a little better, but I feel quite sure I will have to have another round of it, if not more. I presume it is the right thing to do to keep repeating it until entirely relieved. My condition is of long standing and I realize cannot be entirely eliminated quickly."
4. 12/20/34 She obtained 550-7 for her husband.
5. 1/05/35 "I took about a 2 wks. vacation between prescriptions during the holidays and have just begun on a new prescription of the Toris Compound, having it made up with the Sarsaparilla, which is the way it has all been made up with the exception of one prescription [which she had the druggist leave out because the rdg. did not specifically mention it]...
   "I don't seem to be able to get rid of my aches and pains all over my body, first one place and then another - so much in my back and shoulders and in my knee and elbow joints, and the dull, heavy ache in the back of my neck and head. The bad taste in my mouth at night and dryness is much worse while I am taking the Toris Compound than when I am not.
   "I am sure the rdg. given for me is correct and that it is all just lack of elimination of poisons in the system - that my elimination in all ways is not what it should be.
   "At times it seems I am much better, then at other times I do not know that I am. The last wk. the aches and pains have been more constant in back, shoulders, arms and legs.
   "I believe in depending upon and looking to the Great Physician for health and supply and feel sure in carrying out your prescriptions, which I believe come from the 'One Source', both Mr. [550] and myself will overcome our troubles, physically and financially, in God's own good way, if we keep doing our best each day, and it seems to me your rdgs. for us are one of God's ways for us."
6. 3/21/35 "I notice in your 3/35 Bulletin under 'Health Hints' you say [567-7, Par. 13-A in re apple diet to cleanse poisons]... Will you kindly advise me what the Jenneting variety apples are, where they grow and where they can be purchased." [4/23/35 EC wrote that he had made some inquiries and thought it was the same variety as Delicious, Arkansas Black, and the Russet, "and there is one, of course, called the original Jenneting. Haven't tried this out myself as yet but as I usually do am going to try it, for would never want to be the means of giving something for someone that I wouldn't try myself."]
7. 5/06/35 "I appreciate your reply to my letter relative to the Jenneting variety of apple. We have the Delicious Apple in our markets now but guess the time is about up for them...if you find out any other apple that is of that variety and would do to use in the way prescribed, would you kindly advise me?
   "As to myself, my teeth got to feeling so badly that I had to go to a dentist and a test proved them all to be in very bad condition and I am now having them all taken out. When I am all through with this ordeal I have a feeling I want to try the apple and olive oil prescription to help matters along. Suspect by that time it will be too late to still get the Delicious, and I wouldn't know what apple to try and don't know where to find out." [5/06/35, Perhaps at the same time she was writing the above letter, EC asked in his own Ck. Physical if it would be well for him to go on the apple diet for 3 days and was told yes. See 294-182, Par. 10-A giving names of the apples.]
8. 6/17/35 "I am recovering from the shock to my system of having all my teeth extracted and I will soon feel able to try the apple diet to help eliminate the poison in my body. I have a desire to try it."
9. 7/12/35 "I will not be able to try the apple diet until fall and the new apples are in. The only apples now on the Fla. market are the Winesaps and Yellow Newton... I am very disappointed, as I especially wanted to try it at this time."
10. 3/10/36 "I have only just been able to try it on account of condition of my gums. It seems very cleansing and I think I would like to try it several more times, about once a month. I could only eat three large Delicious apples a day."
11. 4/19/36 "I have been taking the apple diet [as in 567-7, Par. 13-A] once a month for three months; I think it a splendid thing and I get along with it very well with the exception that the olive oil makes me so sick at my stomach. I am wondering how it would do to take it every two weeks for one day and a half with 1/4 glass of oil? Maybe that amount of oil wouldn't affect me so badly. Mr. [550] took it the last time I did but the oil didn't make him sick. I believe you wrote once that you had taken the diet for half the time prescribed and would like to ask if you used half the amount of oil in doing so."
12. 5/06/36 EC's reply: "Perhaps you take too much of the olive oil with your apple diet. I only took half a teacup - that, it seems to me, is less than the glass, isn't it? Have found excellent results with only a day of the diet, and decreasing the oil according to the days taken. Try that and see if you do not have good results."
13. 7/06/36 Husband [550]'s ltr.: I should like very much if you will make an appointment for a reading for Mrs. [639]. Any time, with the possible exception of next Thursday the 16th. Mrs. [639] to be at our home in...
    For some time Mrs. [639] has not been at all well. A year ago last May she had all her teeth removed and the reaction was bad. Her gums refused to heal and set of teeth was not made for her for some eight months, and only then because it was necessary for her to have them. Gums are not as yet ready for a more permanent set and more than likely will not be for another six months or more.
    We have gone through a very trying time for several years and that has not been good for her. After teeth were removed I begin giving her as much nourishing food as possible and she has been under the doctors care for the entire period. Recently had her to a different local physician and his examination resulted in orders to have proper appliances made for her feet. This has been done by a foot specialist in Tampa and she is now wearing these appliances and special shoes.
    Last March she had a fall which was quite severe. Following this fall she was treated by an osteopath [Thomas G. Seay, D.O.?] who found two or three of the vertebra out of place. This was corrected but more especially since this fall she has had severe pains in the back as well as pains over the entire body. Part of these pains were more than likely caused from condition of her feet and from toxic poisons. Her nerves have been in bad shape and possibly worse at this time.
    Last Tuesday on our return from Tampa had her go to bed and employed a practical nurse who takes entire charge of the house and looks after her needs. She is extremely weak and has peculiar feelings or sensations in her arms and chest, a feeling that she cannot describe. I am under the impression that the fall is accountable for much of her condition for before the fall she was improving and had put on about twenty pounds of weight, from 112 to 132. Her doctor was of the opinion she had put on too much weight and said the flesh was not healthy and in his treatment attempted and is reducing her some seven pounds. Her diet is mostly vegetables and fruits and milk, no eggs and a very limited amount of meat. I feel that a reading from you would be very helpful and while finances are at a low ebb, due to the fact that I have been to much expense both for her and myself, I feel the necessity of your help and will some time later send an offering.
14. 7/17/36 See 639-3.

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