This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 7th day of September, 1934, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [654], 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.

TEXT

1. EC: Going over address, same that had just been given for the child [653-2] - "Same white house!"
2. Yes, we have the body, [654]; this we have had before.
3. Conditions in many respects show an improvement. There are still those things that disturb the nervous system, producing a strain on the body and making for mental attitudes that produce irritation in the general associations with individuals and those about the body.
4. As we find, for some periods there have been those discharges from irritations in the organs of the pelvis - which has made for much of the condition that has caused and does produce much of this irritation. This combined with those tendencies for the body to be indiscrete at times with the diet, eating or attempting to eat when the body is very much irritated - which has recently produced much of that which has irritated not only the alimentary canal but has produced the irritations or disorders in the rectum. These will be overcome if there will be used those properties that we have indicated, in the Tim; being very mindful of the diet that it is more alkalin in its nature - and by using the douches of Atomidine we will find we will overcome this irritation. The proportions for the douche would be a teaspoonful of Atomidine to a quart of water. This should be lukewarm.
5. We would find it also beneficial to take the Atomidine internally. Each morning before breakfast we would take two minims in a glass of water. Each evening before retiring we would take three minims in a glass of water. Keep this up for at least five to six days. Then discontinue for a few days. Then begin in the same way again and take for a period of five to six days. Repeat this procedure some three or four times.
6. And we would keep those things that have been indicated for the rubs at various times, that we may ELIMINATE the tendency for the accumulations of poisons in the system. And with these taken properly, we should bring the better conditions for this body.
7. Should it become necessary for the use of the laxatives, we would use also the Crystals - Crazy ones; for these carry a combination of chalybeate and sulphur in the proportions that they do not strain the lymph circulation in the duodenum, and DO produce activity in the pancrean secretions, the liver and the spleen.
8. Ready for questions.
9. (Q) What cause the terrible pain in feet?
   (A) Poor circulation. Massage or rub these occasionally in the present (for after we begin to take the Atomidine, with the second or third round most of these conditions will disappear), with this combination:
   To 4 ounces Russian White Oil, add:

   Tincture of Benzoin.............1/2 ounce,
Witchhazel........................1 ounce
Oil of Cedar....................1/2 ounce,
Oil of Sassafras.................20 minims.

   These ingredients will tend to separate when set for some time, but before using shake well together and pour a small quantity into a saucer and massage from the knees down; massaging the bottoms of the feet, through the heel and through the instep thoroughly, and dry with a coarse towel. This will aid, and make GLAD feet.
10. (Q) In what condition are the kidneys?
    (A) These are irritated from acidity, and the irritation from the uterus and womb. With the clarifying of the activity of the glands of the system, these should disappear.
    Do these.
11. We are through with this reading.

    Copy to Self
    Copy to Ass'n file
    (Alkalin diet list was enclosed, also booklet on Atomidine - which we may obtain for you from our local druggist if you can't get it there.)

BACKGROUND

1. See 654-4 on 9/03/31 and subsequent Reports.

REPORTS

1. 9/20/34 "I'm glad to hear you are getting the Ipsab and Tim put on the market, as they surely do the work."
2. 10/29/34 "I have taken my 4th round of the Atomidine and feel lots better. Is that all I'm supposed to take of that? I suppose the last 2 bottles (you sent) were for the douches. I'm doing everything just as the rdg. said. My feet are so much better. It was just like trying to walk on boils and I could hardly touch the bottom of my feet. Now I can press hard on them and they don't hurt a bit. And the piles are much better. I am still unable to be up only a little at a time, don't seem to be able to get my strength. The Dr. here is giving me shots of sodium cacodylate. Is that alright? I have some places broken out all over my stomach that I want to ask you about. They look like warts or moles; they have just come on my stomach and were white at first, then turned a light tan. What causes that and what will take them off?"
3. 11/01/34 EC's letter to Mrs. [654]:
   My dear Mrs. [654]:
   I am certainly glad to know that you are feeling a great deal better.
   I think, Mrs. [654], it would be well for you to continue every few weeks with taking another and another round of the Atomidine, internally. I mean by this, it has a definite pathological effect upon the system, but the intent and purpose, as it is in any formula, is to cause the organs to perform their own bodily functioning - not that the system wholly depends upon that, for that is what we mean by habit forming drugs, cathartics, or what not.
   I am of the opinion it is possibly the shots that you are taking that are causing the spots to break out over portions of the system. I think I would get farther and farther away from these if I could, because with the principle of the Atomidine in your system it is evidently segregating this sodium in your system and trying to eliminate it with the absorption. I feel you will be able to get rid of these by massaging them with castor oil; not too much, of course, but we will say, every evening before retiring, take each little place or each portion separate, and massage just what the body will absorb, and it will take them away and assist in them being carried through the system in quite a different way entirely. Try this, and if you don't get the results, let us know. I believe, though, if you will keep up with these suggestions as have been given, you are going to be a whole let better now than you have been at all.
   Certainly glad to know that your uncle [570] is better and that your mother has the opportunity to visit there. I am sure it is quite gratifying to her to see the results in his case, when she has had so many that I know have spoken very lightly to her about her faith and confidence in such information.
   Thanking you for your letter, and with kindest personal regards, I am
   Sincerely, Edgar Cayce EC:MD
4. 1/23/35 Letter to EC from Mrs. [654]:
   Dear Mr. Cayce -
   I received your letter a few days ago and was as glad to hear from you. I'm ashamed of having waited so long to write to you.
   I know it doesn't seem so, but I do really appreciate your help and kindness more than I can tell you and I think of you and your great work most every day but some how just can't get down to writing.
   I started on my treatment as soon as I received the medicine and for a while I got so MUCH BETTER and my feet stopped hurting and the callous places left entirely. I don't know what happened but a few weeks ago I began to get worse again and my feet are as bad as ever, the callous places are back and I have the same sharp pains in my feet and legs.
   I thought I was doing everything exactly right but I must have done something wrong. I was so happy over getting so much better, then when I got worse I got so discouraged, was really to nervous and sick to write to you.
   For a while I most went crazy. I'm ashamed to tell you but several times I was on the point of committing suicide.
   I try so hard to look on the bright side of life and to be thankful for what I have and try to laugh things off like I used to, but some how I just cannot.
   As long as I'm on my feet and can get out I do very well, but when I get down [[...], husband] seems to do everything he can think of to worry me and make me worse. He keeps [653] and me both terribly nervous ALL the time. I have I believe honestly tried all these years to do right and to make a go of it, but I just feel like I can't go on.
   [[...], Husband] has irritating little cough [See 979-8, Par. R1 on 7/15/36 in re [654]'s husband's irritating cough. See 979-9 on 2/15/38, Par. 9-A, indicating it would have been well for the tr. to have been followed for him.] that sets me crazy and has a terrible odor one can smell all over the room. It nauseates me so, I just can't help it. I don't know what to do. I can't be my self and do any good in the world when I'm worried and sick all the time. He thinks more of the almighty dollar than anything in the world and it's a fuss all the time to get money for what we need.
   I feel that I can tell you these things as you have been such a good friend of all these years and I know you are a Christian, and I NEED your prayers very much.
   You and the organization have done a great deal of good and I'm sure will do even more in the coming year, and I'm sorry I haven't helped more. I promised to do better this year, for I surely HAVE rec'd worlds of help from you.
   It seems like every time I am the lowest and most discouraged I get a letter from you and it cheers me up and gives me faith and strength. You must know when I need some one most.
   I am better in some ways, the piles are a great deal better. I am about out of the Tim so will appreciate it if you will send me a bottle or jar also some more Atomidine. I have only a little of that left.
   I think perhaps you better give me another reading and see what's wrong and if I should continue to take the Atomidine.
   I have such black circles under my eyes and my face seems to be breaking out under the skin and there seems to be so little I can eat. I've gotten almost afraid to eat, and nearly everything I eat taste bitter and makes gas on my stomach. I suspect the whole thing is more from nervousness than anything else. When you give the reading please ask about the obstruction in the rectum and what to do for it.
   I put the castor oil on the spots on my stomach but it didn't do any good. I wish the reading would tell me exactly what to eat as I see some of them tell others.
   A few weeks ago my face turned red as fire and seemed like it and my heart would both burst and blood poured out of my mouth. I don't know yet where it came from my head or elsewhere.
   I will send you some money as soon as [653] comes home which will be next week I think. I would send it now, but I have to send this by someone to mail and don't care for that person to read this. [653] has been in Selma visiting Mother for 4 weeks. I let her go thinking the change would do her good and perhaps her nerves would get better. I am very much worried about her too.
   Ever since the accident several years ago she has been going through it at night every little while. She screams and yells to turn the wheel and jumps right out of bed and when I try to hold her or wake her she beats me most to death some times she is so strong. She wrote a few days ago that she most frightened a girl friend to death the other nite. She was spending the nite at this girl's house and in the nite she screamed and jumped out of bed sat down on the floor and held on to the bed post as tight as she could and it was a long time before they could get her awake and she fights so. I'm afraid she will lose her mind. While I was so weak and sick she has so many spells and kept me awake so as she sleeps with me and she beat me so.
   When she comes back home will you please give her a reading, and tell me what to do for her. I did all the things you told me to do before and she got better for a while, just now seems to be getting worse and her face is a sight it is so broken out.
   So many people have been dying in Selma. Mr. [...] and Dr. Lee Jones [Lee Jones, M.D.] died last week. Dr. Jones was one of best friends I ever had, he did so much for me and the rest of the family. I hear he died of cancer, don't know if that's true or not. About twelve people I know in Selma have died in the last two weeks.
5. 1/31/35 Letter to Mrs. [654]:
   1867 Kalorama Road, Washington, D.C.
   Mrs. [654], Box ..., ..., Miss.
   Dear Mrs. [654]:-
   I have yours of the 23rd; it was forwarded to me here from the Beach. We are here meeting with a group that was organized last fall, doing some special work which takes up practically every bit of our time. It may not be possible for us to get to a check reading until we return to the Beach, which will possibly be the latter part of next week or a little later. Should occasion arise that we should do this, you may be sure that we will include it. I can fully appreciate the conditions that surround you causing a great deal of worry and trouble, making for your nervous conditions to become very such exaggerated. I feel very confident that it must have been some indiscretion in eating, or something of the kind that caused this upset; and I feel sure that if you would start all over again with everything suggested in your last reading, in a very short while you would be feeling a great deal better. In the meantime I will have the office send you from the Beach the Tim and the Atomidine. You know, as soon as we have the opportunity and know that the little girl is at home, we will be very glad to make the appointment for her reading. It is quite evident that there is something very definitely upsetting her system, to cause such a rash or to disturb her so much at night; and - as you say - these things should be attended to now, before they become too much a part of her general physical condition. You know we are only too glad, Mrs. [654], to try to be of service whenever we can. I do hope you will plan to - and go about to - take the full course of that suggested for you in the last reading, and I trust that this time will not be a hindrance to you. I'm sure you realize that though everything may look dark and we may feel discouraged, and feel that our usefulness is not appreciated or that we would possibly be better off out of the way, we should look at it rather that we are God's children and that each day that He allots us gives us another opportunity to show forth His love to our fellow man; just being patient, and kind when others seem to distrust us most, just smiling though our heart may be breaking, is doing those things He has promised us we are to be judged by in that last day. So, hold on - and know that He is able to deliver us and He does not allow us to be tempted beyond that we are able to bear, if we do not try to bear it alone but take it to Him. I'll let you hear from me again as soon as possible. And be sure to let me know just how you get along. With kindest personal regards to you and yours,
   Sincerely, EC:GD
6. 2/08/35 Letter to EC from Mrs. [654]:
   Mr. Edgar Cayce, Virginia Beach, Va.
   Dear Mr. Cayce -
   I received your letter some time ago and appreciate you writing when you had so much to do. The letter helped me quite a bit.
   I did start all over again on my treatment quite a while ago, but I'm about out of the Atomidine, haven't had enough to take the douches.
   I've been trying to think what made me worse as I was getting along so fine for a while. I've about decided it was some wine [[...], husband] got for me. I thought a little of it would give me strength but I believe that's what caused the trouble also the breaking out on my face and chest. I'm better but am not getting along nearly as well as I did for a while. I stopped drinking the wine and hope when that gets out of my system I'll be better again.
   I don't know whether the last reading meant for me to take the Osteopathic treatments again or not. How ever I'm doing everything else and think I shall start on those soon. Dr. Ellis isn't here any more but I understand there is another one here just as good, if not better.
   [653] is back now, her little vacation seemed to help her but she isn't right some how. Her monthly periods are very irregular, some months she doesn't menstruate at all and some times she menstruates for two weeks at a time but very little each day and ever since she has been back she has complained of pain in the left side of her back just below the waist, sort of a crick or catch. And she says she still has those spells at night. While she was gone she jumped out of the bed and sat down on the floor and grabbed the bed post and held on as tight as she could and put the brakes on and screamed at the top of her voice and it took the folks a long time to get her awake... [See 3/12/35 See 654-6.]

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