This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Virginia, this 1st day of October, 1934, in accordance with request made by the daughter - Miss [...], new Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Mr. Max Hagedorn.

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

TEXT

1. EC: Yes, we have the body, [676].
2. Now, as we find, there are very troublesome conditions in the physical forces of this body. These have been the outgrowth of minor disorders at first; and the neglect of the care respecting the eliminations brought about the thinning of the walls in the blood supply as related to the lymph circulation, producing those conditions first of the nature of swellings in portions of the body. Later these have taken on more of the ARTHRITIC tendencies. And adhesions have been made in portions of the system that have affected the locomotion, especially in the lower portions of the body; the UPPER portion having adjusted itself somewhat to the general conditions, though still affecting the body in part.
3. This produces in the BLOOD SUPPLY a very poor circulation in the extremities, making for a bad superficial circulation. And in the beginnings of applications for those things that would be the more helpful, in bringing about changes that would be beneficial, the applications in this direction would be the more helpful. While there will be changes necessitated as conditions develop and as changes are brought about, we will find these WILL bring to the activities of the body much of an improvement, making for a RELEASE of much of those tautnesses and pains that are suffered by the body at times.
4. In the beginning, then, we would prepare a compound to be massaged into the body, in these proportions and combined in the order named:
5. To 4 ounces Russian White Oil, add:

   Cedar Oil (Oil of the wood, NOT nut oil)...1/2 ounce,

   Oil of White Pine..........................1/4 ounce,
Witchhazel...................................1 ounce,
Oil of Mustard...............................5 minims,
Coal Oil.....................................2 ounces,
Tincture of Benzoin........................1/2 ounce.

   These will tend to separate as they stand in solution. Before using as a massage shake well together and pour a small quantity into a saucer or open container. Begin with the massage on the spine at about the 9th dorsal area. Massage in a circular motion to the lower end of the spine, all the body will absorb. Then begin along the hips and down to the lower portion of the feet and ankles, where the swelling tends to come at times. We would also begin then in the brachial area, or at the 1st and 2nd dorsal, massaging to the points of the shoulder blades and out the arms. Then a little to the base of the brain. This we would do at least every other day, requiring about thirty minutes; take this much time in the massage, not too severe but gently.
6. On those days when the above oil rub is not given, it would be well to use first warm packs of plain salt; preferably the heavy coarse salt heated in bags and placed along the spine, massaging THROUGH the salt packs gently along the spine and also on the limbs - not to produce irritation; but the heat IN the sacks AND the massage will be the aid. Afterwards apply the violet ray (hand machine, bulb applicator) over the same areas, and across the abdomen and down from the area of the diaphragm (right and left across the body), then down over the liver and over the caecum and up and across the colon area and down, following the outline across the abdomen, see?
7. We would be mindful, too, that the diets are rather of the semi-liquid or semi-solid foods, that will not make for too great a heaviness. But let one meal each day, whether morning, noon or night, be of RAW vegetables - combined in a salad or eaten separately; such as lettuce, celery, carrots, beets, turnips, spinach, peppers, tomatoes, cabbage (white and red) - all of these may be used, or they may be used in pod, but at least some time during each day let all of these in their VARIOUS ways be combined, you see. The other meals should be of those foods such as indicated, and no great heavy amount.
8. Also we would prepare two solutions to be taken internally, in this manner:
9. 1st solution: To 1 ounce distilled water add 1 grain Chloride of Gold.
10. 2nd solution: To 1 ounce distilled water add 5 grains Bicarbonate of Soda (plain baking soda).
11. Keep these in different solutions. Preferably in the evening before ready for retiring, we would begin with taking 1 minim of the Gold solution and 2 minims of the Soda solution in half a glass of water. Each day increase the quantity of the Gold solution 1 minim, and the Soda solution in proportion, until 5 minims of the Gold and 10 minims of the Soda are being taken each day. Then leave off one day. Then begin again with the 1 minim. Keep this up until the SECOND quantity of the compound for the rub has been used.
12. Then we would give further instructions, [676].
13. Ready for questions.
14. (Q) Is this condition curable?
    (A) It can be aided materially, and very helpful to the body.
15. (Q) In giving the oil massage on the limbs and arms, would the whole limbs be massaged or just the joints?
    (A) The whole limbs would be massaged. Begin from the 9th dorsal downward on the spine; that is, from the 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th dorsal, 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th lumbar, through the sacral area; then across the hips and down the whole of the limbs to the toes. Then begin with the 2nd and 1st dorsal and go upward to the shoulder blades; then across the shoulders and down to the arms. This should be done every other day, taking about thirty minutes for the general massage.
    You see, we are working on the superficial circulation FIRST; not that there are not other conditions that will need attention, but these now. The properties internally, with the application of the violet ray as indicated (after the salt packs first to produce an activity from the superficial to the sympathetic and to the deeper circulation), will be helpful to this body, [676].
16. (Q) How long should the salt bags stay on before the violet ray is given?
    (A) Have a bag of salt about the thickness of half an inch, so that the portions of the body may be massaged with the hands THROUGH the pack. Let this remain on until cool; but on warm or hot and let remain until cool.
17. (Q) Should the salt bags be used on any other portion of the body except the spine?
    (A) Only on the spine; though the massage with the violet ray is to be over the abdomen as indicated, across the diaphragm, over the liver, down the caecum, up the ascending, transverse and descending colon. All of these receive impulses of circulation from the centers along the spine as indicated, in the area from which they are to receive impulses. And the activities of the violet ray are only to make for the electrical rejuvenation of nerve energies that have been depleted through the inactivity of the whole system of the body.
    We will have the body walking!
    It takes time; must be patient, must be persistent. Do not make applications MERELY as ROTE. KNOW and FEEL that these WILL bring, and are bringing, NEW LIFE to the portions of the body.
18. We are through for the present.

    Copy to Daughter
    Copy to Ass'n file
    (GD's notes: WARNING: Either do ALL that is suggested, or none of it; for all the treatments are to work in cooperation, and one without the other might bring detrimental conditions without the assistance of the others.
    You will probably be able to obtain the ingredients and prepare the compound for the massage yourself, if you follow directions exactly; also the Gold and Soda solution to be taken internally. If not, we would refer you to Eimer & Amend, 18th St. & Third Ave., NYC, or our local druggist, Synder Pharmacy, 244 Church St., Norfolk, Va. The violet ray machine may be obtained at any electrical or drug supply house. Follow each item in detail AS DIRECTED. When the second quantity of the massage compound has been used, with all the other treatments as given, let us know so that we may make an appointment for a check-reading to give further instructions.)

BACKGROUND

1. 9/21/34 Daughter's letter: "She has been ailing for a good many years, at present being confined to a wheel-chair."
2. 9/26/34 "The most important question is whether her condition is such as can be cured, and if so, how such cure may be effected. I should also like to know what the condition is attributed to, as no definite diagnosis of same has been made."

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