This psychic reading reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 15th day of December, 1934, in accordance with request made by the daughter - Mrs. [379], Active Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

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

TEXT

1. EC: Yes, we have the body here, [761], and those conditions that surround and disturb the better physical functioning of the body.
2. As we find, there may be palliatives and those things that will make for a much easier reaction; yet these must necessarily be only temporary - or reliefs that will bring about an easing and a resuscitating, in a manner, for the body. For those disturbing factors, as we find, are of a long-drawn-out condition - and the body-physical has become weary and worn. And the anxiousness of the mental and spiritual forces for its greater activity is gaining more and more in its desire for freedom.
3. There has been, as we find from the physical, the long-standing poison accumulations that have affected and do affect the eliminating system.
4. Then, the eliminations have gradually and gradually backed poisons that affect the assimilating forces of the body. Hence those disturbances for the liver, the spleen, the activities in the kidneys, and the poisons that accumulate from not only the lack of drosses being eliminated from the organs themselves but again and again we find the affectations to the of what have been the accumulations from the ineffectual activity of the kidneys in their eliminations through the system. Hence we have had nausea; conditions where there is engorgement of the spleen itself; the inactivity and yet at times overactivity of the kidneys, until these show a softening in - their very functionings; and the spleen with its engorgement making for periods when the body lapses almost from its memory and goes more toward those things that come through the sensory reactions, causing visions and dreams and a longing in the inner self.
5. In the physical, though, as we find, there may be brought help and aid. For, as indicated, while the temperature has arisen, this is not severe; neither have the activities to make for the increased eliminations and activities of the organs of elimination been aided - but these have been rather in a SEVERE manner for the body.
6. Then, as we find in the present, first we would - as it were - paint the liver and spleen area - that is, not only the right side of the body, across the abdomen and about the diaphragm area, but almost the entire length across the frontal portion to the left portion of the body also - with a compound consisting of three parts Tincture of Laudanum to one part Aconite.
7. Then we would place over this area a saturated solution of Epsom Salts in a hot pack.
8. When this pack has cooled entirely, so that it becomes rather a weight than a help, remove same. Sponge off; only to dry and not to take off the activities of Aconite and Laudanum.
9. Then use the Castor Oil packs across the area, including the liver. At the same time apply the Epsom Salts packs across the kidneys, or in the area of the 9th and 10th dorsal. Heat these as hot as the body can stand, and keep warm preferably with using very heavy packs of crash towels wrung out of hot water - that will hold the heat. Repeat, or keep these packs for about two and a half to three hours each day.
10. Rather than using the heavy purgatives or an excitement to the body, we would use preferably the milder form of cathartic that may be found in the Fletcher's Castoria. Preferably, take about a teaspoonful from an ordinary bottle of nine hundred drops and add in its place half a teaspoonful of Syrup of Senna. Shake VERY well together each time before the small dose is given, which would be half a teaspoonful every half hour until there are the full eliminations. But preferably the Castoria would not be begun until after the second application of the Oil packs and the saturated solution of the Epsom Salts - painting the body first, of course, each day, with the Aconite and Laudanum over the liver and spleen area as given.
11. As we find, the injections should be used in the tubes for those conditions or folds in the sphincter muscles and nerves of the lower portion of the descending colon and through the rectum - using that compound known as Tim.
12. The feet should be kept ABOVE the head the greater portion of the time as the body rests, or especially when these injections are made - or during these treatments.
13. It would be well to use a very SMALL enema, almost as a baby, you see, well oiled with vaseline - and that there be given small injections of Russian White Oil or Olive Oil; or it would be more preferable still - if there is the ability to use a force-injection - to use the Alkalin Petrolagar thinned with water. This may be used as injections to prevent irritations by the activity through the alimentary canal. After such injections, or after the removal of the fecal forces from the body through such activity, would be the best time to use the salve or ointment injection for the body, see?
14. As to the matter of diet, let this consist rather of citrus fruit juices - rather their combination; as five parts of orange juice to one part of lemon juice. Pineapple juice. Grapefruit juice. Such as these, with beef juices and broths of any kind. Keep rather a semi-liquid diet. The egg yolk (only the yolk) well beaten with the burned spirits frumenti would be the more helpful than the stronger spirits, and would be as a STRENGTHENING to the body, see?
15. Gentle massage morning and evening would be well, using equal parts of Olive Oil and Tincture of Myrrh - heating the oil to add the myrrh; especially rubbing this across the lumbar and sacral area and the brachial plexus area, but down the spine - away from the head ALWAYS.
16. Such as these, as we find, would bring the better conditions for this body, [761].
17. Ready for questions.
18. (Q) What about the phlegm in throat?
    (A) As we find, the giving of the eliminations will be the most helpful to the conditions; though, as this makes or tends for the accumulations, it would be helpful to give small sips of a Calcidin solution until there is an iodine reaction. Dissolve five grains of Calcidin in one ounce of DISTILLED water. Keep this warm, and give small sips - half a teaspoonful every thirty or forty minutes for two or three hours; then skip two, three, four hours, and then give again, you see, until there is the iodine reaction. This will cut loose the phlegm and make for the easier expectoration.
19. (Q) The pains in head?
    (A) These rubbings will relieve these conditions.
20. We are through for the present.

    Copy to Mrs. [379] - Special Delivery
    Copy to Ass'n file
    (Keep Calcidin warm by letting solution stay near heat, rather than heating the solution itself. Do not burn whiskey with match. Light a piece of paper and let the flame burn the alcohol.
    See directions [which were enclosed] for making beef juice. GD.)

BACKGROUND

1. 12/02/34 Daughter [379] wired for rdg. saying that Mrs. [761] had pains in her head and stomach, phlegm in throat, trouble with eliminations, hemorrhoids of long standing. Doctor had said it was her liver and had given calomel. Please suggest best diet.

REPORTS

1. 1/03/35 Mrs. [379] reported that Mrs. [761] had continued to improve by constant application of treatments, day and night, but that lately she had refused to take the packs.
2. 1/06/35 "She is now taking the packs; still improving or holding on, yet keeps talking of wanting to go home. She can't remember things long."
3. 1/15/35 "Still holding her own - won't take the packs now, however - they seem to bother her greatly. Still wants to go home. Mind like a child's."
4. 1/20/35 "She is up now and goes about the house as she pleases."
5. 1/35 A.R.E. Bulletin used her case with another one under the title RELIEF IN ADVANCED YEARS.
6. 9/17/35 See daughter's rdg. 379-3, Par. 47-A in re their being sisters in a former early America incarnation.
7. 2/26/36 Mr. [420]'s ltr. to EC in Detroit: "My wife, [379], mother-in-law, [761], and myself have been most wonderfully helped."
8. 3/16/38 Mrs. [761] died quietly at 8:00 P.M.

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