This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 12th day of September, 1937, in accordance with request made by the self Mr. [849], 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, [849]; this we have had before.
2. Now as we find, there are the disturbing conditions that are arising from an OVERAPPLICATION of influences and forces in the body to stop or allay an infectious force.
3. Thus we are producing in the activities of the lymph, especially the knee where the injury or the operative forces and the applications of the very high electrical vibrations have made a condition where there is the tendency for a giving away or the inability of the elements in the minutia or the lymph and the inability of the emunctory activity of the blood supply, the inclination to become lacking in the hormones necessary to prevent atrophy in the cellular force.
4. This condition in its incipiency or beginning has made for the tendency of the body to give way to that limb in activity. This throwing the body out of balance has tended to produce in the ileac plexus and in the center above the sacrals a jamming on the one side and an OPENING as it were on the other.
5. These produce then to the heads of the sciatic centers the impulse for lack of the proper return of the blood flow to the system for its purification.
6. Hence we have periods when there is the tendency for the feeling of a fullness, when the actual activity is a contraction as indicated within.
7. Now as we find, in making the applications in the present:
8. It would be well osteopathically to continue periodically to make the proper adjustments throughout the sacral, the coccyx and the lower dorsal centers, relieving the pressures from the nerves to the lower limbs. Include, to be sure, the feet movement; that the bursa in the feet do not become, through this continued tendency, inclined to make for a drying in the lymph and the emunctory centers at the heads of the muscular forces; that the bursa do not become lacking in sufficient of the fluids to produce the activity in the body; else we will have a stiffness to occur.
9. We would prepare an element or a compound for a perfect massage for the limb, for the feet, for the lumbar and sacral areas. This do at least twice or three times each week, evenings preferably. Prepare the compound in this manner:

   Mutton Suet..........................1 ounce,
Spirits of Turpentine................1 ounce,
Spirits of Camphor...................1 ounce,
Compound (not the plain, but
Compound) Tincture of Benzoin...1/4 ounce,
Oil of Sassafras....................60 drops.

   These will separate, but when they are ready to be used, stir well together; then massage into this portion of the body - the limbs, especially the left limb and the knee and the ankle, the muscular forces under the knee, the sacral and the lumbar - all the body will absorb.
10. If pain comes at times, those portions wrapped in heated flannel will help. This doesn't necessitate that there be applications of the massaging ingredients on the flannel, if put on just after the massage has been given.
11. In the diet, keep those things that are body and blood building. Well to add the enzymes, those as prepared for such activities; that is:
12. The Ventriculin - preferably in the present that WITHOUT the iron. These are concentrated properties and will add, with the massage and with the keeping of the proper diet, more of the hormone activity of the blood supply.
13. Keep away from hard liquors. Wines may be taken but as food, NOT as drink. Hence red wine or heavy vine or light wines may be taken, but NOT in excess - and as food, NOT as drink.
14. Use the Radio-Active Appliance in series. Use for two weeks, each day. Then leave off for two weeks. Then take again for two weeks. Leave off for two weeks, and then again - etc.
15. The massages, the corrections, should be kept periodically; that there is NOT the tendency with the inclinations for the body to give to the weakness in the limb; a perfect alignment through the coccyx, the sacral, the lumbar and, of course, throughout the dorsal and cervical area.
16. The ADJUSTMENTS will be made mostly in lumbar, coccyx and sacral.
17. The massage with the properties should be circular in motion, but cover the whole areas indicated.
18. Ready for questions.
19. (Q) Will this check the atrophying of the muscles of the right leg and thigh?
    (A) This will check the atrophying of the muscles in the limbs.
20. (Q) Can leg be brought to normal?
    (A) Try it! It's worth trying! It will, if there are the applications in the manners indicated.
21. (Q) Any further advice?
    (A) Keep constructive thought. No animosity, no hard feelings for those, or overanxieties or depressing conditions from making for resentments to those, that caused much of the disturbance.
    USE rather the disturbance as a means for more patience, more longsuffering, more understanding.
22. We are through with this reading.

    Copy to Self - Special Delivery (two copies,
    Copy to Ass'n file one for Dr. Dobbins)

BACKGROUND

1. See 849-16 on 7/25/36.
2. 8/31/37 He requested Physical Reading for his wife, Mrs. [1102], who was pregnant, saying:
   "...And meanwhile give me a check reading on these things: Have been troubled with sacroiliac trouble since the beach, and now wear a belt. What should be done for this trouble? It won't stay in place.
   Second, we notice a slow atrophying of the muscles of the right leg and thigh, because of the trouble - is there any way, by machine exercise, massage, electricity, or anything else, to check this and build up the leg?"

REPORTS

1. 9/13/37 Ltr. from [849]:
   Dear Eddie:- [His nickname for EC]
   Thank you for an excellent reading. Dr. Dobbins was frankly worried about the way things were going and I had been reduced practically to the state of a cripple. However, the reading has indicated just the way we should proceed and we are going along those lines. I will write to Tommy House today for one of the radio-active appliances. Naturally I was delighted that my leg can be brought back to normalcy and this encouragement will mean a lot in my mental attitude. I wasn't spending any time brooding on the causes of the condition but I had worked up, at certain times, an attitude of despair which did me no good. I feel much better now, and in the country in our house there will be a better opportunity to follow each suggestion to the letter. Seems that I have suffered several times in the course of this long ailment from over-treatment. I will try to see that this does not happen again.
2. 10/12/37 Ltr. from [849]:
   Dear Eddie:-
   Well, things happen so rapidly to the [849]'s lately that correspondence falls behind and there is a lot to tell:
   First of all there was immediate relief from the system of treatment outlined in my last reading. The leg, which was rapidly atrophying, has put on flesh, and Dr. Dobbins is amazed at it. The radio-active appliance did more to help my nervous system than a month at sea. After finishing the ... book I was in a highly nervous state. I have just finished my two weeks with the battery and feel relaxed and well. I take the Ventriculin daily and use the rub three times a week. My hair is really growing in under the oil treatment, and now all that is left for you to do to make a new man of me is produce something that will whiten naturally dull teeth... I expect after another year in chancery: working at this body and at my books, I'll emerge with things to do and a body with which to do them...my thanks for all of this to you...
3. 10/31/37 See Ck. Physical 849-20.

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