This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 7th day of May, 1940, in accordance with request made by the self - Mr. [849], Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

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

TEXT

1. GC: You will give the physical condition of this body at the present time, with suggestions for further corrective measures; answering the questions, as I ask them:
2. EC: Yes, we have the body here, [849]; this we have had before.
3. As we find, in some respects conditions show some improvements; in others these are not so well, in some respects.
4. There is still a great deal of crystallization that needs breaking up. There is not as much of this loosened as we have had in periods here before. This has loosened in a manner, - that is, the tautness, the static conditions in the joints; but not being eliminated it has moved in some portions of the system.
5. Thus there is caused some distress to the body, - especially is this indicated to those areas from the cervical upward. This should not be.
6. As we find, then, there would be some changes necessary; not only in the applications made but in the properties administered in the present conditions.
7. For, it is just as necessary to keep eliminations going as it is to break up or increase the ability of the circulation through that assimilated, - so that there is produced a better and a greater supply of blood in the body to push THROUGH those portions of the body that are to be irritated, as well as to cause the better building up of the conditions for improvement in activities through the system.
8. While there will be periods when this will become disturb ing, there MUST be the attempt of the body to use himself more.
9. We would make a frame - (metal - pipes) that might be moved about the room, - on which there would be pulleys on which the body would pull itself up, even to erect position. These should be a part of the regular exercises for the body.
10. Make this frame of sufficient height that the body COULD stand erect under same, and the cross pieces in such a way and manner that pulleys may be on same.
11. And this character of exercise should be a part of the experience of the body EVERY DAY, and at times more even than once a day!
12. Then, AFTER the exercise, each day, give the sponge bath and THEN the rub. First the exercise, you see, then the bath, then the rub. Don't get the cart before the horse, nor the horse in the middle of the cart, - but do it in this manner!
13. For the rub, use now a combination of Peanut Oil and Sassafras Oil. These apparently will not mix, but pour them in the saucer together in which the fingers are to be dipped. Massage this more along the cerebrospinal system than over muscular forces, - this from the base Of the brain to at least the middle of the back, - across the areas of the lumbar and sacral, of course, and around the joints. Dip hand into same, and massage sufficient to make the body almost squirm, when it is massaged around the joints of the knees and the ankles, and about the body. Do this regularly each day, after the exercise and bath, see?
14. Then, as for the other applications, - these would be given rather in this order, as we find:
15. Well that there be kept the use of the low electrical forces, but keep these well charged, - carrying the Gold into the system. Give this treatment at rather a regular period.
16. It is well that the Venom be kept, but give as far apart as possible - to keep down the pain. We would alternate same occasionally with injections of the Bee Venom also. This will produce inflammation, - it will produce almost like a temperature. Hence it will be necessary that the reaction of this be watched, with the Cobra Venom, for they will tend to cause one another to be reactory; but give these in the present. Alternate them. Say, once in three to four times of giving the Cobra Venom, give the Bee Venom.
17. Continue these in this manner until there is the ability to create better activity with the general manipulations osteopathically. And these have been very good, - but they are to be given as a stimulation, NOT as a relaxing for the body. Naturally, they ARE relaxing in a manner, but these are to be stimulating.
18. Then as to the diets, - keep these in the regular order as we have indicated. These are the sources, to be sure, from which more body-building forces are to come.
19. Do not tire out the body with any food, of course, - alternate it as much as practical, but:
20. At lest two to three times a week have the cooked cereal, - Maltex now would be the preferable one. Then the dry cereals with fruit may be taken, - these either with berries or other fresh fruits. Canned berries may be used if the fresh are not practical.
21. Each day give the body at least an OUNCE - during the day - of Carrot Juice! Get a Juicer, and MAKE carrot juice! Even if this tends to gag the body, DRINK IT!
22. Of course, keep up the citrus fruit juices.
23. Then, fowl, fish, lamb, - and once each week the beef. This should not be hard, but cooked well done, and more of the juice of same taken into the body than the flesh itself.
24. Not too much fats, but sufficient.
25. Then, every seven days give the Epsom Salts Baths.
26. The day and a half before the Epsom Bath, begin with three to five drops of the Atomidine internally, and take at least fifteen to twenty drops during that day and a half before the Bath, you see; and then SWEAT IT OUT THROUGH THE SYSTEM, see? for this is a portion of the activity needed. This is to be taken internally, you see, but the system should be able to handle same - though it will necessarily need watching closely.
27. Keep up the eliminations through the alimentary canal; with necessarily using enemas at times to cleanse the colon.
28. These as we find are the conditions for the present.
29. Ready for questions.
30. We are through with this Reading.

    Copy to Self
    Copy to Wife
    Copy to Ass'n file
    (See extra sheet [which was enclosed] for Dr. Hudgins.)

BACKGROUND

1. See 849-49 on 3/26/40.

REPORTS

1. 7/25/40 See 849-51.

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