This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Artic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 9th day of March, 1935, in accordance with request made by the self - Miss [850], through Study Group #7 of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., via her mother, Mrs. [326].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Miss [850] and Miss [307].

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1. EC: Yes, we have the body here, [850].
2. Now, as we find, there is a complication of disorders which prevent the better physical functioning of the body. As we find, at times the effects of conditions have been tended rather than the causes. While the radial activity in a very much depleted blood supply is lacking in ironization, these are effects and they need those stimulations that will produce a normal balance - for they are effects rather than causes.
3. These, then, are the conditions as we find them with this body, [850] we are speaking of:
4. First, the BLOOD SUPPLY indicates a very poor and disturbed circulation, low in its vitality and in its resistance. Not oxidized nor carbonized sufficient in the lungs themselves, showing for very little radial activity through the kidneys, the liver and the spleen, as well as in its coordination with the lymph circulation.
5. In the NERVOUS SYSTEM, we find here both causes and effects. The body is very nervous INTERNALLY or the deeper circulation and the deeper centers that are impulsed through the central nervous system are suppressed. Hence we have a specific condition through the pelvis area, through the lung area, that makes for the disturbances in the nerve forces of the body. How it becomes as a trembling at times internally; how as the imaginative forces make for a prevention of the normal or nominal rest for the body; how that through the nervous forces the whole strength and vitality seems drained from the system, and there is the tendency of the body in its activities to force issues - as it were - with itself. These are causes and effects in the nervous system of the body.
6. As to the functioning of the ORGANS themselves, we find:
7. Brain forces are very good.
8. The organs of the sensory system make for disturbances through the impoverishment in the nervous forces of the body as well as in the circulatory system, so there are periods when we have a suppression of the coordinating activity in the sensory organs and others when they are rather acute. This depends upon the cycle of activity and the radial effect of the blood's ENERGY supply.
9. Throat, bronchi, lungs and the larynx, as indicated - there is a lack of the carbonization through the deeper breathing or breath of the body. While this is not an organic disturbance it is functional and leaves the pulmonaries open for the attack of, and the inclination towards, the distresses through the left lobe of the lungs, especially. This, as we find, shows for periods when there have been greater distresses. There have been the applications of those things in the raising of the electrical vibrations for the system that have been an aid, but this has gradually produced a strain also upon the body; for without removing the causes and without adding to the system that upon which the body may entirely build, it has drained the system in its vitality in a manner.
10. In the heart's action, this we find not normal; for we have suppressed periods, others when there is an excess period of the activity both as to pulsation and as to the heart beat itself. And in the activities through the system, though no organic heart disturbance but a sympathetic condition.
11. Digestive system also shows the effects of this nervous reaction in the system. Not a cause but an effect through the nervous repressions from positions and conditions and pressures from both the pelvic area and from the lung activity in the lack of building influences.
12. There has been within the mental experience of the body that which has produced a great depression upon the activities of the mental forces as related to constructive influences. These must of the body itself be put to work in CONSTRUCTIVE manners if the body-physical would be replenished for an activity. Let it be not as of self and not of just to be free of pain but to be active for some specific line or activity in its experience, looking to those influences for the fulfilling within its own experience those purposes for which the body came into being in this experience.
13. In the organs of the digestion other than the nervous temperament in the digestive area itself, we have naturally a sluggishness produced through the radial activity of the blood supply through the liver, in its coordination with the circulatory forces.
14. Hence we have congested areas through the alimentary canal and a disturbance from the sympathetic condition from a pelvis pressure that makes for those periods when there are the effects of the poisons, or those activities from the kidneys themselves that slow up the general conditions of the body.
15. As we would find, in meeting the conditions, these would of necessity have their varied periods of activity, so as to make for those changes or corrections in the system that would bring about a COORDINATED normalcy; and we would find we will bring the near normal conditions for this body. We would, then, apply these:
16. First, during the periods, we would use the Radio-Active Appliance, which will make for a direct reaction through the glands of the adrenal system and the eliminations through the puba bone and puba activity as will make for the relieving of pressures through the organs of the pelvis themselves. This we would use three to five days before the menstrual periods, each day. The first application would be to the 3rd and 4th LUMBAR plexus and the next application to the frontal puba plexus. The application would be kept for thirty minutes to an hour each day; preferably as the body rests.
17. For the general disturbance in the nervous forces of the system and in the activities of the organs of the body, we would have prepared a compound in this manner:
18. To 4 ounces of Compound Simple Syrup, add:

    Essence of Wild Ginseng.......1/2 ounce,
Essence or Tincture of
Stillingia.................1/4 ounce,
Essence of Indian Turnip.......20 minims,
Elixir of Calisaya............1/2 ounce,
Tincture of Capsici.............5 minims.

    This we would shake together before the dosage is taken, which would be about three times each day, preferably before the meals; half a teaspoonful plain or in a little water - or plain and drink a little water afterwards. It will be bitter, yes; but it will be also stimulating to the whole of the system as activative forces with the respiratory system, the gastric juices of the stomach itself, those activities of the liver and the spleen and the pancreas with a stimulating to the adrenal activity of the body.
19. We would have periods when we would have a general massage given. This would preferably be given at home; three to five days and then a rest period of leaving it off. During the massage periods it would be each evening along the spine, five to ten minutes of a rotary motion along the whole of the spinal system. After same (and the body should take the circular motion exercise for the lower portions of the body, the setting-up motions for the upper portion of the body for five to ten minutes) there should be a brisk rubdown; and the body will rest much easier.
20. In making for the better applications as to the activative forces of the diets, beware of eating cereals and citrus fruits at the same meal. Do not eat large quantities at once of sweets or meats. If these are to be taken, or desired to be taken, or will be taken, do not eat them at the same time or close to same quantities of starches. Beware of too much spaghetti with cheese, raw apples (except of the jenneting variety). Do not have bananas or the pulp of white potatoes. Pastry should be taken only in moderation; not too much of shell fish at any time, though oysters in season may be taken in moderation. As to the rest, we would keep a body-building diet tending towards the alkalin-reacting.
21. Do these things in a consistent manner, and we would bring the better conditions for this body.
22. Ready for questions.
23. (Q) What is the cause of me having shortness of breath?
    (A) As indicated in those filling places of the lungs themselves through the improper circulation through this portion of the body, through congestion in left lobe.
24. (Q) What is the cause and cure of the disease in head and throat?
    (A) A very poor circulation. If there are those stimulations taken by the massage and the exercises as indicated, with the medicinal properties internally, these should clear up as the circulation is improved.
25. (Q) What is the disease?
    (A) Wet catarrhal condition.
26. (Q) Was the hypo treatment given by Dr. Via [C. E. Via, M.D.?] several years ago beneficial?
    (A) Tending towards harmful; for these treatments were for the improvement of the resistive forces in the circulation, see? and they have affected rather a condition of a drying up of the blood supply, rather than an addition to the blood stream in its resistances.
27. (Q) What is the cause and cure for the goitre in my throat?
    (A) The lack of the secretions properly for the glands of the body. If we are building up the system as indicated, using those properties as outlined, we should set these conditions aright for the body.
28. (Q) What medicine should I take for constipation?
    (A) Be mindful of the diets as indicated, and the better medicine is to use high enemas and change into the laxatives in vegetables than using cathartics of any kind.
29. (Q) What is cause and cure for the stiffness in my knee?
    (A) Relieving those conditions in the circulation so that there is carried in the lymph supply and throughout the body a more perfect circulation, and the nervous forces of same.
30. (Q) For the irregular menstruating periods?
    (A) As indicated, before these periods use those vibrations that make for the better gland activity as related to these. These stimulations will make for better conditions in these directions.
31. (Q) For the ringing in my head?
    (A) The same conditions as for those indicated, for the poor circulation in the sensory organism, and using those things for stimulations will bring the better conditions.
    Do as we have outlined, consistently, persistently, and we will see not only a gain in the strength, the vitality and in the resistance, but the outlook upon life - the vivacity of the whole system - will be changed.
32. We are through for the present.

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    (See letter [which was enclosed] to Druggist, also Alkalin-Reacting diet list.)

REPORTS

1. 4/24/35 Her cousin, Miss [307], was present for her next Ck. Physical - 850-2.

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