This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 11th day of July, 1935, in accordance with request made by the self - through Active Membership of her husband, Mr. [391], in the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mrs. [934].

TEXT

1. EC: Yes, we have the body here, [934], present in this room.
2. Now, as we find, the physical forces of the body are such that rather would there be the warnings as respecting tendencies in the physical functionings of the body; in order that these may be corrected in the present and thus prevent a great deal of distress or disorder later on.
3. These, as we find, arise from specific conditions that exist; which arise from pressures that produce the tendencies for lack of proper distribution of that assimilated.
4. Hence under the existent conditions that have been produced by these tendencies, it is necessary that there be created the proper balance in the body as related to the manner of assimilation - and as to what IS assimilated.
5. Then, these are the conditions as we find them with this body, [934] we are speaking of, present in this room:
6. The BLOOD SUPPLY we find very good in many respects, yet there are tendencies for those subluxations that exist to produce disturbances in the vegetative or sympathetic nervous system; which with the continuation must eventually bring disarrangement or disorder to the office of the organs that are being impaired by such tendencies.
7. These indications, then, are of a peculiar or DEFINITE condition in the NERVE PRESSURE as produced in specific centers; that is, in the 1st and 2nd dorsal and almost throughout the entire portion of the cervical area, with a REFLEX action from a condition that has existed for some time in the pelvic organs as to make for such tendencies in the system. [She told us she had suffered a miscarriage in 1/35.]
8. The pressures in the upper dorsals make for the disturbed circulatory force through the throat, the head, and the tendency for the inflammation of the mucous membranes of same - including, of course, the sinus, antrum, and all the soft tissue about the head. If these effects are continued, from the same character of pressure, eventually the sensory forces must be effected as related to the organs of the hearing, or the eyes, as well as the organs in the digestive area.
9. Hence we find that those corrections necessary should be made in the upper dorsal and cervical area, in specific adjustments. And these would preferably be made over a long period but in a CONSISTENT manner; not too often in the specific treatments. That is, we would have the treatments once or twice a week for the first three to four weeks; then once a week covering a period of two to three months would be the more preferable manner, in order for these to react PROPERLY in the system.
10. The specific centers to be relieved are the 1st, 2nd and 3rd dorsal, and - as indicated - throughout the CERVICAL area; and with once or twice or three times (dependent upon the activity) a coordinating of the 4th LUMBAR center WITH the brachial and the hypogastric and pneumogastric plexus through the cervical areas.
11. We would also find it most beneficial for the irritations as produced in the mucous membranes to use a compound as an inhalant; and for this body, for this special irritation in the nasal and throat passages, it would be prepared in this way and manner:
12. To 4 ounces of pure GRAIN alcohol, add:

    Oil of Eucalyptus.....................20 minims,
Compound Tincture of Benzoin..........15 minims,
Rectified Oil of Turp..................5 minims,
Canadian Balsam........................3 minims,
Rectified Creosote.....................5 minims,
Tolu in solution - or Tincture of.....40 minims.

    This would preferably be kept in a glass-corked container at least twice the size of the quantity; or a six to eight ounce container, see? Shake this together ONLY when to be inhaled. Shake and then inhale the FUMES only deep into the nostrils and into the throat; deep into the trachea and the bronchial tubes, as you would inhale smoke. Keep the solution corked except when inhaling same, and especially when shaking same up, see? The vacuum or the space ABOVE the solution in the container is to RETAIN the fumes that form by the activity of these properties one upon the other, and hence it is preferable to have a glass-corked container.
13. Use this whenever there is the tendency for the sniffing, or those early periods of the morning, or between ten-thirty and three when there is more than the ordinary irritation, and just before retiring. Inhale THROUGH the nostril and INTO the throat and lungs. These properties are only antiseptics, but they tend to create through the sympathetic system an effectual PREVENTATIVE for this irritation.
14. As to the matter of diet and exercise of the body, as related to the general conditions that exist in reference to those tendencies created in the digestive system and in the area of the caecum and through the activities of the lacteal ducts and the gall duct area:
15. Keep more of an alkalin-reacting diet. Not too much of meats of any nature. Use more of the vegetables and fruits and nuts. Or nuts may be included in cereals, provided they are cereals that make for the building not only of bulk but that carry the necessary elements, salts and vitamins from the activity of same; such as wheat, rice (preferably the uncut or unpolished rice), crushed or cracked or rolled wheat, rolled oats, and all such.
16. Let the greater portion of one meal each day, or almost the entire meal, consist of raw vegetables.
17. Let there be not too much activity in the middle of the day, or of the sunshine. The early mornings and the late afternoons are the more preferable times. For the sun during the period between eleven or eleven-thirty and two o'clock carries too GREAT a quantity of the actinic rays that make for destructive forces to the superficial circulation - which is disturbed by those activities of the system in the present. [See 934-2, Par. R3.]
18. Be mindful that there is not too great a draft at any time upon the body.
19. As for those things that make for the irritation to the mucous membranes of the throat, or the cold, or the tendency for the sniffing by the body as indicated at times; these arise more from the pressures upon the cervical and upper dorsal areas than from pollen. For the body may experience that even by the talking of such conditions it will affect the body just as quickly as would the smelling of any of the pollens. Hence it is a SYMPATHETIC reaction from a pressure that affects the vegetative nerve system. [See 934-13, Par. 9-A on 6/30/42.]
20. Do that.
21. Ready for questions.
22. (Q) What causes my back to ache at the base of my spine; also my ankles and arches?
    (A) As indicated, those pressures in the lumbar area where the sympathetic forces to the locomotories make for a disturbing in the circulation. We would remove those pressures as indicated, which are more in the UPPER portion; yet, as indicated, should be corrected in the lumbar and sacral areas for the coordinating of same WITH that released by the activity of the correction in the upper portion.
23. (Q) Why do I get dizzy spells?
    (A) The circulatory forces disturbed; hence making for a flushing of the blood to various portions of the body.
24. (Q) What causes the sieges of indigestion?
    (A) Super-acidity; through the activity of the ducts that secrete those fluids for the digested forces, that may be corrected through not only the spinal treatments to make a change or variation in the flow through the sympathetic nervous forces to the blood supply but through the diet itself.
    Do those things as indicated and we will find these will disappear.
25. (Q) Would Dr. Gena Crews of Virginia Beach be the right one to give the treatments?
    (A) She would be especially good, in that she would give or include the pulmonary activity for the lung forces; which she has, and not many have!
26. (Q) Are these ailments partly responsible for my being irritable and impatient at times?
    (A) Almost wholly.
27. (Q) Are these illnesses responsible for my headaches?
    (A) They are.
    Do these things. Make these specific corrective treatments as indicated, using the diet outlined - and the inhalant for the cleansing of the head, and we will find we will bring the corrections; not only a great deal of PREVENTION for disorders but RELIEF and correction of these disturbances.
28. We are through for the present.

    Copy to Self
    Copy to Ass'n file
    (See letter [which was enclosed] to Osteopath; also Druggist.
    See Alkalin-Reacting Diet list [which was enclosed], of which the principal diet should consist with changes suggested.)

BACKGROUND

1. She obtained a life reading on 6/11/35.
2. 7/11/35 She submitted questions, the main concern being severe attacks of hay fever.

REPORTS

1. 9/11/35 See 998-1 for her mother.
2. 11/22/35 See 934-3, one month pregnant.
3. 4/13/69 The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va., article reported in The A.R.E. Journal, May, 1970, Spotlight on the Readings:
   TIME IN THE SUN The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.
   A Lot of Variables Go Into A Human Face - Times/Post News Service: Philadelphia - "...At a seminar on 'The Quest for Youth and Beauty,' co-sponsored by Temple University Health Sciences Center and the Educational Foundation of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, Inc., the sun was singled out by more than one doctor as the cause of premature skin aging. Dr. J. Graham Smith, chairman of the Dermatology Department, Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, Ga...won't let his own children out in the sun between the hours of 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. when the ultraviolet (and most harmful) rays are strongest..."
   From the Edgar Cayce Readings:
   Let there not be too much activity in the middle of the day, or of the sunshine. The early morning and the late afternoons are the more preferable times. For the sun during the period between eleven or eleven-thirty and two o'clock carries too great a quantity of the actinic rays that make for destructive forces to the superficial circulation - which is disturbed by those activities of the system in the present. 934-2.

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