This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the David E. Kahn home, 44 West 77th St., Apt. 14-W, New York City, this 23rd day of October, 1935, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [1028], new Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Mrs. [987].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mrs. [1028] and Mr. [1029].

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1. EC: Now, as we find, while the body is very good physically in many respects, there are disturbing factors. And if these were corrected in the beginning we would not only make for bettering of conditions physically in the present but would prevent disturbances later on.
2. These disturbing factors, as we find, are rather subtle in their nature; and the reflexes that occur in the reactions through the functioning of the system arise from deeper - or at present hidden - conditions that arise from an unbalancing of the equilibriums between the elements in the iodides, the calciums, the potassiums, that make for the activity with glands that in their action and functioning supply the necessary forces for keeping the equilibrium through the system.
3. Hence those periods when there is the tiredness, as of a tingling in portions of the body, acute conditions in the gastrointestinal activity, the circulatory forces that produce the effect of the low nervous headache, burning through the organs of the sensory forces, and the natural depressions that occur occasionally. These are REFLEXES from those conditions arising in the body, as will be indicated.
4. These, then, are the conditions as we find them with this body, [1028] we are speaking of, present in this room:
5. IN THE BLOOD SUPPLY, while the metabolism and the activity of the pulsation nominally is very good, we will find periods when there will be quite a variation in the pulsation - in various periods of a day or of a weekly period. This, as indicated, arises from the lack of the impulse through the activities of glands that affect functioning organs. Thus there is produced, as it were, the necessity of the system's attempting, through an increased or decreased circulation, to produce the normal balance in the body.
6. The elements in the blood supply indicate at periods somewhat of a lessening of the numbers of the red blood cells and the necessity for the increasing of the leucocyte, or the warrior elements.
7. Hence the lymph circulation - that tends at times to form for lymphatic reflexes, and to form acute conditions through the various portions of the body - becomes active when this increase is noted in the changing, or the circulation as related to the heart's activity.
8. No organic heart disturbance. No disturbance with the conditions as related to the heart, the lung and the liver in its circulation; though all of these may at times have the expression of being involved, because of this balance being created.
9. IN THE NERVOUS FORCES OF THE BODY, here we find, while there are those disturbances in the circulation and the activity of the glands' actions to organs, the nervous forces are only sympathetically involved. They are not the causes, but the effect to the sympathetic system - as to produce at times periods of restlessness, of evenings when the body should be resting or when there should be an entire relaxation. The body feels at periods a tautness that is distressing to the nervous forces, especially in the sympathetic or vegetative nerve force.
10. Hence the imaginative forces, the impulses to become rather EXTREME at times, arise from this nerve reflex or reaction.
11. In the cerebrospinal nervous system the natural tendency for the reaction becomes rather such that portions along the cerebrospinal system, where there are the principal junctions between the sympathetic or the vegetative and the cerebrospinal systems, make for a consciousness of an activity taking place. There are periods when those portions across the lower part of the back become heavy, through the sacral area. And the reflex from same is in those experiences felt by the body as to the limbs; not always, but there are periods when these conditions occur. At other times those conditions just between the shoulders, at the area between the secondary cardiac reflex plexus and the brachial area, make for the characterization in the head reaction; or those periods of nerve force reaction - as indicated - in the sensory forces.
12. These, then, are effects upon various portions of the organism - and not the causations.
13. IN THE FUNCTIONING OF THE ORGANS THEMSELVES, we find:
14. Brain forces and brain reflexes are near normal. These make for a greater ability of the body, then, to produce within its own activity - as it were - the result of mind over conditions. For the body is able through its mental equilibrium to adjust itself to circumstance, to conditions, to experiences, without becoming overanxious; save at periods when these depressions recur through the functioning of the circulatory forces by depression in glands' secretions.
15. In the organs of the sensory forces: Eyes, ears, speech, taste, feelings; these become acute at times and conscious of their reaction. But these are rather reflex forces, as indicated, than disturbances in these organs or their activity in the present.
16. Throat, bronchi, lungs, larynx: These, as we find, under the existing conditions, are very good; though, as indicated, there are periods when the lymph circulation through all of these is accentuated by the natural reaction of a disturbed circulation; PRODUCING acidity - or the lack of the balance between the secretions for the system to produce the fluids, as it were, through secretions of the glands - as in the salivary glands; the mouth becomes dry. Yet these at times make for accumulations that are disturbing through the congestion produced in the body.
17. In the heart's action: As indicated.
18. In the digestive forces: Through the stomach, through the cardiac portion, normalcy - as these repressions do not distress; though the position of the stomach itself, through the laxity in muscular forces, makes for slow or at other times too quick an emptying of the stomach itself.
19. Thus we have a disturbance there that is of the nature as to make for a contributory cause to the glands not being active, and for the unbalancing between the acids and the alkalines for normal digestion. However, with corrections as we will indicate, WE find that the glands should be revivified and the organs function so as to create an equilibrium that would overcome any tendency in these directions.
20. Through the duodenum and the activity of the pancreas, spleen and the liver secretions for the activity of digestive forces: These at times become sympathetically disturbed, but above the normal in most of the activities in this direction. Or there are periods when it may be said that these become oft the saving graces, as it were, to digestive forces.
21. In the upper portion of the jejunum and through the activity of the lacteals: We find from those unbalancing conditions there are food values - as of too much or excess quantities of accumulations of oils or fats, or such characterizations that in the food values produce too great a quantity of an alcoholic reaction - that become disturbing to these portions of the system. For this unbalanced condition becomes greater in its reaction.
22. Through the alimentary canal, as through the colon and the effect upon the glands about the kidneys and those portions of the organs through the pelvis: These make disturbing forces, but are reflex. And the correction, or the creating of the normal equilibrium, as we find, should bring then normal forces for this body; giving not only a more perfectly balanced body for the mental and spiritual influences to work through, but giving greater opportunities to the mental and spiritual forces in the entity's outlook upon the mental and spiritual forces ABOUT the body.
23. THEN, IN MAKING FOR THOSE CORRECTIONS AS WE FIND WOULD CREATE THIS NORMAL BALANCE:
24. First we would add small quantities of the iodine in the form of the Atomidine, that may be taken internally; thus forming an activity with the thyroid and the lymph flow through all actions of the gland forces in the body and purifying same. Take one minim in half a glass of water before the morning meal, each day, for a period of two weeks. Then leave off for a week. Then take two weeks more. Then gradually, as the changes come about - with better circulatory forces, better activity throughout the system - it may be left off.
25. Also we would begin to make those adjustments for creating a balance in centers in the cerebrospinal system, where there have been indications of the glands with the activity of those centers where cerebrospinal and sympathetic coordinate in those ganglia. As in the 4th lumbar, the 3rd and 4th dorsal (to the brachial center), the upper portions of the cervicals - or those areas through which the hypogastric and pneumogastric plexus cross; making for the relief to the pressures in the head, and releasing those activities to the vagus center - this in the 3rd and 4th cervical and about the throat.
26. These would be given not too often, but sufficiently that the system keeps the drainages to the normal eliminations; not only through the activity of the alimentary canal but through the activity of the hepatic circulation, through the activity of the respiratory system, through the activity of the perspiratory system - so that at times through activity the normal reactions occur in the epidermis and activity of the superficial circulation.
27. So take these in periods; two to three times a week for two to three weeks. Then have a rest period from same for two weeks. Then have another period of the treatments.
28. These should be sufficient, and will make for reactions or corrections to normal forces.
29. Ready for questions.
30. (Q) The adjustments should be made osteopathically?
    (A) Osteopathically, preferably. While this does not interfere with masseuse treatments or those activities in such for the body, the ADJUSTMENTS and the stimulation of the ganglia in the area indicated - osteopathically - is the preferable manner.
31. (Q) Is the pancreas functioning correctly?
    (A) Rather, as indicated, there should be the coordinating of the pancreas, the spleen, the gall duct - for these work together. One is lacking in the activity, another is disturbed; yet, as indicated, these may BECOME - as it were - the saving graces for the system itself.
    The addition of iodine (through the Atomidine) that stimulates gland activity (and of course the pancreas is a gland) will cleanse same so that the system's reaction to food values, and the food values for the body, will be such as to make for body, blood and nerve building - which means not an excess of starch nor sugars, and ESPECIALLY these not combined at the same meal.
    But with these stimulations osteopathically to the lumbar plexus and the brachial plexus, with these properties in the system (of the Atomidine), the condition here should clarify itself.
32. (Q) Is this a good climate for me to live in?
    (A) Rather may the body be ADJUSTED to the climate and the climatic conditions; for these for this body specifically would be in the west or south. But ADJUST the body TO climatic conditions, if the desires and the interests and the influences require same; see?
33. We are through with this reading.

    Copy to Self
    Copy to Ass'n file
    (See pamphlet [which was enclosed] explaining Atomidine and where obtained. Take only as directed in Reading.
    See letter [which was enclosed] to Osteopath with directions for adjustments.)

REPORTS

1. 10/23/36 Husband, Mr. [1029], obtained a Physical Rdg. in P.M. of same day.

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