This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 7th day of May, 1936, in accordance with request made by the self through her brother-in-law, Mr. [1113], Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

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

TEXT

1. EC: Yes.
2. Now, as we find, while there are disturbing conditions these have been in the most part, in some manners, exaggerated as to what might be the final or ultimate outcome of same.
3. Yet in these disturbances two choices are presented, as it were, as to means or manners of eliminating the disturbances or causes.
4. The first: The disturbance has become somewhat localized. Hence manners or means or measures that would make for the removal of the effects may, WITH same - and the rest as might be caused or produced by same, bring about a nearer normal condition.
5. Or, second: There may be the slower process in the beginning by the removal of the causes and thus eliminating the disturbing forces, eventually making for much nearer to normal than may be accomplished in other measures - as we find.
6. The disturbances that we find with this body, [1160], are as these:
7. IN THE BLOOD SUPPLY, first there are hindrances that have produced in the functioning of the organs a STRAINING, as it were, through the activities of the bodily functions and the glands; the lack of forces to produce or to cause PROPER assimilation or proper distributions throughout the system. These have become localized in the soft tissue of the throat, of the sensory system. And these make for conditions in the torso of the body that produce disturbing factors.
8. IN THE NERVOUS FORCE, then: There is brought an exaggerated activity through the pressures created on portions of the bodily functions themselves.
9. IN THE ACTIVITY OF THE ORGANS THEMSELVES, as we have indicated, pressures upon the central system through those functionings to the organs of the sensory forces make for a disturbing condition; in portions of the throat, the lungs. The activities through the cleansing of the blood supply through this activity produce a strain.
10. There is, then, in the 3rd and 4th dorsal centers a deflection through the activity or the SYMPATHETIC or the secondary cardiac center or plexus.
11. Thus we have in the system through the digestive area the tendencies for lymph formation into growths, in distressed areas. And these make for an inactivity through same, producing a disturbance through the assimilating forces of the liver, the kidneys and the activities themselves of the system.
12. IN MEETING THESE, these may be met through the application of medicinal properties or of operative forces to remove such. Yet these activate upon the system in such a way or manner as to cause a distressed area.
13. However, while taking somewhat longer period, we find that the applications would be more effective in their activity through the whole system of the corrective measures osteopathically given, that would reduce the temperatures and set up drainages through the system.
14. Such manipulative forces we would give at least three times a week for the first month, and then these may be reduced to once a week or to an even greater period.
15. If it becomes necessary through the edema as may be created in the lower portions of the abdominal area, applications of heat for the reduction and the response of same through the coordinations created by such manipulative forces in the lumbar area would reduce these conditions. Use for such heat a combination of equal parts Mutton Suet, Turpentine and Spirits of Camphor on heated flannels, kept warm by the use of an electric pad. This may be applied either over the abdomen or across the small of the back, to reduce those tendencies for the SEPARATIONS and the increased flow to the tendency of lymph pockets to form in the abdominal area.
16. Do these.
17. Reducing temperature oft may require the use of the rub alcohol or the grain alcohol rubs to bring about a better coordination.
18. All of these would be a natural result of the attention to the system as the needs arise.
19. But drainages set up, the diet made for easy assimilation, these would bring the better conditions.
20. Ready for questions.
21. (Q) What diet would you suggest?
    (A) A semi-liquid or those things that are easily assimilated.
    As the changes come, these should be set by the one making the applications.
    Do these for the first period of a month, and then we would give further instructions.
22. We are through for the present.

    Two copies to Mr. [1113] (one copy for Dr. Frank Dobbins, in
    Copy to Ass'n file case the osteopathic method is to be followed) - Special Delivery

BACKGROUND

1. 5/05/37 Brother-in-law, Mr. [1113], phoned HLC requesting the reading.

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