This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 8th day of August, 1938, in accordance with request made by the self - Miss [1655], new Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Mrs. [1642] and Mrs. [1632].

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

TEXT

1. EC: Yes, we have the body here, Miss [1655].
2. Now as we find, the disturbing conditions in the physical forces of the body are from definite disturbances; and their reactions are the effects.
3. Thus we have a complication, for the disturbing forces within this body are produced by the deflection of energies owing to adhesions as well as subluxations that exist in the cerebrospinal system, from lesions having formed from the disturbance through the periods when the temperature was high.
4. These then are the conditions as we find with this body, Miss [1655].
5. First, as we find:
6. Some time back there were those conditions produced by an intestinal flu; and the condition produced in the ascending colon, and in the areas of the caecum as well as those farther up - or as related to the emptying of the duodenum; and also from inflammatory conditions - the right ovary.
7. All of these have produced and do produce the conditions where a neuritic, rheumatic effect has existed; and the effects of the poison, and the pressures upon the tissue through the area and the activity of same upon the organs of assimilation, are the seat and the cause of the disturbance.
8. The lesions as formed from same, as we find, are in the 8th and 9th dorsal; as well as reflexes from the 4th and 5th dorsal areas. These also affect sympathetically those in the lumbar axis. For as the body has given way in the structural activity to these, there tends to be an unbalancing in the pelvic bone. Thus we have a disturbance in the lumbar axis.
9. All of these are the disturbances through the activities for this body. While, through care and attention, these do not produce so much disturbance, we find that at times - with the lack of proper eliminations, and overactivity mentally OR physically - the body tends to tire easily. Also a reaction is caused from the lack of the full eliminations; as does cold or congestion of any nature; upsetting the digestive system as well as the activities of the organs of the pelvis during Periods; and the general tired and headachey feeling, with an aching all over when there are disturbances.
10. These as we find, then, may be entirely eliminated - if there is sufficient time and precaution taken for the body to bring about the near to normal forces in the activities of those disturbances; producing those activities which will eliminate the cause and thus allow the body to become normalized through proper eliminations, proper assimilations and building up of general resistance in the body.
11. First, then, as we would find:
12. We would have at least eight to ten deep osteopathic manipulations and adjustments for the areas indicated; the dorsal, lumbar AND the areas through the cervical and the rest of the dorsal, making for coordinating with the general activities.
13. In taking the manipulations osteopathically, have a GENERAL treatment once a week and a specific treatment once a week; that is, make the corrections in the 4th and 5th and 6th dorsal, 9th dorsal, 4th lumbar once a week, with a general coordination; and then have a GENERAL treatment throughout the whole of the cerebrospinal system another time during the same week. Hence two treatments a week should be given, and fourteen or fifteen such treatments - half general and half specific - should be sufficient.
14. Also we would begin with the use of Codiron as a tonic. Take two tablets each day, one at noon, one at evening - until at least fifty have been taken.
15. For the disturbance through the colon, and the activity for the general forces of the repressions produced in the ovary activity, we would prepare and take a compound which will - with the properties in the Codiron - work well with the body. Prepare same in this way and manner:
16. To 2 ounces of Strained Honey add 2 ounces of Distilled Water. Let this come to a boil. Skim off all refuse, and when nearly cool, to this as the carrier, add - in the ORDER NAMED:

    Pure Grain Alcohol................1 1/2 ounces,

    Fusion or Elixir of Wild Ginseng....1/4 ounce,
Essence of Indian Turnip............1/2 dram,
Tincture of Stillingia..............1/4 ounce.

    Shake the solution well before each dose is taken, which would be a teaspoonful before the morning meal and one just before retiring - until the whole quantity has been taken.
17. When there is pain or repressions, during those periods of activities in elimination from the body, use the saturated solution of Epsom Salts in Packs across the small of the back and over the lower portion of the abdomen. There will not be required more than the change once or twice for same, and such Packs should be applied hot - to the body direct. Use heavy cloths, you see, with other dry cloths or towels laid over same.
18. The diet should be well-balanced. Keep away from too much of sweets, too much of starches. Use rather the honey in the honeycomb as the sweet. Most of the starches should be rather in whole wheat, or such natures. Vegetables, nuts and fruits should form the principal portion of the diet. As to potatoes or such starches, only eat the jackets or that part close to same - or eat more of the peel than the pulp itself.
19. In the activities of the body keep in the open as much as possible.
20. Do these and we will find we will bring normal forces for this body, Miss [1655].
21. Ready for questions.
22. We are through for the present.

    Copy to Self
    Copy to Ass'n file
    (8/08/38 note: Codiron comes in tablet form, is manufactured by The Lawrence Laboratories, Chicago, Ill., and sells for $1 a bottle.)

BACKGROUND

1. 8/01/38 Ltr.: "Mrs. [1654] and I have both been in rather poor health for several years... For the past several months I have been ill, though not acutely so, with ailments of a rather indeterminate nature which seem to concentrate in the duodenal region, the right lower quadrant and the right leg. For several years I have suffered with muscular rheumatism but that is now almost entirely gone. At the present, various doctors I have consulted seem to disagree as to the exact source of my ill health, which is probably not serious. But I am very tired of not being entirely well and am hoping very deeply that you will be able to help both Mrs. [1654] and me."

REPORTS

1. 8/12/38 Letter from [1655] to EC: "Thank you very much for your very kind letters and for the rdg. which arrived today. I was greatly interested and certainly believe that the diagnosis is eminently reasonable. I shall start on the line of treatment you prescribe immediately. Mrs. [1654] has asked me to tell you that her reading has also arrived and she will write to you soon as she is somewhat puzzled about one or two details."
2. 8/25/38 [1655]'s letter: "I'm very glad to be able to report that I'm feeling better every day. I am having the osteopathic treatments and taking the Codiron. The prescription which I ordered from the Virginia Beach drug store you recommended has not yet come."
3. 9/05/38 She referred her friend, Mrs. [1678], for readings.
4. 9/06/38 [1655]'s letter: "Thank you for your ltr. I am very glad to give you a case history. It's rather long and involved so I shall try to simplify it but if you would like more details than I give I shall be glad to supply them.
   "I first got sick a little over three years ago - in Aug. 1935. The diagnosis was intercostal neuritis and the first pain was on the left side of my chest in front. The pain grew worse rather than better and I was finally hospitalized for 2 months and then spent two more months in bed at home, with all sorts of heat treatment, intravenous typhoid injections (fever therapy), and injections of alcohol into the nerve roots. The doctors here finally said I had better go to a warm climate if I didn't want to spend the winter in bed. So I spent from Jan. to June in Honolulu. I felt better there until the end of April when I developed an acute pelvic inflammation and acute cystitis [?]. I was hospitalized a month there. I spent the summer resting and in Sept. 1936 went to work although I still had many pains which at that time I considered to be neuritis - from the first intercostal attack it had spread so that I had aches and pains in my arms, legs, back and throughout the intercostal region. In Jan. 1937 I had an attack of flu which increased the pains and I was forced to stop working. In March 1937 I went to the Mayo Clinic where a diagnosis of fibrositis (muscular rheumatism) and sacro-iliac arthritis was made. They prescribed heat, massage and a vaccine which I took for a year. In March and April 1938 I felt better than I had for years, discontinued treatment and had very little pain. About the end of April I began to have pains in my right side and in the duodenal region, which finally extended into the right leg and groin. I was in bed during the month of May and hospitalized for a short time (in Detroit, Mich.). After many examinations a doctor in Detroit diagnosed it as an infection in the right tube. On my way home in the middle of June I stopped at the Mayo Clinic where I was told I had a SLIGHT pelvic infection concentrated in the right ovary. Late in June when the pain continued I consulted a doctor here who could find no signs of pelvic infection and diagnosed the trouble as nerve congestion in the groin and a stomach complaint - probably hyperacidity. He put me on a strict milk diet and I have spent much of the summer in bed. As you know, I began your suggested osteopathic treatment August 13 and have felt much better since then. This is very long. I hope it is not too long and tells you what you wanted to know.
   "The osteopath who is treating me is Dr. J. O. Thoreson [John O. Thoreson, D.O.] and his address is 200 1/2 Fourth St., Bismarck. He has read all the data you have sent me and seems to be much interested.
   "I am sorry to bother you with this but the prescription you sent me I ordered from the druggist you recommended in Va. Beach more than three weeks ago. I have heard no word from him and very stupidly sent the prescription with his name and address on to him without copying his name and address. So I have no way of writing to him to see why I haven't received the prescription. Would you please be so kind as to send me his name and address as soon as possible?
   "Mrs. [1654] has received her radioactive appliance and is already finding relief from it, I believe.
   "I understand Mrs. [1678] had rdgs. yesterday. I do hope and pray that you will be able to help her.
   "I forgot to say in my case history that I have for several years had a hypo-thyroid condition and that in June 1937 I had some necrotic jawbone removed. It had been caused by a root tip left after a wisdom tooth extraction and was considered the focal infection responsible for my rheumatism.
   "With every good wish."
5. 9/21/38 [1655]'s letter to EC: "Thank you very much for your last ltr. and for all the trouble you took over my prescription. It was extremely kind of you. The prescription has not yet reached me but no doubt they will send it as soon as possible. I only thought that perhaps my letter had not reached them.
   "I think Dr. Thoreson would be glad to have any information you might care to send him.
   "I am sorry to report that I haven't been feeling at all well for the past ten days, and really felt very ill yesterday. The pains in my right side, which had almost entirely disappeared, have been returning and were very severe yesterday. I am staying in bed for a few days, and feel somewhat better today. Dr. Thoreson agrees with you that the difficulty is in the right ovary and has been giving me short wave heat treatments, in addition to osteopathic manipulations. I wondered if you might have any suggestions or advice to give. It's rather discouraging to have this setback when I've been improving so rapidly, though of course I know I will eventually recover.
   "Thank you again for your very kind letter.
   "With every good wish..."
6. 10/13/38 [1655]'s letter to EC: "I can't possibly tell you how very deeply grateful I am to you for your ltr., which was kindness itself. Thank you for more than I can say I shall, of course, be extremely glad to take advantage of your generosity, with the understanding that I shall repay you as soon as I am able to - which may not, I fear, be very soon. I have been at low ebb financially for some time, due to illness and consequent unemployment, and have been trusting that God would provide what was needed. Your ltr. is ample evidence to me of God's provision and I am equally grateful to Him and to you.
   "I am feeling better than last time I wrote you. I'm not sure whether the improvement is due to the medicine, the short-wave treatments, or the combination, but at any rate it exists. According to your original reading I am to have only one more osteopathic treatment. I shall have that one and then await the results of the check rdg.
   "I'm sorry that I am unable to get in touch with my doctor in time to have him list any questions for you, but I think I can ask enough to keep you busy without his help. I shall number them so that it will be easier to detach them from the ltr. if you wish to."
7. 10/13/38 Questions:
   1. What is the cause of the persistent pain in my right side, and what is the cure? 2. Should I exercise, walk, etc? This SEEMS to aggravate the side pain. 3. Lately I have been having a good deal of headache (the past 10 days). What is the cause of this? 4. Do I need surgery? 5. Can the condition in my side be ENTIRELY cleared up without surgery? 6. Is part of my seeming illness mental? I have been ill so much for the past few yrs. that I sometimes think my subconscious is full of fears and that I pamper myself more than I should. It is hard when one is unwell to draw the line between under-activity and over-activity. I certainly seem to tire easily and have very little resistance, but perhaps I should push myself more than I do. If you honestly believe I would be all right if I simply forgot about myself, I will try my best to do so.
   "I think those are the important points. Of course I want to know how the spinal and pelvic lesions are but I know they are much better. The right sacro-iliac lesion and attendant pelvic rotation seems the most troublesome place now, but it's not bad.
   "You are the most sincerely devoted healer I have ever encountered, Mr. Cayce, and I feel that I am greatly privileged to know you, if only through letters. I mean 'healer' in a broad sense, including doctors, etc. I can't tell you how much I thank you.
   "May God bless and guide you..."
8. 10/18/38 See 1655-2.

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