Edgar Cayce Readings, 1680-1

Time and Place: 3:40 to 4:00 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. ..., Penna.

TEXT

GC: You will go over this body carefully, examine it thoroughly, and tell me the conditions you find at the present time; giving the cause of the existing conditions, also suggestions for help and relief of this body. You will answer the questions that may be asked.
EC: (While mumbling over address and trying to locate body - "Yes - it's beyond where the street car turns.")
Yes.
Now as we find, the disturbing conditions that prevent the normal or better physical functioning of the system arise from rather a complication.
The effects are from the one or same cause, yet the multiplicity of activity through various portions of the system has made and does make at this particular period for disturbing conditions that become quite aggravating to the body at times.
These then are conditions as we find them with this body, [1680], we are speaking of.
In times back (when a child) there were left the effects of temperature and infectious forces. These produced within the lymph circulation a catarrhal condition, or effect, which has prevented and does at these times prevent proper functioning; producing disturbances to the functioning of the system.
Hence as we have found, there are times when the body feels much better, yet few times that it could say it was entirely free from some disturbance.
It has affected mostly the digestive system. And those effects upon the ability of the body to assimilate and to eliminate nominally have been only aided by the effects of applications made from time to time.
This naturally has created and does create a disturbance in the very nature and character of the blood supply.
Hence we find at periods there is the breaking down of the ability of coagulation, even through the functioning of organs themselves. Hence at times we will find disturbances to the soft tissue of face, head and neck, throat; and at other time disturbances through the pulmonaries, or pains through same; at others a great disturbance is seen through the abilities of elimination and of assimilation. At other times we find, when there is a particular weakness in the system or an overexertion of any kind, there are rather disturbing and distressing conditions.
It has been very necessary then for the body to be very precautious as to its activities, in the abilities to keep the feet warm or dry, to keep out of drafts; and to engage in at times exercises or activities that were appealing yet owing to the very nature of the disturbances the body was prevented from becoming active.
With the changes that are coming about in the functionings of the system as related to the blood supply, now we find the effects that become as of a neuritic nature; and at times a rheumatic disturbance through the system.
And unless there are the abilities of the system to make for changes that will produce better building and reserve supply, these conditions will gradually make for greater disturbance through the body.
As we find, then, in making applications for the body that would be the more beneficial:
Through deep manipulations osteopathically administered, we would stimulate all centers along the spinal system. While it will be found that some segments need alignment - as through the lumbar area and through the upper dorsal - it is rather the general stimulation that is needed THROUGHOUT the system for the greater help or benefit, WITH the specific alignment where from time to time there will be the congested areas - through the attempts of the system to adjust itself, through better stimulation to the impulses for activity through the nerve forces in the ganglia along the cerebrospinal system. These treatments would be given twice a week.
Once a week, during the same periods, and under the supervision of the one giving the osteopathic adjustments, we would use the Diathermy; with special reference to this being applied as a stimulation for the liver and the gall duct areas. But these treatments should be rather LOW and not too HIGH a vibration, though sufficiently high to create the heat NECESSARY for assisting the system with the activities of the manipulative forces to not only RID the system of the poisons but to stimulate the eliminations in such ways and manners as to bring about the better forces for the body.
As we find, then, it would be necessary also at times to use the colonic irrigations for removing the excess poisons through the colon areas.
In the DIET - this should never consist of fried foods at all! Not so that the body becomes where it is as it were just following a routine, but rather observe these precautions. The meats should only consist of fish, fowl or lamb. As to vegetables, never combine too many of those that grow above the ground without some of those that grow beneath the ground. Such an observance would be more specific for the body.
AFTER there has been at least one month of the treatments osteopathically, twice a week; and four of the Diathermy treatments; THEN we would begin with Codiron as a tonic.
Do these, being persistent and consistent; and we will bring the better conditions, better strength, better vitality, better resistance for this body.
Ready for questions.
We are through for the present.
Copy to Self
Copy to Ass'n file
(See separate directions [which were enclosed] for Osteopath.
Codiron is manufactured by The Lawrence Laboratories, Chicago, Ill. It comes in tablet form and sells for $1 a bottle.)

BACKGROUND

9/01/38 Letter: "I have been indifferent to bad health ever since I was a young child. I should like to overcome this in order to be of greater use in this life... Can you explain why, twelve years after her death, I am troubled with terrifying dreams of my mother? She was of a very violent temper and I was always very much afraid of her.
"I have also an immediate need of finding an assistant in my business."

REPORTS

9/10/38 EC wrote advising that her questions would be best answered in a Life Reading.