This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 23rd day of February, 1939, in accordance with request made by the self - Mr. [1831], new Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by his sister, Mrs. [1582].

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

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1. 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 submitted, as I ask them:
2. EC: Yes.
3. Now as we find, there would be rather the warnings as to the inclinations that are arising.
4. While these at the present cause anxiety, and disturbing conditions at times, if there is the continuation into the activities and in the mental attitudes towards persons, individuals or conditions, these will gradually - in the physical conditions as well as in the mental and material environs - become more and more as disturbing conditions for this body.
5. These then are physical conditions and reactions as we find them with this body [1831]:
6. The blood supply indicates that there are disturbances in the nerve systems of the body, - as produced from an unbalanced conditions in the assimilating and eliminating system of the body.
7. And these, as they become combative between the sympathetic and cerebrospinal system, make for this tendency for the inability of the body to control the locomotory activities at times through actions and physical forces of the body.
8. These then as seen are exterior influences, acting upon the nervous system in such a way and measure or manner as to cause this unbalancing in the digestive or assimilating and the eliminating forces; thus returning in their effect upon the nerve system to cause this palsied effect (as it may be called at times) within the frame of the body.
9. As to the effects upon the superficial circulation, the irritations to portions of the system that come involved, and the irritated parts especially in the emunctory circulatory centers, - these show for disturbances and disorders; as they will - if continued - make more of an organic effect, or the result of deterioration in the organic functioning of some portions of the system.
10. Then, as we find, these produce the greater disturbances through the body.
11. In preparing for the eliminating of these disturbances, then, we find that the diet, the specific adjustments, with a change in the attitudes towards conditions and surroundings, as to make for the better mental, physical and material constructive forces within the reactions, would be the necessary influences and forces for the body.
12. First, then, we would have the adjustments made osteopathically in the areas especially ABOVE the 9th dorsal to the 1st cervical, that will tend to make for better drainages through the system; and in those areas from the 9th dorsal to the end of the spine rather those that will make for a more unified activity through the portions of the system that are exercised by the impulses from those centers of activity for the body.
13. In the diet we would take more of fruit juices and green vegetables, as to purify and cleanse the system.
14. And these would be done in such a way and manner that there is left off any influence or force that tends to make for the greater activities of sedatives, or any character of disturbance to the digestive forces of the body.
15. No fried foods, then, - or very little, ever, for the body.
16. Especially have more of the artichoke as a part of the food values; the Jerusalem artichoke, at least three times each week, raw OR cooked; for the activity of the insulin as produced from these is necessary for the conditions in the liver, the spleen and especially the pancreas and kidneys in their activity.
17. Do these, as we find, for a continued period of some five or six weeks; and we should find a great deal of aid and help for these conditions.
18. Ready for questions.
19. (Q) What is meant by the causes being exterior?
    (A) As has just been indicated, - keep away from those things taken internally that cause sedative reaction upon the nerve system, to deaden these in any way and manner and thus upsetting the assimilating system.
20. We are through for the present.

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