Edgar Cayce Readings, 1845-1

Time and Place: 10:50 to 11:05 A. M. Eastern Standard Time. New York City.

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 which have been submitted, as I ask them:
EC: Yes, we have the body here, [1845].
Now as we find, there are rather the specific disturbances that are causing reactions which bring anxiety and some physical disturbances to the body.
These as we find may be corrected in the present, and thus - relieving the body, and those pressures that exist - would prevent a great deal of disturbance that might become of a very complicated nature if it is allowed to remain.
Then, these are the conditions as we find them with this body, [1845] we are speaking of:
In the lower lumbar, and especially through the coccyx area, there is a jamming of the segments there, - as may have been produced by an injury or fall in a much earlier period.
This reaction to the system, as we find, produces these effects:
With the proximity of the activity of the cerebrospinal and the sympathetic nervous systems joining through the brush end, and especially in the lumbar-sacral and coccyx area, we have a deflection of impulses, - as well as an aggravating of the glandular forces of the body as related to the genitive system as well as to the circulatory forces as related to the nerve impulse.
Hence we have a variation in the blood supply, though this causes little disturbance when there is kept the better eliminating force; but at other times, and especially through those periods of the menstrual forces, it causes a great deal of anxiety as well as a deflection of the circulation as related to the superficial and deeper circulation.
In the nervous system this reaction produces those conditions where there is the effect of melancholia, self-judgement, blaming on self those conditions which have little or nothing to do with either the physical, the mental, or even a social reaction. Yet these produce anxieties, - through the deflecting of the impulse, and especially at periods, - or this becomes a periodical reaction. Not at EVERY period, but many of these, - and close to these, just before or after, do such conditions occur.
As to the effect upon the glandular forces of the body:
As the deflection is through the sympathetic as well as the cerebrospinal system, we find many of the glandular forces are exaggerated or lacking in their abilities for complete or full activity.
Hence those conditions of a quickening of the pulsation, the filling or tingling, or filling through the throat, and the excitements as would cause any great anxiety might produce even a nausea.
These arise from the deflection of the conditions as they act upon the glandular forces of the thyroid, as well as the glandular forces as related to the activity of liver, spleen, pancreas AND the gall duct.
Hence any undue excitement, any activities as a reflex upon the system may tend to make for an overactivity of the lower hepatic circulation, or may tend to make for the lack of elimination through alimentary canal.
And then we have the recurrence of a general debilitation, or nausea, or lack of incentive for the reactions of nominal or normal forces for the body.
As we find, then, in making administrations to correct these:
First, we would have the direct manipulative forces osteopathically administered, especially through the areas of the lumbar, sacral, coccyx, ileum plexus, - then coordinating these with the cerebrospinal as well as the cervical or vagus center in the upper dorsal and cervical areas.
As we find, the Dobbins' method for this would be most advisable.
We would also begin with Codiron as a tonic for the activity of not only the glandular forces but the supplying of those elements for the needed influences for strengthening the activity of the glandular forces through the areas, - because of the subluxations causing a submerging of the conditions.
Also we would use the Radio-Active Appliance, which will bring for the body those periods of rest and relaxation by the equalization of the circulatory forces. This we would use for an hour, about two or three afternoons each week, - AS the body rests in the afternoon preferably. Circulate the attachments about the body, from one period to another, as has been indicated for the use of same.
If all of these suggestions are carried out in the manners indicated, we should find soon a response that will be MOST beneficial; and, most of all, PREVENTING greater disturbance coming by the complications these activities have caused and do cause in the system.
Ready for questions.
(Q) What suggestions would you make for controlling the attacks of melancholia and her extreme impatience and irritability?
(A) As indicated, if these pressures are removed and the vibratory forces of the Appliance used for the equalization, these should disappear gradually.
The use of the Appliance at such a time will be MOST beneficial, as this will put the body to sleep, - and not be an active force in the nature of a sedative but equalizing the vibratory forces of the system.
(Q) It has been suggested that she has intestinal adhesions. Is this so?
(A) As we find, more from the reflexes from the flexus and the subluxations in lumbar and sacral; though these produce, of course, a strain upon the intestinal activity of the LYMPH, see?
These are not TRUE adhesions, but may BECOME so unless the circulatory forces are stimulated by the active principles and influences indicated, - not only in the Codiron but in the releasing of the tensions in the areas indicated.
Do that.
(Q) She feels at times as if there was trouble with her heart, rapid palpitation. What is the cause of this?
(A) As indicated, this is the reflex condition to those portions as we have described.
If these suggestions will be followed, we will find relief and near normal forces for this body, [1845].
We are through for the present.
Copy to Mother
Copy to Ass'n file
(3/18/39 GD's notes to Mother: See extra sheet [which was enclosed] of directions for Dr. Frank Dobbins, 551 Fifth Avenue, New York City. Leave this with him, after he has made his notes on same from YOUR copy.
Codiron is manufactured by The Lawrence Laboratories, Chicago, Ill. See article [which was enclosed] explaining theory of Radio-Active Appliance [1800-24 Reports].)

BACKGROUND

3/08/39 [1845]'s mother's letter: "...I would appreciate very much a physical Reading for my daughter and I would like to ask some questions: What suggestion would you make for control of attacks of melancholy and her extreme impatience and irritability? Are these conditions caused by her physical condition? It has been suggested that she has intestinal adhesions; is this so? She feels at times as if there was trouble with her heart, rapid palpitation. What is the cause of this? If she goes to a motion picture she comes out exhausted and irritable. Will you tell me if her mental and emotional condition is from a physical cause? In speaking of her mental condition I do not mean to imply that she is a mental case, but just a highly disturbed person who does not know what is bothering her. Later I would like a Life Reading for her but at the moment I am most anxious to get a report on her physical condition. I will be greatly obliged if Mr. Cayce will give her a reading at his earliest convenience as her condition has been a source of anxiety to me and I want to help her as quickly as I can..."