This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Va. Beach, Va., this 10th day of May, 1940, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [1850], Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mrs. [1850] and Mrs. [409] and others.

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1. GC: You will give the physical condition of this body at the present time, with suggestions for further corrective measures; answering the questions, as I ask them:
2. EC: Yes, we have the body here. Conditions are changed a great deal from that as we have had before, but the more acute conditions arise from phlegm and congestion in the trachea and the upper portion of the lung and bronchi. Hence there is the inability of activity of the nerve forces to the sympathetic nerves of the bronchi and the vocal box itself.
3. Also a superacid condition exists through the system.
4. Begin first with taking small doses of ENO SALT; a teaspoonful - heaping teaspoonful in a glass of water EVERY MORNING, for at least twenty days! This is not the effervescent kind or other salts, but ONLY the ENO SALTS - which is made from fruit salts, see? Take this before breakfast, you see.
5. Also we would begin taking sips of Calcidin water prepared in this manner:
6. Dissolve five grains of Calcidin in two ounces of warm water. Keep this where it will remain warm (but not hot). Then, about four times a day, take a sip - not a spoonful, but a sip - about half a teaspoonful - but take a long time in swallowing this amount; just sip it. Keep this up even through the night if there is disturbance from the inability to breathe or to lie down easily.
7. KEEP AWAY FROM FOODS! Keep rather only water, milk and bread, for at least five to six days. This will be necessary if we are to eliminate the conditions from the body.
8. Then, after the fifth or sixth day, eat ONLY apples - RAW APPLES - for THREE DAYS! Coffee may be taken with same if so desired, but NOT with milk or cream or sugar in it! Also leave off the milk and bread when the apples are being taken. This is to cleanse the activities of the liver, the kidneys, and the whole system, - where there has been disturbance.
9. On the evening of the third day of the Apple Diet, - take internally HALF A TEACUP full of OLIVE OIL!
10. Then, after that do not overgorge the system when beginning to eat again. Have rather a normal diet, but not too rich nor too highly seasoned foods.
11. Keep away from cake or pastries or pies or the like.
12. The principal diet would be rather vegetables, both raw and cooked; with fish, fowl or lamb as the meats, but not beef or hog meat of any kind; and no fried foods at all.
13. Do these, and we will find that in a few days the ability to talk will return.
14. Be active in the open, but NOT so as to overstrain the body during the period of the fast and of the apple diet.
15. Ready for questions.
16. (Q) What causes awful headaches?
    (A) Pressures from the poisons in the system.
17. (Q) In what condition are the kidneys?
    (A) Overtaxed through the general toxic forces and the superacidity in the system. Thus the necessity for a long series of this alkalizing of the system, and the turning of the eliminations more through alimentary canal so as to relieve the pressures upon the kidneys.
18. (Q) Is blood pressure high?
    (A) It is abnormal, but not for the condition which generally exists through the system.
19. (Q) What causes stomach to be so large?
    (A) The expanding and dilating through the general toxic and gas forces in the system.
20. (Q) Please name something to relieve constipation.
    (A) Take these things as indicated, and we will relieve this conditions, if there is the adherence to the proper diet afterwards.
21. (Q) Please give that necessary for reducing?
    (A) Use a Grape Juice diet as well as the general diet which has been indicated. About thirty minutes before each meal and at bedtime, drink about two ounces of Grape Juice in one ounce of water (plain water, not carbonated). Welch's Grape Juice is preferable. Of course, the first fasting period as indicated will reduce the body at least three to four pounds. Then don't put it on again by overeating!
    Do these. We are through with this reading.

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BACKGROUND

1. See 1850-2.

REPORTS

1. 8/08/43 Cousin [667]'s letter: "I was sorry that [1850] could not obtain a reading, as she has been very ill for the past year. I am sure you would not recognize her; she is not much larger than I am now."

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