This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 19th day of May, 1943, in accordance with request made the by the self - Mrs. [2175], Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mrs. [2175].

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1. GC: You will give the physical condition of this body at the present time, with further suggestions for corrective measures; answering the questions, as I ask them:
2. EC: Yes, we have the body here, [2175]; this we have had before, you see.
3. As we find, conditions are very good in the main.
4. There has been a general tendency, though, towards the lack of resistances being builded. The body started off well with the first suggestions for building up the body, and then allowed itself to become aggravated and fretted about some disturbances which arose outside; so that since then there have been activities only now and then toward correcting the condition indicated.
5. In the present, we find, there needs to be something of a routine established for itself; taking time for proper recreation as well as time for proper exercise outside of recreation, and a better or closer attention to the diets of the body.
6. With this done, and the keeping of the better mental attitude, we find that the body should be constantly on the improve.
7. This we would give as an outline:
8. There should be at least two hours a day when exercise and recreation are the order; that is, some specific exercise for the body forces - or physical body, whether as a game or in the regular routine. Include the children with it, and it will be better for self as well as for them.
9. After such exercise and recreation, have a hot shower or bath, and then quite a cold one; with a thorough rubdown afterwards along the spine with an equal combination of Peanut Oil and Cocoa Butter.
10. This will tend to make for QUICK recuperative forces and better resistances.
11. Then in the diet keep close to more of a vegetable diet, with just sufficient sea food, wild game or fowl to make a good, balanced diet. Keep away from pork or beef to any great extent. Very seldom take either of these.
12. The vegetables should include all that are of the yellow nature or variety; such as carrots (prepared in any manner or form, but used in some manner almost each day). These may be juiced at times, grated, sliced, or cooked, or in their various ways or combinations. Also beets, and especially beet topes, turnips and turnip tops, - these all should be parts of the diet, especially.
13. And then occasionally supplement the diet with vitamins. This business of adding so much supplementary vitamins of certain combinations, as some recommend, is very well; but for this body we would take the Purity Cross vitamin combination, and only twice each week - Tuesdays and Thursdays - when ready to retire.
14. And we should build up to a good resistance in this body.
15. Ready for questions.
16. (Q) Would it be advisable to have a metabolism test?
    (A) If desired, yes - but what for?
17. (Q) What causes the tired feeling I have upon waking in the morning?
    (A) The lack of proper resistance. Thus, as indicated, have the daily exercise followed with the hot and cold showers, then the rubdown with the oils along the centers or ganglia of the spine. These will make for much improvement.
18. (Q) Please give exercises that would be helpful.
    (A) As indicated, this may be made into a game - or may be taken as a regular exercise. If used as a game, - such as badminton, or table tennis, but out of doors - or tennis, croquet or the like. Any of these, so that it is exercise in the open as much as possible; using both the arms and the lower limbs. If merely as an exercise, take early of morning two or three minutes of regular setting-up exercise; such as: Standing erect, raise the hands above the head, stooping, rising, stretching arms, swirling the body from the waist up. But in the game you may help yourself and others too!
    And keep the correct mental attitude. Not only be good; be good for something, and set it as a definite something to be done - that each day there will be that which contributes to the better thinking, better welfare, better being of someone else. For as ye give, ye receive.
19. We are through with this Reading.

    Copy to Self
    Copy to Ass'n file
    (Purity Cross Vitamins are made by The Psyllium Co., Towson, Maryland, and sell for $2.95 a carton of 120 capsules - sent on 10 day trial. Mrs. [413] had these recommended for her in her last Check Reading, ask her how she likes them.)

BACKGROUND

1. See 2175-2 and 2175-4, her two previous Physical Readings.

REPORTS

1. 8/24/44 She obtained a Mental and Spiritual Reading - See 2175-8.
2. Had nervous breakdown when first child [2301] was born; had another in early fall of 1945.
3. 8/06/47 Verbal report: Feeling fine now; still very anemic, has to take liver shots all the time, but otherwise okay; doctor has her on a blood building diet.
4. 12/13/50 She requested Mae Gimbert St. Clair (who was then extracting from the readings) to make for her a suggested menu from the Edgar Cayce readings. Suggested menu and general diet recommendations by Mae Gimbert St. Clair, based on her broad study of the EC readings:
   THINGS TO OBSERVE
   BEEF JUICE: Take for 10 days - leave off 5 days and repeat until blood is built up. (One tbs, sipped 3 to 4 times a day - on empty stomach.)
   WHEAT GERM: Use in food at least once a day.
   GELATINE: Take at least one package a day. Drink in liquids taken - or with salads, fruit or raw. This can be alternated occasionally with jello.
   SALADS: Include celery, lettuce and carrots as often as type of salad permits.
   VITAMINS: Vitamin B. cannot be stored in the body, but much be replaced daily. All yellow fruits and veg. contain Vitamin B, as does whole-wheat bread.
   REST: Get at least eight hours rest a night. Have regular periods of 15 minutes or more during the day for short rest periods.
   LIQUIDS: Drink six or eight large glasses of liquid per day, including water. (For energy and strength, drink small quantities of hot water with a teaspoon of honey melted in the water - sip this.)
   ELIMINATIONS: Keep eliminations regular. Generally speaking, the liver should be cleansed once a month - Zilatone, taken after morning and evening meal for three days. Cleanse kidneys by taking pure Coca Cola syrup (1 oz. to an ounce and a half of plain water.) Take this for ten days - leave off five days and repeat for a month, then leave off a month and repeat.
   THE DO NOTS': Do not use sedatives. Do not use alcohol in any form. Do not smoke more than six or eight cig's a day - better to leave them off when they take the appetite. Never smoke on empty stomach. Leave off: - Sugars, except HONEY OR GRANS sugar. Use very little starches. Do not eat fried foods, rather broil or bake foods.
   FOODS TO HAVE ON HAND AT ALL TIMES
   BABY FOODS (Gerbers Preferably)
   Veg. with lamb. Veg. in season - especially leafy and pod type. Veg. with Beef. Veg. with Liver. Fruits in season - (apples to be cooked, always.) Mixed Veg. (Look especially for the Elberta Peaches in cans. Bartlett Pears. Mixed veg. with soup. (All yellow fruits and veg. carry vitiman B - which must be replaced daily.) All kinds of fowl. Lamb. Sea foods of all kinds. Tuna fish and salmon.
   Wheat germ. Postum. Maltex. Pepperidge bread. Wheatena. GELATINE & JELLO Steel cut oats. Wheat wafers.
   Oranges - lime. Lettuce. Any fresh veg. in season. Grapefruit - lemon. Escrole. Bacon - Eggs. Andive. Baked chicken - also broiled. Carrots. Any milk products.
   Peas -frozen, canned or fresh. Celery. KELPT SAULT Cauliflower (fresh or frozen). String beans fresh or frozen Broccoli - brussel sprots.
   MONDAY
   BREAKFAST: Fresh Orange Juice with 1/2 lime added to make water glass full.
   Eggs - scrambled, poached, or soft boiled - on or two strips Bacon - with grease soaked out of it. Slice of whole wheat toast with a little butter or honey or both. Milk or Postum. (Use Gelatine in orange juice or milk)
   LUNCH
   Raw salad with lettuce, celery and carrots and raisins - also any other veg. - to taste Wheat wafers, with cheese. Jello with fruit. Cereal drink - or butter milk or plain milk.
   DINNER:
   Fresh or frozen spinach. Veg. with lamb. (baby food) Slice or more of pepperidge bread with butter. Fruit in season - no sugar or syrup. (except honey) (Cream on fruit) Milk, postum or coffee.
   TUESDAY
   BREAKFAST:
   Prune juice (small glass) Maltex or Wheatena with cream - and honey. (Wheat germ added) Coffee, milk or postum.
   LUNCH:
   Raw salad of - lettuce, celery, carrots and peas. OR Fruit salad of Lettuce, celery, pineapple, raisins, nuts, grapes - WITH cream cheese dressing. Pepperidge bread - toasted with honey and butter. Dish of fruit in season, no syrup or sugar. (if Raw salad is used) Ice cream if fruit salad is used.
   DINNER:
   Fish - broiled; or buttered crab-flakes - or shrimp Green veg. Baked potato. Custard desert. Milk, postum or coffee. (not more than two cups)
   WEDNESDAY
   BREAKFAST:
   Grape fruit with 1/2 lemon. Egg - scrambled, boiled or poached. Pepperidge bread - or Rusk, with butter and honey. Milk or coffee.
   LUNCH:
   Salad with lettuce, celery, carrots - and chicken and turkey. Fruit with gelatine - or jello, and cream. Wheat wafers. Milk or postum.
   DINNER:
   Calfs liver - medium rare, and bacon. Carrots and peas. Sweet potato - baked. Hot biscuits made with wheat germ. Whole milk and cookies.
   THURSDAY
   BREAKFAST:
   Cooked cereal with cream and honey. Graham crackers. Coffee or postum.
   LUNCH:
   Soup. Raw salad, with shrimp, or tuna fish. Wheat wafer. Milk.
   DINNER:
   Steak - or beef - rare. String beans, or Brussels sprouts. Cauliflower. Milk, or postum.
   FRIDAY
   BREAKFAST:
   Orange juice and lime. Yolk or 2 eggs with cream added, then scramble in butter. Pepperidge bread with butter and honey. Postum or coffee.
   LUNCH:
   Salad, - fruit, including nuts, celery, and lettuce. Mushroom soup and wheat wafers, or Rusk. Milk, or postum.
   DINNER:
   Chicken or turkey - dark meat. Baked potato - eating skin. Leafy vegetable. Custard - and milk or coffee.
   SATURDAY
   BREAKFAST:
   Maltex - steel-cut oats, or cooked cereal, with honey and cream. Coffee, Milk or Postum.
   LUNCH:
   Cream of chicken soup, with wheat germ added. Salad, with sea-food, lettuce and celery and carrots. Rusk, wheat wafers, or whole wheat toast. (Pepperidge) Postum.
   DINNER:
   Baked fish. Cauliflower en casserole with cream sauce and cheese. Baked apple. Whole-wheat type of bread with butter. Coffee, milk or postum.
   SUNDAY
   BREAKFAST:
   Orange juice with lime. Omelet - with fish roe, or cheese. Hot biscuits made with wheat germ added. Milk, coffee, or postum.
   DINNER:
   Leg of lamb. (or Chicken, baked or roast - rare) Leafy veg. (in season). Baked irish potato - (or baked sweet potato) Apple sauce, - (or baked apple fixed with honey to sweeten) Whole wheat type of bread. Milk, or coffee.
   SNACK DINNER: Shrimp or crab-flakes en casserole. Salad - lettuce with slice pineapple and grated cheese with cream cheese dressing. Wheat wafers or Rusk. Milk - or coffee.
5. 1/02/51 Verbal report: "I have now started using the treatments outlined in my first physical reading [2175-2], with the purpose of rebuilding the body energies - and plan to keep this up (in series) over a period of one year or more. Will give a report on my progress following each series."
6. 2/04/55 Friend reported that Mrs. [2175] was in the hospital - a breast had been amputated.
7. 8/57 Letter: "My work needs to be done in the field called 'grace' because I live by the grace of God. Three times I've faced death. Three times God through the grace of the Messiah returned my strength. With these things I should work."
8. 10/20/58 Friend Mrs. [1523]'s report: "About two months ago [2175] returned to the hospital. I had seen her in June and she told me that she was tired and ached all over. She said, 'I have been aching all over since last year.' When I heard she was in the hospital I called her husband, [2301], and he said that she had cancer of the bone - that it was in the spine and that there was no hope.
   "In 1955 when she had her breast removed, a nurse at the hospital said she had about six months to live. Now they say it is still just a matter of time, and could be any time - or weeks. When the family was told about this, they knew they would have to tell [2175], because she already knew too much about her condition, and that is the way she wants it. When they did tell her, [2301] and others told me that she was the one that was consoling the family. She has had some 58 X-ray treatments - and I believe continues to take them but further apart. During her stay in the hospital she was under sedation, but would take only half of what they left for her to take, and only when she could not do without it any longer.
   "She is home now, and has a girl to keep the house and prepare the meals. She called me this morning and said that she is coming to spend the day with me tomorrow. When she was in the hospital a few weeks ago she could hardly walk. She told me that she had really come into the earth this time to build a body, to learn how to rebuild her body. Other than Florence Edmonds I have never seen anyone hold such a constructive and positive attitude. On the few occasions when we have discussed her problem, it has been completely unemotional generally this never comes up. It is a most amazing demonstration of holding on to that in which she believes, the Christ."
9. 2/18/59 She died.

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