This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 15th day of January, 1930, in accordance with request made by self, through her husband - Mr. [5643].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. L. B. Cayce. (Home: ... Ave.,

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1. EC: Yes, we find the body here - [2351]. Now, we find there are definite conditions that are abnormal to this body. These have to do with the eliminations and the effect as has BEEN produced, and as is BEING produced, in the physical forces of the body. Now, as we find them, this condition taken in time may be permanently relieved, and the effects eradicated or eliminated from the system.
2. First, in the BLOOD SUPPLY, we find there is the evidence of too much calcium being carried in the system. This produced in part by the diet as has been taken, and by the manner in which the LIVER has functioned in respect to the distribution or eliminations of that distributed or left there for elimination, and there is evidenced that much of this is produced by the manner in which the ducts - or the gall ducts - have operated, or the manner in which it has been necessary so often to INCREASE the eliminations through the excitement of the lymphatics of the stomach AND intestines, and with this constant use of same there has been drosses left in the colon proper. This has gradually produced such conditions as to cause the slowing up of the circulation, especially in the extremities, so that these being carried (that is, these drosses) in the circulation, and this in excess amount has allowed - as in the knees, the feet, the shoulders, the arms and the hands - a calling AWAY of the lymph from the extremities, until the hardening - or the accumulations there - causes soreness, stiffness, a tendency of the OILS as should be in the joints to be absorbed in the system, and this allowing the reactions to come. This affects, of course, the circulation - in the character of the pressure as produced in heart's action, and the variations as occur in the pulsations are SYMPATHETICALLY - not organically, but sympathetically - the result of these conditions.
3. The NERVE SYSTEM also suffers under this stress and strain, as may be indicated in the plexus - ESPECIALLY in the lumbar plexus and the LOCOMOTION of the lower limbs. This condition - in this connection - it is gradually seen that the effect of climatic conditions, and the effect of certain changes in altitude, has its effect on the circulation. Not so much on the CONDITION PROPER, as on the circulation - but it is not ORGANIC in its relation, for it is that of the SLOWING of circulation in the capillaries, and necessarily slowing up of the activity of the circulation through the central system.
4. In the manner in which this condition also affects the ORGANS of the system: The tendency at times of inactivity in the mental forces; that is, slow of memory, slow of perception - not in movement, not in activity of the mind, not in anything as relating TO that, but the SLOWNESS of RESPONSE sympathetically is from those radial centers in the lumbars, in the dorsal, and in the cervical - especially in the lumbar plexus, the solar plexus, the brachial plexus, and the cervical plexus - in the 4th and 5th centers, specific.
5. In the effect as is created by the condition in the sensory system, is that of the changes as they affect the sensory responses in the system; as to eyes, ears, and as to odors - becoming, as the body does at times, SUPER-sensitive in these directions, and at others they do not ACT, except slowly.
6. Lungs are good, though the activity of the slowed circulation makes the body at times - without taking special precautions - subject to colds.
7. The digestive system very good, save as to the character of the assimilation, or the digestion as in relation to the various manners in which the divisions of the assimilated carried in system.
8. Then, to aid - and to bring about the normal forces for this body, [2351] we are speaking of:
9. We would first be very mindful of the foods, that these do not carry too much silicon or calcium - but more potash, and more of the iodine, and more of those that illumine the system - as related with the abilities to eliminate ash or dross from the system.
10. We would use those of the fume, or of the sweat baths - followed with the fumes of those that increase the capillary circulation; massaging thoroughly after such bath with a weakened solution of - not the compound in wintergreen, but rather that of a weakened solution in the synthetic wintergreen, as over the system, and ESPECIALLY in all centers where the lymphatic circulation comes close to the surface; as in feet, under the knees, in the groin, in the sides, in and under the armpits, in the elbow, around the neck. These, especially - and of course along the whole of the cerebro-spinal system, just between the cerebro-spinal column and the sympathetic nerve channels or exterior activity, see?
11. We would also use those properties INTERNALLY as will assist in dissolving for the system those tendencies of drosses in the colon; or use the high enema at least once each week until four or five are taken - and then at least once a month for a year or such matter.
12. We would also see that there is the reaction as is necessary FROM the baths, FROM the properties taken, as to the ACTIVITIES of the body - mentally AND physically - not OVER active, but SUFFICIENTLY so in the open - that is, it should be done in the open as much as possible, and breathing in those from the fumes of pine, or of pine in its relationships to other trees - see? Ready for questions.
13. (Q) How often should the baths be given?
    (A) Until the full elimination is set up in the system. That is, taken every three to four days until full elimination is set up, and this softening or the dissolving of the conditions in the extremities are relieved.
    Well that, instead of using too much of the cathartic, that packs of oil (castor oil) be used OVER the liver, and well - TOO - were the gall duct emptied, osteopathically - and this had best be followed under and where in sympathy with those suggestions as are given, and followed up - and we will find we will relieve these conditions, and that tendency in the joints to harden will be removed from the system. We are through for the present.

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REPORTS

1. 1/31/30 Mrs. [2351] secured a physical reading for her son, [5644].
2. 4/07/30 Letter: "...This is just to say that I have been following your directions and I am doing well. I have been taking a very fine course in colonic treatments with massage (using Wintergreen). Also I take the packs of mineral waters (hot). I have not taken the cabinet baths with Pine Oil, although I have both the cabinet and the oil. This was not done because of taking the packs, given by the physician who gives the colonics.
   "In regard to my son [5644], I wrote you some time ago that he was doing well, after having followed your directions..."
3. 6/28/37 Letter: "...Years ago, while in ..., Virginia, my husband [5643] and I met your son and also your wife. Our boy [5644] had been ill there and we asked your advice with most excellent results... I wish to know if you are still carrying on your work of diagnosis and advice, as I wish help for myself..."
4. 7/03/37 EC wrote, sending current data re. A.R.E. and expressing his hope that he could be of further service.
5. 12/18/61 GD's note: Mrs. [2351]'s son, [5644], later became a member of A.R.E. and is actively associated to this date.

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