Edgar Cayce Readings, 2973-1

Time and Place: 10:55 to 11:10 A. M. Eastern War Time. ..., New York.

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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; answering the questions, as I ask them:
EC: Yes, we have the body here, [2973].
As we find, the reflexes - or the reactions in the body which occur at times - are a combination of disorders.
The condition arises, primarily we find, in the colon, as well as from a disturbance that causes a reaction in the pulsation - or heart and its activity.
We find that if there were the removal of this disturbance in the colon, and a coordinating of the centers in the cerebrospinal system from which these activities emanate, we would bring bettered conditions for the body.
The blood supplies indicate the toxic conditions.
The nerve forces indicate, in the central nervous system, the tensions in those ganglia along the spine where sympathetic AND cerebrospinal coordinate in their reflexes.
Thus the tendencies for this variation in not only the blood pressure but also the quickening, and the lack of the necessary impulse for the flow. But this is reflex.
The neuritic reactions are from those poisons and pressures upon the sympathetic nerve forces.
The organs in their activity, in a general manner, show the lack of their revitalization, or the abilities of each to, at all times, especially under the stresses, supply energies for proper recuperation.
As we find, it would be well if the body would have at least ten to fifteen good hydrotherapy treatments. These should include a light Fume Bath with Witchhazel, also - at least during the period of the whole course of treatments - two or three colonic irrigations. These should be given very carefully, so that there is not the reaction upon the central circulation when such are given.
When toward the latter portion of these treatments, the very MILD electrical treatments may be included; but DO NOT begin these in the first part of the course of treatments. These will also stimulate better conditions between the coordinating of the sensory forces, - as the hearing, the vision, and the general reactions of these.
Also at those periods when the hydrotherapy treatments are given, we would have a gentle correction osteopathically in the 4th lumbar, 9th dorsal, through the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th dorsal, and throughout the cervical areas.
When the vital forces have been cleared, in the latter portion of the treatments, DO begin taking the vitamins known as VIMS, - the combination of both the vitamins in their elements and their minerals, in their proper relation. Take only one each day, but do not begin these until toward the latter part of the hydrotherapy treatments.
Do these, and we will bring better conditions for this body.
Ready for questions.
(Q) What specific kind of electrical treatment is indicated?
(A) That which is applied the more through the body of the manipulator; and this should be not so much on face and head but along the spine.
(Q) Are the attacks to which I have been subject all my life, due to allergy?
(A) Due rather to the incoordinations between the sympathetic and cerebrospinal system, as they arise from and at those periods when the activities arise from colon and the pressures produced on the circulation of the heart, the liver, the kidneys, the lungs.
(Q) What effect does food combinations have?
(A) These as we find at times vary a very great deal. With the cleansing of the body, and the stimulating of the centers indicated, these conditions should be improved considerably.
(Q) What part, if any, does dust have, or contact with fumes of paint, sprays or chemicals of various kinds?
(A) Any of these, of course, produce on the olfactory nerves the repulsion or nausea to the body; but it is the accentuation of the sympathetic nerve forces becoming involved.
Do those things indicated, if we would make better conditions for this body.
It may seem apparent that these are not interlaced with the superficial activity in the perspiratory and respiratory activity, - or the abrasions, - but cleanse the system and we will find that these conditions will be aided in correcting themselves.
We are through with this Reading.
Two copies to Self (one for Dr. H. J. Reilly, R.C.A. Bldg., 1250 Sixth Ave., N.Y.C.)
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(At your convenience, please let us have a history of your case to the time of obtaining the Reading, so we may have something with which to compare our information.)

BACKGROUND

3/29/43 [2973]'s letter:
As to the questions I should like to ask, I suppose they are the same type you receive most of the time, the CAUSE of physical ailments.
First, are the attacks I [I've] been subject to, all my life due to allergy? If so what food or combinations of food cause it? Or what element common to many articles of food might be the cause?
Also what part might dust or contact with fumes of paint, sprays or chemicals of various kinds have?
Does the headache which occurs from time to time have any connection? If allergy is not the answer, can you find another?
Mr. Kahn told me the requirements at the time of the reading, to be at home and quietly occupied by one's self.
I shall be very happy to fill out the application blank when it comes also to read and follow instructions in the booklet. Thanking you for the prompt and sympathetic answer to my request for help, I am,
Sincerely yours [2973]

REPORTS

5/22/43 (Saturday) [2973]'s letter to EC:
..., New York
Dear Mr. Cayce:
I am writing to thank you for your very kind letter of the twenty-fourth of April and to report on progress made in following treatment outlined in the reading. I went to New York at once after receiving the reading and arranged with Dr. H. J. Reilly for appointments twice a week for a period of six weeks. Up to the present I have been six times which means that the course is half through. The last four visits will include the electrical treatments as well as the baths and corrections. Two colonics have been given. Do you think it would be well to have a check reading at the end of the treatments or as soon after as can be? If I am able to meet all of my appointments as scheduled, shall be finished by June fifteenth or there abouts.
In answer to the request for a history of my case, I would say first of all that it is hereditary, having been in my father's family for many generations. One of my own children has the same affliction. The form the disturbance has always taken is an intestinal colic with another phase the doctors have called angio neurotic edema. The attacks of pain and nausea have appeared any where from ten days to two or three weeks apart. At times just the swelling, again both phases of the trouble to-gether but most often the colic attacks alone.
You can understand how very anxious I am to find relief for this distressing and baffling disorder, not only for myself but for younger members of my family. It has been such a curse and as I said before so baffling.
Mr. Sugrue's book telling the story of your life and work seems to me like an answer to prayer. I cannot tell you how grateful I am for your interest in trying to help by giving me the reading. I have just finished reading 'There is a River' a second time and find I missed a great many points the first time so found it even more interesting than at first.
Thanking you again, I am
Gratefully yours, [2973]
7/05/43 [2973]'s letter to EC:
Dear Mr. Cayce:
It has been three weeks since the course of treatments at Dr. Reilly's were finished. In a general sense I feel much better - as far as the colic attacks and also the swelling is concerned there have been a number of them - during and since the treatments.
I should like so much to have a check reading if you agree this is the time for it.
Thanking you for your kindly interest in trying to help me, I am
Sincerely your [2973]
7/14/43 See 2973-2.