Edgar Cayce Readings, 3125-1

Time and Place: 10:40 to 11:00 A. M. Eastern War 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; answering the questions, as I ask them:
EC: Yes, we have the body here, [3125].
Now, as we find, the allergies in this body have reached such states and conditions as to form the pathological and psychological reactions. And, to be of any great material aid in correcting these conditions, there will need to be those preparations of the body, with the chemical changes prepared for the body, and then the use of the psychological reactions to create those coordinations between the sympathetic and the cerebrospinal nervous systems.
These, then, are conditions as we find them with this body, [3125] we are speaking of:
The blood supply is so acted upon by the nerve forces and centers in the lymph and the emunctory circulation as to become very much disturbed when in contact or association with a great many elements.
ANY that have to do with animal, or skins of animal, or that have to do with any pollen-forming plant, all affect the body in an irritating way and manner, and are exercised through the blood in the lymph and emunctory circulation.
The suggestive forces must react upon those centers in the nerve system, or bursa (sometimes called). These are not so disturbing to the organs of the central nervous system, nor to the organs of the body-forces, save sympathetically.
These as we find, then, may be materially aided, if applications will be made in this manner:
Each day for a minute to a minute and a half, for seven days in succession, we would apply the ultra-violet ray with the green glass projected between the ray and the body. Use only the Mercury Quartz Light, and not the Carbon Light. Do not use longer each time than a minute and a half to two minutes, at least not over three minutes, ever.
After the seven days of using the ultra-violet with the green glass (not before), begin with the suggestive treatment by a hypnotist, or through hypnosis; such as may be had by Kuhn or Garrett. As Garrett has undertaken this, Kuhn may be the stronger - with this body. Do this about twice each week, covering a period of at least twenty-eight to thirty days. Do not undertake the hypnosis until the electrical treatments are given.
As the suggestions are made, begin taking internally those properties to change the whole chemical reaction that forms the basis of this breaking between the sympathetic and cerebrospinal systems. Prepare a compound very carefully, in this manner:
To 2 gallons of Distilled or Rain Water, add - in the order named:
Reduce by slow boiling, in an enamel container with an enamel or glass top (not tin or metal), to 1 gallon. When partly cooled, cut 4 drams of Gum of Elm in the alcohol - that is, cut 4 drams of the Tolu elm, or Balsam of Tolu, in 6 ounces of Grain Alcohol, and add to the solution.
The dose will be a teaspoonful four times each day, before each meal and at retiring.
Keep to those foods that are body-building, but little of the flesh. However, seafoods and fowl may be taken. Beef juices may be taken as medicine, for the strength and the helpfulness in same. Watercress, celery, lettuce and the like should be taken several times each week; preferably each day. Carrots, grated and eaten raw, or cooked, are good.
Do these, being consistent, being persistent, and we will bring better conditions for this body of [3125].
Ready for questions.
(Q) What causes the tingling in the sole of my left foot all the time?
(A) Because of the connections along the nerve centers, and these will be parts of the suggestions made under the hypnosis; that there will be the perfect coordination through the centers of the body - between sympathetic and cerebrospinal system. This is particularly indicated in the sacral and lumbar area nerves.
(Q) What causes the neuritis in my left side whenever I put on a pair of shoes, or brassiere, or glasses with plastic frames? How can I get over it?
(A) These, as indicated, are allergies through the sympathetic system, and are to be overcome through the suggestive treatments, following the light treatments as indicated, and through the same period the taking of the properties to change the chemical reactions in the body.
(Q) What causes my finger joints to swell up and get sore?
(A) Do these things as indicated. We have given as to how the activities of the lymph and emunctory circulation, being charged - or through the allergies, cause the accumulations in any area where there are the larger patches of the emunctory or lymph bursa. There are a number of these patches, of course, in the feet, in hands, more than in other portions of the body, save in the soft tissue of lung and head and nasal passages.
But do as we have indicated, for help for this body.
We are through for the present.
Two copies to Self (one for Dr. Thomas L. Garrett)
Copy to Ass'n file
Two Miss Goodall for indexing
(7/31/43 GD's notes: See directions [which were enclosed] for preparing Pure Beef Juice. Use the ultra-violet and green glass as may be demonstrated by Dr. H. J. Reilly, physiotherapist, RCA Bldg., 1250 Sixth Ave., N.Y.C.)

BACKGROUND

4/24/43 [3125]'s letter to EC:
"...I am deeply absorbed by the book about your life, THERE IS A RIVER, and I cannot wait to finish it before asking for your help.
"I am thirty-nine years old and since childhood have suffered from a lot of symptoms which have been diagnosed as allergies. These have become so pronounced that I have trouble finding any materials I can tolerate or food I can safely eat. The symptoms are chiefly a stopped up nose, and neuritis in the left side when contact is made with certain materials.
"I broke my leg when I was four, and have had a certain amount of trouble with that side ever since, for which I have taken diathermy and massage treatments. The neuritis in that side, however, is a recent development and ONLY comes from contact with certain materials.
"I have consulted innumerable doctors over a period of years, but the only relief from my allergies I've ever got, was as a result of hypnotic treatments some fifteen years ago. I never went to sleep during the treatments, but suggestions were given me while in a relaxed state and at the end of three weeks my allergies disappeared. This relief lasted six years. Then the symptoms gradually returned.
"I am in desperate need of help and believe you can give it to me. I can easily arrange to come to Virginia Beach, as I have a sister living in Norfolk, or I can send you more details of my case. If you will let me know what it is necessary for me to do in order to have a reading I shall be most grateful to you..."
4/27/43 Dr. Thomas L. Garrett's letter to EC:
"...A patient of mine, Mrs. [3125] is interested in having a reading from you to get a diagnosis of her condition, or rather suggest a remedy. She has read THERE IS A RIVER and is quite enthusiastic over it.
"Mrs. [3125] has suffered for many years from an allergy that causes hay fever. She is allergic to literally hundreds of things. The most painful of all, however, is something from shoes. In about three minutes after she puts on her shoes, she has a pain in her left side that goes all the way up to her head. She will get the same reaction from just holding the shoe in her hand. She has found no relief from anything she has tried for this pain.
"The only relief she has had from hay fever has been a series of suggestive treatments in the spring that usually lasts about six months. She is a refractory patient for hypnosis consequently I haven't been able to put her into a deep sleep. If it were possible to put her into a deep state of hypnosis, I believe most of this condition could be corrected. She has tried all kinds of doctors, and they frankly admit they don't know what to do.
"I hope you will give her a reading and find some remedy for her. She lives only a block away from me and I offered to have her in my place when you wish to give the reading.
"I enjoyed your book so much and have told a great many persons about it..."
"P.S. Would you be interested in running an ad in YOUR MIND magazine for THERE IS A RIVER? If so, let me know at once, as it goes to press in a few days."
4/29/43 EC's letter to Dr. Garrett:
"...Thanks for yours of the 27th. I would be glad to try and be of a help to Mrs. [3125] if possible. I am sending you a booklet. Will you pass this on to Mrs. [3125], please?
"But I have to tell you we are months in advance with appointments. I wish you could tell me how to do twice as much as I am doing.
"Glad to hear from you. Hugh Lynn is in the Army now and I am having a time trying to even keep up with my mail.
"All the ads are taken by the publishers.
"Thanks for letting us hear and hope we may be the means of being of a help..."
5/03/43 [3125]'s letter to EC:
"...Thank you very much for your very prompt letter of April 26th and for the booklet which I have read through, as well as reading THERE IS A RIVER. I am terribly disappointed, however, that you have no periods open for another two months, because I am in such desperate need of help. I did not explain to you in my letter of April 24th, that one of my allergies is to some one of the new plastic materials which is now used in the glue which is put in the soles of shoes, and is also used as a filler in materials, and in the frames of glasses.
"I am unable to wear glasses with plastic frames, and cannot wear any sort of brassiere because ALL the materials used to make them seem to have this same filler or sizing in them, and the minute the material is put against my skin I get neuritis on my left side. The most serious development of all has been with the shoes, because for two years now I have not been able to buy a single pair of shoes of any make or material which I can wear, because this plastic is used in the glue that glues on the soles. I can wear all of my old shoes which were made before this plastic material was used in the glue, but now every pair I own is worn out completely. I have had them repaired and made over until there is nothing left of them and my feet are being ruined by wearing shoes so worn out that I get no support. It may not sound serious, but I can assure you it is a desperate situation. I cannot get along without shoes. I have been to a man to have some made, because he would try to make them without any glue, just hand sewn, but he is unable to obtain any leather at all because of the war. As I am an active, busy woman, it is a terrible handicap not to be able to go any place because I literally cannot get any shoes.
"I have tried taking injections of this glue but in a year's time have not become immunized at all. I have talked to Dr. Thomas L. Garrett about my difficulties because he has helped me before, but been unable to do anything for this situation. He felt quite certain that you could help me and did not seem to think it was necessary for me to go to Virginia Beach. I can come, though, if you think it would be better for me to be there at the time of the reading, but as expense is a consideration with me and I don't want to make the trip unless it is necessary. However, of course I want to do whatever you advise. If it is necessary for me to come, I could do it any time right now, but I'm afraid two months from now I will be up in the Catskills where I am rather isolated without a car. Also it would be difficult for me to follow any course of treatment up there which might be suggested by the readings, whereas I could do something about it immediately here and if necessary not go to the Catskills at all - I mean in case going away interfered with the treatments.
"I realize there are many other people just as anxious as I, to get readings, but if you can possibly do anything for me sooner, I should very much appreciate it. I would not ask this if I weren't just desperate to know how to get along any longer with my one worn-out pair of shoes. I do need help so badly as soon as I can get it. On a separate [page] I am listing some questions I would like to ask concerning my condition. I'd also like to know whether you think it would be advisable for me to have a reading with a pair of the shoes on or without them, or whether I should have one each way, so that it could be determined what effect the shoes have on my body.
"I am enclosing my check for twenty dollars, to cover a year's associated membership in the Association for Research and Enlightenment, and to include the first reading. I shall appreciate so much hearing from you again as to whether I can hope for a reading at an earlier date..."
Questions submitted for 3125-1:
1. What causes the tingling in the sole of my left foot all the time? 2. What causes the neuritis in my left side whenever I put on a pair of shoes (manufactured within the last two years) or brassiere, or glasses with plastic frames? How can I get over it? 3. What can I do to become normal so that I can eat food like other people and not get itches and a stopped up nose? 4. What causes my finger joints to swell up and get sore? 5. How can I improve my eyesight?

REPORTS

8/07/43 [3125]'s letter to EC:
"...The report from my reading is here and I want to express my gratitude without a moment's delay. I firmly believe that by following your suggestions I will have normal health. Goodness knows I should have, I am so well in many ways if I were not completely handicapped by my allergies. You can be assured that I will follow every suggestion you have made in minute detail, and I hope later on you can give me another reading to tell me how to carry on. Do you think it would be wise for me to make another appointment now as you are booked up so far ahead?
"I am going to New York City on Monday and will take the report with me and give it to the doctor, though I shall not be able to begin my treatments until about the middle of September because the painters are in my apartment and I am terribly allergic to Linseed Oil, so don't dare stay in the apartment until the paint is completely dry. I wish I could begin the cure tomorrow, but I will begin within a month, and trust you will let me know if I'd better make a further appointment with you now.
"I will be sustained during my month of waiting by the hope I've derived from your diagnosis and suggestions. I admit I've been nearly desperate, it seemed such a vicious circle, but now I know I'm going to get well, and my gratitude to you cannot be put into words. Also that of all my family, whose prayers have been with me, and each of whom have read THERE IS A RIVER with a feeling of renewed hope for my recovery.
"May God continue to give you guidance and the strength to carry on the wonderful work you are doing..."
"P.S. There is one more question I'd like to ask. I do not believe I know what Mr. Kahn [GD's note: The name was supposed to be Kuhn and not Kahn] it is you suggest for giving hypnotic suggestions. Last spring when I asked Dr. Garrett about him, he did not know either. Can you tell me what Kahn he is and where to find him?"
8/27/43 [3125]'s letter to EC:
"...I sent a copy of the report from my reading to Dr. Garrett, together with your letter suggesting that he might help me find Dr. Kahn. [Kuhn?] However, Dr. Garrett replied that there must be some mistake about his getting in touch with Kahn for any other patient as he did not know him. He did suggest a Dr. Hermann, whom he knows and said he would be glad to introduce me to him when I return to town, so I will try him for the hypnotic suggestions if it can be arranged. It is very difficult to find anyone in New York to give that sort of treatment. I spent the better part of last winter trying to locate someone as this sort of treatment had helped me once before years ago.
"I expect to return to town and start my treatments in about two weeks now, so should be through carrying out the suggestions made in this first reading by November. Therefore I would like very much to make an appointment RIGHT NOW for another reading as soon after November 1st as you can give it to me. Will you let me know?..."
9/24/43 [3125]'s letter to EC:
"...I am back in New York City for the winter and have started the treatments prescribed in the reading you gave me on July 31st. I'm taking the electrical treatments from Mr. Reilly, but have been unable to find the Dr. Kahn [Kuhn] you mention to give hypnotic suggestions. Dr. Garrett says he's in the Army and Mr. David Kahn has been unable to find him. Nor can I find anyone else to give me the suggestions unless I go back to Dr. Garrett. Do you think that would be a good idea? I am anxious not to lose any more time, but want to follow your suggestions exactly if possible.
"I have not been able to get the prescription filled which I am to take each day while getting the suggestions, because one of the ingredients, Cincho Bark, is Quinine, and the only way to get Quinine is to have your doctor write on the prescription that you have malaria. I haven't, needless to say. The war is making everything more difficult to follow out.
"Both Dr. Garrett and Mr. [David E.] Kahn tell me that you will be in New York on November 9th, which is the date set for my check reading, so I would like very much to be present at the reading if you ARE here and it is possible.
"I know that since the article came out in CORONET you are even more swamped by patients and correspondence, but I'm in such a desperate state and waited so many months for my reading that I hate not being able to go forward with my treatments, so I would appreciate it if you can give me any further help at this point, and do let me know if I can have the November 9th reading here in New York City.
"I hope God will give you strength to cope with all you have to do and crown your efforts with success..."
10/04/43 [3125]'s letter to EC:
"...I'm terribly disappointed that you do not feel you can give me my reading on November 9th, as I will have completed all the treatments suggested in the first reading by November 1st. I finished the electrical treatments with Dr. Reilly on September 28th and began the hypnotic suggestions with Dr. Garrett on September 30th. My prescription has at last been filled and I am starting to take that today. The diet which you suggested is almost exactly what I eat anyhow, as I eat a raw vegetable salad every day, and during the summer these vegetables come out of my own garden. I'm not much of a meat eater, but I do eat a little meat as I'm allergic to bread and cereal grains of all kinds, so it rather limits my diet not to be able to eat any bread, rice, corn or their by-products. I am taking the beef juice made exactly as you prescribed, so I think I am following everything suggested in detail and to the letter. I perfectly understand that is the only way to get results, but I have certainly had a time getting the thing organized.
"The drugstore [Eimer & Amend] which you suggest in your letter of September 30th is the first one I tried as it happens, and is the one which told me I could not get the Cincho Bark without a doctor's prescription and that, only if I had malaria. I know a very small quantity of Quinine is called for but just now there's such a desperate shortage and it is so badly needed by our troops, that it's very difficult to obtain. However I finally got the prescription filled through Dr. James Craig Joyner, [M.D.] who is very much interested in your work and anxious to do anything he could to help me carry out the suggestions.
"I have been unable to locate any hypnotist in New York other than Dr. Garrett, though I have had several doctors working on it, and have been trying for six months myself. I am particularly anxious to have another reading as soon as I have finished this first course of treatments, to find out whether Dr. Garrett is giving the suggestions in the right way, because so far he has only given the same suggestions that he's always given in treatments for me, and not anything specific according to the reading.
"Both Mr. Kahn and Dr. Garrett felt sure you would be able to give me the reading on November 9th while you are here in New York. Dr. Garrett said he hopes you would stay with him while you are in the city (and he lives just half a block from me), and both Dr. Garrett and Mr. Kahn said they would be glad to lend their secretaries for the reading. Mr. Kahn feels there are some questions we should get answered if possible, and I feel that it would be the greatest help to both the doctor and me if we could be present at the reading. So I do hope that you will be able to arrange it after all.
"I well know how swamped you are with letters, and I think you do wonderfully to answer them personally as soon as you do. I told Mr. [David E.] Kahn I hoped you were not going to make yourself ill..."
10/07/43 Dr. Thomas Garrett's letter to EC:
"...In regard to your lecture on November 9th, I shall be glad to have you stay here with me while you are in New York. I have plenty of room and will be happy to have you. I am sure you will have a very large audience on the 9th.
"I am seeing Mrs. [3125] as you suggested and have every confidence that she will be relieved of her condition when she completes her treatments. She too, seems to have that confidence. Unfortunately, she is not a good hypnotic subject so I just have to put her in a state of pacifity and give her the suggestions. This has been effective before in immunizing her against hay fever for the season.
"I understand from Mr. Kahn that you are booked up for the next year. What a pity you can't make yourself about a dozen persons!
"Looking forward to seeing you in November and with kindest regards and best wishes..."
10/11/43 EC's letter to Dr. Thomas Garrett:
"...Thank you for yours of the seventh. I appreciate very much your invitation and offer, but I have already made reservations at the hotel where I usually stop, and have appointments to meet some of my friends there about the whole time that I will have free, while in New York. Can you tell me just where they expect to have the meeting on the evening of the ninth? I have never understood from Miss Koernig. In regard to Mrs. [3125], I would like very much to meet her, if I have the opportunity while there.
"Yes, with the publication of the article in CORONET, combined with the book, we have been flooded with requests, and our appointments are a year or more in advance at present..."
10/18/43 EC's letter to [3125]:
"...Replying to yours of the fourth, I am sorry that I must put your reading off, but we will get it as soon after I return from New York as is possible and let you know, of course. I hope to see you while I am in New York. I have had a letter from Dr. Garrett about you. Yes, we know it is very much better if the individual can be present, but it is not possible for me to give a reading when I expect to meet and talk to so many people while I am in New York and it isn't possible for me to stay but a day or two.
"Hoping, though, that you are getting results and will soon be feeling much better..."
11/13/43 EC's letter to [3125]:
"...It was a real pleasure to know you, and Mr. [...]. While I did not have the opportunity to talk with you as long as I would have liked, I do hope that your having to wait so long to get your Check reading, is not going to be a disadvantage. It was too bad that you gave your time to someone else. If I in any way, was of a help to those I tried to speak to in New York, they owe that to you, and I am sure they will all be praying just as they promised they would, when your time comes for this check-up, which is the morning of November 19, 10:30 to 11:30 EWT. I am sorry not to be able to do this any sooner, but this is the very best possible opportunity to get this in. I hope that will be satisfactory to you.
"I believe your sister telephoned and said you might be here. You know we would like to have you if it is possible. However, whether you are present or not, you will let us know just where you are, and keep the period in prayerful meditation.
"Hoping then to really help, and thanking you..."
11/19/43 Questions submitted by [3125] when coming in person for 3125-2:
1. Is there an injury in the left leg between the knee and the hip or near the hip joint? If so, what is it and how can it be cured? 2. Is there anything wrong with the spinal column, spinal cord or individual vertebrae? If so, what is it and how can it be cured? 3. Are there any injuries near the base of the neck? If so, what should be done? 4. What in leather reacts as a poison? Is it a single ingredient or a combination? 5. How can this poisoning be stopped? 6. Why do plastic spectacle frames cause a bad reaction? What is the cause? How can it be cured? 7. Why do textiles placed next to the skin near the breasts cause a reaction, poisoning and possible eruption of the skin? How can it be cured? 8. Why do cereals in any form cause an irritation, itch, or poisoning? How can this be cured or corrected? 9. What course of treatments should be followed now to: a. correct the leg injury? b. correct the spinal injury? c. stop the leather poisoning? d. stop the plastic poisoning? e. stop the textile poisoning? f. stop the cereal poisoning? 10. Are any of these ailments due to psychological causes? 11. How can the patient be hypnotized? What technique should be used? 12. Has the course of prescribed treatments accomplished any results? If so, what and how? 13. What is wrong with this body? 14. Are the ailments due to psychological causes? 15. What causes the burning and discomfort in the left hip and leg; the coldness in the outside of the left ankle, and the constant tingling in the outside edge of the sole of the left foot? 16. What causes the stiff neck, the pain and contraction across the left shoulder from the back of the neck? 17. What causes the pain through the left breast and the itching in the breast when I cough? 18. What makes the back occasionally get stiff and the leg muscles contract? 19. What is it in shoe leather that poisons this body? 20. What is it in brassiere materials and the plastic frames of glasses that poison this body? 21. What foods poison this body? 22. What causes the lumps on the finger joints? 23. What causes the itch I sometimes get? 24. How many of these troubles, if any, are due to psychological causes, and how many are purely physical? 25. What can I do to produce a normal condition of the body so that I can eat normally and wear clothes that normal people wear? 26. Shall I continue with the medicine prescribed in the last reading? 27. Shall I continue with hypnotic treatments? If so, who should give them? Is Dr. Garrett giving the treatments right? 28. What was accomplished by the electrical treatments prescribed in the first reading? 29. Would Dr. Ralph Slater at 112 Central Park South, New York City, be able to aid in the hypnotic treatment of this body? 30. Has he good hypnotic ability? 31. Has he sufficient ability to handle this case? 32. Would it be better to have deep hypnotism such as given by Slater rather than surface hypnotism which does not seem to penetrate? 33. What suggestions should be used by the hypnotist? 34. In what way can the hypnotist work of Slater or Garrett and the psychic work of Cayce work together?
11/19/43 See 3125-2 for which she was present.