Edgar Cayce Readings, 3160-1

Time and Place: 10:45 to 11:00 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 the suggestions for help and relief of this body; answering the questions, as I ask them:
EC: Yes, we have the body here, [3160]; (though moved from original plans).
As we find there are disturbances the correction of which would make for much better physical functioning through this body. These have to do primarily with obstructions which have come from accumulations and an unbalanced chemical process in digestive forces of the body. This first began from a bad diet.
These, then, are conditions as we find them with this body:
The blood supply indicates a great amount of toxic forces that are the result of very poor eliminations, caused by the disturbances in the gall duct area and the inactivity of the liver, also the attempt of the kidneys in a manner to control portions of eliminations. So, both the liver and the kidneys become at present involved in the disturbance.
The effects produced are nausea, fullness through the area of the duodenum, great quantities at times of gas, especially if certain types of foods are taken - if raw vegetables or raw juices or quantities of fats. These especially cause gas through the duodenum as well as through the rest of the alimentary canal.
The nerve forces here we find rather out of the ordinary, causing such disturbances of a pathological nature. For the body has controlled its nerves somewhat better than most individuals would or could, under the existent circumstances.
The rest of the organs, - as the heart, the lungs, - all suffer from those reflexes from this disturbance in the liver and gall duct area.
As we find there are two courses that may be pursued. One will be rather hard upon the body. Operative forces for the removal of same could be quickly done, but there should be real preparation for the body if such measures are chosen.
Or there may be the use of hot Castor Oil Packs that may assist in so dissolving the gravel in the gall duct and the gall bladder that it might be drained osteopathically, after a long series. This would require a much longer period but would be a much safer manner. As after effects of an operation, owing to the age and the general conditions that have been the result from reflexes, would be such that it would require a great period of time before the body would fully recover from same.
The use of the anaesthesia also would be rather the greater shock to this very sensitive body; yet if the body would make up its mind that it would go through with the operation, it might control same.
If the Packs are used:
Apply at least three thicknesses of old flannel, well saturated with Castor Oil, over the liver and gall duct area, extending to the caecum area; that's along the right side, to be sure. Apply the Packs as hot as the body can well stand and then an electric pad to keep these warm for at least an hour. Apply these one hour each day for three days in succession.
On the evening of the third day take internally half a teacupful of Olive Oil.
Then rest three days and repeat the packs, followed by the Oil internally.
Then rest another three days, and repeat.
Then have a hydrotherapy treatment, this to relieve or to wash out thoroughly the whole colon area.
Then begin with osteopathic adjustments, gradually enabling the body to stand draining of the gall duct osteopathically.
Do these and we will bring better conditions for the body.
In the diet refrain from raw vegetables of any kind or raw juices or great quantities of fats of any character. Even butter should be almost wholly eliminated from the diet through the periods that these treatments are given, whether the operative measures or the Packs.
But soup may be taken if not too much grease is used in same, vegetable soups; fish, fowl and lamb but not too much of the fats of any of these.
Baked potatoes, roast potatoes, all of these will be well. However, do not have white bread or macaroni or spaghetti with cheese at the same meal that the potatoes are taken. No two of any of these at any one meal for this body.
Do these if we would have the better conditions for this body. But choose - self - as to whether operative measures are to be used or there is to be the draining of the gall duct by osteopathic manipulation, when preparation has been made for such through the Packs.
Ready for questions.
(Q) What causes my breath to catch, when I am resting, or sleeping?
(A) The acute pains in the duodenum, or in the lower portion of stomach and upper portion of jejunum.
(Q) What causes the pressure in my throat, as if food is backing up at different times after eating?
(A) These are all reflexes from congestion in the gall duct area.
Do as given and do it purposefully, using the body-forces for CREATIVE activity; that is ever constructive. Don't only be good, be good for something.
We are through for the present.
Two copies to Self - (one for the osteopath, in case you choose this method: Dr. George N. Coulter - 18 E. 41st St., N.Y.C.)
Copy to Ass'n file
Two Miss Goodall for indexing
(See directions [which were enclosed] for preparing Castor Oil Packs.
For the hydrotherapy treatment - colonic irrigations - we would refer you to Dr. H. J. Reilly, RCA Bldg., 1250 Sixth Ave., N.Y.C.)

BACKGROUND

4/27/43 [3160]'s letter:
Mr. Edgar Cayce, Virginia Beach, Va.
Dear Mr. Cayce,
I saw an advertisement of the book "There is a River," in a Sunday Tribune, last March. So I sent to Macy's in New York City, and bought the book.
At the time I received it, I was ill with a bad attack of gall-bladder trouble. In the past years I have often thought how wonderful it would be if one could look inside a person's body and see what is wrong inside. Dr's do not always know, neither does the X-Ray always tell what is wrong. And now I read the book, "There is a River", and find you go to sleep and tell what is wrong inside the body.
God has certainly blessed you with a wonderful gift.
I read the book and enjoyed it very much. After I finished the book, I decided I would write you and ask you to give me a reading.
My case is the following -
I suffered many years with gall bladder trouble. Some Dr's told me to have the gall-bladder out, but my own Dr. who I had for years said, not to. I was visiting my daughter out of the city and I had a severe attack the last week in Nov. 1940. I had to call in a strange Dr., and right away he said, to have the gall-bladder out, as he said, every attack would make me weaker, and in time they wouldn't be able to help me. I was ill for four weeks, so I decided to have it out. I was x-rayed and the Dr. said it was a large gall stone. I was operated on Jan. 9 - 1941. When they operated they found I didn't have gall-stones, but that my appendix was adherent to the underside of my liver, and was drawing down the liver and pressing on the gall-bladder. The position of the appendix, made a shadow on the X-ray plate, and that was why they said a large gall stone. The Dr. straightened my intestines, took out the appendix, and some adhesions that was interfering with my circulation. The operation was successful and I didn't have any trouble from the operation. The Dr. said I would have colitis, and put me on a diet.
Now after two years I start having trouble with my gall bladder. This last attack lasted three weeks, my whole intestinal tract became involved.
I lived in fear many years of those attacks, and now I dread the thought of having them again. I thought the operation had cleared up everything.
Now I wish the Dr. had taken out my gall-bladder at the time of the operation. Perhaps my trouble is not all from my gall bladder, perhaps there is something else in my body that causes those terrible upsets. That is the reason why I am writing you, to see if you could find out what is wrong inside me.
I am a widow, and I am 65 years old.
Will you let me know what offering I can give you, as I would like to help in your wonderful work.
Will you kindly answer me at your earliest convenience, as I would appreciate it very much.
Sincerely, Mrs. [3160], Brooklyn, N.Y.
8/43 Questions submitted:
What causes severe attacks I have occasionally? The attacks of gas? Is it the diet or from another cause? What can I do to prevent the attacks? What causes a pressure in my throat, as if food is backing up at different times after eating? Would I be a healthier person if I had my gall bladder removed? What causes my breath to catch, when I am resting, or sleeping? Any further advice?

REPORTS

8/21/43 Letter to GD from Phyllis Goodall, R.N.:
Miss Davis:
In this case I am sure the patient was suffering with Cholecystitis (inflammation of gall bladder) but if orthodox medical men were looking at records they could and probably would be irritated or even openly hostile to the "guess" diagnosis. Had the reading been asked for the medical term of condition - the guesswork phase would have been eliminated and the record would be of stronger value.
8/21/43 Additional letter and GD's answer to it on 8/27/43 - See under 3127-1 Reports.
10/19/43 [3160]'s letter:
The Reading was wonderful. I wrote you after reading the Reading, that I decided to be operated on.
I was very busy getting settled in my new house in Sept. But now I am to be operated on Oct. 28th for removal of gall stones and and gall bladder. After the operation, as soon as I am able, I will write you, as I would like to have another Reading, to see if every thing is all right. I have kept to the diet you wrote of in the Reading, and I have felt a great deal better. From the Reading, I gathered that all my trouble comes from the gall bladder, and if I have that removed I will be a healthier person every way.
Thank you very much for giving me a Reading, and may God Bless you with health and strength to carry on your wonderful work.
12/01/43 [3160]'s letter:
I am very sorry, but I was unable to answer your letter of Nov. 1st. I wrote you I was to be operated on Oct. 28th. So when your letter came I was in the hospital.
Enclosed find check for $25.00 towards the work you spoke of in your letter of Nov. 1st.
My operation was very successful. But I did not have gravel, as the reading of Aug. 13th said. I had a mass of adhesions around the gall bladder, and the gall bladder was diseased. I had a thickening on the stomach, in the gall duct area as the reading said. The Dr. said the adhesions caused the thickening on the stomach. Which caused my breath to catch, which was one of the questions I asked in the reading.
The Dr. removed my gall bladder, adhesions and thickening on my stomach. A week after I was home, I had spasms of the stomach for three days, which the Dr. said was caused from the thickening on my stomach, which he had removed.
Now this week I am feeling much better and will be all right in a short time. I am so thankful that I wrote you and received the reading when I did, for now I can see I would have been much worse in time. The catching of my breath was getting worse, and I was having pain when it happened.
The Reading was certainly wonderful, and told just what was the trouble. From your letter of Nov. 1, I see you are very busy. I wonder if you could give me a check Reading, and when. May God bless you with health & strength, to carry on your wonderful work.
Sincerely, Mrs. [3160]
12/18/43 See 3160-2.