Edgar Cayce Readings, 3274-1

Time and Place: 11:10 to 11:20 A. M. Eastern War Time. ..., N.Y.

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.
Many disturbances, as we find, upset this body. These are rather the complications that we find:
The blood supply, the high blood pressure - this aggravates all the rest of the body. But this has caused some disturbance in the circulation between heart and liver.
However, as we find, if the sources of these disturbances were cautiously and carefully removed, we would do away with many of the other disturbances; the weakness through the body, the dizzinesses that occur, etc. For, the sources are both a plethoric condition and a prolapsus in the colon. With the reducing of these by high enemas, scientifically given, and a gentle massage or osteopathic relaxing of those tensions in the 3rd cervical and through the upper dorsal, we should reduce the blood pressure to near normal in six to eight weeks - and we should find the rest of the body responding - the disturbances through alimentary canal, kidneys, bladder and all of these disturbances will be overcome by the purifying of the system.
Do not overtax the body. Don't run up and down steps. Don't try to walk too far, but a little exercise in the open every day would be most beneficial.
But DO have the colonics scientifically given and have these sufficiently often - at least once every ten days until five or six have been given. Use body temperature water, and a heaping teaspoonful of table salt with a level teaspoonful of baking soda to each half gallon of water injected. In the last rinse water, use a tablespoonful of Glyco-Thymoline to the quart of water. If given in this manner, these will not cause weakness. Don't try to give too much at once. Keep these up until we have cleansed the colon from all mucous, that will come from time to time.
Then do the relaxing - not stimulating - osteopathically, in the areas indicated; and we will reduce these conditions and save the body from a great deal of trouble later.
Ready for questions.
(Q) Are the kidneys involved.
(A) Naturally the kidneys are involved. With a disturbance of the circulation between heart and liver, it causes a reflex condition in the kidneys. Just keep away from sugar. Do use the Jerusalem Artichoke at least once a week in the diet, but only cooked in its own juices - or mix the juices in which it is cooked with the bulk of the artichoke; that is, cook it in Patapar paper.
(Q) Do I still have diabetes? What remedy?
(A) A tendency towards same, as indicated from the amount of insulin to be given in the artichoke diet.
(Q) What caused the condition in my left arm? What will reduce the swelling and the intense pain?
(A) This is from the poor circulation. With the massage and the colonic irrigations we will gradually reduce this, if these are properly done.
(Q) What should be done to help my eyesight? (At present I have a film covering the eye that impedes my sight.)
(A) The general circulation increased will aid this. Then adjust glasses.
(Q) What condition do you find in my left leg? (Have had phlebitis about four times. How can I prevent getting it again?)
(A) This is also from the poor circulation. Do the things indicated and we will correct most of these conditions.
(Q) Should I have the veins cut in upper left leg and injections from the knees down, as advised by medical doctors, or should I must keep wearing elastic stockings for the rest of my life? Is there a permanent cure?
(A) Not by any means!
When the applications suggested are made, if these continue to give distress we will then make suggestions for other applications. But follow these suggestions outlined for eight to ten weeks. Then we will give other directions, dependent upon the responses that have been made.
We are through with this reading.

BACKGROUND

4/27/43 [3274]'s ltr. to EC:
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Mr. Edgar Cayce, Norfolk, Va.
Dear Mr. Cayce,
I am prompted to write to you first of all I read the book review about your work "There is a River", so far I have not been able to buy the book and secondly in the latest issue of "Psychic Observer" there is an article abut you and the cures you have effected thru your clairvoyant diagnoses.
I write to you hopefully to ask if you can do anything for me, so I can get well?
I have been sick since May 1940 with four strokes, (now no apparent trace left, no paralysis now) high blood pressure, diabetes, menopause, heart condition, etc. But there is something within me that tells me my case is not hopeless for a complete cure and a sense of feeling well again. I have had so many doctors, and each one tells me something different, so I know they are only feeling their way and perhaps doing a lot of guessing and experimenting.
8/15/43 Letter: "I am mostly in intense pain with the condition in my arm. And now my sight is very bad. Cannot see my own face in the mirror. Eye doctor has diagnosed it as a combination of high blood pressure and poor circulation. I believe the osteopath has helped me in a general way, but he does not seem able to cure the pain in my arm. He diagnosed it as a block in the lymph. That seems to me nearer the truth than medical doctors have said. One said it was a coronary condition of the heart, another said it was either neuritis or a form of rheumatism. I have a swelled upper left arm, and now a new development...the swelling now is on the under part of the same arm, another blockage the osteopath said. So far no doctor has been able to reduce the swelling nor the intense pain. I sit up a good part of each night...cannot lie down as the pain gets worse...have to take sedatives to ease the pain, etc."
Questions [First Physical]
1. Is there a cure for the high blood pressure? How can it be reduced to normal? What causes it? 2. Is it the kidneys; if so, what is the procedure? 3. Do I still have diabetes? What remedy? 4. What caused the condition in my left arm? What will reduce the swelling and the intense pain? 5. Can I be cured entirely? 6. What should done to help my eyesight? (At present I have a film covering the eye that impedes my sight.) 7. What condition do you find in my left leg? (Have had phlebitis about 4 times. How can I prevent getting it again?) 8. Should I have the veins cut in upper left leg and injections from the knees down, as advised by medical doctors, or should I just keep wearing elastic stockings for the rest of my life? Is there a permanent cure? 9. Is my heart damaged? In what condition do you find it? 10. What causes my difficulty in drawing a long breath...is it the heart or gas? 11. How may I relieve the gas? 12. What causes difficulty in breathing, especially in winter, when I sometimes have a blocking of the nostrils? and what will relieve this? 13. How may the circulation be improved? 13 1/2. Any particular diet? 14. Is there anything else wrong with me?

REPORTS

10/13/43 [3274]'s ltr. to EC:
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Mr. Edgar Cayce, Virginia Beach, Va.
My Dear Mr. Cayce,
I have just received the reading, and I wanted to write to you immediately to thank you so much.
Please accept this donation of five dollars it is the best I am able to do but I did want to send you something, since I have spent so much money already on doctors and still I am not cured.
The strangest thing is that since yesterday I have had no pain at all in my arm but this whole past week the pain has been worse than usual. I can't understand what could have happened.
However, I will write to the doctors you recommended, altho to go to New York City, is two hours train ride from here and a $2.00 fare on the train.
In view of this, I would like to ask you if you do not think the osteopath in Bayshore that I have been going to which is only a 20 minute ride from my home, could follow your instructions the same as the one in New York or must I go to the one you mentioned?
Also I would like to ask you if I could not take the high colonics myself?
I am familiar with taking them myself, as in 1935 I was out in Pittsburg, Kansas, at a health home there and took the high colonics myself, every day for 30 days after being shown how. So I believe I know just what to do, and how to do it.
I have taken them many times, since that time, with my husband's help. It would be more convenient to take them at home, than to spend so much carfare and 4 hrs. in travel back & forth.
Altho I could go once to this Dr. Reilly to see how he does it, and am sure I can follow methods alright.
I know my glasses needs changing but so many times I have gone to get them but am told they can do nothing for me till my general condition clears up. I believe the film on my eyes have [has] disappeared. I can see much better and the blood clot which impeded my sight so badly is gradually being absorbed and nearly gone now. All doctors so far have told me exactly what you say, all my conditions are due to poor circulation and high blood pressure, but they can't help me.
But I shall follow your instructions implicitly, and get started as soon as it is possible to do so.
I do think it is a marvelous power that you have to be able to diagnose these health conditions by leaving your body as doctors who have everything before them cannot diagnose the case nor even prescribe a remedy that will help.
I don't know what a prolapsed colon is, but I will find out I am sure. All I know is that nothing I take for constipation is effective, that is only the last 2 or 3 years of my life! Previous to that time, I never had the slightest trouble in that way. You have something there I'll say.
I will see what can be done to get started, and will let you know more later on.
Thanking you I beg to remain
Gratefully yours, (Mrs.) [3274]
P.S. Since writing this I have found that Dr. Coulter live in Bayshore (?) right near me.
10/21/43 [3274]'s ltr. to EC:
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Mr. Edgar Cayce, Virginia Beach, Va.
Dear Mr. Cayce,
I hope you have the money order of five dollars which I sent to you. Would you let me know if it was received?
Last Saturday I went to see Dr. Reilly and took the first irrigation. He suggested I take it every week, so six of them would end by November 13th.
I realize it is best to go there and take them. I could not do it quite so well at home.
I am glad that Dr. Coulter's home address is right near me so he suggests I take treatments twice a week. So for eight weeks I will end that series by December 2nd. This is the data you requested.
I took a treatment Oct. 14 from Dr. Coulter and was to have gone again last Monday. But I was so sick, could not get Dr. Coulter so had to call another doctor. Have a touch of pleurisy he said. But expect to be able to see Dr. Coulter tonight for the second treatment.
He works a little differently from the osteopath that I had been going to all summer. My blood pressure came down 15 pts. after the first treatment, but Dr. C. was not sure it would remain down though.
However I think he is very good. May I hear from you soon? Thanking you I am
Gratefully and sincerely yours, (Mrs.) [3274]
11/10/43 [3274]'s ltr. to EC:
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Mr. Edgar Cayce,
My husband and friends and myself came in to New York last evening to listen to you talk and to meet you, but we could not get a look in due to the crowds. You need a very large ballroom to accommodate the crowds you have attracted, and I hope you soon will hold another lecture where we can all attend, in the near future.
You asked me to let you know when I would be finished [with] the present series of treatments, and make a recheck appointment. And I wrote you that I will have finished by Dec. 2nd. So far I have not heard when the recheck reading is to take place.
You also asked me to report on my present progress and here it is.
The intense pains in my arm back & surrounding areas has become yet more painful. The pain has not lessened in the least.
One good thing is that when I first went to Dr. Coulter, my blood pressure was above 190. Now it is 168. That is progress in that direction. I believe the irrigations are very excellent, and cannot do but good, also the osteopathic adjustments. But the pain is so intense, at times I feel I cannot endure it.
I still have almost 3 weeks for further treatments. I hope the pain will have lessened by then and I shall be glad to shout from the housetops of my release from this pain.
Will you please send the recheck appointment at your early opportunity? Thank you and God bless you and keep you in health for your heavy burden of serving a sick humanity!
Gratefully yours, (Mrs.) [3274]
11/26/43 [3274]'s ltr. to EC:
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Dear Mr. Cayce,
Referring to your last letter will say in reply that I have consulted Dr. Coulter about whether he thinks I need a recheck reading and he said, by all means, yes, to have it soon.
I have a very bad case of neuritis in my arm, and as yet no relief from the pain at all. It is very discouraging to not get any relief, after taking so many treatments. To cap it all, along with everything else, I have bronchitis that has lasted almost three months, and nothing helps the cough either.
Mr. Cayce, do please help me to recover from this most painful neuritis, you are my only hope. The osteopathic treatments have not helped it at all.
I took two special kinds of treatments at the Reilly Health Service, but they did not help the neuritis either although Mr. Reilly said it surely would end the pain. But it did not, so you are my only hope and light in a dark path, through you remarkable powers of penetration!
I beg of you to help me and see whether anything further can be done to end the pain in my arm, and reduce the swelling.
My latest blood pressure reading is 162.
I will also write to the manager whose address you sent to me. Thank you.
I will be leaving this address in another week, so may I hear from you by return mail?
I expect to go to the city to stay till April 1st, but have not the address where I will be at this writing.
Gratefully & cordially yours, [3274]
12/08/43 [3274]'s ltr. to EC:
..., N.Y. Mr. Edgar Cayce, Virginia Beach, Va.
Dear Mr. Cayce,
Thank you a million for the appointment date of January 3rd for the recheck reading. I will be with you then!
I am writing under great handicaps today as I can barely see to write at all. Night before last, I could not sleep a wink until after 4 a.m., and then when I did fall asleep, I woke up and found I had had another hemorrhage in back of my eyes again. You recall I had it last summer in August, six months ago, and it was only up to now, that the blood clot was just about absorbed and I could see, when I had another one.
Since my blood pressure (last night) has come down to 150, then it could not be that the blood pressure caused the hemorrhage back of my eyes. I have had this happen about half a dozen times in the last several years and always have been told it was due to the high blood pressure. It usually fluctuated between 230 and 190 - but now that it is down to 150 for the first time in many years, there must be another cause for the hemorrhage. What is it? Please advise, as no doctors can.
Also, you said to have new eyeglasses. Last Feb. I had my eyes examined for glasses but I was unable to get better glasses than what I am now wearing. Also a few weeks ago I was examined again for glasses with the same results. I cannot get my glasses changed due to internal conditions but I did get new eyeglasses frames that is all.
And at this writing I feel almost blind as to my sight.
I consulted Dr. Coulter last nite and he told me to ask you if the blood pressure has a direct bearing on my eyes, or eyesight.
The next question is, how is the neuritis in my left upper arm? It is still swollen despite every type of treatment that I have taken. It is still very painful. The pain has lasted without interruption nine months so far.
Can anything be done to alleviate or cure this pain and it's underlying causes?
Another thing. I cannot lie down flat in bed to sleep at night. Most of the time I feel smothered and have difficulty in breathing. I have to sit up in bed, propped up with pillows, to be comfortable, but when I do sleep, I wake up I find I am lying flat in the morning. Is this due to my heart? What is wrong?
I know my heart is enlarged also leaky. Have been told but I can't feel comfortable at nite.
I have had a sensation of extreme exhaustion so much, what causes this, and how may I feel stronger, and able to be more active?
These are my questions for this time Mr. Cayce. I hope you may be able to see the causes of these things. Life is sweet, I want to do my share wherever I can while I am in this earth body but the conditions as they are prevent me from activity or participation in important things. It isn't even being half alive. I feel so useless and I do so want to tingle with health, so I can do my part.
But that is everybody's need I dare say.
Every available dollar that I can possibly spare has been used to try and get well, and my experience has been; doctors do not KNOW. And here I am, over three solid years doctoring, without not much results!
I must say, you are my star of hope indeed, for it has been thru your directions that my blood pressure has been brought down to 150, and no medical doctor has been able to do this, altho they have prescribed a fortune in pills and medicines for it; covering a period of some years! So that is a lot for me to be grateful for, and I count my blessings one by one each day of my life.
I am most grateful to you for your efforts in my behalf. We are all linked together in one way or another, and I am sure that I can pass on to others as you have passed on to me. Such is the law eternal.
For your willingness to use a great talent for the good of humanity, may God bless you always.
Sincerely & gratefully, [3274]
1/03/44 See 3274-2.