This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 4th day of December, 1943, in accordance with request made by the son, Capt. [...], new Associate Member of the Ass'n. for Research and Enlightenment, Inc.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. (Notes read to and transcribed by Jeanette Fitch.) Harmon Bro.

TEXT

1. EC: Yes, we have the body here.
2. As we find, there are disturbances that are preventing the body from the better physical functioning. This is because of the lack of elements in the body, or because of a chemical change brought about by draining the system, with certain pressures existent that caused the nerves and the tendons to lose their resiliency - and the effect is a contraction of the muscular forces in arthritic manners.
3. These are very progressive, owing to the lack of certain elements. We find that these are affecting the organs, but if the body will be persistent with these applications there should be found real relief:
4. First begin by taking KalDak as a stimulation for the digestive forces of the body, as it adds iron, silicon, phosphorus and the like for the body. In the beginning take a level teaspoonful twice each day, in the morning and in the afternoon. Dissolve it in a little hot water, then fill the tumbler with milk and cream.
5. After this has been taken for two weeks, then have an Epsom Salts bath and massage. Use at least twenty pounds of Epsom Salts in forty gallons of water, and this as hot as the body can well stand, though not too hot. Do massage the body during the whole period that the body is in this bath - the feet, the lower limbs, the arms and hands especially, as well as the torso and especially the lower portion of the spinal system.
6. Let the body stay in such a bath at least thirty minutes, if the strength holds out.
7. Follow this with a thorough oil rub, using this combination of oils, added in the order named:

   Nujol or Usoline, as the base..........6 ounces,
Olive Oil..............................1 ounce,
Peanut Oil.............................2 ounces,
Oil of Pine Needles....................1 ounce,
Oil of Sassafras Root................1/2 ounce.

   These should be shaken together, for they will tend to separate, and what is used to massage into the body should be poured into a saucer. Don't pour it back into the bottle, for it will be changed by dipping the fingers into it. Massage this thoroughly in toes, ankles, lower limbs, knees, especially the lower portion of the spinal system - through the sacral area, the shoulders, arms and hands.
8. Then the body should rest from these applications for a period of four to five days.
9. Then begin (not before) taking one drop of Atomidine each morning before breakfast for three days in succession. Don't take the KalDak during this period.
10. Then leave off for five days.
11. Then have first a thorough colonic irrigation. There may be required two irrigations. Continue these, about ten days apart, until there is no tendency of mucous in the stool. Do not give them colder or hotter than body temperature. Use a heaping teaspoonful of table salt and a level teaspoonful of baking soda dissolved thoroughly in each half gallon of water injected. In the last rinse water, use two tablespoonsful of Glyco-Thymoline to the gallon and a half of water.
12. After the cleansing of the colon - after the second or third colonic, whatever is necessary to cleanse the colon thoroughly begin with KalDak again. (The colonics should be given scientifically, and the one giving these should determine as to the number required to thoroughly cleanse the system.)
13. Then do these all over again, and we should find real help for the body.
14. Do be mindful of the diet. Include in the diet often raw vegetables prepared in various ways, not merely as a salad but scraped or grated and combined with gelatin or with oils or mayonnaise or in various ways and manners. Include in these watercress, celery, lettuce, carrots, all of those that may be eaten in or with such preparations. Of course, not all of these are to be taken at once necessarily, but let these be a part of the diet almost daily.
15. Do have sea foods often. This does not mean fresh water fish, but sea foods - oysters or shell fish, or the forty fathom fish or such as these are well for the body.
16. Fowl may be taken, but wild game is preferable when it may be had.
17. Do these - we will have better conditions for this body.
18. Ready for questions.
19. We are through with this reading.

    Copy to Self
    Copy to Son
    Copy to Ass'n file
    Copy to Miss Goodall for indexing
    (12/14/43 GD's note: KalDak is distributed by the Kal-Dak Company, Hollister Bldg., Lansing, Michigan, it sells for $2.50 a package.
    Atomidine is distributed by The Atomidine Company, Att: Harold S. Bisey, 1326 St. Johns place, Brooklyn, N.Y. It sells for $1.00 a bottle.)

BACKGROUND

1. 9/18/42 Son requested rdg. for her arthritis, saying she had received no relief from previous treatment methods.
2. 10/43 Mrs. [3445] wrote: "After my 3rd and last child was born, 6/06/22, I had my first attack of arthritis, October, 1922, in my right shoulder; lasted 2 days and nights and then left. And from that time on, for several months it will be in wrists and elbows, one place at a time. Then later settled in right elbow, later wrists and left elbow. I had tonsils and teeth removed. In 1926 I entered hospital in St. Joseph, Mo., was treated 1 month with serum, went back every few wks. for 1 1/2 yrs; didn't have any new places but no relief from the soreness. In Jan. 1928 I went to Mayo Clinic and had operation for female trouble caused by childbirth, but said they couldn't find my cause for arthritis. In 1929 went to Thermopolis, Wyoming to the Springs, stayed 3 mos., took baths, osteopathic and electrical treatments, suffered terribly while there. Then had it in my right knee. After I was home a while I felt much better and less pain, and felt like I had been helped there. In 1938 it came in left knee and put me down for a while, then I was able to do my work again but the last 2 yrs. a struggle to walk, my elbows, hips and knees all so sore and stiff. Spent most of time in bed. So much of time every nerve in body pulls so, and have lots of pain. I took erton for a year and have gained some in weight and have good appetite. I seldom sleep more than 4-5 hrs. at night and none in daytime."
3. 10/21/43 Son wrote: "Medically, as far as we have been able to determine, she has the typical chronic severe so-called infectious arthritis. (Capt. [...] Evacuation Hospital, MC, APO ..., Tenn.)"
4. 11/23/43 Mrs. [3445] verified appointment, saying: "My right hip has had arthritis in longer than the left and has drawn till my leg is shorter and I have hesitated to have my shoe built up, as I thought if I ever got rid of soreness and pain it might straighten out. I am full of hope that you might be able to help me."

REPORTS

1. 12/16/43 Mrs. [3445] wrote: I rec'd my reading of Dec. 4th and have ordered oils and medicine to begin the treatment as soon as possible. I am praying and hoping I will receive a lot of help from it. My son Capt. [...] arranged for this reading and I know he will be happy, too, for the help we hope to get through it."
2. 1/07/44 EC wrote her: "Be sure to let us hear from you from time to time. Of course, as you understand, you are a long time getting in this condition and you will have to be a little patient, a little persistent, and very prayerful about the whole thing. I do hope, though, to have been the means of a real help."
3. 3/20/44 She wrote: "My reading of Dec. 4th I have followed very closely. As the medicine was slow coming I didn't get started until Jan. 18th. Have gone through the treatment once and am on my way again. Now, about the colonic irrigations, I had a registered nurse do them for me and found lots of mucous in the stool. She gave me three, ten days apart, and there was still some mucous in the last rinse water. We used one and a half gallon with the salt and soda and one and a half gallon with the Glyco-Thymoline. Must we use more this time, or give them more times if there is still mucous in the rinse water? I have been very sore in joints and lots of pain all through the treatment. But of course the weather has been cold and damp - might be the reason. I am full of hope for relief. Could you tell me these things before I am ready for the next irrigation, which will be about two weeks? My son [...] was made Major and has arrived in England; he is very anxious about the treatments. Hoping you might enlighten me on these things - and as soon as I am through this time with the treatment should I start again? Sure has helped my eliminations." Sincerely, [3445]
4. 3/25/44 EC's letter: "Thank you for yours of the 20th. So long as there is mucous in the stool, I am sure, as your nurse has told you, this could be eliminated, but don't do it too fast, or it might cause a good deal of disturbance. Have rest periods of several days or weeks between the periods of colonics, but so long as there is mucous there, you may be sure you are having a source of infection that may disturb your body anywhere. I am sure if you will keep up the treatments as suggested you are going to find that your body will gradually respond to the ability of the system to assimilate. Be sure to keep up all the treatments. Hoping you obtain the best results, and with every good wish, I remain" Sincerely, Edgar Cayce
5. 10/06/44 She wrote: "I will try to tell you as near as I can about my condition during my few months of treatment through my reading. I could hardly get over the house and in so much pain and soreness and strain when I started, but the last few weeks some better most of the time. While I sleep most of the time, after midnight I still have some restless nights.
   "I started the treatment Jan. 18, 1944 and have followed it very closely, and have a good nurse who gives me the colonic irrigations, and she thinks I am much better than when she first saw me Feb. 14th when she gave me the first colon irrigation. She found lots of undigested food and mucous. In ten days she gave me another irrigation Feb. 25th, still lots of undigested food and mucous. In ten days, March 6th, she gave me another irrigation and it had cleared up quite a little but still some undigested food and mucous. During this period of time I slept good seven nights, other nights from 2-4-6 hours. My joints all very sore. All through this time. March 7th I started with KalDak again, went through the treatment all again. On April 6th I had colon irrigation - no undigested food and still some mucous. On April 17th had irrigation, no undigested food, not so much mucous. April 18th started treatment again. May 17th had colon irrigation again, no undigested food, very little mucous. Rested then about the same time as through the other treatment. May 18th started with treatment all over again. June 14th had colon irrigation, no undigested food and very little mucous. At the end of this treatment I began to sleep most nights after midnight.
   "Started treatment June 15th with KalDak again, had colonic irrigation July 14th, no undigested food, still a little mucous. Sleep about the same. Started treatment again July 15th. Had colon irrigation Aug. 12th, no undigested food, a little mucus. Started with KalDak Aug. 13th. Had colonic irrigation Sept. 11th, a little more mucus and some undigested food. Had colon irrigation again Sept. 25th (My nurse wasn't able to come sooner) - a trace of undigested food and mucus. Then started with KalDak again, Sept. 26th.
   "The last three nights have had very little sleep, and never can get to sleep before midnight very often. Two weeks ago I had a very severe attack in hips and legs were drawn two days - suffering terrible. While my joints are all very sore they are not so severe all the time. I have gained some in weight and my complexion has cleared up some. Since July the KalDak does not keep my bowels going enough all the time. I have taken a petroleum made by Standard Oil Co. Is that alright? or please tell me in my recheck what to take. I increased the dose of KalDak like on the box directions but it didn't help. Should I do that? I still expel lots of gas and am very miserable that way.
   "When I take the KalDak two weeks, then the Epsom Salts Bath, I have continued the KalDak till time for the Atomidine. Is that right? The nurse understood the reading that way, too. "I do hope Mr. Cayce will be able and can find time to give me a recheck. I have so much faith in his readings, and with my three sons in Service, two in foreign lands, I so hope to improve enough to get around some so I can be busy.
   "I have a place on my left arm that about three years ago looked like a blood vessel was ruptured; now it looks like a blood blister, not sore but just looks bad - between elbow and wrist - and worries me. What could I do for it to remove it?
   "Nights that I am so restless I am so full of gas and expel so much. I have checked my diary and explained to you the very best I can. If this is not what you need to give me the recheck, please let me know."
6. 10/17/44 GD wrote returning her $10 for the check reading appointment, saying that due to Mr. Cayce's continued illness and the possibility of his not being able to return to the office for several months, we could not arrange for an appointment at this time.
   "If you will write us again in six months we will be in a better position to advise you about an appointment for your check-physical reading. In the meantime you should find it most effective to repeat the suggestions given in your first reading.
   "Thanks for your understanding and cooperation." [Edgar Cayce died 1/03/45.]
7. 3/02/48 Mrs. [3445] ordered publications, including the abstract on arthritis.
8. 7/65 Routine mailing from the Press was returned marked ADDRESS UNKNOWN. (The last address had been Clear View Nursing Home, Mt. Ayr, Iowa 50854.)
9. 8/20/76 Her son, now an M.D., gave this up to date report, via Dr. William A. McGarey, Dir. of A.R.E. Clinic, Inc. in Phoenix, AZ.:
   "Thanks for the Cayce report on my mother.
   "Her rheumatoid arthritis became progressively worse involving finally every joint - or so it seemed - hands, arms, shoulder, hips, knees, feet. The last 6-7 years she was a wheelchair patient, and last 2 or so a bed patient...
   "She died in 1970 from carcinoma of the breast. She had been a rest home resident for 5-6 years."

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