This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 31st day of December, 1943, in accordance with request made by the daughter - [...], new Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research and Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by article in Coronet.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Daughter of [3496] and Harmon Bro. North Carolina State

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1. 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:
2. EC: Yes, we have the body and those conditions which surround and affect the body, [3496].
3. As we find, there are physical and mental disturbances with this body.
4. These, then, are the conditions as we find them with this body:
5. In the blood supply there are deteriorations. The hormones of the blood itself are lacking in those elements that carry coordinations in their activity between the sympathetic and cerebrospinal nervous system.
6. Thus those deteriorations that are indicated, giving those impulses between the cerebrospinal and the sympathetic - those reflexes where many of these become involuntary when they should be voluntary.
7. Hence those periods of repression, overanxiety.
8. There is shown not so much deterioration in the nerve itself, and little or none in the brain tissue, but in the impulses that are a part of the white and gray matter - in the centers through which coordination is established, either by reflexes from the brain or from the impulse from the sensory or suggestive system that do not altogether respond.
9. Hence the breaks, as we find, are rather in the certain centers where there are the closer associations of the cerebrospinal and sympathetic impulses, in the emunctory patches - or the cells through which the impulses to the sensory forces are retroactive to the central nervous system.
10. These are the sources, as we find. That these are deeper than the pure centralization in such areas is indicated in the periods that have been required for this diffusion of energies or reflexes or reactions to occur.
11. Hence there are glands also from the activity of organs in pelvis, and glands in the areas where digestive forces have taken place, that become involved. Thus the variation as to impulses inclined towards things pertaining to appetites or desires in these directions, as indicated in the reflex activities in the body, as well as in the speech, hearing, taste and feeling. All of these are indicated by the manner in which these are acted upon by impulse received. Thus a debilitation in the general health-supplying and building forces is to be taken into consideration for the body.
12. The organs of the body are very good, except as related to that specific activity of an aggravating nature existing between the liver and kidneys, and then the reflexes from these indicated in the body-forces.
13. We find that it would be well to change the body from its present environs, for these work a hardship upon the body-mind itself. But it would require the care of one specific nurse to care for the body, for some six to eight months before that ability is attained to make these entire applications if there is the cooperation of the body obtained in making these.
14. While at first these may be a little out of line for the body, we find that by persuasion - not by force - the body may be induced to assist in the administration of those things necessary. We find this treatment would be much more preferably done under the supervision of one not exactly as a trained nurse but one who may be in sympathy with the spiritual aspects as well as practically acquainted with the idiosyncrasies of such a disturbance existing in conditions of this nature.
15. Then the daily applications would be on this order:
16. Each day following the bath - a tub bath or a sponge bath, or however this may be given, but do this daily - we would:
17. Use for thirty minutes the low Appliance carrying one day the vibrations of the Chloride of Gold Sodium, in the proportions of one grain to each ounce of distilled water, and the next day Spirits of Champor - commercial strength.
18. Each time the large nickle plate through which the medicinal properties pass vibratorially to the body, would be attached to the umbilical and lacteal duct plexus.
19. When using the Gold Solution, the small copper plate would be attached to the 9th dorsal center.
20. The next day when using the Camphor Solution, attach the small plate to the 4th lumbar axis.
21. Keep alternating the attachments in this manner from day to day, in regular routine.
22. Recharge the Appliance every thirty days. Change each Solution after it has been used fifteen times.
23. Each day when removing the Appliance, give the body a massage especially in the area of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd cervical; 6th, 7th and 8th and 9th dorsal, and throughout the lumbar-sacral area; using this combination of oils, added in the order named:

    Olive Oil (heated)............2 ounces,
Tincture of Myrrh.............2 ounces,
Calamus Oil..................10 drops.

    Massage these oils thoroughly into the body; not as something to be gotten through with, but with the expectancy of those things to create.
24. For we can build with these, if there is the correct application of the Appliance and the massages, new brain and nerve tissue.
25. It will be necessary that there be kept normal eliminations. Daily evacuations should be a regular routine for the body. In periods these have been neglected. When necessary to use a laxative, use twice a vegetable compound as the eliminant to once a saline or mineral laxative or eliminant.
26. Do give the body at lease once each month a good colonic irrigation.
27. Keep constructive activities about the body; not of the somber nature nor as dread, but rather as of something ever helpful, beneficial and creative for someone else. Build those expectancies for the body in its mind as to things it can do; not so much in that way as to BUY the body, or to make bargains that "If you will do this, we will do that," but rather in the manner that the body will contribute something to helpful welfare of others.
28. Gradually through the suggestions, as the treatments are made in these directions, the body will respond.
29. Do that.
30. Ready for questions.
31. (Q) What brought on this condition?
    (A) Just read that given. It is a lack of a chemical balance, breaking the coordination between impulses to the cerebrospinal system and the activity through the glands to cerebrospinal circulation and nerve system.
32. (Q) Have brain tissues deteriorated?
    (A) Read just what has been given. The reflexes are broken, but the tissues have not deteriorated. The deteriorations are in centers that are to be stimulated by the application of these oils.
33. We are through with this Reading.

    Copy to Self's daughter
    Copy to Ass'n file
    Copy to Miss Goodall for indexing
    (See extra sheet of directions [which was enclosed] to be sent to Mr. A. M. Godfrey, 2709 Lafayette Blvd., Norfolk Va., who will be able to prepare the Wet Cell Appliance for you according to specifications. Also see article [which was enclosed] explaining theory of this Appliance.)

BACKGROUND

1. Oral report from daughter [...], two sons in service, one ill and caused her to worry a great deal - Last April she began to be extremely nervous and to talk all the time - Then lost speech and now can't carry on conversation - Kept her at Broad Oaks, a private sanatorium, where they called it softening of the brain - brought her home for a month and improved some, surprising the doctor - Then took her to specialist on nerves in Charlotte, N.C. who called it Arteriosclerosis - went thru skull to pump air in brain and make a picture - result, diagnosed as breaking down of the brain - then we took her to State Hospital - been there a few weeks, under observation - expect a social recovery, so she can come home, but never be well.

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