Edgar Cayce Readings, 3533-1

Time and Place: 3:55 to 4:10 P. M. Eastern War Time. ..., Ky.

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: Snow here!
Yes, we have the body here.
As we find, these are serious disturbances. The body is beyond being helped by all the shots or medicines. There must first be those determinations in self that there are those things in God's creation that may be used for benefits to the body. There have been many things left out, in the body-developments, that are sometimes called too material for this body to consider. These have left the chemical changes so that the nerves and muscles have lost the control between the sympathetic and cerebrospinal system; so that the incoordination brings not only tremors but has taken away the elasticity of the muscles themselves - through lack of sufficient energies in the nerve forces to produce the white and gray matter in its coordinant force through the body.
Should these continue, to be sure senility will be the result, as well as the inability of the body to be other than bedridden or in a chair. For it will reduce the ability to control any of the muscular forces of the body.
But as we find the body may be aided. It won't be done overnight. The body must grow in grace and in knowledge and in understanding - the body and the mind, as well as the spiritual growth. These are not a mis-application either, in the mind and body of an individual who has lived what it pretended to preach or to minister.
Begin with the daily use of the Wet Cell Appliance carrying the vibrations alternately of Chloride of Gold, Nitrate of Silver and Spirits of Camphor into the body; one being used one day, one the next, and one the next, and so on.
Do not use the same plates for all solutions, to be sure, but have separate connections for each solution - for these set up varied vibrations.
Each day the Appliance would be attached for thirty minutes. The larger nickel plate would always be attached to the lacteal duct center - which on this body will be four fingers from the navel center to the right and two fingers up from that point.
The first day, when attaching the Chloride of Gold Sodium (in the proportions of one grain to each ounce of distilled water), attach the small copper plate at the 9th dorsal. This should be firmly attached, but not so as to be binding on the body - and it will not be if it is made to adhere by the use of a cord or adhesive tape.
Next day, when using the Nitrate of Silver (in the proportions of twenty drops of a two percent solution to two ounces of a twenty percent solution of water - distilled water and alcohol - using three ounces of this), attach the small plate to the 4th lumbar.
The third day, when using the Spirits of Camphor (commercial strength), attach the small plate to the 4th dorsal center.
Now don't vary these, but make the attachments correctly each day for thirty minutes, alternating the Solutions and attachments in the manner indicated.
Clean the attachment plates thoroughly when taking them off and just before being applied to the body, using the sandpaper or emery paper for that purpose. Disconnect the Solutions when not in use, and connect to the Appliance at least twenty minutes before being attached to the body - that is, the "U" connection that goes into each bottle.
Use normal strength charging solution for the Appliance.
Each day following the Appliance treatment, immediately upon removing the attachments, you see, give the body a massage with this combination of oils, adding these in the order named:
Shake them together, because they will separate. Pour from the bottle into an open container and massage. Don't pour what is left back into the bottle. Massage from the toes through the feet and heel, through the ankle, under the knees to the thighs, across the sacral area and up the spine - rather on each side of the spine than the spine itself, across the diaphragm or around the body, then up to the base of the head - all that the body will absorb. Don't hurry to get through with it. It should take twenty to thirty minutes every day to do this, and let whoever applies it PRAY - as well as the body to whom it is applied - pray about it, and we will get help.
Ready for questions.
(Q) What about diet?
(A) That which is easily assimilated. And do keep up good eliminations. It is well occasionally to have a good colonic irrigation, once in six weeks or such a matter.
(Q) Would it be advisable to have a check reading later?
(A) If you do what we have given you won't need a check reading! You can check on yourself, for if you are not doing it you won't get help! But commence in the right direction by prayer.
We are through with this Reading.
Copy to Self
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BACKGROUND

6/25/43 Letter: "...I have just read a review of your biography THERE IS A RIVER in the Christian century, and it called to my attention some of the remarkable things I heard about you while we were living in ..., Kentucky. My husband and I came to know Miss [528] and her treatment received of you. I am therefore emboldened to write to you about my case. I will state my trouble and if there are any further questions that you need to ask feel free to do so. Please state in your reply the fee.
"I am 45 years of age and a minister's wife for about 25 years. I am the mother of two children and have been reasonably strong until last spring a year ago. I noticed unusual tenderness and blanching of my hands. I have suffered for years from cold hands and feet and the winters were almost unbearable. I consulted my physician, and he sent me to a Louisville clinic, and then in October I went to the Mayo Clinic. All concurred in the diagnosis of Raynaud's Disease plus Acrosclerosis.
"Raynaud's disease is the blocking of the circulation of the hands and feet, resulting in a gangrenous condition which may necessitate the removal of hands and toes.
"Acrosclerosis means a hardening of all tissues, skin, blood vessels, muscles, and perishing of nerves. All doctors consulted say the cause is obscure but is believed to be the result of shock and high nervous tension, and there is no known cure. It's nature is progressive though sometimes it is arrested, though cause unknown.
"My hands are now badly drawn resembling arthritis, they are greatly discolored and spotted and have only limited use of them. I now suffer much in chest and knees are stiffening and cannot get about without assistance. Lips, nose, and cheeks, are swollen and hard as also legs and ankles. Cold weather and emotional tensions are said to be the aggravating factors. I'm also having trouble with my digestion. I have now had a year of rest and inactivity but for certain mild exercises, however, my case seems to grow worse. I have no fear of death and please be frank and tell me what you think of my condition. The physicians have been very honest with me so you cannot startle me.
"I believe in the ministration of the Great Physician when others fail, and I think of you as being one of His assistants. I trust He will use you to help me, if not I shall make the best of it.
"Trusting I will hear from you soon and praying for your continued success, as you minister to ailing humanity, I am sincerely."
7/12/43 Letter: "...If my disease makes as great progress the next six months as it did in the last, I will be beyond help..."
8/05/43 Letter: "...MY trouble is making rapid advancement and I suffer such great discomfort that my courage and hope is cracking up. However, if that is the earliest date available I shall accept it, hoping there will be a cancellation making it possible for an earlier reading. I was advised at Mayo Clinic to go to Arizona but I felt it impossible to do so and be that far from home. I'm now so crippled up I would have to have someone with me and I doubt that the benefit from the climate would justify all that the trip would entail..."
12/13/43 Letter: "...This is just to remind you that I am counting on January 5 for the day of my reading... I am looking forward to my reading with great hope, for I am counting on you helping me..."
12/28/43 Letter: "...Herewith I send you a list of questions: My case have been diagnosed as Raynaud's disease and Acrosclerosis. Is this a correct diagnosis? If not, what is it? What caused this condition? Is a cure possible for me? What treatment do you recommend? Tell me all you can about my case. How may I recover the use of my muscles? Would any of the new drugs be helpful? Such as prostigim or histamin? Or other drugs? My stomach gives me much trouble. Would you recommend a special diet? Will more readings be essential?..."

REPORTS

2/15/44 Husband's letter: "...On January 5 you were kind enough to give a reading for my wife [3533].
"Soon thereafter we bought the appliance from Mr. Godfrey. We have been trying to secure the oils for massaging before beginning treatment as per your reading. We cannot secure the peanut oil, either from the local druggist who has tried through regular sources in New York and elsewhere, or from Mr. T. R. Wirsing as you directed by recent telegram to me. Mr. Wirsing tells me that he also is unable to secure peanut oil.
"Shall we proceed with the treatment without the oil? The delay has been long. Please advise by collect telegram, at once..."
2/17/44 EC wrote advising him not to start the treatment before he had secured the peanut oil, stating that Mr. Wirsing [a druggist in Roanoke, Virginia] was trying to locate the peanut oil and would send it to him immediately upon locating some.
8/20/74 (Tuesday) Ledger-Star Article:
Mind provided his cure - by T. R. Van Dellen, M.D.
A 31-year-old victim of Raynaud's phenomenon (a circulatory disorder) recently demonstrated the importance of mind over matter. He has been able to increase the flow of blood into his fingers by combining hypnosis and operant technique. For the more than seven months he has done this it has worked.
Suffers of Raynaud's usually develop bluish or white fingers which feel numb and cold whenever they are exposed to the cold or they become emotionally upset. Warmth and relaxation bring relief. The skin gets cold and discolored when the small arteries clamp down and shut off the circulation. When the tissues warm up, the vessels relax and open up. Between these attacks, the fingers look and feel normal.
Several Boston psychiatrists were consulted by this 31-year-old man. During the last three years, he had had attacks of coldness, accompanied by blueness and tingling of all his fingers. The symptoms were brought on by exposure to the cold, smoking, and especially anxiety. One of his aunts had Raynaud's and this worried him because she lost the tips of some of her fingers.
When the usual treatment failed, he requested hypnosis, even though tests showed that he was not a good subject. During the first hypnotic spell (which failed), he was told to imagine sunbathing on a warm day. Then he was taught autohypnosis and asked to create his own images. When this method failed, he was instructed to relax via self-hypnosis. The physicians told him to try to increase his hand temperature by whatever method he thought most feasible.
A sensitive feedback device which gave off an audible signal when finger temperature increased was attached. Within 15 minutes, the finger temperature went up 8 degrees Fahrenheit (3.9 to 4.3 Centigrade). In time, he learned that concentrating on increasing the sound emitted by the feedback device created a feeling of warmth in his fingers. Ultimately, he mastered the technique and now is able to control the circulation to his fingers...