Edgar Cayce Readings, 3641-1

Time and Place: 3:40 to 3:55 P. M. Eastern War Time. Milwaukee Sanitarium, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin.

TEXT

GC: You will go over this body and enquiring mind 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, those conditions and disturbances concerning the physical, the mental body - [3641].
In giving the conditions as we find that disturb this body, there are many to be taken into consideration. While there are physical disturbances, there is also a mental derangement - and this means just what it implies.
In the physical force, there has existed from long ago, those disorders that have caused a disturbance in the body dealing with the activity of the cerebrospinal and sympathetic nerve system, as related to the activities of the body in its glandular functioning.
There was, or still is, a disturbance in the second and third coccyx segments that is the seat or source or beginning of the disorder.
Then, without this being corrected, there has been caused a severance of nerve centers in the abdominal area, where nerves of the sympathetic and cerebrospinal system, in the brush end of the spine, parallel in such manners as to have reflexes that cause periods when the sympathetic system is the more active. At times there are lapses or losses of control of the emotional system, because of the overactivity of the emotional system without the control of the physical activity.
At such periods there are variations in the activities of the organs of the central nervous system - the heart, the lungs, the live and kidneys. All show a variation, not organically, but functionally; for they become as awareness in the body's imaginative or sympathetic system. Hence any or all of these may through such periods be found to be more than active in their reflexes to forces in and through the body.
Yes, even in the present, we find that these can be helped - if there will first be the osteopathic or neuropathic correction of the conditions that exist in the 1st and 2nd segments of coccyx. Raise coccyx and release that tension that exists there.
Also apply for at least an hour each day the low electrical forces of the Wet Cell Appliance, used in the manner as the Radio-Active Appliance is ordinarily used. Keep the attachment plates very clean.
These low electrical forces will disassociate those reflexes where impulses in the present are carried at times from one system to the other, by the removing of pressure in the areas indicated.
Each day following the Appliance treatment, have the osteopathic coordination of each segment along the spine; particularly in the 1st of the coccyx segments, the 4th lumbar, 9th dorsal, 3rd dorsal, 3rd cervical and 1st and 2nd cervical. In the variation from the 1st, 2nd and 3rd cervical, the activities to the 3rd cervical are to relieve those tensions there, which have been the source of the disturbances from the coccyx or brush end of the cerebrospinal system.
Do that and we will bring near to normal conditions for this body.
Ready for questions.
(Q) What caused these pressures in the coccyx?
(A) When about fourteen years old, the body set down too hard on the ice.
(Q) What brings on these spells each time?
(A) Read what we have just given here. This first, as indicated, rose from the conditions in the coccyx, later from the impulses from the tying of nerves - so that these come at more regular periods.
(Q) What is the chemical discharge on her body?
(A) You tie up nerves along the spine and what do you usually find, in any electrical charge? Corrosion as will appear side of a connection - and it may appear in thine own body. For the nerves are the electrical system of the body. Hence this discharge is from the lack of poisons being carried through their proper channels.
(Q) Should shock treatments be continued?
(A) For goodness sakes don't unless you want her to stay in a worse condition.
(Q) Has the brain deteriorated at all?
(A) As just indicated, it is these variations in the center or plexus from which the connections arise between cerebrospinal and sympathetic systems. Not a brain deterioration.
(Q) Would you recommend a specific diet?
(A) A normal, well balanced diet would be the better.
(Q) What concepts can be built in her mind to help most this condition?
(A) This is not a condition where there is mental deterioration, such that you have to rebuild a brain; remove the pressures - you have a good body, you have a good mind, if the pressures are removed from same. But when there are barnacles upon impulses in the cerebrospinal system, that function to organs, and the impulses that function to the sympathetic and the reflexes to these, then these are the sources and causes, and we will have the natural reactions. The intents and purposes of the body are well - just keep them like that.
(Q) Is the relationship with the adopted child a source of irritation to her? If so, how can it be adjusted?
(A) Not necessarily. Rather it irritates the body that it can't do something about conditions.
(Q) What can she and her husband learn from this experience?
(A) Patience and persistence, and the belief in the divine. For all healing must come from the divine.
We are through with this reading.
Four copies to Self - Air Mail Special
Copy to Ass'n file
(See extra sheet of directions [which was enclosed] to be sent to Mr. A. M. Godfrey, 2709 Lafayette Blvd., Norfolk, Va., for preparing the Wet Cell Appliance to be used in this case. Also article explaining theory of this Appliance.)

BACKGROUND

Questions submitted:
Mental-Spiritual and First Physical [3461] the body and enquiring mind, East House, Milwaukee Sanitarium, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin.
1. What originally caused this condition? 2. What should be done to cure it? 3. What brings on these spells each time? 4. What is the chemical discharge on her body? 5. Should shock treatments be continued? Has the brain deteriorated at all? 6. Would you recommend a specific diet? 7. What concepts can be built in her mind to help meet this condition? 8. Is the relationship with the adopted child a source of irritation to her? If so, how can it be adjusted? 9. What can she and her husband learn from this experience?

REPORTS

1/29/44 Oral report by husband to ING: About twelve years ago she became mentally unbalanced, to the extent of not knowing anyone for nine months. She wouldn't eat, had to be fed by a nasal tube. Feared everyone. One day just snapped out of it... Then confined in a house with doctors and nurses... 6 years later a female operation and had both ovaries removed. Became anxious about having a child in 1935-6... 1938 they adopted a child, hoping it would help. Her family think now that the husband's attentions to the child have been the cause of her condition... Sept. 1938 she became mentally ill. A psychiatrist gave her medicine of doubtful help. Ill for a month... In 1939 another attack for six weeks, kept at home again... 1940 another attack; sent to Henry Ford Hospital without success. Then to private sanitarium, for she became very violent. After 3 mos. she snapped out of it... In '41 another attack; sent her again to Ford hospital; shock treatments, ill 2 months... '42 ill 2 more months... 1943 - the bad one - ill in February, sent her to Wauwatosa sanitarium in Wisconsin, been there ever since... Reactions: will go for several weeks perfectly normal, having a fine time with husband on his weekend visits. Then at the end of perhaps the next week will suddenly have a relapse and become very violent. Nobody knows why. Before the attack she writes a great many letters, and fights it hard... During the spell a chemical discharge is apparent on her body, and from her mouth... She has been given a total of 58 shock treatments. They are the only means of quieting her. After them she is melancholy for a few days, then fine for a few weeks... No osteopathic treatments given... No recollection of injuries... Seems to care for the son quite genuinely.