This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 5th day of May, 1927, in accordance with request made by self - Mrs. [3721].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.

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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 the treatment for the cure and relief of this body.
2. EC: Yes, we have the body here.
3. Now, we find there are those conditions existent in the physical forces of the body that in the general cycle functioning of the organs bring distress in various ways to the body, and the body may be termed by some as a neurotic - that is, the nerves of the body are at such a tension that in the various cycle functioning of organs there are VARIOUS conditions that appear to be of specific nature, when the cause or seat of same is irritation produced at nerve juncture, or in the ganglions in the various portions of the body.
4. These, then, are the conditions as we find them in this body, [3721], present in this room. First:
5. In the blood supply, this very good in many respects, yet there are times when apparently the heart's action is too quick. Not an organic condition, not a disturbance in the quality, but in the quantity of the blood supply. Not sufficient, then, in quantity. Hence, with the least exertion there is that activity in the blood and in the heart's action in pumping same, as it were, that causes this taxation, and the sudden distress as is felt in and about the heart region, also in the region of the hypogastric and pneumogastric plexus, or the diaphragm in its vibration is brought forward and presses, as it were, on the pulmonary cavity.
6. In the nerve system, in this we find the greater causes and the greater reasons for the distress throughout the system, produced then by condition existent in a special portion of the body so situated, and the reactions from same such, as to cause the distress in the various portions of the body. This, as we see, has been of long-standing. There being, then, derangements, as it were, or pressure, or adhesions, or lesions, for they have varied in their various conditions. In the pelvic region this pressure is so located in the branch end of the cerebrospinal system, and acted upon by the solar plexus region, that the distribution of nerve energy throughout the system causes the greater distress. As is seen, this same plexus being involved in the lower dorsal, and in the 2nd lumbar plexus, causes then that of the sympathetic nerve system to be overtaxed. Hence there have been, as it were, distresses in various portions of the mesenteric system, when these were only sympathetic conditions, yet causing disturbance in the activity of various functioning organs throughout the mesenteric system. The distress as caused there, then, as has been seen, is purely reflex, as is most of the disturbance throughout the various portions of the system, for with the nature of the disturbance in the nerve system, and the reaction in the nerve system to this misdirected energy, as it were, brings these various effects in the body in the functioning of the organs.
7. In the organs themselves, brain forces are very good. The reaction in brain forces is above the ordinary, yet oftentimes the body finds as if it were hard to disseminate in mental reaction; that is, occasionally easy to remember any detail, again the greater distress is found in attempting to recall circumstances that the body finds it should, or feels that it should, remember easily. This is not an aberration, nor as of the distresses, but rather of reflexes in the sympathetic, and is the indication of the nerve misdirection, as it were, in the body.
8. The throat, bronchials, lungs, and larynx: In this distressed condition in nerve system, we find the body easy to take cold, or easy to turn circulation (increased) in such a way and manner as to bring distresses or fullness to the throat, with the feelings as of phlegm, or as of some obstruction to be removed from the tissue of throat, bronchials, or nostrils. Only again we find the excitement, as it were, produced in the nerve system, causing the nerve ends to react, to tingle, as it were, to the reaction or excitement as produced at their centers or base.
9. Lungs very good.
10. Digestive system, or stomach proper - again we find here there are periods when there is the indication of intestinal disturbance, and of the nervous indigestion, rather than indigestion created by lack of gastric juices or by the lack of the proper division between the hydrochloric and lactic fluids, or of the acid and alkaline condition of the stomach; yet the same condition as of acid or of alkaline is produced by the body at times by overeating when under stress of nerve reaction. The body should never eat any food when at high nerve tension. This should be remembered well by the body, for this is detrimental to the body to eat at such times.
11. Liver, spleen and heart, these, as if acting together under the strain and stress, show as given: In heart the reaction by the high state of vibration created, yet not an organic, nor a valvular, nor any condition of the organ itself in an abnormal condition. The spleen shows plethora condition - that is, with the activity of the mind of this body, [3721] we are speaking of, the spleen responds - or the body is as of super-sensitive and responds either to joy or sorrow very quickly, showing the taxation to the sympathetic nerve system and a corresponding reaction in the organ affected by same. With the plethora condition the blood, the blood flow (and remembering we have a small amount or quantity of blood) to the organ itself, liver becoming drained, there is the corresponding reaction in the lack of nutriment left in this region to carry on digestion. Hence we have a nervous digestion, and not an organic or organ's disturbance, other than reflexly.
12. The pancrean juices over-secretive at times, for with irritation in the pelvic organs, and with the kidneys being overtaxed and pains at times caused through this region, there is seen this organ itself (the liver) below the normal in size, yet full in one lobe, that of seeing the organ is both excretive and secretive - the secretive lobe being engorged, the excretive being smaller.
13. In the hepatic circulation, this rather cold and low - that is, below normal in the quantity or in the state, for it should be above that of the normal pulsation. Hence called a cold hepatic circulation - that is, the circulation between the liver and the kidneys of this body is below normal. Hence there are times felt by the body when there are pains, or bearing down pains throughout the right, and then changing to the left side, when the reaction or reality of pain is a nerve contraction by the lack of the proper incentive to nerve supply.
14. The condition then as exists, or has existed in the pelvic regions, is to be considered the more, for here we find many of the indications of troubles as have been existent - and have been repaired, as it were, in part, yet never set wholly with the normal cooperation with the rest of the system. This then produces at times headaches, from improper absorption to the kidneys proper. Not an organic trouble wholly, yet organic in that the organs themselves do not function in unison. Rather is this the disturbance in pelvic organs and in the false pelvis proper, by adhesions as were produced there in times back by cold, and by the improper suppression and the improper action at times to the organs of the pelvis in menstrual periods. These produced a form of lesion and disturbance to the higher vibrations in the glands of reproduction. In this disturbance, then, the lesions taking place caused the circular lesion in the 2nd lumbar, and the suppression of the functioning of organs in the pelvis.
15. Now, to meet the needs of these conditions in this body would be to bring about that which will give the proper incentive to the nerve plexus and nerve reaction of the body. Not as of great quantities of medicinal properties, nor of any heavy changes in the body in organic functioning. Rather of consistent and persistent mental and physical action to bring about the correction; for the body then we would prepare first as this for medicinal properties:
16. Take six (6) ounces horehound (preferably the green - or the dried may be used). Put this in sixteen (16) ounces of distilled water. Reduce by simmering (not boiling) to one- half (1/2) the quantity, or eight (8) ounces. Strain, and while warm add two (2) ounces cane sugar, first dissolved in two (2) ounces of hot water. Then reduce again the whole quantity to the eight (8) ounces. Then add to this:
17. Cut three (3) drams Balsam of Tolu in two (2) ounces of grain alcohol. Then add one-half (1/2) ounce Elixir Calisaya, see?
18. Shake the solution together before the dose is taken, which would be teaspoonful three (3) times each day. The over or excess quantity of the horehound is as the active force in same to the tissue of the body, especially as regarding the functioning of the kidneys and of the functioning of the mucus producing tissue from diaphragm up, without suppressing the functioning of either the liver or the spleen.
19. Then we would use that vibration for at least twenty (20) minutes each day of the electrically driven vibrator, and using the hard ball over the whole cerebrospinal system from the base of the brain to the end of the spine, see? Let this be, preferably, as the body retires of evenings.
20. Keep the feet dry, see? And keep plenty of water inside and out - that is, take preferably internal baths to cleanse the entire alimentary canal, drinking plenty of water, and using enemas to remove refuse from the system, rather than cathartics, and do not take sedatives, for there is sufficient sedative in that as being applied in the medicinal properties given.
21. Not meats, but rather green vegetables for the body. Let each meal - no matter when taken - be of at least one green vegetable, see? Small quantities of fish or fowl may be taken. Soups and those properties that grow below the ground, especially for soups. All tuberous vegetables in soups. Those above the ground not so many of same, though a small quantity may be included in such soups.
22. Ready for questions.
23. (Q) What is the condition of the tonsils and adenoids?
    (A) These conditions, or the engorged conditions that exist, especially spasmodically - as has been given that these conditions exist - are rather of the reflex nature. Correcting the nerve vibration and the blood supply (through diet and through the eliminations as set up) will bring about better conditions for these, see? Or, should these be not respondent to these conditions, by the misapplication of that as is being given, then we would change. Do this as given first, for we find if this as given is applied consistently, persistently, we have a normal body, well and good, and capable of giving much to others through both mental and physical application of self.
24. (Q) How long should these treatments be kept up?
    (A) Until the body is normal, and applied or reapplied whenever there are signs of reoccurrence of any of the troubles, see? That hardest to combat with, of course, is the condition in the pelvic region. But this continual vibration as set here by the application of the electrically driven vibrator, in and about these, will bring about a rejuvenation of the nerve centers in such a way as to supply new life, as it were, to the organs of the body, [3721].
25. We are through for the present.

REPORTS

1. 10/10/68 Her husband died at age of 75 yrs., leaving his wife, [3721] and a son as survivors.

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