Edgar Cayce Readings, 3958-1

Time and Place: Unknown. Selma, Alabama.

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EC: Yes, we have the body here. Now, we find there are some abnormal conditions in this body and they have to do with the nervous system as controlled by some specific conditions as exist in the body, and the effect this produces over the system, both through the physical and the mental attitude as taken toward those conditions in the system. Now, these are the conditions as we find them in this body at the present time.
Some specific conditions were brought on in time back by conditions that existed then and the effect is shown at the present time. In the blood supply we find the body is weakened by the action of the conditions in the system where the strain over the nerve forces so affect the body as to prevent the perfect developing of those forces that produce the vital necessary constituents of the blood supply, so the body has become weakened in the conditions, not from the deficiency lying in the elements of the blood itself so much as the condition produced on the system, preventing the full development in the system - such as we have in the impoverished condition of the glands where the blood carries to the system itself replenishing and rebuilding forces. The number of the red blood cells become deficient - the white blood cells being weakened from their strength, but not depleted in number. Through certain portions of the body we find the nerves and ligaments at times with that peculiar tingling and deadened sensation from the lack of vital forces to propel all of the muscular movements in the system.
In the nerve forces we find the condition that becomes the one that produces most of the trouble in the body. The body has gradually grown to be one over sensitive through the developing of the sympathetic nervous system acting over the body. The cerebrospinal nerve centers, especially in the ilium plexus have become impinioned. This we find as a condition produces most of the trouble as a gradual nature grown in the system. This then produces the irritation we have through the lower intestinal tract and through the pelvic organs, or reflexly to the sensory nervous system sympathetically produces trouble at times through the head and to portions of the head, especially the frontal portion of the face. This is reflex rather than a condition to be treated for the betterment of the body. Through the sensory organism we find the organs of the sensory system have become involved sympathetically, producing at times the humming in the ears, the tendency to swallow often, and also effects the eyes. This is also reflex or of a sympathetic reflex condition. The digestive tract also shows the effect of the sympathetic condition. Now, in the organs of the sensory system we find these conditions as we have given, but we find some specific conditions in some of the organs of the sensory system that have their origin in the nerve centers about the lower cervicals through improper distribution of the circulation - and strain as was caused to the eyes in time back - that is too strong light at one time.