Edgar Cayce Readings, 4018-1

Time and Place: 3:50 to 4:00 P. M. Eastern War Time. Los Angeles, Ca.

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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: Yes. As we find there are disturbing conditions. These have been rather of longstanding and they have changed much.
The activities of the mental body towards the environments and surroundings have not been well for the body, for the changes that have come about. True, there are still active influences in the lung of the tubercular condition. There are cavities indicated in the left lung, there are congestions in the right, there is the exercising upon the bronchi.
We find that these may be materially aided, but we would approach the disturbances from quite a different angle. Thus, though the body has long been under the direction of sympathetic attendants as physicians and the care with others, the choices must be made by the entity as to whether these changes will be made. For you can't ride two horses, neither can you serve two masters; one or the other will necessarily have to be discarded.
We would use the charred keg with apple brandy in same, prepared so that there is the forming of evaporation or the gas from same a little above normal. In a gallon and a half keg put three-quarter gallon of pure apple brandy, not apple jack but brandy that has been redistilled. This would be kept close to heat, not too hot but so as to cause fast evaporation. Keep the vents well corked. Inhale the fumes into the throat and lungs, not too often in the beginning but twice or three times a day; not too severely at first. This will not only act as an antiseptic to retard the effect of the active forces in the lungs and throat but will also heal.
Then, as indicated by the gradual effect that such a disturbance naturally has in lungs, it will have the effect upon liver and kidneys, and will purify the disturbances that tend to exist in the liver and kidneys.
Also we would take Acigest regularly to allow for the assimilation of foods so that the gastric juices of the lower portion of stomach and duodenum are entirely changed by the taking of these properties into the system. Take a teaspoonful of the Acigest in a glass of raw milk, preferably at the evening meal, about three times each week. The fresher the milk the better. Even if it is taken warm with the animal heat still in same it would be better, if the body is able to obtain such, but of course, let it be from a cow or herd that has been tested. After a little while, when the system adjusts itself to these properties and there is the ability of the body to assimilate foods better, so that there is body building and not body destruction, we would increase to four times each week.
Also we would take three times each week, preferably at the noon meal, a whole wheat cracker spread thinly with Calcios. This would be taken on the days that the Acigest is not taken.
After a period of at least two weeks of taking these properties, let the body keep in the open, where there is more sunshine, though never the sun directly on the body - until after a period of two to three months. Keep in the open air but where there is not too much dust, of course; where there is more oxygen and more of the energies of the sunshine upon the body. Keep well wrapped, of course, never getting the feet wet. Stay out of the night air but be in the early morning air.
Do these and we will bring improvements for the body.
Do not collapse the lungs nor use the gases other than the breathing of the fumes from the apple brandy.
In the diet do take fish and fowl often. Do take plenty of butter, milk, whole grain cereals and those things that are body-building, as much as can be well assimilated; as steak that is prepared well and well cooked. Have plenty of such foods. Liver should be taken often, beef tripe, pigs feet. Not too much of these at a time but gradually, as the body assimilates the properties indicated, there may be builded resistances by the assimilation in the body itself. For with the fumes we will destroy the tubercular germ. Also the Acigest and Calcios will aid in eliminating the destructive forces from the body.
We are through with this reading.
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(Calcios and Acigest are distributed by The Colloidal Health Products Corp., Attention: A. A. Nichoson, Greenvale, Long Island, N.Y. Calcios is a syrupy paste containing free calcium easily assimilated and sells for $2.50 a jar. Acigest is hydrochloric acid in a form easily assimilated and sells for $1 a bottle.
See directions [which were enclosed] for preparing the charred oak keg for inhaling fumes from apple brandy.)

BACKGROUND

12/31/43 [4018]'s letter:
Room 455 Hotel ... Los Angeles 5, Calif.
Mr. Edgar Cayce Virginia Beach, Va.
Dear Mr. Cayce,
Yesterday I read an article in the September issue of Coronet Magazine telling of your wonderful psychic powers and miracles of healing, and it has given me new hope, so I am asking for your help.
I have been ill in bed for six years with tuberculosis. The trouble first became evident in 1925 and since then I have recovered apparently at times. But attacks of influenza and colds, added to financial trouble which included hunger, plus attempts to teach or work at whatever work was available, all managed to start up the trouble intermittently. I have had a succession of six breakdowns and have spent a total of ten years in bed altogether. The last breakdown occurred with a hemorrhage in February of 1938, and I have been in bed ever since. Much of the last six years was spent in the county hospital and it was an unfortunate and unhappy experience. I shall not go into detail concerning that. Poverty accompanies the illness, and I am living at present on fifty dollars per month from my brothers. They have families and cannot afford the expenditure. Also I am afraid my sisters-in-law resent the help they give me. They have always argued that I should be working and paying my own way.
A very kindly and efficient tuberculosis specialist is handling my case gratis at present, but so far I have been unable to leave my bed.
I am alone, unmarried, with no family of my own.
If you can give me help to regain my health, and also give me advice on the financial situation, the homelessness, and loneliness, I shall be more grateful than I can tell you.
Please let me know what your fee will be and I shall pay it as soon as possible. I received a little extra money this Christmas and shall apply that on your bill.
Thanking you with all my heart for any help you can give, I am
Sincerely yours, [4018]
1/12/44 [4018]'s letter:
Room 455 Hotel ... Los Angeles 5, Calif.
Mr. Edgar Cayce Arctic Circle, Virginia Beach, Va.
Dear Mr. Cayce,
I wrote to you on December 31st, after having read an article in the September issue of Coronet Magazine, which told of your remarkable psychic powers and miracles of healing, but did not have your complete address then, and am a little fearful that the letter might not have reached you.
I am asking your help because I have been ill in bed for six years with tuberculosis. It became evident in 1925, and since then I have recovered completely at times - apparently - but attacks of flu, and colds, coupled with financial troubles which involved hunger, or attempts at teaching, or trying to do other types of work, all managed to start up the trouble again, and I have had six breakdowns altogether. The last one occurred with a hemorrhage in February of 1938 and I have been in bed ever since. Much of that time was spent in the county hospital and it was an unhappy and unfortunate experience. I am penniless and am living on fifty dollars per month from brothers who have families of their own, and cannot afford the money. I am receiving medical care from a doctor who will charge for his services only when, or if, I can afford to pay.
The Coronet article says that interviewers submit questions to be asked during the reading. The most important questions in my life at the present are as follows:-
1 - Can I recover my health? 2 - If so, what must I do to overcome tuberculosis? 3 - Would treatment for me be effective in other cases of tuberculosis? (That is for my doctor although he does not know I am writing this letter, but I am hoping we might find help for others in my condition, too.) 4 - Can I regain my hearing? I am deaf in one ear and seem to be losing my hearing in the other. 5 - Can I become independent financially? If so, by what means? 6 - Can I have any success in writing stories or articles? 7 - What must I do to have a home of my own? I am staying at present in a cheap little hotel but the food problem becomes serious at times owing to the fact that I must remain in bed and cannot go out for meals. 8 - Is there any possibility that I may marry (if I regain my health)? I shall send no money until I am certain that you have received my letter for I have no checking account and do not have access to a post office to obtain money orders, but I shall be happy to pay whatever your fee will be. As I told you in my other letter, a few extra Christmas checks are being held for that purpose.
Thanking you with all my heart for any help you can give, I am
Gratefully yours, [4018]
2/17/44 [4018]'s letter:
Los Angeles 5, Calif.
Mr. Edgar Cayce Association for Research and Enlightenment, Inc. Virginia Beach, Virginia
Dear Mr. Cayce,
I am grateful indeed for you kindness and consideration in giving me an earlier date for a reading than your usual scheduled time. Up to the present I have been able to hold off the X-ray, and if I can manage to do that until March 24th or thereabouts, it will give me time to talk over your findings with my doctor. He has been so very patient over such a long period of time, but recently he has been demanding that I have a thorocoplasty. If the expected X-ray corroborates his present theories, I shall be helpless to avoid it.
The surgery would necessitate county care again, and my experience in Olive View Sanatorium was so unhappy and so unfortunate that I shudder at a repetition of the experience. The county doctors had prescribed a thorocoplasty to be administered on the left lung after a small amount of infiltration should heal in the right lung.
In the meantime the cavity in the left lung, which the Olive View Medical Staff declared could not close, had closed in spite of their verdict. Regardless of that miraculous demonstration, they transferred me from Olive View Sanatorium to a notoriously bad county rest home. There treatment was discontinued, and of course, the cavity re-opened. Also they transferred to the rest home only those X-rays that showed the open cavity, and kept the X-ray that evidenced the closed cavity. County Rest Homes may take new X-rays only through Olive View Sanatorium. The history, showing absolute evidence of the closed cavity, was not divulged until long after treatment had been discontinued and the cavity had re-opened. My present doctor has been trying for four years to re-close the cavity, which would have been healed long ago had proper care been given in Olive View. (This is not meant as a tirade against Olive View. I want you to know my fear of returning.)
I shall do all I can to hold off any radical treatment until I hear from you.
I understand from your booklets that all questions at this reading must deal entirely with the physical, so I shall make them up accordingly and shall enclose them on a separate sheet of paper.
Thanking you again for your very kindly consideration, I am
Gratefully yours, [4018]
QUESTIONS (Please forgive the pencil. I have run out of ink and cannot get a new supply at the moment.)
I expect to be in Room 455, Hotel Californian, 1907 West Sixth Street, Los Angeles, California, on March 24th, 1944. If any change occurs in my plans I shall write or telegraph you immediately.
The following questions concerning my health, have troubled me now and then, but I prefer to leave the choice of those you ask during the reading, to your discretion - also the wording of the questions would undoubtedly be managed better by you.
1 - Can I get well from tuberculosis? Can I be healed completely? May I expect to lead a normal life? What treatment do you prescribe? 2 - Will a thorocoplasty be necessary or even advisable? If so, must I have the surgery performed under county care, or may I have access to some better hospital? 3 - Is continuation of the present pneumoperitoneum treatment advisable? 4 - Would the new drug Diasone heal my lungs? If so, how may I obtain treatments? 5 - Is the present discharge of mucous a result of the tuberculous condition or is it caused by a bronchitis or other infection? 6 - Has my right lung healed? 7 - Do I still have a cavity in my left lung? 8 - How extensively has the tuberculosis healed, if at all? 9 - Can I obtain all treatments you prescribe? How? 10 - Is my heart normal? Are the occasional poundings and uneven heart beats a result of air pressure or indigestion? What treatment, if any, do you prescribe? 11 - Are my kidneys affected? Is treatment indicated? 12 - What do you advise as to the digestive system and the diet? 13 - Is the nervous condition I have had since childhood something that can be healed completely? What do you prescribe? Is my rather poor memory a result of laxness on my part or the result of some physical condition? What do you advise? 14 - Do my colorless lips and gums suggest anemia? If so how may this condition be corrected? 15 - Is the present condition of my teeth endangering my health? If so, can you advise how I may have them cared for? 16 - May I regain normal hearing? What treatment do you prescribe? 17 - My vision has been impaired rather recently. Do you prescribe treatment for my eyes? 18 - For years I have had little resistance to colds and influenza. What do you prescribe? 19 - Tissues in my upper left arm have been impaired. Is this a dangerous condition? Does it require treatment? 20 - I have felt that fumes from gas heat have aided in lowering my resistance to tuberculosis. Is this true in my case?
Please accept my humblest gratitude for your help, and may God bless you always.

REPORTS

4/17/44 [4018]'s letter:
Room 455 Hotel ... Los Angeles 5, California
Mr. Edgar Cayce Virginia Beach, Virginia
Dear Mr. Cayce,
Thank you so very much for the Reading. I shall do everything in my power to follow instructions but am afraid it will be impossible for me to find Apple Brandy in this vicinity. I telephoned several liquor stores and distributors but all said that Apple Brandy has not been made for at least two years, and is impossible to get. Two friends have been trying to find it for me also, but with no success. Can you inform me where I may obtain it?
I tried also to buy Acigest and Calcios in Los Angeles but could not, so I sent an air mail letter to the Colloidal Health Products Corporation two weeks ago asking for an immediate reply via air mail, but as yet have received no reply.
The Reading specified a gallon and a half charred oak keg, but I could obtain only a two gallon one. However the extra page of instructions for preparing the keg called for either a gallon and a half or two gallon keg so I am hoping that will be acceptable. Charred Oak kegs also are almost beyond finding at the present time.
I should be most grateful for some other readings on tuberculosis from your files, if it is possible for you to send them. I just could not afford an active membership but am wondering if you have any such material in booklet form or in any form which an associate member might obtain. I am greatly interested in learning whether or not all cases are treated the same generally, or if each case is given highly individualized instructions.
Somehow I cannot help feeling that if it will be possible for me to follow instructions to the letter I shall be cured. But my difficulties lie in obtaining the required materials and in the financial part. I just do not have money to spend upon facilities or special foods, but I shall do everything I can to obtain them. Even getting out of doors where I may lounge about rather than to be on almost constant exercise will be a real problem.
Would it be possible to have another Reading that might clear up these difficulties? I do not know what your procedure is in such cases, and I could not pay for another reading at the moment but would do so as soon as possible. However I do not want to be selfish and I know that you have heavy demands upon your time and abilities, so I merely present these problems hoping that you may aid in solving them. At the moment the most pressing need seems to be Apple Brandy and I shall be grateful indeed if you can advise where I may obtain it.
Thanking you for your kindness in my behalf, I am
Gratefully yours, [4018]
4/22/44 EC's letter:
Miss [4018] Los Angeles, 5, California
Dear Miss [4018]
I have yours of the 17th.
I am sorry to hear that you are having trouble in getting the apple brandy. I don't know where to tell you to obtain this. I know it can be obtained. As far as I know they have been making apple brandy right along in the East. That is one portion of the treatment that is given in practically every case of tuberculosis, and it has been one of the most effective. In fact, unless it is a case too far advanced, there have been very, very few that haven't responded to the suggestions that have been made through the readings.
There are quite a number of these cases, that are entirely different. So far we have not prepared any special papers on tuberculosis, though there have been numbers and numbers of cases through the years. If you have read There is a River, you will know that this is one of the conditions in which I have the most interest, because it was possibly the first thing that came about in my own immediate family, for my wife was afflicted with it, and we had despaired of her ever being well. In fact, we had been told by possibly fifty physicians, she had gone far beyond anything being able to bring her back. This was one of the first readings given for my own immediate family, outside of what had been done for myself.
The people who make Acigest and Calcios are very much like several of the things that we have given. They are not primarily in that business, but have made it as a side line, because it has been suggested for them, and they have gone ahead to prepare it for others, and it is not sold in any stores. I am sure you will hear from them. They may be a little late, but you will hear from them direct. There are other people in the Los Angeles area who have been given the brandy keg. The two gallon keg will be perfectly alright. It will only mean that it will evaporate much faster in a large container.
It would be mighty hard to get a reading until you at least commence something or another. In fact, the experience through forty years has been, unless you have begun, usually the information will tell you to do what it has suggested, even if that it not as helpful as it should be.
We will send you a list of our publications just as soon as we can get them from the printers. There are quite a number of case histories, but as I said, there is not one on tuberculosis, and to give you anything that has been given otherwise, we would have to make it up from various readings, which would be practically impossible just at this time. We will try to answer any questions that you might wish to ask about.
Hoping that you will be able to get started on the suggestions soon, I remain
Sincerely, Edgar Cayce EC/gm
5/15/44 [4018]'s letter:
Los Angeles 5, California
Mr. Edgar Cayce Virginia Beach, Virginia
Dear Mr. Cayce,
I am enclosing a letter from Speas Company of Sebastopol, California, informing me that their Apple Brandy is not re-distilled. It is the only Apple Brandy I could find after almost two months of searching. Wholesalers and Liquor Stores, as well as Drug Stores say that Hildrick's Apple Brandy and other Apple Brandies are still being made in the east but that government regulations prohibit their shipment to the west coast.
Since Hildrick's Apple Brandy is still being manufactured, I am wondering if it might be possible to have some sent to me by means of a doctor's prescription, which could be forwarded directly to the manufacturers in the east. However, since my doctor is to take no part in this course of treatment it would be impossible for me to obtain a prescription from him, so I am wondering if that might be arranged through some doctor interested in the Association. I know of none, nor do I have an address of any Hildrick's plant. Do you think it might be possible to make such an arrangement? If that is not advisable would it be possible for you to give me names and addresses of people in this vicinity - or in California (for I understand the shipment of liquor is prohibited from state to state) who are using the charred keg with a re-distilled apple brandy at present. I could write to them and perhaps in that way find a source of supply.
Those two avenues failing, would it be possible now to have a reading to inquire where I might obtain re-distilled apple brandy? The Acigest and Calcios came immediately after my last letter to you and I have been taking both regularly as prescribed, and have been adhering to the diet suggestions as closely as possible, but of course have not been using Apple Brandy fumes because of my inability to obtain redistilled apple brandy. If it is possible to have a reading to inquire about the apple brandy, would any questions as to the possibility of obtaining more adequate finances be advisable also? That part of my living is becoming more and more difficult and any added expense must be paid out of the money allotted for my food and of course that means less food.
I shall be very grateful for an early reply for I am so very anxious to start the course of treatments.
Thanking you for any help you can give, I am
Sincerely yours, [4018]
5/22/44 EC's letter:
Miss [4018] Hotel ... Los Angeles, 5, California
Dear Miss [4018]
I have yours of the 15th, enclosing the letter from Speas and Company.
I believe, Miss [4018], that this brandy, just so it is not apple jack, but distilled brandy would be alright to use. So if you can get this fixed for you do try that. That, I believe, will be the best way.
Hoping you will get real results, which I believe you will if you follow the treatments through, I am, with every good wish,
Sincerely, Edgar Cayce EC/wi
1/23/49 [4018]'s letter:
... Street, ..., California Mr. Edgar Cayce Virginia Beach, Va.
Dear Mr. Cayce,
On March 24, 1944 I had a psychic reading and I am hoping that you can give me another. I was living in the Hotel ..., ... St, Los Angeles, at that time.
If I may have another physical reading please send me an order blank and information regarding costs of present membership and I shall be extremely grateful.
Thanking you, I am
Sincerely yours, [4018]
1/27/49 HLC's letter:
Miss [4018] ..., California
Dear Miss [4018]
We have received your inquiry of January 23 addressed to Mr. Edgar Cayce.
Edgar Cayce died in January 1945. Our Association is making a study of the remarkable records which he left. We are sending you sample copies of "The Searchlight" and our publication lists.
We can recommend no one who can give readings similar to those given by Edgar Cayce. However, you may find material through our abstracting and extracting services which will be helpful to you. (See membership blank.)
If we can help you, we shall be very happy to do so.
Sincerely yours, Hugh Lynn Cayce, Manager HLC:mb Enc.