Edgar Cayce Readings, 4156-1

Time and Place: 3:00 P. M. Dayton Time. Apt. ..., New York City, N.Y.

TEXT

GC: You will go over this body carefully, examine it thoroughly and tell me the conditions you find at the present time. You will diagnose the case thoroughly, giving the cause of the existing conditions, also the treatment for the cure and relief of this body.
EC: Now we find there are abnormal conditions in this body and many may be corrected. There are abnormal conditions that to this body have become normal.
Now these are conditions as we find them in this body, Mrs. [4156] we are speaking of. First:
IN THE BLOOD SUPPLY, we find this in some respects good; in many bad. Much of the vital forces in the hemoglobin are missing. Much of the white blood remains too much in the lymph form in circulation. Hence the conditions in the hepatic and capillary circulation. This, however, is more an effect than cause of conditions.
IN THE NERVE SYSTEM, we find much of the trouble, as produces conditions that are abnormal, that may be corrected, in many centers there is the disturbance that produces these conditions, as well as organic conditions as exaggerated by these digressions of circulation through nerve tissue and in ganglia that have become in that state of a depressing effect to the system. In attempting to ward these we have formed lesions in portions of the cerebrospinal centers.
The deflection in organs we find affecting directly the pancrean secretions. Hence the hypogastric and pneumogastric systems become involved, bringing distresses at times over the whole system, especially in the digestive system. First begun with the taxing of the duodenum and gastric juices in stomach; too much acid formed there, produced by lesion in 6th dorsal center. With the changes accorded the system by properties taken in the body to correct this produced the taxing of the ganglia of the hypogastric plexus. This affected the pancreas and the secretion from same prevented digestion through the intestinal tract, overcharging liver, making high hepatics and more blood pressure, affecting nervously the arterial circulation.
These, then, ward against, by the system taking properties to reduce conditions, brought the distresses, for conditions were not considered as thoroughly as that producing them.
In the system of digestion, then, brought the condition in blood supply, through the inflammation produced in the lacteal and mesenteric glands. These, from the system of blood supply and the lack of the properties to balance same, brought about the capillary circulation as at present.
Organic conditions, we find:
Brain forces very good.
The lungs, bronchials, larynx, show effect of congestion, yet not organically deranged.
Heart's action subnormal and abnormal in pressure; then producing an engorgement or full heart, yet not organically in that position of being heart troubles.
Digestion showing effects as produced in system, especially in the pancrean forces; producing then lesion, or the 9th dorsal vertebra being to the left this bring pressure on these portions of the mesenteric system and glands as to prevent the secretions necessary.
Then, the taxing of the kidneys comes from high hepatics in lower portion of body, and the lack of proper secretions being produced by the liver for the blood's circulation.
The conditions then to be improved, and brought to the normal, will be reached through these:
Take into the system these properties: To half a gallon of distilled water, add:
Reduce by simmering (not boiling) to one quart. Add: 4 ounces Beet Sugar, dissolving in same well. With 15 grains Ambergris, dissolved in one ounce Grain Alcohol, with 4 ounces of Gordon's Gin, extra dry. With 2 drams of Cinnamon, in stick, and 2 minims Oil of Peppermint.
The solution should be shaken well together before properties are taken, and the dose will be teaspoonful three times each day, before meals.
Let the diet be of those properties that carry such as these:
No fats, neither butter nor stimulants of tea or coffee. Only brown or whole wheat bread. Meats only of sea foods, that well seasoned with Cayenne or hot peppers. Great deal of salt in all foods taken. Milk that should be heated before taken.
For the system, when toxins appear in colon, using high enemas of pure olive oil (half a pint at a time) and deep manipulation or adjustments, and manipulation given by a thorough chiropractor, for we find these centers producing the condition in the body and must be adjusted, would we bring the better conditions for this body, Mrs. [4156].

BACKGROUND

11/07/24 [4156]'s letter: "...My niece [140] and her husband [137] have told me so much about you and of the wonderful help you have been to them.
"I have been an awful sufferer for nearly two years and none of the doctors here have been able to help me. Do you think you could do something for me? I would be very grateful if you would try. Hope to hear from you very soon..."

REPORTS

11/20/24 [4156]'s letter: "...Am delighted with your letter and instructions just received and will endeavor to carry them out in every detail. Am puzzled about your prescription. Am enclosing a check which I hope will be acceptable.
"Am a diabetic patient, taking large doses, morning and evening, of Dr. Banting's 'Insulin' cure. Have been forbidden sugar. Your prescription calls for 'beet sugar.' Am obliged to eat a great deal in order to take care of the large doses of Insulin I take. Would the prescription interfere in any way with the Insulin, or did you mean for me to stop taking Insulin?
"Am sure I am now on the right road to recovery, and that my many furuncles, carbuncles and rash will soon disappear. Am so anxious to start the treatment. Would you kindly give me a reading at once, and telegraph an answer letting details of the reading follow by letter. Dispatch whether or not I should add 'Beet Sugar' to the prescription, and whether I should continue the Insulin.
"Many thanks and kind regards from..."
11/21/24 Telegram from [4156]: "...Letter follows in addition to questions asked therein please also answer in reading whether osteopath such as Berger at 21 E. 49th St., N.Y.C. is satisfactory to administer my treatments. If not give name and address of reliable New York Chiropractor as doctors will not recommend..."
11/21/24 [900]'s letter to EC: "...Have just come from Mrs. [4156]'s home. She is so very happy with her reading she doesn't know where to turn first, but is surely puzzled. Dr. Stillwell of N.Y. is her doctor and confident. I will say for him that he did not sneer or deride your reading. She has boils for which he gives her injections, but says if she decides to follow your readings he must give up injections so as to give your reading a fair and complete test. He warned her that it would be dangerous not only to her health but to her life for her to give up her insulin treatments. She has written you of this asking you to take reading on these questions and as she is fully determined to do exactly as recommended in reading and as her very life may hang in the balance would ask that you make every effort to make her reading thorough and detailed, especially telling her if insulin treatment she now takes for diabetes and injections she has been taking for boils should be continued as in past or if either one or the other or both should be discontinued. Unless one knows of a definite reliable chiropractor such a one is almost impossible to find in N.Y. and the physicians all refuse to recommend one. If Dr. Berger or Krause, osteopaths, won't do, she would also like to know of some reliable chiropractor in N.Y. Hope you will help her out.
"You will probably think I have my nerve butting in here, but it is a terrible responsibility, Cayce, taking a woman with a serious case of diabetes and whose body is covered with boils, out of the hands of a doctor and specialist, both of whom are treating her and change her diet and treatment. I am sure the forces that manifest through you are right and she will be benefited, but full information must be given her and she must be carefully guided very often. I have her reading in my pocket for I want to try and see that the medicine given there is carefully prepared. Thus far your physical cases of ours have been more or less minor in character, that is - there has been no serious organic trouble that might mean life or death. Mrs. [4156] is [140]'s ([137]'s wife's) aunt and should anything serious happen to her by reason of the radical change advised in your reading (which change I advised her to do) - it's then good-by to all our plans... The principle thing is: What, if anything of her present treatments should be continued, including insulin treatments and injections for boils. Upon receipt of your answer the two physicians will be dropped, an osteopath or chiropractor will be taken on and the life of a very sick woman will depend on those treatments in your readings. I suggested to her that she have one reading a week for first month of treatment to be sure osteopath was administering properly, medicine right and correct results being obtained. Believe she will do this. You might write her recommending something of this sort due to the seriousness of her case. We all await this second reading on her, then will watch progress of treatment and I do hope she is benefited."
11/22/24 [900]'s letter to EC: "...I only wish to add to last night's that on the request of Mrs. [4156], I advised her not to give up her insulin treatment and her other injection for boils until she hears further from you. You may mean that in addition to one or both of the above treatments she should do as advised in her reading. She awaits anxiously your reply..."
11/23/24 EC gave her Ck. Physical Rdg. 4156-2.