Edgar Cayce Readings, 4157-1

(Physical Suggestion)

TEXT

EC: Now, while we find there are some abnormal conditions in the body, yet we find the body very good in many ways. These abnormal conditions have to do with the functioning of organs, and deal with the minutia or the functioning as is affected by the system being depressed in portions, and causing the abnormal action in the functioning. These are produced by bacilli that is carried in the system and that affects the centers through which organs are governed by the nerve system in its functioning with assimilation and elimination in the system. From a pathological viewpoint then we have a very interesting condition for the study of a pathologist.
Now, these are conditions as we find them in this body, [4157] we are speaking of. First:
IN THE BLOOD SUPPLY, while this is subnormal, with a high pulse rate than normal, this is produced as we see by the condition as produced in the system where the vitality is run low by the burning up, as it were, of the rebuilding cellular force in the system. Hence the body has periods and times of melancholy, of depression, easily wearied, the body feels depressed without any actual pain accentuated in any portion of the system, and any undue functioning of any of the organs, as occur with either digestion by the action of the kidneys or of the lungs proper, brings worry and the expectancy to the inner being of the entity of destructive forces working within. Hence the pathological conditions to be studied.
IN THE NERVE SYSTEM, we find there are specific centers that are involved in the condition. The body is one that has often taxed its strength to almost beyond endurance of the physical forces of the body, and in this weakened condition has this bacilli found the ready place, as it were, for its operation in the centers themselves (nerve system we are speaking of). This then, breaking down the center, produces in the perineurium sheath itself that of the cry or call, as it were, from the system to supply that necessary to create coagulation. Hence the drain on the circulation as supplied through the leucocyte in the system to meet the needs thereof. Such conditions, especially, do we find in the plexus center of the 7th, 8th and 9th dorsal. Hence we have had in times back more than at the present an indigestion that affected the upper portion of the intestinal digestion. Liver seemed overcharged, pancreas failing to operate, and the hypogastric center, both through its nerve plexus and through its circulation and those appendages to which circulation and the nutriment necessary to the proper functioning of organs are supplied, all come under strain and distress. This then has brought into the system a deeper circulation and the lack of sufficient capillary circulation to carry eliminations in their proper balance in the body. The taking of medicinal properties in the system has only been to alleviate the condition of the local nature in those portions that have been attacked at that time, leaving the cause and seat of the trouble, as is found in these plexus centers, to react again and only producing two, yea, three and four conditions to be added other than removing that which first produced same. The reaction then in the nerve system to these forces that have been applied in the system, and causing this distress, coming through the hypogastric affected sympathetically that of the pneumogastric and the stomach itself, began then (speaking of times back and of conditions present) to contract, and we had a form of gastritis at various times, indigestion of a sympathetic and at times of acute attacks; this producing pressure then on the diaphragm has brought consternation, as it were, to the upper portion of the bronchials, through pressure created in enlarged nerve centers and plexuses along this portion of the body, producing irritations in the throat when the condition in reality comes from the stomach and from hypogastric and pneumogastric centers, the pancreas becoming engorged and failing to produce the proper juices to carry digestion properly in the intestinal tract, and with the upper portion of the intestinal tract being disturbed by this digestion we have had troubles then through the kidneys in their eliminations, excesses and showing then the discharge sediments of various characters, and has been given as the trouble. Not being true, however, for the depression as we see coming from the system being overtaxed and from the body being unable to bring the equilibrium necessary to gain control over the reproductive cells, and the body, as it were, slowiy but surely burning out its vitality. Vitamins, nitrates added to the system only add fuel to the already consuming condition, and only making same of a slower but a surer nature.
Then to bring that of the functioning organs, and the condition of the organs as at present, we find a body well balanced in brain distribution, yet one lacking in correlation of the physical needs of the physical man.
In the organs of the sensory system, many of these have at various times been involved in the condition in various manners, as has been throat, tonsils, vocal cords at times, nasal cavity, eyes and ears in minor ways, yet all showing distresses of strain on system.
Lungs showing pressure and of the condition, though not organic.
The heart's action subnormal and again abnormal. Pulsation above normal. Blood count, leucocyte and red blood being subnormal and abnormal to create necessity in the system of supplying nutriment.
Digestive organs not good. Many of them disturbed through conditions.
R E L I E F, then to give the best to this body would be to give the body exercises in the open air and away from the present surroundings, correcting the condition in the dorsal region by manipulation, or by vibration from manipulation either osteopathically or by massage, for it should be done all in the open, and the body "rough-it," as it were, for a while, with plenty of water, plenty of vegetable matter and very fat meats.
Do that.

BACKGROUND

4/24 Letter: "...Would a change of climate be beneficial; if so, where should I go? Should the treatments of the present physicians be continued?"

REPORTS

5/24 [4157]'s letter to EC:
"...I am awfully sorry that I have been so busy that I have not been able to reply to your letter and tell you how much I appreciated your reading. Dave Kahn and I went over it together, and we were both immensely pleased with your summing up of my physical condition. After Dave had made me acquainted with the things you've done, I was looking forward quite expectantly to hear from you. And, need I say, that your report was much more than I ever expected? I am really delighted with it, and will do all I can to help you from time to time.
"I want another reading, Mr. Cayce, at your first free time and this reading is to be a MENTAL READING ONLY. That is, I want you to give me a COMPLETE analysis of my mental condition including everything concerning the mental: In what respects I am not well developed mentally, and in what respects I am, if you can find any; to what mental stimuli I respond most readily, and those to which I am slower to respond. I guess you know all I mean. I want to know which sort of reactions take place best in my brain, and which do not; also, what complexes I have and most important, tell me for what sort of work (that is, life work) my brain is best suited; also, advise me in what respects I need mental developing and how to go about it.
"In short, Mr. Cayce, I want a Mental reading that is as complete and takes in everything mental just as my Physical reading took in everything physical. Enclosed please find a check and I will send more later..."
5/24/24 See 4157-2.