This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the Tutwiler Hotel, Birmingham, Alabama, this 20th day of January, 1923, in accordance with request made by the self - [4190] - via father [4189].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Alf Butler (?), Conductor; Fay Autry (?), Steno.

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1. EC: Yes, we have the body here. Now, we find this body is very good, yet there are abnormal conditions producing the general debility in the physical forces of the body. The functioning of many organs are involved, yet without specific organic conditions producing them - the elimination, the assimilation and the circulation being involved. Now, these are the conditions as we find in this body here, Miss [4190], we are speaking of, present here in this room:
2. The blood, we find, is good, yet deficient in its ability to carry, or to make, the rebuilding cellular force within the system sufficient, without calling on or using the surplus energy for the body. Hence the body, often through sheer will force, forces itself to its physical and mental duties. The number of red blood cells are deficient; the number of the white are sufficient for the forces in the body, for, with the will and mental forces, the body cares for the conditions as they arise.
3. Through the nerve forces of the body we find the body very good in many respects. There is coordination throughout with the cerebrospinal, the sympathetic and sensory organism of the nervous systems.
4. The body, with the mental and spiritual forces, is above the normal, hence the ability of the will to overcome the inactive centers about the physical, yet this, in this case, often works a hardship on the physical body, see. This is an out-of-the-ordinary condition - that is, the body should not overtax itself as much as it does, see.
5. In the functioning of the organs themselves we find that which shows the seat of the trouble producing these conditions.
6. Through the organs of the sensory system the body is very good. There are times when, for the moment, the physical apparently has reflexes to some of the organs of the sensory system. This, however, is only a reflex condition, and with regained vitality it passes away. That is to the eyes, ears, throat, we are speaking of.
7. In the lungs themselves, we find, with the low vitality of the blood supply, that the clarification of the blood force, and the oxygen taken into the system, does not always reach to its full extent necessary in the system - not that we have an organic condition existing, but the incapacity of the blood to give fully the vital force; when this clarification takes place there often comes an uneasy feeling to this portion of the body and it finds reflex in the nervous system, and in its sleeping state often brings an overcharge.
8. In the digestive tract, we find, the stomach is smaller than it should be, produced by the contraction of the pneumogastric centers by the force applied to the system to relieve congestion, in times back, to the system, (Headaches caused from this); hence the inactivity to the hepatic circulation to give the full flow of blood to the stomach to have perfect assimilation, hence there comes poor elimination through the organs of the hepatic circulation, and we have the torpidity of the whole hepatics, and they become below normal or a subnormal condition in the body, allowing that, with the lymphatic circulation toxins, to be absorbed in the system.
9. The spleen is full and large, tending toward engorgement on account of the overtaxed condition, at times, of the mental forces of the body to control the system. The pancrean juices are very good in their secretion and functioning when we consider the condition in the liver itself, for with the congestion of the liver, when both the excretory functioning and the secretive functioning are involved.
10. Through the intestinal tract, we find, with poor elimination, that few of the glands secrete sufficiently to give the proper incentives for full intestinal digestion. The lacteal glands, at times, become surcharged - some inflammation. Hence the lack of vitality to the blood supply; lack of full capillary circulation.
11. The emunctories of the body - the liver and kidneys - become overactive, or vice-versa, for they do not accord in their functioning, for with overstimulus to the kidneys, the liver in its functioning suffers with the overstimulus to the liver. The emunctories and all of the organs of the pelvis become over-sensitive, produced through the nervous forces a deep-seated trouble about the ilium and sacral plexus, hence the tired, dull, achy, feeling, at times, to this body about the region of the kidneys and across the upper portions of the hips - achy through the back and lower part of the lungs.
12. To give the correct incentives and equilibrium to this body would be to give that in the system that would overcome, or create the balance, within the body - not an excess of any manner or form to the body, either in properties taken or in the physical exertion or mental exertion. All must accord.
13. We would take this into the system, as the medicinal properties:
14. To one gallon of rain water, or distilled water, we would add:

    Wild Cherry Bark.......................4 ounces,
Yellow Dock Root.......................2 ounces,
Calisaya Bark..........................2 ounces,
Buchu Leaves..........................15 grains.

    This would be reduced by simmering, NOT BOILING, to one quart. Strain, and while warm, add:

    Cane Sugar,
first dissolved in warm water.......4 ounces,
Grain Alcohol..........................4 ounces,
with
Balsam Tolu............................2 drams.

    The dose would be two teaspoonfuls one-half hour before each meal, and on retiring.
15. The body should have for a diet those of vegetable forces, and not meats. Those especially of cereal as gruel, with milk preferably warm from the animal.
16. The exercises will be those of a general condition but of a specific nature, for the whole system. Then each evening when this is taken rub the spine from the first cervical to the end, with cold water, then with a rough cloth, to bring circulation to each vertebra. Miss [4190], present in this room.
17. In less than sixty days we will find the body entirely changed.
18. Let the diet be of laxatives rather than of other properties. This must be cared for, and not allow foods to remain in the system and form toxins.
19. New blood, new force, enlarging of the stomach, raising of the hepatic circulation, assimilation and elimination will be begun in their proper channels.
20. Do that.
21. We are through.

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