This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 12th day of August, 1927, in accordance with request made by self - Miss [4308].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Miss [4308] and Mr. L. B. Cayce.

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1. 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 the treatment for the cure and relief of this body.
2. EC: We have the body here.
3. Now, we find there are those physical conditions with the body that cause distress, and these may be eliminated from the body. While these are at present of specific nature, yet there are some general physical conditions that should also be looked after, for these are those that - with the specific irritation - cause those conditions of the acute nature to arise in the system. That in the acute form shows improvements in the condition, yet the seat or the cause, the source, has not as yet been reached, and the entity has only arisen to meet the emergencies of conditions. Hence produces a drain on the whole physical force - but with the proper adjustments, and with the proper coordination in the system, the body may be able to RESIST such conditions without acute conditions arising in other portions of system also.
4. These, then, are physical conditions as we find them with this body, [4308], we are speaking of, present in this room: First:
5. IN THE BLOOD SUPPLY, this we find shows the effect of the incorrect metabolism in the system. The system then showing - through the blood - the reaction that would show extraordinary acid conditions in the system, or the lack of the iodines for the body, and an extra amount of potash would be resultant from ash of the blood.
6. IN THE NERVE SYSTEM, this shows the strain under which the body has gone to meet the needs of the physical conditions in the body at the present time. The sensory system, and especially the sympathetic nerves' supply shows this strain. Those that show in their reaction that the reaction has been of the nature to produce irritation, from the 3rd and 4th dorsal center to the 1st cervical center - yet with this extra irritation there has been produced more of the supply in the mucus producing portions of the body, and the serum producing portions of the body, of those necessary conditions to produce better eliminations throughout the trunk portion and the head and neck portion of the body.
7. IN THE FUNCTIONING OF THE ORGANS THEMSELVES, in brain forces good. In discernment good. In discrimination at times not so well.
8. In the functioning of the organs of the sensory system, the specific conditions as have arisen in the system show that with congestion and cold - then irritation produced in the optic supply forces - there is irritation or granulation in the eye forces and the eye supplying nerves in the body. This then forming, through irritation, the outlet of this extra-ordinary condition produced in blood supply - stimulated by the nerve reaction and its taxation, brought about these specific conditions and those conditions that became acute. With the applications as have been applied to the body, these show that RESISTANCE has been set up - not so much as the application, but easing and deadening the nerve supply, the system goes about to supply in the body those necessary conditions to relieve or to throw off - through the eliminating channels - this excess.
9. In the bronchials, throat, lungs and larynx, these are very good in their reaction - though there is seen that the nerve strain in upper portion of the body produces an extra amount of those forces as are thrown off from the body and these secretions cause irritation to the throat - causing, producing, dryness - tendency to cough, or tendency for irritation in throat at times and nasal cavities. Also - with the lack of the iodine in the system - the functioning of the thyroids becomes nil in the reaction. Hence IRRITATION by non-elimination, especially through the 3rd and 4th ventricles or nerves to the face and to the neck.
10. Digestive system at present shows the lack of proper assimilation, through the incoordination of blood supply. Not that the blood supply is such that it is detrimental to the body, but the ability to build - or to produce that storage necessary for resistances in the body against cold and congestion - is at such a low ebb that - with irritation in nerve system, and irritation in congestion through foreign substance, or through tissue of the body (that is over acid) - causes or produces that of the streptococci in the ELIMINATING center. Hence the pimple, pus formation in small sacks; yet the hemoglobin and the leucocyte sufficient in blood stream to wall off and to meet the needs from time to time. Yet that injunction as given: Build UP the body, that better RESISTANCE may be made in the system, better assimilation created through the digestive system, and less will be the accidents to the tissue in system, and the LESS will be the incentive for irritation to be accumulated in any portion of the body.
11. In the lower digestion, this we find shows irritation at times. ESPECIALLY does this occur when the body eats, or feeds - as it were - when too warm or too much excitement, and we have a nerve reaction, or nervous indigestion, in the lower portion of the system. Hence inflammations set up again, from the condition existent in the blood and nerve stream throughout the mesenteric system; that is, tendencies for apparent indigestion through the stomach and intestines, and things that should agree - or that HAVE agreed - disagree with the body.
12. To meet the needs of the conditions as they exist at present in the physical forces of the body:
13. We would only add to those things as are being supplied through applications and through those conditions as have been applied to the irritated portions of the body.
14. Those added would be those vibrations as are found in the Radio-Active Appliance, using the iodine for the system through same - making the appliance in the negative to the upper and left side of umbilicus, applying the positive to the wrist and NOT to the ankle at all; for the tendency of the body (being on feet often) is to have an excess of circulation to the lower portion of body. Hence irritation as is created at times in the locomotaries of the lower portion of body.
15. With this application, we would also use a gentle massage from the 5th and 6th dorsal to the upper cervicals each evening, applying with same - or just after such massages - those vibrations of the Violet Ray.
16. After the irritation has reduced more in the optics we would use the Violet Ray eye applicator to the eye direct, see? but keep up those applications as have been supplied the system for at least three to five days more. Then bring about the better coordination through the system by the application of the Radio-Active Appliance, FOLLOWING with the application of massage and Violet Ray - which may be begun at ONCE, and applying the Radio-Active Appliance as soon as received.
17. Ready for questions.
18. (After pause) In the physical the supply of conditions - as seen - is unbalanced.
19. In the spiritual and mental these attainments of the physical are hampering the spiritual development. Then, worry not as to those applications of the spiritual in the body. For the present, care for the physical, that the spiritual and mental may better apply those truths, lessons, as are being attained by the body through the application of spiritual truth to the nerve and blood supply of body - for PHYSICAL conditions existent produce irritation. The physical and the mental and the spiritual are ONE, yet each must be dealt with in and through its own sphere - for in the applying of the body forces we find that even as the Master gave, "Man shall not live by bread ALONE, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord," yet we find the Master supplying the physical needs to the thousands to meet the physical conditions of the body and supplying the needs of the spiritual to the individual man. Apply those truths, those lessons as attained - in and THROUGH those of the Master - in the life in the physical, in the spiritual, in the mental.
20. Ready for questions.
21. (Q) Should the body take care of the physical first and then the spiritual?
    (A) As given, meet the needs of the physical conditions of the body through the physical at present. Meet the needs of the spiritual, the mental, through the spiritual and the mental. Apply then those physical needs for the body at present, applying THROUGH the spiritual those of the mental and spiritual nature for the physical and mental as given, each through its own sphere, and each are as ONE in application to the body.
22. We are through for the present.

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