Edgar Cayce Readings, 4351-1

Time and Place: 3:00 P. M. William Penn Hotel, Altoona, Pennsylvania.

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EC: Now, we find this body very good throughout. Above the normal in many ways, yet we find the abnormal also and the effect as is produced in the system by this condition. This we find is of the structural condition, and produces a specific effect in the body. The condition causing or producing this comes from times back, even when the body was very small in stature.
Now, these are conditions as we find in this body.
IN THE BLOOD SUPPLY, we find this very good. Well balanced in its elementary forces. Also in the division in the constituents necessary for rebuilding in the system.
IN THE NERVE SYSTEM, we find those centers that produce the condition in circulation and in the effect as is brought to the pulmonaries and the inhalation and exhalation in the body. This center then that has the condition or pressure is that at the sixth and seventh dorsal, affecting the secondary cardiac plexus. Hence, with this taxing the strain in system in breath or shortness of breath and the pressure as is produced in lung and diaphragm proper, more of pressure felt than of other action in the system. In the secondary cardiac plexus center the perineurium itself shows the inflammation and a lesion of the floating type. Hence we have this depression only spasmodically, and when the nervous system becomes overtaxed, so the condition may arise from the excitement to mental forces from cold or from overeating, or any that causes taxation to any nerve centers, either of the hypogastric, pneumogastric, cerebrospinal or sympathetic, will affect at times this center (not present you see at this time). In the sympathetic system this gives reflections and brings the tired, depressed feeling over the whole system.
IN THE FUNCTIONING OF ORGANS THEMSELVES, we find as this:
The brain forces very good.
Organs of sensory system function normally.
Throat, bronchials, thyroids, very good.
The lower portion of the lung shows how the nerve reaction through the aorta artery, when the depression comes to the plexus in secondary region, heart forces and lungs become affected, though not organic trouble, either in heart or lung.
Digestion in the cardiac end of stomach, the esophagus end, shows how that overeating, especially of sweets or sugars, affects the nerve system. Well to keep away from too much of these (except honey in the honey comb).
In the organs of digestion very good. All function in normal condition save when taxed through nerve condition.
In the organs of the trunk portion of body, and pelvis, very good.
Then, to relieve this condition in the dorsal would be to remove by deep manipulation, osteopathically taken.
When the depression is to the lungs and nerves would be well for the spasmodic conditions that arise to inhale through the mouth the fumes or the smoke from Jimson-Weed leaves, dried. Mix with third quantity of the seed from this pod of the Jimson. This will not be necessary to be taken often, provided adjustments in dorsal regions are made.
Do that.

REPORTS

11/28/74 (Thursday) Article:
Virginian-Pilot
JIMSON WEED? NO, THANKS
The Jimson weed is a black sheep of a large family of plants, the night-shades, which counts such honorable members as the potato, the eggplant, the tomato, the garden pepper, and the petunia.
Datura stramonium, or thornapple or jimson weed or Apple of of Peru, is poisonous from its root through its broad leaves to its trumpetlike flowers to the tip of its six-foot stalk. Alkaloids derived from the plant - atropine, scopolamine - can be medically useful in trained hands. The thorny, hard pods yield brown seeds which may tempt the unwise.
The unwary who gulp the toxic seeds in hope of a hallucinating "high" court certain sickness and possible death. The last previous outbreak of jimson weed poisoning occurred four years ago when a dozen youths in Norfolk and Virginia Beach were hospitalized. Investigators said drug pushers had been palming off the seeds as peyote, a true - and illegal - hallucinogen. This week Virginia Beach police reported 10 cases of jimson weed poisoning and Norfolk one.
History was repeating itself. Some of the first English settlers at Jamestown (whence, by corruption, the present name) took an early bad trip on jimson weed. Whether they did so for kicks or out of hunger is unclear, but they suffered for their folly. The lesson is constant even after 3 1/2 centuries: Those who trip out may trip up.
12/03/74 (Tuesday) Article:
Ledgar-Star
JIMSONWEED
To the Editor:
Recently, in the Ledgar-Star, I read that some children in the Virginia Beach area had been made ill by the seeds of the Jimsonweed plant. Containing as it does the very poisonous alkaloid atropine, they are lucky to be alive.
Jimsonweed (Datura stramonium) is one of more than 2,000 species in the Solanaceae, the nightshade family. Many members of this family are poisonous, a few being Jimsonweed, Belladonna and Solanum.
Oddly enough, some members of this family produce important foods, such as red pepper, Irish potato, tomato and eggplant.
Atropine, the alkaloid present in Jimsonweed, is a white, crystalline powder. It is very poisonous, but is very useful in the treatment of certain ailments when prescribed by a physician.
A number of well-known, common plants are poisonous. The bark of the Wisteria contains a poisonous substance called Wisteria. The leaves of the mountain laurel (kalmia latifolia) are quite poisonous, particularly to live-stock. A virulent poison is in the beautiful lily-of-the-valley, while the common buttercup can cause abdominal cramps when ingested. The leaves of the lovely oleander (nerium oleander) are very poisonous. The leaves and bark of the common wild-cherry contain a glucocide, "amygdalin," which under certain conditions can hydrolize into the deadly hydrocyanic acid.
The list is extensive. Who would think that the fragrant "sweet shrub" (calycanthus sp.) is quite poisonous and that chewing the leaves of the common yew tree can cause death?
WILLIAM F. POND
Portsmouth
GD's note: See Prescriptions: Atropine; especially 4375-1 recommending it for Hay Fever. This is interesting to me, since 4351-1 recommends the inhaling of Jimsonweed for Asthma.