This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, this 5th day of December, 1910.

Present: Edgar Cayce; L. B. Cayce (?), Conductor; Addie L. P'Pool, Steno. Mr. [4435].

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1. LBC: You are now asleep and will be able to tell us what we want to know. You have before you Mr. [4435]; he is in the room with you.
2. EC: [4435].
3. LBC: [4435], he is before you. You will see him.
4. EC: Yes, here we have him here.
5. LBC: Alright. Now I want you to go over him carefully, examine him thoroughly and tell us what is the matter with him, if anything. Commence at his head.
6. EC: Begin here at the head, we have here, you see, the nerve supply or the nerve force, along with the muscular force, that supplies the blood here to the head through the brain, though to, the head proper, through the sensory organ of it and not through the brain part of the head but the sensory organism of the head - the eyes, ears, nose, mouth and facial muscles or nerves, the external or outside of the side or the capillary circulation of the head proper.
7. We have an overstimulated force to these where the blood has been thrown through; it is not there now but has been. We have these forces here internally along the nerves you see. We have the blood forced here through the canals or through the veins here you see; through the arteries and the return through the veins. The flow of this blood through here is the action of the muscular force. We have an overstrain that is sympathetic or through the forces of the sympathetic system in the cerebrospinal.
8. We have lesions along at the fourth to the fifth - fourth TO the fifth dorsal - not to the lower end of the fifth, where we come in contact with the stomach, but upper end and from there we have the sixth and seventh to the lower end of the stomach. These lesions have produced an effect we have had to the brain through the overcharge of the flow of blood to the brain or the dizzy - vertigo as it were - dizziness.
9. The lesions now along at the fifth, fourth and fifth (between the fourth and fifth) has sprained, pulled to the side and produced out to the arms this choking, at times, of the gathering up of the forces of the lymphatics. The lymphatic glands are here in the arm, all over the whole system. What is thrown out to the system is not taken up or used up by the using of muscular forces of the body. That is why we become stiff if we do not use it.
10. As these are taken up and thrown back it produces pains, a tingling at the shoulder, front part of the arm and under the shoulder blade until we come in contact with the body proper. The trouble here at the stomach produces this excess or vertigo from the lesions here. This soreness in the back or gathering produces rheumatic pains, if they had gone on causing trouble, left alone as it is at the fourth and fifth dorsal, the trouble at the lower end of the stomach - this balling up of the matter producing hard knots internally; this is internal in the stomach itself. Produces this balling up or hard knots produced there by not masticating the food or gathering in itself; not the assimilation of the food in the stomach itself; that produces then the lack of juices of the stomach; nature provides then as we have in the stomach as these are not digested, we gather the leukocytes or the white blood of the matter that is used for the white blood corpuscles is thrown around to prevent mortification in the system itself.
11. As these forces are thrown out they gather more from this trouble around the lower end - the cardiac end - of the stomach, the duodenum, has produced a lackness in the organs themselves and do not produce the required amount of juices to digest the food taken into the stomach. They produce then a lack of the peptin in the duodenum and into the larger intestine; produce a lack of the congestive to take it out and we have a form of indigestion; not indigestion of the food but an assimilation of it in the food taken into the stomach. As they pass out we have them lodged in the colon, come and go, until we have them assimilated by the juices we gather at the lower end, where the new blood is gathered into the system, close to the appendix. As these are thrown into the system or gathered up or where we have the blood that comes back or runs through the veins, throwing the blood back into this then it assimilates itself, through the power in itself.
12. We have a strong body in itself, it becomes assimilated and passes out through the rectum as here.
13. (Q) How about the pains across the small of the back; what causes it?
    (A) From the strains here from the forces gathering to assimilate these forces into the system. We have here, you see, as we take out of these forces into the lower end, through the sacrum, we have the lower end of the sympathetic system connecting with the cerebrospinal system; the sympathetic system is the system that takes care of the system - the involuntary system; taken care of the work, the indigestion and is vibrated through at the cardiac plexus, the solar plexus, the lower plexus of the lumbar, as these forces are thrown into the system we gather forces of these forces we do not gather back to the nerve force, the nerve supply, we have pains produced from inflammation, produced from an overstrain to the kidneys, from the trouble we have had above the pains in the hip, at the hip bone, and through to the back.
    We have a strain through the sympathetic system, which has produced overcharge, produced inflammation, produced a pain in the pelvis, pain in the sacral, then produced to the sympathetic system, to the kidneys, and in the intestinal tract to the hepatics.
14. (Q) What treatment would you suggest to relieve this condition?
    (A) Cleanse out the whole system thoroughly; not enough to make it weak and not enough to produce an overexertion in the sympathetics and cerebrospinal system. Something to remove from the stomach as much as possible all we have. Remove the clots formed here. Put plenty of water, at intervals, but do not overfill it. Take plenty of Magnesia and Charcoal, this filters and grinds up these juices.
    That then will pass out to the intestinal tract and we should have something to relieve these forces along the lower part of the body by manipulation with the hands, after we have started this but not while in there, if we do we will have an overstimulation and sickness in the stomach and more dizzy in the head and more to throw on the cardiac plexus.
    Relieve this at the fifth and fourth dorsal and work up the lymphatics into the arms, an assimilation or gathering of the forces not used perfectly. We will have manipulation with the hands over the whole system; nothing hard to digest into the stomach.
15. (Q) What should he eat to agree with his condition now?
    (A) Nothing hard to digest. Fruits, cereals but not much meat and not too much of a starch to produce a caking or excess here, carrying up or taking up too much of the saliva in the mouth. We have too much taken up now, not enough passed into the stomach, too much spit out; we need more peptin, what we have produces too much of an acid state to the lower end causing this to produce this effect.

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