This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce in Selma, Alabama, this 13th day of July, 1920.

Present: Edgar Cayce; (?), Conductor; (?), Steno.

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1. EC: Now this is the condition as we find it here in this body, [4516] we are speaking of. There are many conditions in the body that are abnormal to the body; there are a few that would be abnormal to a normal body that through the affectations of hereditary effect are normal to this body. The conditions existing in the body of [4516] have to do with the physical, mental, and spiritual life that exists in all human bodies. The affectations produced to the spiritual side of the body are an effect to the conditions that exist in the body through the physical and spiritual more than through the mental action towards the spiritual. Now in the mental, or action of the brain forces, in its application to the use of the mental faculties pertaining to the physical, if the body were in closer touch with the spiritual through the mental, the affectations of the spiritual would not be so severe. The mental attitude of the body towards things spiritual is not balanced as of its youth in the physical body.
2. This is where we begin with other portions of the body, the mental and physical. First we have to do with the emunctory circulation of the body, and the lack of being able to distribute the physical attributes to the organs in the system, affecting the entire physical body, as we have in taking up the different organs of the body and their action in the physical body of [4516]. We find that the blood, which is the life-giving source of the whole body, carries several kind of bacilli, destructive to the life-giving cellular forces of the body. There is an overbalance of life-giving red blood cells which fights out the forces in the capillaries destructive to the life giving power. Sometimes the body is better than at others, becoming hopeful of being well again; then the existence of the bacilli in the blood reduce the vitality, causing depression. The emunctuaries [emunctories] in in their life-giving fluid to the body are affected, and cause a creeping up of deadness to the whole extremities of the body. So much of the bacilli is carried in the capillaries that the skin, or the cuticle, is effected. The pus-bearing bacilli carry to the joints and marrow in its action to the bone that which produces a deadness to the cartilaginous forces, and cause a stiffness in the joints. The effect on the heart action produces the same condition in the venous circulation of the blood. In the nerve forces, as applied to the body of [4516], we find the action of this bacilli in the veins affects the muscles of the body, but the effect of this condition is more of the involuntary than the voluntary action of the body, hence the gradual depression of these forces in the body. Now the action of this dis-eased condition of the emunctuaries, as carried to the lymphatics in their action over the body, at times too much lymph is drawn from the trunk portions of the body, and added to the condition existing in the capillaries, and we find there is produced in the system enlarged glands along the lymphatics, as in the arms, limbs, and lower trunk part of the body. Now these are the conditions we find in this body.
3. (Q) What treatment would you give to bring this body back to a normal condition?
   (A) Now in treating the conditions in this body we have many things to consider. As the disease of the emunctuaries affect the action of all of the organs of the body, we will have to treat through that which will act on the emuntuaries without disturbing the functioning of the organs themselves. We would give into the system this - Sea Water, or 20% saline injection.
   To be given hypodermically in the hips and shoulders of the body, and thus carry to the circulation and the lymphatics this amount of saline, which will act on these organs themselves. We will give into the system that which will eliminate the bacilli through natural channels, or will carry out through regular channels that which disturbs the action of the organs. Again we will take saline into the intestinal tract, but in a different form. This will be taken in a form that will act as an astringent to the mucus as produced in the lymphatics and thrown off through the stomach and intestines. Combine the following:

   Dogwood Bark........1 ounce,
Prickly Ash.........1 ounce,
Iron Weed...........1 ounce,
Yellow Burdock......1 ounce,
Elder Flower........2 ounces.

   Add to one quart of water and allow to reduce to one pint by simmering over the fire; strain and add one ounce of salt. This to be taken one tablespoonful night and morning, as we are taking the injections every five days; and we will see within three to five weeks a change in the body of [4516], so the action of things taken into the body will act as a rebuilding force, and will not be carried off, thus producing a gradual dissolution of the physical man. We are through.

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