This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 322 Grafton Avenue, Dayton, Ohio, this 1st day of October, 1924, in accordance with request made by the self - Mr. [4552].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mr. [4552].

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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. You will give the cause of the existing conditions, also the treatment for the cure and relief of this body.
2. EC: Now we find this body very good in many respects and ways, yet there are some conditions that are at variance and the effect of these in the system brings distress to portions of the body. This especially do we find in the nerve system and the reflex conditions produced in the functioning of the organs of the body from this condition, disturbing the circulation, especially in the upper hepatics and the diaphragm, also disturbing the digestion and the eliminations in the system.
3. Now these are conditions as we find them in this body, [4552], we are speaking of, present in this room. First:
4. IN THE BLOOD SUPPLY, this we find well balanced throughout the system. When there is strain on the body from the expansion in the hypogastric and pneumogastric plexus centers, the pressure in the blood supply becomes abnormal, though the elements, the constituents of the blood supply itself is very good. The drosses as left in system by the poor eliminations have not as yet caused much disturbance in the blood supply, and the body itself is of that temperament through its mental forces as to keep a very even balance in the blood supply through the mental forces active over the system; that is, when one loses their temper, as is called, the blood emits poisons in the system. Were this body, [4552] to allow such to react in this body it would become very destructive with the conditions in the system. With his temperament this he prevents.
5. IN THE NERVE SYSTEM, there are centers in the cerebro-spinal system where impingements prevent the equalization of the body to its normal condition. These we find, especially, in the 8th and 9th and 10th dorsals, though there are others in the upper dorsals and lower portion of lumbar that need attention also. With this impingement we find the deflection of the nutriment to blood supply, nerve energy, that causes the functioning of the pneumogastric center, those that feed the spleen, the liver, the pancreas, the duodenum in its function, all lacking. Hence we have an intestinal digestion; that is, under the strain of lack of nutriment to cause these portions of the system to function in their proper manner, there becomes in the system, when foods are taken in the body it should pass into the stomach in an alkaline state, acted upon by the gastric juices, and should pass into the intestinal tract in an alkaline state, acted upon by gastric juices, hydrochloric acids and forces, and the lacteal forces in the body, with the deflection of the circulation, we find that too much of the gastric juices returned to the stomach proper, and instead of being turned into the intestinal tract in the state proper we have an acid state, or an acidosis throughout the whole system, causing all of the centers in the digestive forces to become exaggerated in their functioning, this producing the taxation to the whole body, as we see.
6. In the functioning of the system under this strain, the body through its mental forces, through its taking of properties into the system to produce the lactic state, and the state that would assist the system, the body has been some bettered. We can never correct the condition until we correct that producing same.
7. IN THE ORGANS THEMSELVES, we find the body very good. Functioning under the strain of a deflected nerve condition.
8. Then to correct this, and to bring the normal condition to the body, to remove this pressure, we would take those properties in the system that will act with the body in the correction of the impingements, and that will give the incentive to bring the normal condition for this body.
9. Taking the deep manipulation, osteopathically given, that we may correct the impingement and allow the whole system, through the digestive tract, through those portions of the body causing the disturbance (in the 8th, 9th and 10th dorsal, and in the 3rd, 4th and 5th dorsals), correcting these conditions, and taking these properties in the system at the same time:
10. To 1/2 gallon of rain water, add 8 ounces of dried Garden Sage. Reduce by simmering to one quart. Do not boil. Strain while warm and add 4 ounces Cane Sugar, dissolved in one ounce of very warm water. Ten grains Ambergris, dissolved in one ounce of pure grain alcohol.
11. We would add then 2 ounces of gin, preferably Gordon Gin, and 10 grains of Cinnamon, with 10 grains of Balsam of Tolu, dissolved or cut before put in solution, so that it will dissolve in its natural form. May be cut in the gin.
12. Stir well together, all heated. When prepared, the dose would be one teaspoonful four times each day, before meals and before retiring. Will only be necessary that one quantity of this be taken, and from fifteen to sixteen of the correct manipulations should bring the body to its normal forces.
13. Do that.

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