This psychic reading given at the Tutwiler Hotel, Birmingham, Alabama, this 18th day of December, 1922.

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

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1. EC: Now, this body, we find is very good, you see. The abnormal condition as we find here is poor elimination with poor assimilation, see, through the body hence we have in portions of the body the leavings, as it were, of poisons that should be eliminated, see, and poor assimilation, see, makes the condition through the intestinal trace, you see, so that we have one producing the other or the other producing one, you see. They have been vice versa in the system, you see.
2. Now, these are conditions as we find in this body, [4664]. The blood forces we find are very good, save at times there is carried in this, that is, the circulation those elements that should be eliminated through the emunctories, that is, these in the liver and kidneys, see. At various times they work one against the other for the body is both active in mind and body, see. The number of the red and white corpuscles are sufficient to care for the system and to produce coagulation in the proper manner and form. The body easily recuperates when the conditions have a chance when he thinks right, you see, for the effect of mind with this body is above normal forces when correctly guided, but they are not always so.
3. The nerve forces within the body by the action of improper elimination at times, have about many of the ligaments, those elements that produce to the action of these, that is, in the extremities at times, you see, that cause some pains to the body, inconvenience, see. The brain forces are good. The co-ordination between blood supply and the nerves and emunctories and extremities are not always good, produced from the condition as we have given, see. Throughout the whole system the action of the capillary circulation, now we are speaking of nerves with the circulation, you see, the congestion of the respiratory system with the poor elimination causes from the eliminating center, the sacral plexus, those pains to the body, see, here, 3rd and 4th lumbar plexus. The reaction to this in the liver is the reaction as we have from the elimination, you see, the opposite pole.
4. Through the functioning of the organs themselves proper, we find the body very good, save through the liver and the kidneys, as we have given, you see, in the circulation.
5. To bring the normal conditions to this body would be to reach the seat of the trouble and not treat the condition, see. We would take then this in the system to produce the correct balance to the body, then act with the mind over the body to keep the control, the body can if it will, you see. This would be the dose, - only prepare three of them:

   Podophyllum...............1/2 grain,
Leptandrin..................2 grains,
Sanguinaria.................1 grain.

6. This would be put in capsules, you see, one taken every other day. Then take, after the body reacts from this, (it will make the body sick for the first dose, you see), the body should take exercises regularly, that is, in the evening, of a specific character of the arms up to front, down, back, see, three times each motion, circular motion with the hands on the hips stooping with the hands on the hips, stooping, one foot held with the other hand, see, then rub the spine after these are taken with cold water, then with a rough towel or cloth, see. Do that and in a very short while the body will be its normal self and then keep itself so by its own volition.
7. (Q) No other exercises for this body, Mr. Cayce?
   (A) No, only take those after we have had the reaction from the medicinal properties, see. We are through.

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