This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 21st day of July, 1944, in accordance with request made by the self - through daughter - Mrs. [...], Associate Member of the Ass'n for Research and Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Mrs. [3407].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, J. Fitch, Stenos.

TEXT

1. GC: You will go over this body carefully, examine it thoroughly, and tell me the conditions you find at the present time; giving the cause of the existing conditions, also suggestions for help and relief of this body; answering the questions as I ask them.
2. EC: Yes, was we find, these are rather serious disturbances for this body. From cold and congestion and lack of vitality, there is a great deal of inflammation in the pleura or that area of the capsule of the lungs. Because of this irritation there is an accumulation from lymph circulation or a formation of quantities of fluid. These are causing adherences or lesions or adhesions in portions of the lung.
3. These will require rest in the open, though this should be not too much in the sun but not entirely out of the sun. When there are the great accumulations, of course, these should be drained, but we should begin with the use of packs about the body, especially as a jacket which should be made with mud baths, which may be put about the body, as to prevent this adherence of the pleura to either the walls of the lung or the cavities or the area of the body-structure itself. This, as we find, should be made with Antiphlogistine or the California mud, medicated.
4. We would also find that for the prevention of the infections through the alimentary canal there should be at least twice each day in the water taken an antiseptic, such as a few drops of Glyco-Thymoline.
5. We would for the healing of same use the brandy keg which has been described, how that this is a charred container, at least a gallon and a half or two gallon. Into this put a gallon of apple brandy and have this where it is kept warm to produce quantity of the gas forming, and only the gas should be inhaled, at least twice a day.
6. We would also add Calcios as a stimuli to be used for the better circulation.
7. We would also add Acigest as to aid in the formation of the proper activity in assimilation of foods which should be taken.
8. The Acigest would be taken in raw milk, a teaspoonful every other day, at the evening meal.
9. The Calcios should be taken just the quantity which may be thinly spread on a whole wheat wafer, once each day at the noon meal.
10. As to the diet: Plenty of calves liver, broiled, two or three times a week. Beef juice should be taken regularly as medicine, a teaspoonful four times a day at least, but when taken it should be sipped, not just taken as a gulp. White wines as a stimuli will be most helpful for the body. These should be very light; that is, the alcoholic content not more than six percent. These would be most helpful. Not too large a quantity of starches; then, no white bread. The dark breads or what may be called pumpernickel or rye or whole wheat are well for the body. Oft raw vegetables should be prepared with gelatin, or gelatin alone would be well. Watercress should be taken very often, as also the foods which are used as garnishes for dishes, as with steak or the like. Never too heavy foods but oft take in small quantities plenty of fish and fowl. These should be well prepared, never fried. When the small fowl are prepared chew the bones oft. All of these will be helpful.
11. If we will do this we may bring help to the body. The continuing of just drawing off and the other means don't balance well for the body.
12. We are through with this reading.

    Two copies to Self - Air Mail - (one for Mrs. [...])
    Copy to Ass'n file
    Two for indexing
    (See explanations [which were enclosed] regarding Apple Brandy Keg, Beef Juice, and Acigest and Calcios.
    Acigest and Calcios are both distributed by The Colloidal Health Products Corp., Attention: A. A. Nichoson, Greenvale, Long Island, N.Y. The Acigest is hydrochloric acid in a form easily assimilated and sells for $1 a bottle. Calcios is free calcium easily assimilated, a syrupy paste, that sells for $2.50 a jar.)

BACKGROUND

1. 7/08/44 Daughter wrote: "My mother is very ill - her lungs filling with water and needing drawing often, and I came home to see her. She would like to have the reading in my place. She has read some of the material regarding your organization and readings. Will you substitute her in my appointment? On August 11, P.M. I've another appointment which may be used for a Physical Rdg. for me." [For further background see daughter's report under 5374-1, Par. R6 and R7.]

REPORTS

1. 7/21/44 GD's note re Apple Brandy fumes and charred Oak Keg: In a gallon and a half to two gallon keg put at least 1/2 a gallon of Pure Apple Brandy; not other than re-distilled apple-brandy, Hildrick's is a good make [See Par. R10 below re Hildick's made by Laird & Co.].
   Prepare two holes in one end, one of sufficient size that a tube may be connected through which there may be inhaled the fumes (not taking the brandy itself). Do not let the tube go into the solution at all, but only into that vacuum where the fumes are formed by the natural processes of the brandy's evaporation. Inhale the fumes into the throat and lungs two or three times a day. Two or three inhalations each time will be sufficient in the beginning, but gradually increase. Do not let the brandy get too low. When it has evaporated to half or two-thirds of the quantity, refill. Don't throw the other away, it is still good. The other small opening is only for the air, so that the body will not be drawing against the lack of air when inhaling the fumes.
   KEEP THE HOLES CLOSED WHEN NOT IN USE.
   The activity of this is not only for the destruction of live tubercle tissue, but it acts as an antiseptic for all irritated areas; also giving activity to cellular force of the corpuscle itself. It acts as a stimuli to the circulation, then recharging each cell as it passes through areas so affected by the radiation of the gases from this fluid itself.
   (The above information has been extracted from various readings of Edgar Cayce on tuberculosis, and presented by the Association for Research and Enlightenment, Inc., Virginia Beach, Va., August 1943.)
2. See Source File Key #5374 for drawing illustrating Oak Keg prepared for inhaling fumes from Apple Brandy re 5374-1.
3. 7/21/44 GD's note re making pure beef juice:
   DIRECTIONS FOR MAKING PURE BEEF JUICE
   Get your grocer to cut a pound of lean beef into small cubes. Put the cubes (only use the lean, remove all fat) in a covered fruit jar, using only the lean pieces - no fat. Put jar inside pan of water (water coming to about half the depth of jar). A cloth may be put in the bottom, around the outside of jar, to insure not breaking or cracking the jar. Boil until chunks of beef are thoroughly done. Strain. Keep juice in cool place. Take as indicated. The usual quantity for an adult is 2, 3 to 4 teaspoonfuls during a day, but taken at different periods during the day, not all at one time. It may be diluted or used full strength. Take it very slowly, in sips. Let the body be a minute or two minutes in sipping a teaspoonful, so that each sip of the juice is mixed thoroughly with the juices of the mouth before swallowing. It may be taken with whole wheat crackers, Ry-Krisp or Zwieback. If kept in refrigerator, the juice may be kept for 2 or 3 days; but if warm weather or any question about it spoiling, make fresh daily. (Arranged from 1343-2)
   If preferable, the beef juice - or other foods, such as vegetables may be prepared in Patapar Paper; which may be obtained at the ten cent store, department store, grocery store or the like (25 cents a doz. sheets). In this way the entire food elements are preserved, and no water is added in the cooking - you obtain the pure juice from the food itself, and the real food value doesn't evaporate in steam - as it sometimes does in other methods of cooking. Patapar paper is manufactured by Patterson Parchment Paper Co., Bristol, Pa. (Arranged from 1343-2)
4. 8/01/44 Daughter's letter: "It almost seemed that Mama couldn't make out long enough to wait for the reading to reach here...we sent a telegram for the Acigest and the Calcios. We started everything else prescribed but the brandy keg... The doctors say she can't last but a week or so - not more than five or six, at most. The reading gives us hopes, though, and so we would appreciate it if you would see about a check reading for her with these questions: What makes the catch in her throat? Is there cancer? What would be best as a cathartic? Are we doing right with the already prescribed treatment? She will be here at home... unless we do have to take her to the ... Hospital."
5. 3/12/45 "A beautiful soul has gone to its reward [referring to Edgar Cayce]... Please tell me if you have anything about cancer. I've just had one removed. My mother [5374] died January 11 after having had all known treatments and an operation three years ago this month."
6. 10/16/47 GD sent Questionnaire to Mrs. [5374]'s daughter and on 1/19/48 Mrs. [5374]'s daughter replied as follows:
   Q-1. In your opinion did the analysis of the Reading cover the condition? A-1. Yes, even better than previous diagnostics.
   Q-2. Give symptoms of condition described correctly? A-2. Short of breath, water (or fluid) on lung, nausea and very weak.
   Q-3. What was the physician's analysis of this condition? A-3. Cancer went into the lung and caused the fluid, which caused shortage of breath. Q-4. Have the suggestions given in the Reading been followed exactly as outlined? A-4. Some of them were - with good results.
   Q-5. For how long? A-5. Two months, approximately.
   Q-6. Describe the extent to which improvements have resulted? A-6. The antiphlogistine was applied as ordered with entire relief from breath shortness, with no drainage of fluid from that time on. The strengthening diet was followed for a time, resulting in more strength.
   Q-7. Comment. A-7. The patient died six months after the reading was given but she was following none of the reading at the time. However, it was never necessary to drain off any more fluid from the lungs after following the reading in that regard.
7. 1/19/48 Letter from [5374]'s daughter: "...Up to the time Mama had the reading she had had cancer of the breast removed by surgery three years before she died. The whole breast was removed and she was cut down the forearm and all the muscle was taken from the front of her left arm. Then after the operation healed she had twenty-one x-ray treatments supposedly removing all cancer.
   "She was never real well after the operation. She gradually became short of breath and after trying plain doctoring and chiropractic treatments, he found a place to have a fluoroscope made and there the doctors said she had enlarged heart and it was crowding her lungs. She got no relief, however, and so she went to have an x-ray picture made and that doctor advised draining her lung. This brought temporary relief. She had her lung drained four times before the reading, but didn't need it after we made the jacket and used the packs recommended in the reading.
   "There had never been a diagnosis of T.B. although from strengthening treatment given in the reading and from my own knowledge of her and her condition, it seems that tuberculosis, instead of cancer, could have been her undoing. Of course, that doesn't count in this case now..."
8. 2/02/50 EC health extract report by Mrs. Georgia Adams, A.R.E. member, on TB and Pleurisy: "I used the Apple Brandy Keg fumes - began to inhale fumes about 10/01/49. No pleurisy pains all winter. Cough reduced. Expectorate much less. I expect extraordinary results based primarily on increased spiritual understanding."
9. 8/17/53 Belknap Hardware & Manufacturing Co.'s ltr. to Dr. Fogel: 111 East Main Street Louisville 2, Kentucky
   Mr. D. H. Fogel, M.D. 1380 Bedford Street Stamford, Connecticut
   Dear Mr. Fogel:
   Thanks for your letter of August 8th advising that you were interested in charred oak kegs. We are happy to tell you that we do stock these in one gallon and two gallon sizes.
   Since we are wholesale dealers only and are not licensed for retail selling and not finding you listed in the mercantile agency as being engaged in the Mercantile Business we regret that we will be unable to take care of the request for you unless you can purchase them through the hardware store that you now trade with.
   If you will have the hardware store send in your order for you marking his reply to my attention making reference to this correspondence we will see that the order is taken care of promptly or perhaps if you want additional information have your merchants write us for this and we will be glad to advise you through your favored store.
   Yours very truly [signed] H. R. Wiseheart SALES MANAGER HR WISEHEART:ELH
10. 10/02/68 Letter from Laird & Company, Distillers & Importers:
    Scobeyville, Monmouth County, N.J. 07724
    Mrs. H. King Ponderosa Park Subdivision Route 2 Prescott, Arizona 86301
    Dear Mrs. King:
    I certainly am sorry that your original note inquiring about Apple Jack Brandy was mislaid and not replied to. Then when your September 12th letter came in, I was away on an extended business trip and I've just returned.
    We certainly very much appreciate your interest in Apple Jack Brandy and I'll see if I can answer your questions to your satisfaction.
    Both our Laird's Apple Jack and Hildick Applejack Brandy brands are produced in essentially the same way. First, let me explain one thing that I'm sure creates some confusion. The term "Apple Jack", "Applejack Brandy" or "Apple Brandy" in this country all mean identically the same product. As a matter of fact, the federal regulations relating to names of identity outline the use of all three of these terms as specifically meaning Apple Brandy, or brandy produced from apples.
    Either the Laird or the Hildick brand, both of which are available in Arizona, are straight apple brandies and I have an idea this is what you mean by the term "pure". Because of some rather complicated federal laws relating to advertising and promotion particularly, the term "pure" cannot be used with any distilled spirit beverage including apple Brandy.
    I think you mean by this term, is there anything added to the brandy other than the apples it comes from and the answer is a definite no. We make Apple Jack Brandy by producing pure, sweet cider from whole, tree ripened apples which is allowed to ferment naturally without any yeast, cultures, or starters being used to generate initial fermentation. The fermentation is accomplished from the natural yeasts that are in the apples themselves.
    The fermented apple juice is distilled to about 130-135 proof, and placed in charred oak barrels for aging. We age the Apple Jack Brandy from 4 to 8 years. In the case of the Laird and Hildick brands that you are familiar with in Arizona, they are a combination of 4, 5 and 6 year old apple brandies. When the product is ready for bottling, the brandies are removed from the barrels, and cut to 80 proof with pure water and after appropriate filtering, the product goes into the bottles which you see and buy in Arizona.
    As to the question of redistilled, there are two types of stills involved in the production of apple brandy. In the case of so called pot stills or batch stills, two distillations are required to raise the proof to 130-135. In the case of column stills known as continuous stills, it is a single distillation that takes the proof to the level required for proper aging. There is another part of the process of distillation that actually falls into the category of redistillation which you may have in the back of your mind. At the very beginning and at the very tail end of any given distillation run, the very first brandy that comes over from distillation and the very last brandy that comes over from the tail end of the distillation is called "heads and tails". These brandies are shunted to separate tanks called heads and tails tanks for the reason that they carry excessive fusel oil and other components which are not desired in the end product. These heads and tails are actually redistilled through ensuing runs of the stills throughout the season so that the final ultimate end product has had removed from it all the undesirable products, so in fact, a share of all the Apple Jack Brandy is redistilled a number of different times throughout the season.
    Actually the use of charred oak barrels for aging Apple Jack Brandy also has a great deal to do with what in your terminology you call "pure". The char in the charred surfaces of the oak barrels is actually a form of activated charcoal which in your business you are thoroughly familiar with as an absorber of impurities.
    The federal government, of course, has very strict regulations and I'm sure you can see why, against claiming any form of medicinal help or medicinal properties for any distilled spirit beverage. Thus, while we have surprisingly large files of all kinds of letters from pharmacists, doctors and consumers relating to the use of Apple Brandy medicinally, we really can't use them or publish them. As an interesting sidelight, however, John Thomsen has been our warehouse manager for some 30 years and he is the man who controls the many, many thousands of barrels that we have in government bonded warehouses stored away for aging. As you can imagine, the aromas as you come into these warehouses are quite delightful because the charred oak barrels being made of wood, breathe and permeate the atmosphere with the aroma. In the 30 years John Thomsen has been with us, he maintains that he has never had one cold and attributes this fact to his inhaling of the aromas constantly present in the aging warehouses. I've been with the company myself for about 7 years and in truth, I have never seen John with a cold during that time. Whether or not he is right about his assumption I certainly have no way of knowing, but it is kind of an interesting sidelight that relates somewhat to your question about lung conditions.
    I hope this gives you at least some background information that may be useful and helpful to you.
    Best regards.
    Sincerely, [signed] Andrew F. Ward Vice President AFW:vmd
11. 12/07/71 GD's note: The Colloidal Health Products Corp. has gone out of business.
12. 12/05/74 GD's note: See 218-1 on 9/09/30 advising a young man with T.B. to make his own apple brandy by grinding, reducing to pulp one-half bushel of apples, placing in closed charred oak container twice as large as the quantity. Keep corked tight in warm place for 3 days. Then inhale twice daily fumes from the fermentation in vacuum of the charred container.
13. 1/30/76 GD's note: The 1 and 2 gallon charred oak kegs may be secured from Gibbs Bros. Cooperage, P.O. Box 848, Hot Springs Nat'l Pk., Ark. 71901.

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