This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Virginia, this 27th day of August, 1928, in accordance with request made by self - Mr. [5540], via Mr. F. F. Bradley.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mr. and Mrs. David E. Kahn, Mr. F. F. Bradley, and Mr. L. B. Cayce.

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1. EC: We have the body here. Now, we find there are abnormal conditions that need attention. While there are throughout the general physical body conditions of which the body should be warned, there are also specific conditions bringing about an acute condition which needs attention, immediately, else the constant agitation as is being produced will bring about constitutional troubles that will be permanent discomforts for the body.
2. These we would give first to be attended to. We find in the lower cervical and upper dorsal region where a pressure produces the abnormality that hinders the body in nominal reaction. This is of a recent condition. Hence the body has suffered from these acute conditions which arise from the lack of proper eliminations, from the head, face, and the soft tissue in and about same, as in antrum and about portion of the head. These are conditions needing the attention as we find at the present.
3. These, then, for the correction, need local treatment as well as the correction of the subluxations that, with congestion, assist in producing the condition. These we find, then, may be reached in this manner:
4. As the body rests in evening (as it is attempting to keep on with its labors), to relieve the pain, apply to those portions of the body where this pain occurs, those saturated solutions of Epsom Salts, as hot as body can stand same. Keep these applications up for twenty-five to thirty-five minutes. Then prepare a solution as this:
5. Take small quantity (enough to bathe the parts) of laudanum, diluting same to half the quantity, with 85% alcohol; then adding the amount of Aconite as of laudanum - not as of the combined, but as of the FIRST, see? Then bathe these parts off - NOT BINDING - but just bathe off. The next evening repeat the same.
6. Also have corrections of those conditions existing in the 4th and 5th cervical, and in the 2nd and 3rd dorsal, and we will find this will bring about the relief for this body.
7. As to the general physical, beware of the blood pressure; also of the conditions as have to do with the pancreas, for these are tendencies for the body - but the needs of these in the upper portion need particular attention. Ready for questions.
8. (Q) What permanent treatment is advisable?
   (A) Those as have been outlined will remove the trouble. For those conditions if they CONTINUE after these changes have been made, necessary to cleanse the antrum - using those of the fish oil with that deodorized in those forces as may be used as an antiseptic for same.
9. (Q) What precautions of work or travel, or diet, should I observe?
   (A) As in reference to that producing high blood pressure, and overtaxing the pancreas. Beware of sugars and of meats; these particularly. With the correction of these conditions in the spine, and especially these in the upper portion, for the frontal portion of the face and head and neck, also that in the 8th and 9th dorsal, we will find better conditions for the whole system in general.
10. (Q) Of how long standing is the ailment?
    (A) The condition is acute, from the recent conditions, producing subluxation; that is, comparatively recent - three to six weeks. That as of the tendencies in the general condition, these are of a longer standing.
11. (Q) What was the original cause?
    (A) Congestion.
12. (Q) How can reoccurrence be prevented?
    (A) Remove that which brings about the tendency in the system, both from that of the acute condition and that which affects the digestive or assimilating system, with the corrections osteopathically in these regions as given. X-Ray, you see, would show these indications, or these subluxations as exist.
13. (Q) How much Epsom Salts should be used for each bathing?
    (A) Saturated solution!
14. (Q) Should [he] remain in Richmond?
    (A) Depends upon the desires, or the expansion the body desires to make.
15. (Q) What physical exercises are recommended?
    (A) Any of those that are of the general nature, and that bring about the nominal reaction for the body, with the correction of incentive or impulses as radiate from the subluxations as are seen.
16. (Q) Should osteopathy be used, where obtained?
    (A) As we find, Dayton, Ohio, the closest place.
17. (Q) Has treatment already received medically been correct?
    (A) For the result, or for the effect produced. Not for that CAUSING same.
18. (Q) Are any teeth affected?
    (A) Be well that these have local attention. This not the first cause. Congestion the first cause, from cold, as seen. Then, with the subluxations occurring - these (that's from accident produced - cuts, bruises - on head, neck and shoulders, arm) give the accentuation of same. Do as we have given, then, as the first corrections for the acute condition. Then for the general physical health, these may be approached later; for gradually the nerve system is becoming involved. Do that now.
19. We are through for the present.

BACKGROUND

1. 9/01/27 Contact for [4485].
2. 9/20/27 Contact for [2258].
3. 11/25/27 Contact for daughter, [4222].
4. 8/12/28 Questions submitted besides those which got asked: "What can be done to immediately relieve the body pain which I have been having for the past six weeks? How far-reaching is the infection?"
5. 8/17/28 Contact for mother [4594].

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