Reading 1548-4

TEXT OF READING 1548-4 F 36

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Date: 12/26/1938 Sex: F Age: 36 ReadingID: 7507

This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 26th day of December, 1938, in accordance with request made by the self - Miss [1548], Associate Member of the Ass”n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

[Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Miss [1548] and mother, Mrs. [1541].]

Time of Reading 11:35 to 11:45 A. M. Eastern Standard Time. …, Virginia.

1. GC: You will have before you [1548], present in this room. You will give the physical condition of this body at the present time, with suggestions for further corrective measures; answering the questions she submits, as I ask them:

2. EC: Yes, we have the body here, Miss [1548]; this we have had before.

3. As we find, conditions are greatly improved from that as we have had here before.

4. Throughout the area of the lung where disturbing forces have existed, there has been even an increase in the surface of the lung tissue that has improved, grown, and even aids now in the purifying; and has become an active influence for health-giving forces, rather than being a detriment to the general system.

5. That there is the indication that the pleura in the lower portion has stayed itself is rather the better indication for the lower lobes of the lung AND the liver, rather than being a disturbing force.

6. These then as we find are bettered conditions throughout the system.

7. Then, there needs to be the general precaution taken. For as should be held in the attitude of the body, irrespective of what may be said locally or incidentally: Know that the body rebuilds itself (this is often said and then forgotten when there are improvements in a condition), and that as long as the conditions are on the IMPROVE these will CONTINUE to make for improvements in warding off, in replenishing, in building up.

8. Of course, where scar tissue has been indicated, this tends to make for inclinations or weaknesses. And thus it behooves the body not to make for activities in such an environ where dust or accumulations of any nature would tend to make for the POSSIBILITIES of reinfection of any kind.

9. Keep the KEG. This IS as life itself. When this keg is prepared again, rinse it out first, you see, before it is refilled again. Rinse with WARM - not hot but WARM water, so that the accumulations from the distillation or evaporation of the properties are removed, and there is less of that influence or force which arises from the acids that come from such infusions.

10. Then use this, with more calcium - that is in the Calcios - as a stimulation to the general activity of the thyroids, especially, and the glandular forces for the assisting in the circulation.

11. Take the exercises and the activities or labors much in that manner where it will be in the open, then, as much as practical; though office work, of course, may be a part of the work, provided it is not where there is excess of drafts or the closely crowded rooms, or where the effusion from a great many bodies in an overheated room is a part of the surroundings.

12. In the diets keep to those things that are body and blood building.

13. And as the mental and the physical is improved, use it - the self, the time, the experience - in that of constructive thinking. Leave off animosities, hates, petty jealousies; and we will find it will make for more and more a constructive influence in the body-forces.

14. Ready for questions.

15. (Q) Should osteopathic treatments be continued? If so, how often? (A) Once a month should be sufficient. These are well, though, to keep an equal balance through the system. For, the osteopathic treatment - for this general condition here - is not as a curative, but rather to keep the bodily tensions in accord so that eliminations and assimilations and general distributions of the energies are kept in a normal balance; as well as enabling through such to be checked up as it were on self in a general manner.

When there are colds or the inclinations of same, use the oils or the combinations of that which alkalizes the system. Thus it is well that the eliminations be watched carefully. For know THIS: Very few tubercular conditions, or where there HAVE been, that do not at least at some time involve the whole hepatic circulation; and the destructive forces from such are active upon the liver and the kidneys. Then if the eliminations are kept near normal, we will find any condition of the nature is kept under the right directions, see?

16. (Q) Are A. B. D. tablets well? (A) As we find, if there is the desire for such, and the body grows the least tired, the best combination for the vitamins as well as the resistances would be found in Codiron. For here we find not only A. B. D. and G., AS the correct balance in the vitamins, but Iron AND Cod Liver Oil, that keep a normal balance for the body. But when these are taken, take with the foods.

17. (Q) How many each day? (A) One or two for this body.

18. (Q) Any routine exercise suggested? (A) As indicated, it is well that some time each day there be exercise in the open. Do not attempt EVER to be in environs where it is necessary to push things above the head, or to use the arms where it makes for a pressure upon the pulmonaries across the areas of the mammary glands, or the stretching of the mammary glands on either side. But that which is BELOW the chest, not that where there is so much that it is necessary to stoop or bend the back so much. All of those exercises then that would keep the body in a normal position are well; though a regular exercise of rising on the toes, gradually raising the hands - as a nominal exercise - is very well for the body, but not under strain. This done night and morning, preferably with as little on as possible, but not of course in drafts but where there is plenty of fresh air.

Doing this, and activities in these directions, we may bring the use of the energies, the abilities and all the influences of the body to make the life SO worth while!

Make each association, each connection BETTER for thou having been in same.

19. We are through for the present.

Copy to Self ” ” Ass’n file

Reports

Reports & Follow-up

R1. 5/25/39 Reply to Questionnaire:

OSTEOPATH’S Report to

ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH AND ENLIGHTENMENT, INC., Virginia Beach, Virginia

Case No. 1548-1, 2, 3. Date of Readings 3/12/38, 6/6/38 & 8/26/38

Note: As a research organization we are endeavoring to make a thorough study of psychic information in relation to human ailments. We will deeply appreciate your cooperation in securing a thorough report on this case.

Name [1548] (Miss)

(1) (a) Did the Reading presented to you describe the condition of the patient? (b) Explain any variation. (c) Give technical diagnosis. (a) Yes - perfectly (b) [No response] (c) “Cured tuberculosis of lung.”

(2) Were the suggestions for treatment in your opinion proper for this condition? Yes.

(3) For what period of time has the patient followed directions given in the Reading under your care? 4 months.

(4) What results have you observed? Exceptionally good.

(5) Comment. [No response]

Date 5/25/39 Signed Gena L. Crews

(We will appreciate it if you will include a technical analysis of your findings.)

R2. 1/4/40 See 1548-5.

R3. 7/30/73 Letter from Mrs. Rose Breda, 150-28 17 Avenue, White Stone, N.Y. 11357, to Carolyn Crum of the Edgar Cayce Foundation in re overcoming her illness with the Edgar Cayce treatments from the A.R.E. Circulating Files for members: “Here is the story about my illness and how I overcame it with the EC treatments -

“My doctor’s (family doctor) name is Dr. Leonard Pace, 23-35 Bell Blvd., Bayside, Queens, N.Y.

“My chiropractor was Dr. H. Lutwin, 4003 National St., Corona, N.Y. 11368.”

Love, Rose Breda

“I will begin by telling you how I first started getting sick. In the 1950’s I developed rheumatoid arthritis and the doctors put me on Butazolidin. However, even though I used this drug, my health continued to fail. Several years later I began to have trouble with my eyes. I went to the doctor, but he couldn’t find anything wrong with them. Finally in 1960 I woke up one morning and I couldn’t see out of one of my eyes. I went again to the doctor and again he could not find anything wrong, but he prescribed Cortizone. Cortizone has very bad side effects, and for me especially, has very bad side effects. I developed glaucoma. Instead of taking me off the Cortizone, the doctors gave me eye drops to control the glaucoma. Even though I was using Cortizone, they feared that they were going to have to remove my eye. They also feared the inflammation spreading to the other eye. Eventually, they did have to take me off the Cortizone and when they did the glaucoma disappeared.

“My health continued to fail and in 1962 I was hospitalized. The doctors diagnosed tuberculosis of the right lung and a disease called toxoplasmosis, which caused my eye trouble. This disease also damages the central nervous system. They decided to put me on isonizes [isoniazid?], a tuberculin drug and para aminosalicylic acid. They also gave me sulphur drugs for the toxoplasmosis. I took these drugs for about two years, but my health didn’t improve, as a matter of fact, I grew weaker as time went on. During this period of time I was unable to do much reading because of my poor vision, but I did read one book called, ‘There is a River’. To this day I do not know where this book came from or where it went, but it made a great impression on me. This book by Tom Sugrue is about Edgar Cayce.

“In 1965 I had gotten much worse and the doctors put me into the hospital again. They found out that I had tuberculosis of both kidneys and the voice box, and more drugs were prescribed. I was already on isonizes [isoniazide?], para aminosalicylic acid and tranquilizers and in addition to these drugs they put me on streptomycin and cycloserine. Isonizes has terrible side effects. It causes hallucinations. At that time I used to have my own little LSD trips in the bedroom. I thought I was going crazy because I did not know that the drug was causing these hallucinations. It also affected my equilibrium and the middle ear. I would lose my balance and was unable to stand up. When I would turn my head from side to side the whole room would spin. As time went on I developed heart trouble and liver damage and the doctors prescribed digitalis besides all the other drugs.

It was during this period that I wrote to the publisher concerning the book about Edgar Cayce.

“In the spring of 1966 my doctor took a chest x-ray and it was found that the tuberculin lesion of my lung had doubled in size from the year before. Despite the fact that I was on all of these drugs, it was obvious that I was getting increasingly worse. The trouble had started with my lungs and travelled to my kidneys and voice box. The condition with my right eye had travelled to the cornea of my left eye. The eye specialists that I had visited felt that I would eventually go blind with this condition.

“Every time that I would close my eyes during this period, I would see death. That may sound odd to you but that is what happened. Sometimes I would fear going to sleep or closing my eyes to take a nap because invariably when I did there death would be grinning at me. It was a terrible experience, not knowing which would come first, death or blindness. I knew that whatever the doctors were doing for me was wrong. It might have been right for some people, but not for me.

“This was in August 1966. One day my husband came home and I saw the expression on his face. He had been to the doctor and was told that I would die soon. They had done all they could for me. I thought all night long and the next day when he went to work I got down on my knees and I laid my hands upon the bed and I said, ‘Father, here I am. I have no one else to turn to. Will you please help me? You don’t have to heal me. I really do not expect it. Just tell me what to do. Just show me what to do and I’ll do it myself’. I got up and I sat on the side of the bed for awhile and something just as clear as if you were speaking to me right now said, ‘Throw all of your drugs away.’ Well, that’s what I did. I went into the kitchen and threw away every one of my drugs, even the digitalis. I went back to the bedroom and I waited for my husband to come home. I waited for the earthquake to take place. He came home and I heard him in the kitchen rummaging around in the garbage can. He then came into the bedroom and said, ‘What’s the matter with you, are you out of your mind? Don’t you know you’ll die if you don’t take the drugs?’ He said a few other things which I can’t repeat here. I told him that if I do take the drugs I’ll die. I knew this just as sure as I knew anything in my life. He then called the doctor and the doctor in turn called me and said, ‘Rose, what’s the matter with you, are you crazy? Don’t you know you have to take the drugs or you’ll die?’ Then I asked him, ‘If I do take the drugs will I live?’ He said, ‘No, I can’t tell you that.’ I said, ‘Well, don’t bother me. This is what I decided to do and this is what I’m going to do.’ I waited for direction and it came. I didn’t understand direction the way it is now spoken of in our Search for God groups, but believe me it was working. I think because I prayed sincerely to God that He did direct me. I had to fight my husband, the doctor and my friends. They had all thought that I had lost my mind because of all the strain I had been through. But I was like a rock. I said, “No, I’m not taking the drugs.’ I just sat there waiting because I knew something was going to happen. I didn’t know what. I didn’t have the faintest idea what would happen, but after four or five days I received a letter from Virginia Beach acknowledging my interest in a Search for God group and in joining the Association for Research and Enlightenment. I answered their letter immediately and told them that I was desperately ill with tuberculosis. I sent my membership fee and asked them if they would send me the folder on tuberculosis. A week later I received the literature and immediately began to read it. Edgar Cayce’s language, as you know, is difficult to understand, but somehow I managed. The first week I had written down everything he suggested. I told my husband that I needed an oak charred keg. He said, ‘What in the name of God do you want that for?’ I said, ‘I have to fill it halfway with apple brandy and breathe this deep into my lungs.’ My husband just shook his head, he thought I had picked up some book by some quack and was getting suckered into something. However, he did humor me. He did start looking all over for an oak charred keg, but it wasn’t easy to find. He finally found the keg in a little Italian section in Brooklyn. Now we needed pure apple brandy which wasn’t easy to find either, since most apple brandies have a grape base. We had to have an apple brandy made from scratch. (I began the Cayce treatment in Sept. 1966.) Then I had to find a chiropractor. [9/20/73 GD’s note: Edgar Cayce in case [1548] had recommended an osteopath.] I did not know any chiropractor so I looked in the yellow pages and again I think God was guiding me. I found a doctor Ludwin in Corona who was familiar with the Edgar Cayce literature and agreed to use the method on me.

“Edgar Cayce had recommended Calcios and Acigest which are two medicines used for tuberculosis. Calcios is ground up chicken bones and marrow. The particular company that manufactured both Acigest and Calcios no longer manufactured Acigest. I wrote for the Calcios and received it, but I was at a loss as to where I might find the Acigest. I don’t know how I found out that Acigest was diluted hydrochloric acid in some form. I went to my doctor and I said that I needed diluted hydrochloric acid. He said, ‘What do you need that for?’ He thought I was crazy and wouldn’t give me the prescription for it. I got nervous and began to cry until he finally gave me the prescription. Now, I was well on my way. Edgar Cayce’s readings in the Circulating File also recommended that I stay outside in the shade when the sun was shining and try to do a little walking. In the beginning I wasn’t able to do any walking but gradually I got to the point where I could. Part of the treatment also included high colonics and massages with peanut oil and olive oil. This was just the treatment for tuberculosis. Don’t forget that I was in great pain with the arthritis and suffering with my eyes, liver, lungs and kidneys.

“After having spent a great deal of time in hospitals and numerous consultations, I was never advised to follow a special diet. Eat a regular diet they told me. Edgar Cayce emphasized that I must eat a great deal of vegetables, especially leafy green vegetables and salads, drink a lot of orange juice and eat only whole wheat bread products, drink egg nogs and beef juice and eat only lamb, chicken and fish. I was absolutely not to be allowed beef, pork or sweets.

In February, 1967 I went to Doctor Pace, my family doctor. He took x-rays of my lungs. He called me up the next day and told me he could not even find a scar on my lungs. When my husband came home I told him what the doctor had said. My husband, needless to say, was shocked because I was still very weak. My attitude had changed, I used to cry everyday of my life, now I was optimistic, enthusiastic and full of bounce. There was just something about this treatment that did this for you. My husband, however, called the doctor and asked him to take the new x-rays to the hospital and compare them to the others. My doctor did this and called in a consultant to verify his findings. The results were the same, no scar tissue. He then tested my blood. When the results of this test proved negative he put me in the hospital in April 1967 for a complete and thorough examination. They started a series of tests. They put dye in my blood stream and took x-rays of my kidneys that way. They also took blood tests and urine tests every day. They did a cystoscope on my kidneys and took x-rays while they were doing that. After a week the doctor came into my room with the results of the tests. He sat down on the chair and said, ‘I don’t believe this but you are well,’ and he just shook his head. I said, ‘I know, I know,’ but he didn’t talk anymore, he just got up and walked out. I think the shock was too much for him. I have not taken any drugs since and my heart for all intents and purposes is alright. I have no evidence of arthritis. I am still blind in my right eye, but now I no longer have any trouble with my left, so whatever this disease was, it also subsided. It took me sometime to get my strength back. As a matter of fact I think I am still getting it back, but nevertheless you can see that I am not sick.

“(Was found cured in April 1967 - 6 1/2 months after beginning the Cayce treatment.)”

R4. 9/20/73 Note by Carolyn Crum: “Rose Breda is now active in starting Search for God study groups in Queens and has given lectures at the New York A.R.E. Center on health. I met her at the 1973 Study Group Congress when she was a representative of the New York area. She told me this story and I asked her to write it up for our records.”

Background

Background

B1. See 1548-3.

Mentioned Entities

Calcios, A.R.E. (Association for Research and Enlightenment), Osteopathy, Apple Brandy, Chiropractic, Glands (Esoteric), Search for God Study Groups, Thomas Sugrue, Virginia Beach, New York City, Beef Juice, Cod Liver Oil, Colon Hydrotherapy, Gertrude Cayce, Gladys Davis, Olive Oil, Purpose, Visions

Source: The Complete Edgar Cayce Readings, A.R.E. CD-ROM (2006). Reading 1548-4, ReadingID 7507.