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Reading 1794-2

Original date: 6/7/1939

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Physical reading for a 46-year-old woman with asthma, pain, and digestive issues, recommending osteopathic adjustments, Epsom salt baths, and dietary changes, with follow-up correspondence about her worsening condition.

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TEXT OF READING 1794-2 F 46

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Date: 6/7/1939 Sex: F Age: 46 ReadingID: 8100

This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 7th day of June 1939, in accordance with request made by the self - Mrs. [1794], Associate Member of the Ass”n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

[Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Gladys and Charles Dillman.]

Time of Reading 4:05 to 4:15 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. …, N.Y.

  1. GC: You will give the physical condition of this body at the present time, with suggestions for further corrective measures; answering the questions she has submitted, as I ask them:

  2. EC: Yes.

  3. Now as we find, there are periods when there is a reverting to old disturbances, - and the effect of poisons that have been of long accumulation, owing to the character or nature of disturbances as we have indicated. Yet the body shows a great deal of improvement from that as we have had heretofore.

  4. The osteopathic manipulations in most of the periods have been VERY well done. We find that these would be more efficacious or more helpful if greater drainages were set up by the treatments, given in the osteopathic manner, FROM the sacral, coccyx and the lower area; to aid in stimulating better activity to the kidneys as well as the lower portion of the alimentary canal activity, - as well as through the circulatory forces from the 9th dorsal upward, that aids in better assimilating and distribution of energies through the system.

  5. As we find, the applications that are to be received through the Wet Cell Appliance should be of a more POSITIVE nature. They have in part been of a great deal of help, but there has been rather the laxness of late in taking proper precautions as to making the connections properly for same, and as to keeping the anodes or plates perfectly clean or polished before and after using.

  6. Also we find that it would be well to use, about once every three weeks, not oftener, the Hot Epsom Salts Bath. The body would be put in almost a saturated solution of Epsom Salts, you see, and allowed to stay in same for a period of at least twenty-five to thirty to thirty-five minutes. Put about twenty pounds of Epsom Salts in forty to fifty gallons of water, - this as warm as the body can stand to stay in same, and hot water gradually added.

  7. It would be well if, during the period the body is submerged in this solution (of course, not to be over the face but up to the neck), the body would be given a gentle massage along the areas from which there are the impulses to the limbs for those disturbances which have arisen at times.

  8. Immediately after being removed from the Epsom Bath, the body should be wrapped in a warm or hot blanket, and gradually dried, - before it is entirely wiped off, you see. Then the body would be thoroughly massaged with an equal combination of Olive Oil and Peanut Oil, - this especially around the limbs, the sciatic nerves, under the knees, across the hips, and especially along the cerebrospinal system from the 9th dorsal downward.

  9. Then, as the body is sponged off again in hot or lukewarm water, have a thorough massage with salt and rum, - then a rubdown with rub alcohol.

  10. Of course, the body should rest thoroughly after such a bath, - and a little stimulation would be given the body, as from the rum or spirits frumenti with the yolk of an egg beat in milk; or cook the yolk of the egg by dropping the whiskey over same, and then stir in milk. This will stimulate the circulation, aiding the digestive forces.

  11. The rest of the applications should be kept much in the manner as has been outlined.

  12. Do these, and as we find, by the time there have been at least five or six such Epsom Baths given (not oftener than once every three weeks, as indicated), all of these pains will disappear, - that have been as reflexes as well as pressures from poisons in the system.

  13. Ready for questions.

  14. (Q) What causes spells of acidity of stomach? (A) The poor eliminations, - hence the necessary absorption sufficient through the heat as well as the activity of the Salts on the body for eliminating the acids.

  15. (Q) What should be done for constipation? (A) Any good oil, especially Usoline, should be taken; with precautions as to diet; and we should eliminate these disturbances.

Another thing that will aid will be the proper stimulation to the lumbar, sacral and coccyx axis, through the osteopathic manipulations, - that will aid in this direction materially.

  1. (Q) What causes congestion in breathing and what will relieve it? (A) All of these conditions are taken into consideration in that given. Do those things as we have indicated.

  2. We are through with this Reading.

Copy to Self (two copies, one for Dr. Champion) ” ” Ass’n file

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Summary

Physical reading for a 46-year-old woman with asthma, pain, and digestive issues, recommending osteopathic adjustments, Epsom salt baths, and dietary changes, with follow-up correspondence about her worsening condition.

Conditions: asthma, bronchial asthma, acidity of stomach, constipation, congestion in breathing, pain in right knee, pain in hip-joint, loss of appetite, weight loss, sciatic nerve pain, poisons in system

Remedies: osteopathic manipulations, Wet Cell, hot epsom salts bath, massage with olive oil and peanut oil, massage with salt and rum, rubdown with rub alcohol, usoline oil, diet precautions, stimulation with whiskey and egg yolk in milk

People: Dr. John Calvin Champion

Places: Virginia Beach, White Plains

Referenced readings: 1794-1, 1794-3

Mentioned Entities

Epsom Salts, Massage Therapy, Osteopathy, Gladys Davis, Acid-Alkaline Balance, Gertrude Cayce, John (Apostle), Olive Oil, Virginia Beach, Wet Cell

Source: The Complete Edgar Cayce Readings, A.R.E. CD-ROM (2006). Reading 1794-2, ReadingID 8100.

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Edgar Cayce, Reading 1794-2, 6/7/1939. Cite the numbered paragraph when available and include this page’s URL and your access date.

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