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The Cayce Readings

Reading 28-1

Original date: 6/16/1925

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This reading provides a prescription and dietary advice to help a man overcome alcoholism, with extensive correspondence from his wife detailing his relapses and her spiritual struggles.

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TEXT OF READING 28-1 M 56

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Date: 6/16/1925 Sex: M Age: 56 ReadingID: 92

This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 322 Grafton Avenue, Dayton, Ohio, this 16th day of June, 1925, in accordance with request made by his wife, Mrs. [26].

[Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.]

Time of Reading 4:00 P. M. Dayton Savings Time. …, Florida.

  1. GC: You will have before you [28] whose home is at … Brevard County, Florida. You will locate him when he was there and will give a physical, mental and spiritual reading on this body, with suggestions for the improvement of any or all of these.

  2. EC: Yes, we have the body here, located at the home (not at this present time).

  3. Now we find there are some abnormal conditions that are forming and that are produced in the body. These, we find, have to do with the digestive system and the eliminations in the body.

  4. Now, these are conditions as we find them in the body. First:

  5. IN THE BLOOD SUPPLY, this we find below quantity in the pressure; however, above normal. In the distribution in the system, this very poor. Hence the conditions as we find throughout where the body fails to assimilate or to separate within the functioning organism those properties necessary for normal sustenance and rebuilding in the system. Hence the conditions as are produced in liver, in kidneys and in the alimentary canal proper. This from over stimulation and poor assimilation and eliminations.

  6. IN THE NERVE SYSTEM, this we find so subjugated that we find only certain portions functioning near normal. These in the extremities of the body, and the system keeps so keyed or taxed by the lack of assimilation as to prevent the coordinating in nerve system proper (cerebrospinal). In sympathetic and in mental, both overtaxed by these portions of system attempting to create physical equilibrium. Hence the extremes to which the mental functioning goes, more in mental than spiritual, you see.

  7. In the organic organs and organic functioning, we find the heart, liver, spleen, kidneys involved. Rest of the system very good.

  8. Digestion impaired, on account of condition created in spleen, pancreas and liver. Hence the deterioration, as it were, of the whole system and the lack of assimilations and of the digestive system functioning normal.

  9. Then, in the physical, to bring normal conditions for the body would be to first leave off those stimulants in such quantities as cause this over-taxation in blood supply, in the digestive system and to supply that necessary for the system to function near normal. Given these stimulants, we will find, while it will produce nausea if stimulants or intoxicants are taken, it will prevent same from being taken and there will be taken away much of the desire for same, though much of this depends upon the mental portion of the body, as we shall see. Use then this:

Podophyllin…1 grain, Cascara Sagrada…1 grain, Leptandrin…1 grain, Licorice Compound…1/2 grain.

  1. Make these in this quantity in each capsule, making five (5) capsules. One shall be taken every other day.

  2. Give this as the stimulant and preventative from using over-stimulants:

Tincture Valerian…2 ounces, Bromide of Potash…2 drams, Iodide of Potash…10 grains, with Elixir Calisaya…4 ounces, and Elixir Celerina…1 ounce, and with Extract of Verbena…15 minims.

  1. The carrier for this should be sufficient Peptotol to make sixteen (16) ounces. The dose would be teaspoonful twice each day, morning and evening. By the time the whole quantity is taken, we will find the body will be rid of much of the desire for those properties that over-balance the system.

  2. Should the body take the over-stimulus while using this and become sick and nauseated, use the enema, also the stomach pump or wash to cleanse the stomach of same, though this would not be a poison in itself, unless there was certain combinations of properties taken in diet. Hence, while these are being taken, the diet should consist chiefly of meats or game, or the juices of same, with only vegetables that grow above the ground, and no form or combination of any nightshade variety of vegetable.

  3. Then for the mental, we find the body very capable, would it only guide itself in the manner in which it understands the knowledge of self. Spiritual understanding only comes from the understanding of the divine within self, and the attempt to correlate same will always bring the development of self mentally and spiritually. For those who call upon God will not find Him afar off but ever present and ready to answer the self as is found in the inner man.

  4. We are through for the present.

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Summary

This reading provides a prescription and dietary advice to help a man overcome alcoholism, with extensive correspondence from his wife detailing his relapses and her spiritual struggles.

Conditions: alcoholism, drinking

Remedies: podophyllin, cascara sagrada, leptandrin, licorice compound, tincture valerian, bromide of potash, iodide of potash, elixir calisaya, elixir celerina, extract of verbena, peptotol, simple syrup, diet of meats and vegetables that grow above ground, avoid nightshade vegetables

People: Dr. Robinson, Mr. T. J. Shelton

Places: Montgomery, Florida, Mobile, Colorado, Boston

Concepts: Prayer, heredity, divine healing, God’s will, spiritual guidance

Referenced readings: 4386-1

Mentioned Entities

Prayer, Florida, Dayton Ohio, Gladys Davis, Healing, Iodine, Soul, Colorado, Gertrude Cayce, Ohio

Source: The Complete Edgar Cayce Readings, A.R.E. CD-ROM (2006). Reading 28-1, ReadingID 92.

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Edgar Cayce, Reading 28-1, 6/16/1925. Cite the numbered paragraph when available and include this page’s URL and your access date.

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