Reading 3053-4

TEXT OF READING 3053-4 F 11

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Date: 12/16/1943 Sex: F Age: 11 ReadingID: 10387

This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 16th day of December, 1943, in accordance with request made by the mother - Mrs. [3407], Associate Member of the Ass”n for Research and Enlightenment, Inc.

[Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. (Notes read to and transcribed by Jeanette Fitch.)]

Time of Reading 4:00 to 4:05 P. M. Eastern War Time. …, Virginia.

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

2. EC: Yes, we have the body here; this we have had before.

3. As we find, as before, some conditions have improved, some have not.

4. We would follow one or the other of the treatments, for the body and those administering same are not doing themselves or anyone else justice in trying to do so many different things. We would follow one or the other.

5. Ready for questions.

6. (Q) Are the corrections now being made properly in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th dorsals? If not, would like detailed suggestions as to what steps to take. (A) They haven’t any of them been made thoroughly. There should be a general, systematic following with advice given. But the corrections being made, and then other administrations given, won’t work together. One is working from one principle and the other from another. These do not work together.

7. (Q) What would it be well to take to build up resistances to colds? (A) KalDak.

8. (Q) Would vitamin B-1 injections hypodermically be wise also? (A) Do not take vitamin B-1 as injections! If you care to take B-1 separately, in addition to the Kal-Dak, do so - but don’t take it as injections for this body! Injections for this body will ruin it, if it keeps up!

9. (Q) What diet would help prevent constipation between periods when laxative is taken? (A) Raisins, figs, oatmeal, Maltex, all of those that are eliminating foods.

10. (Q) What syrup or lozenges would relieve severe coughing? (A) Make a compound in this manner, to relieve the coughing:

Syrup of Horehound…2 ounces, Syrup of Ipecac…10 drops, (This would make the reaction as from nux vomica.) Syrup of Rhubarb…1/4 ounce, Honey, and a little water (let this come to boil and skim off the top)…3 ounces, Chloroform (if this is added it will be helpful)…5 drops.

11. (Q) What foods would keep the glands clear, as has been recommended? (A) It isn’t foods that we need for this, but the chemical reactions. Glyco-Thymoline as an intestinal antiseptic and Atomidine as a purifier for the glands. Take five to six drops of Glyco-Thymoline in half a glass of water about three times each week. Take one drop of Atomidine in half a glass of water before the morning meal, about once a week for this body - but the same day each week.

12. (Q) What combinations of foods are acid-forming for this body? Raw apples or dried prunes? (A) Raw apples, plums, prunes, starches with meats or with sweets. Keep away from too much sweets though honey may be taken.

Do these and we will make better conditions, but decide on which you will take. Don’t mix too many different things with the treatments. Do stay away from injections for this body.

13. We are through with this reading.

Copy to Mother ” ” Ass’n file

Reports

Reports & Follow-up

R1. 4/24/44 Mrs. [2454]‘s letter: ”…Had a letter from [3407] this A.M. too, they are in …, R.I. …Said [3053] had completely recovered from her asthma and was able to play as much as the next without any ill affects and was getting fat…”

R2. 6/18/44 Mother’s letter: ”…[3053] is so well up here. No colds since the last of January (we arrived here in March) [Calif.] and no school days missed the first semester of her school career thus far that she has not missed. Better grades because of it. Honor Roll, no less! Our hearts are so full of gratitude to you for bringing it about…”

R3. 12/4/44 Mother’s letter: ”…With the enclosed money please send me a large box of KalDak. [3053] is keeping well and we’re so happy to have her robust and healthy and able to take part in all the activities that she couldn’t do before. Not a cold since she had her last check, telling her to stop sugar and take KalDak…”

R4. 12/20/44 Mother’s letter: ”…[3053] is very well, doing so nicely on the diet prescribed in the reading and taking her KalDak, that I shall continue to follow it. She’s growing rapidly. She likes it out here in California and enjoys the schools…”

R5. 5/15/53 Miss [3053] wrote a “religion term paper” about Edgar Cayce from which she sent us these extracts:

“The events leading up to my reading are very pertinent, so I shall tell them now.

My Father has been in the Navy for 30 years this past October and as a result my family and I have lived in many parts of the U.S. It was when I was 3 years old, having just moved to San Diego, Calif., that I had my first ‘asthma attack’. Perhaps I would not have been afflicted with this ailment at such an early age if we had not gone to San Diego, but we did and the climate there must have had something to do with it, plus other factors which I will mention later.

We were living very near a doctor who happened to be an osteopath too. The Doctor gave me a hypodermic injection of some sort, which temporarily relieved my condition. He also gave me some osteopathic treatments to relax me, since the type of Asthma I had was of such severity that I could barely breath at all, and my muscles were very tense trying to get what air I could into my lungs. These details were told me by my parents, since I couldn’t remember all the facts, being so young at the time.

From that time on the attacks kept getting worse and more frequent. Every time I would have an attack I would get an injection to try to relieve it, which it did, temporarily, but the effects from the shots, which were usually adrenaline, or something similar, were causing me to shake for quite some time after the shot would be given, and to be very restless and not be able to lie still, etc. The attacks might vary according to the locality we might be living in at the time, but they continued. They usually would come if I would exert myself and get over-heated. All this time we were trying to discover some cure. I had so many ‘allergy tests’ that at one time I had both arms covered with adhesive and gauze strips to protect the tests made that one day. I had experimental diets including a milk test that I was on for a week and a half, eating only milk and milk products. (I was the best on this diet.) As a result of those diet tests I cut out citrus fruits and chocolate and a few other specific foods. We then moved to …, Conn. and I was taking a series of shots as many as three or four times a week. They tried to grow a culture of my mucous to immunize me against myself. A specific number of cc of blood was taken out of my arm and injected in my back for the same reason. Still my attacks continued, a little longer each time.

It was at the point where I would stay up so long trying to breathe, that I would fall asleep sitting up (since I couldn’t breathe lying down) and I would turn night into day, from my efforts to move as little as possible. It got to the point where it felt like there was a tight band around my chest, and it was just as much a problem to get the air out of my lungs as it was to get it in. These attacks were usually accompanied by a cold and when ever I had a cold, I was certain to have asthma with it, though I did have some attacks without a cold.

During our stay in …, Mother met a woman whose 4 year old son [2542] had the same sort of ailment I had, with the same accompanying difficulties.

She told mother of a man in Va. Beach who gave readings that told what was causing the ailment and told what to do about them. At the time Mother was skeptical.

In Jan. of 1943, we moved to …, Va., where the attacks got even worse (if that were possible). It was the previous Aug. that Mrs. [2454] had told mother of Mr. Cayce’s work. I was still taking the series of shots to try to overcome the allergies they thought were causing the attacks, but the asthmatic condition kept on. Mrs. [2454] urged mother to just try what Mr. Cayce might say, and finally as a last measure of hope, as so many people have done, she made an appointment for a reading.

Mother and I went to Va. Beach and I met Mr. C. for the first time. …Mother had been out to the A.R.E. only once or twice before and the only mention of me was that I was to have a reading and that I had Asthma…

…Mother and I waited for the reading to be typed so we could take a copy of it with us. When we got home I began following the instructions and though I had a cold the following week, I didn’t have an asthma attack. I took the osteopathic treatments, and stopped having the shots… Being a child, and getting disappointed because I couldn’t eat certain things, I would break my diet,… When we told the osteopath that the readings said the corrections were not being made properly he admitted that he had been trying to trip the readings up…

Perhaps you are wondering what this has to do with my belief in reincarnation. It was from the Physical Reading that we came to know of the life readings…” [See 3053-3 Reports.]

R6. She reported that she had suffered no asthma attack in years.

Background

Background

B1. See 3053-1, 3053-2, 3053-3.

B2. 12/15/43 A.M. Her mother phoned these questions:

1. Are the corrections now being made properly in 2nd, 3rd and 4th dorsals? If not, would like detailed suggestions as to what steps to take.
2. What would it be well to take to build up resistance to colds?
3. Would vitamin B-1 injections hypodermically be wise also?
4. What diet would help prevent constipation between periods when laxative is taken?
5. What syrup or lozenges would relieve severe coughing?
6. What foods would keep the glands clear, as has been recommended?
7. What combinations of foods are acid-forming for this body? Raw apples or dried prunes?
8. Would a tetanus shot be advisable at this time?
9. Would it be wise to resume shots to desensitize her to weeds, grasses and dust?

Mentioned Entities

Osteopathy, Glands (Esoteric), A.R.E. (Association for Research and Enlightenment), Acid-Alkaline Balance, Atomidine, Glyco-Thymoline, California, Gertrude Cayce, Gladys Davis, Reincarnation, Virginia Beach

Source: The Complete Edgar Cayce Readings, A.R.E. CD-ROM (2006). Reading 3053-4, ReadingID 10387.