Reading 3180-3

TEXT OF READING 3180-3 F 20

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Date: 12/21/1943 Sex: F Age: 20 ReadingID: 10560

This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 21st day of December, 1943, in accordance with request made by the self - Miss [3180], Associate Member of the Ass”n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

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

Time of Reading 11:20 to 11:30 A. M. Eastern War Time. …, Ill. (Ck. Physical Suggestion)

1. EC: Yes, we have the body here. There are a great many changes in the physical forces of the body since we had it here before. However, those corrections have not been completed in the upper dorsal areas. These are the centers that need attention - 2nd, 3rd and 4th dorsal. It is true that the cervicals are the more active to the nasal passages and soft tissue, but it is from the upper dorsals that the coordinations of the patches of the sympathetic system go to those activities in the mucous membranes in antrum and nasal passages the more; else these would have cleared more and we wouldn’t have the sniffles - which occur at times now, giving repressions; the watering of the eyes, drumming in the ears and the like at times.

2. Correct these osteopathically. This doesn’t mean move the bones especially. There are patches here of the lymph circulation that coordinate with impulses from the cerebrospinal centers or nerves, and these are the areas from which there arises what is called rose fever or the snuffles or sniffles. These treatments will reduce such, unless it has caused - through some of the disturbance - a condition in the trachea and bronchi.

3. But here, these pressures removed, we should not find this body allergic to certain disturbances; and we will find that there will be less acidity produced in the system.

4. Keep away from sweets, especially chocolate at this period, also foods prepared with coconut. Other characters of nuts are well, though especially almonds are good and if an almond is taken each day, and kept up, you’ll never have accumulations of tumors or such conditions through the body. An almond a day is much more in accord with keeping the doctor away, especially certain types of doctors, than apples. For the apple was the fall, not almond - for the almond blossomed when everything else died. Remember this is life!

5. Ready for questions.

6. (Q) Should she continue to use the inhalant occasionally? (A) To be sure, but let the doctor do a better job!

7. (Q) Any further physical or spiritual advice? (A) Make the life constructive. Know what you believe and why you believe it. This should be the spiritual advice.

8. We are through with this reading.

Two copies to Self (one for Dr. Harman) Copy to Ass’n file

Reports

Reports & Follow-up

R1. 3/25/50 Mother [2946]‘s letter: “My daughter [3180] and her husband are both in medical school and I have often wished they could take a look at some of the medical files down there.”

R2. See subsequent correspondence under 3180-2 Life Reading Reports.

R3. 1/70 Almond values published in a booklet, The Story of Almonds, ordered by A.R.E. from California Foods Research Institute, San Francisco, Calif. (1957?):

CALIFORNIA ALMOND GROWERS EXCHANGE Sacramento, California

NUTRITIONAL VALUE OF ALMONDS General Analysis

Moisture… 3.54% Protein (N x 6.25)… 21.66% Fat (Ether Extract)… 52.55% Crude Fiber… 3.23% Ash… 3.17% Nitrogen Free Extract… 15.85% Calories 6.2 per gram - 2,825 per pound

Mineral Constituents of Almonds

Sodium (Na)… 0.267% Potassium (K)… 0.576% Calcium (Ca)… 0.240% Magnesium (Mg)… 0.285% Silicon (Si)… 0.003% Iron (Fe)… 0.0056% Sulphur (S)… 0.037% Phosphorus (P)… 0.511% Chlorides (Cl)… 0.011% Manganese (Mn)… 0.0025% Strontium (Sr)… 0.0003% Copper (Cu)… 0.0003% Aluminum (Al)… 0.00003% Chromium (Cr)… 0.00003%

Amino Compounds in Almond Kernels

Glycine, or Glycocoll… .113% Alanine… .319% Serine… Trace Valine… .042% Leucine, Iso-Leucine, and Non-Leucine… .988% Phenylalanine… .564% Tyrosine… .247% Cystine… .140% Tryptophone… .304% Poline and Hydroxy-Proline… .617% Aspartic Acid… 1.205% Glutamic Acid and Hydroxyglumatic Acid… 4.583% Histidine… 0.351% Argenine… 2.633% Lysine… 1.568%

Vitamin Determinations

Carotene (Provitamin A)… 0.0078 mg./gm. 1.3 I.U./gm. 0.022 mg./oz. 37.00 I.U./oz.

Vitamin B1 (Thiamin)… 0.0020 mg./gm. 0.70 I.U./gm. 0.056 mg./oz. 20.00 I.U./oz.

Vitamin G (Riboflavin)… 0.0033 mg./gm. 0.093 mg./oz.

Vitamin E (Tocopherol)… 2.0 mg./gm. 0.2% tocopherol in almonds

Nicotinic Acid (Niacin)… .07 mg./gm. 7.00 mg./100 gm.

Pyridoxin (Vitamin B6)… 20.00 mcg./gm. .02 mg./gm. 2.00 mg./100 gm.

Biotin… .000180 mg./gm. .01180 mg./100 gm.

Choline… .8 mg./gm. 80.0 mg./100 gm.

R4. 3/71 The last supplement to the WHOLE EARTH CATALOGUE:

ALMONDS, APRICOTS, CANCER & THE F.D.A. by George Walker

Attributed to Edgar Cayce is the claim, eat an almond a day and you won’t get cancer. Underlying this is the basic fact that cancer, like most bodily malfunctions, is the result of a dietary deficiency in certain natural substances. Supply these substances, and the adverse condition won’t develop. This is fine (if it works), but what about the millions of people who already have cancer? My friend Barclay, dying of cancer 10 years ago, got the flash: The only thing that will cure an ailing body is that which will keep it healthy in the first place. This was Hipprocrates’ (remember him? the father of medicine, the Hippocratic oath?) basic theory a couple of thousand years ago.

The doctors had all come to the same conclusion regarding Barclay’s case: more and stronger pain killers for the remaining few months of his life. His cancer was not the kind they could chop out or burn out with radium. For Barclay, it was more morphine, or the search for “that which will keep it healthy…” Some choice! But he found that there are places in the world where NOBODY ever gets cancer. Convinced that diet is a factor, he looked to see what they all had in common. He read everything he could find relating diet to cancer, and found out about a chemical substance found in almonds, apricot seeds, lima beans, and many other foods. Isolated by Dr. E. T. Krebs at the same time Hoffman discovered LSD, the substance was called amygdalen [amygdalin]. It is now being marketed (but NOT in the U.S.) under the name Laetrile, and is also known as vitamin B-17. To prevent cancer, we need only include in our diet those rich in B-17, PROVIDED our diet is balanced in other respects. However, once cancer has developed, it takes more to suppress it, and the use of the concentrated substance becomes necessary for control.

Cancer cells have the interesting ability to obtain oxygen directly from sugar; normal cells depend on the oxygen supply in the blood. It is through this sugar metabolism that cancer starves the body, ripping off all the available sugars. The more sugar eaten, the more the cancer feeds, the more it grows and the more there is of it to rip off sugar. (Does this tell you anything about eating lots of sugar?) It is also through this sugar metabolism that B-17 works against cancer. B-17 is a complex sugar-cyanide molecule. Cancer cells metabolize for oxygen, and free the bound up cyanide, which kills the cells. The normal cell, unable to break down the complex molecule, is unaffected. Further, the normal cells contain a substance, which protects them against small amounts of cyanide, and which cancer cells lack.

The Laetrile (B-17) treatment is effective in a high percentage (90%) of cases, usually in this pattern: almost immediate reduction of cessation of pain; gradual reduction and disappearance of growths; regaining of health and strength, where proper diet is maintained. Even in the best cases, it does not constitute a cure. A maintenance dosage of B-17 must be taken or the cancer returns. This, however, in no problem, as the substance has been shown to be totally non-toxic in one of the most exhaustive toxicity studies ever undertaken.

Or rather I should say it SHOULD be no problem. B-17 is not approved in this country. You can’t get any legally unless you go to Mexico or West Germany - or Russia - or the Philippines - or any one of perhaps 100 other countries where they are either using it or testing it; and then you would have to smuggle it in. In the U.S. the government won’t even allow it to be tested. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for unknown reasons, takes a particularly hard line on cancer drugs. The official policy seems to be to suppress such drugs, label them “quack cures”, and prosecute anybody who tries to provide them to the hundreds of thousands of dying cancer patients. A program for testing Laetrile (B-17) was begun last year, after 25 years of testing and use in other countries, and then stopped two years of testing and use in other countries, and then stopped two weeks later when somebody high up in the government (Surgeon General?) found out the program had been approved “through clerical error”! Meanwhile, millions are spent yearly on cancer research, all in attempts to “prove” that cancer is caused by a virus (it’s not!); total evidence found so far; none. Billions are spent yearly by the million or so people receiving the same treatments: surgery, radiotherapy, and a few drugs so toxic they are only used in “hopeless” cases to keep the patient alive a little longer, and prolong the expensive treatments. The number of these people is increasing rapidly - on the order of 100,000 more every year.

So keep eating those almonds. When you eat fruit, eat the seeds (that’s where the B-17 and it’s needed to balance the fruit sugar) - apples, pears, etc. In apricots, peaches, plums, cherries, etc., break open the pit and eat the seed inside. Smuggle B-17 from Germany if your friends get cancer. If you want to know more about the technical aspect, what cancer is and how it develops, how Laetrile is effective against it, read LAETRILE: CONTROL FOR CANCER, Kittler, G.D., Astor-Honor, Inc., 205 E. 42nd St., New York, N.Y. 10017. This book is excellent on the technical-cellular- chemical-biological aspects of cancer generally, and of the Laetrile treatment. I’m not sure the history is accurate. Lots of big words like glucosidases and glucuronidases, trophoblasts and metasases - but clear enough if read carefully. If you ask your doctor, don’t be surprised if he gives you the straight official line: Laetrile, like a lot of other substances (remember Krebiozen?), is a worthless quack drug, part of a fraudulent conspiracy (some drugs are just that frauds), and that ONLY the Doctor Trip is effective against cancer. This is an out and out lie. All attempts to test in the U.S. have been suppressed. I leave it to you to decide where the conspiracy lies.

Barclay, meanwhile, is strong and healthy, in his 50’s. He has found that he has no cancer symptoms as long as he takes his B-17 and eats well. He has tried stopping it, and immediately grew new cancers - which went away when he resumed his dosage. He further found it much more effective (up to 10 times) if chewed and swallowed than injected, as it is usually administered. His only fear is that the government’s attempts to totally suppress the substance will be successful - for without it he will die quickly.

R5. 8/22/75 (Friday) Article by James Kilpatrick appearing in the San Francisco Chronicle:

FDA: RETREAT OR RESTRICT

A FEDERAL JUDGE in Oklahoma City handed down a ruling the other day that may restore a degree of sanity, temporarily at least, to the lunatic business of banning Laetrile.

The controversy over Laetril has been raging for years. Derived chiefly from apricot pits (though it occurs widely in other fruits and berries), the substance is known chemically as amygdalin. Isolated in 1830, the compound was developed in this century by Dr. E. T. Krebs and his son, biochemist E. T. Krebs, Jr. Out of their researches came the hypothesis that in some patients, Laetrile may tend to be effective in treating some forms of cancer.

Under the law, the FDA can forbid the use of any disease-treating agent unless the FDA is satisfied that the agent is both safe and effective. The FDA does not insist that Laetrile is unsafe, though the FDA insists emphatically that as a cancer-treating substance, Laetrile is worthless.

Very well. The record is replete with thousands of testimonials from cancer patients who disagree with the FDA. By hook or by crook, they have obtained Laetrile, usually from Mexico where its use is not prohibited, and they insist that for them it does work.

ONE SUCH PATIENT, 58-year-old Glen L. Rutherford of Wichita, Kans., came down in 1971 with what was diagnosed as cancer of the rectum. When standard treatments proved ineffective he went to Mexico for Laetrile, he thinks it cured the condition. On his return to Kansas, he continued to get Laetrile from an illegal source who subsequently was arrested. Rutherford then went into Federal court and sued for an order prohibiting the government from interfering with his right to treat his own body in his own way.

Last week Federal Judge Luther Bohannon agreed with Rutherford. He authorized a six-month supply of the substance for Rutherford’s personal use, and criticized the FDA for “abdicating its duty” to the “common man.” The government is expected to appeal.

The point worth pondering in all this is the breathtaking arrogance of the government’s position. The possibility ought always to be held open that somewhere on this vast globe, even though the possibility cannot be demonstrated on laboratory mice, somewhere there is a guy named Rutherford whose cancer responds to an extract of apricot pits.

THE GOVERNMENT’S DUTY, it seems to me, is to give fair and abundant warning in cases such as these. Look it could say to the guy named Rutherford, we have searched for scientically acceptable proof that Laetrile works. We find none. We think the promoters of Laetrile are quacks engaged in a cruel hoax. We advise you to reply on surgery, X-ray, or chemo-therapy, or just die quickly.

Once such warnings are given, and knowledgeably understood, the government ought to retreat. This is the thrust of Judge Bohannon’s ruling, and the judge is absolutely right.

R6. 11/22/75 (Saturday) Column appearing in the Ledger-Star:

VITAMIN B-17

Q. I would like to get a hold of some vitamin in B-17 but it seems like the Food and Drug Administration has not allowed it on the market. - T.L. A. Vitamin B-17 has been manufactured under the trade name “Laetrile” and has been advertised as a cure for cancer, according to our source in the FDA. The FDA has banned its import or sale in this country but a federal court in Oklahoma recently overturned the FDA ban, saying that individuals have the right to treat their own illnesses if the treatment will do them no harm. The FDA has appealed the ruling.

R7. 4/76 Article from the New Age News:

LAETRILE THERAPY FOR CANCER PATIENTS GAINING SUPPORT IN AMERICA By W. Mead Usry

VICTORY IN U.S. DISTRICT COURT

A life versus law decision by Oklahoma U.S. District Judge Luther Bohanon is being appealed by the FDA. The decision in favor of Glen Rutherford and all cancer patients in America came after the carrier of Rutherford’s supply of laetrile (B-17) was jailed and put on $10,000 bond for transporting the contraband from Mexico. The court found that the FDA has no constitutional right to keep terminal cancer patients from their supply of laetrile, a vitamin synthesized from a common nut.

Rutherford, after being diagnosed in America in 1971, was treated in Mexico by Dr. Carlos Lopez. His cancer symptoms disappeared.

The court also found “From the record, testimony and exhibits that laetrile is not laetrile in any sense of the word. It is not harmful to the human body and when used in proper amounts under proper control and supervision can effect relief from cancer disease to the satisfaction of many who are privileged to use the same.

“The Court further finds from the record that the plaintiff Rutherford herein and those similarly situated have been denied this right of choice in using B-17 or laetrile without just cause on the part of the Secretary of HEW and its agency, the FDA.”

CANCER NOT A VIRUS

The idea of cancer as a vitamin deficiency began in 1902 when a Scottish physician named John Beard developed the unitary or trophoblastic theory of cancer. The trophobast cell is essential to pregnancy. It cuts through the uterine wall allowing the embryo to take nourishment from the mothers’ bloodstream. Cancer ensues when the trophoblast unnaturally goes out of control from a lack of pancreatic enzymes.

Today, Dr. Ernst T. Krebs, Jr., a biochemist, is continuing his father’s work and that of Dr. Beard by advocating the use of laetrile in the treatment of cancer. He has confronted medical societies, cancer research institutes and associations in the U.S. and Canada. Krebs is co-developer of Vitamin B-15 and B-17.

AMERICA RALLIES

Numerous other individuals and groups have come foward to defend the right of freedom of choice by cancer patients. The Committee for Freedom of Choice in Cancer Therapy is composed of laymen and doctors who believe the relationship between doctor and patient is sacred and should not be subject to political interference. In their official publication, THE CHOICE, are numerous references to laetrile and other alternative therapies.

Dr. Hardin B. Jones, a physiologist with the University of California, Department of Medical Physics, has been studying cancer for more than 23 years. He says, “My studies have proved conclusively that untreated cancer victims live up to four times longer than treated individuals. Beyond a shadow of a doubt, radical surgury on cancer patients does more harm than good.”

DOCTORS NOT TO BLAME In the heat of controversy over laetrile and other alternative therapies, many curious doctors are being discouraged from seeking to learn more by the leaders of their own societies and associations. The American Cancer Society owns fifty per cent of 5-FU, a highly successful anti-cancer compound. The ACS as a business fights competition like laetril.

In 1963, the Cancer advisory Council of the California Department of Health published a report in CALIFORNIA MEDICINE. All of the physicians whose patients were tested with laetrile. Yet, the report is represented to prove that laetrile produces no objective benefit. The price for the report is seventeen dollars for an an unnumbered mimeographed paper. Read by any thoughtful physician, the report contains evidence that laetrile works. But why would a doctor pay for an expensive report to supposedly discover that an illegal Vitamin doesn’t work?

The battle is between the experts. The doctors are not to blame. Laetrile is not even the issue. Freedom of choice is.

…A PERSON WHO EATS TWO OR THREE ALMONDS EACH DAY NEED NEVER FEAR CANCER…” EDGAR CAYCE 1158-30

R8. 6/21/76 Article from U.S. News & World Reports [Page 46]:

HEATING UP: LATEST BATTLE OVER A CANCER “CURE”

The Federal Government has begun a major crackdown on the purveyors of laetrile, a cancer “cure” made from the pits of apricots.

On May 26, a grand jury in San Diego, Calif., accused 19 persons of smuggling laetrile into the U.S. from laboratories that produce it in Tijuana, Mexico.

“In California, laetrile is the No. 1 quackery,” says Mike Bogumill of the food and drug section of the California State health department. “It’s been the big one for the past four or five years.”

Although the drug, also known as amygdalin and vitamin B-17, has been condemned as useless by the Federal Food and Drug Administration, the National Cancer Society, it is still in use by thousands of cancer patients in the country who either pay large amounts for smuggled laetrile or visit clinics in Tijuana for shots.

A “SAD” SIGHT. “What is sad to see people wasting their last nickel or dime in Mexico being hauled over dusty roads to clinics,” says Herbert B. Hoffman, the federal prosecutor who headed the team whose investigation resulted in the May 26 indictment.

One of the sources of information for those seeking treatments at the Mexican clinics is the Los Angeles-based International Association of Cancer Victims and Friends. In one year, it has grown from 8 small chapters to 46 chapters with 20,000 members.

John Steinbacher, executive director of the organization, told U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT: “Thousands of people are on laetrile in the United States. At least 200 doctors are giving it or looking the other way.”

Supporters of the use of laetrile say this is the way it works: The drug, which ordinarily is injected, flows through the body until it reaches a cancer. Then a substance contained in cancer cells, but not in normal cells, releases hydrocyanic acid from the laetrile, destroying the cancer cell. Even in cases where the cancer is so far advanced that no cure is possible, the supporters say, laetrile decreases pain and reduces the need for mind-numbing drugs.

In a tragic number of cases, those who have tried to verify claims of cures based on laetrile therapy have found the patients dead or dying of cancer. In 1973, Pennsylvania authorities confiscated a movie showing patients “cured” of cancer by laetrile. When an attempt was made to contact those shown in the film, all were dead of cancer.

A NOTED DANGER. If carefully used, laetrile does not seem to be harmful, according to medical experts. The greatest danger, say officials of the American Cancer Society, is that persons who resort to laetrile and other quack remedies delay getting treatment that could save their lives.

For those who deal in laetrile, the amounts of money involved can be very large. Specific counts listed in the San Diego indictment, for example, included bank deposits by two of those indicated totaling more than 1.5 million dollars apiece.

But for others of those involved in the distribution or use of laetrile, the drug has become the symbol of governmental oppression. They ask why people should be prevented from taking a drug they think will help them so long as it is not dangerous in itself.

Members of the John Birch Society have been among the most outspoken on this “freedom of choice” issue. But, in the San Francisco Bay area, members of groups at the opposite end of the political spectrum have also joined in opposing controls on the use of laetrile.

R9. 7/76 Dr. Wm. A. McGarey in A.R.E. Clinic, Inc., MEDICAL RESEARCH BULLETIN, VOL. VI, #11:

CANCER THERAPY…using the disputed and oft-maligned substance amygdalin, commonly called Laetrile, is interesting to the reader of the Edgar Cayce material primarily because Cayce suggested many years ago that eating three almonds a day would have a significant effect on one’s resistance to cancer. Laetrile is in the news again - this time from Alaska, where treatment with the controversial “drug” was recently legalized in spite of the FDA ban on the substance. The Federal Food and Drug Administration maintains that it is not a proven treatment or cure for cancer, and some physicians have been actually given prison sentences because they dared use it for their patients. A judge in Oklahoma not too long ago overruled the FDA in his state for one person who was granted the legal right to import the substance for his own use.

To the unobstructed observer, the situation is probably best characterized as ridiculous. Physicians trying to do the best for their patients who end up in the courts, patients with cancer trying to choose for themselves how they will be treated being denied that right - all this through a federal bureau created by tax dollars paid by those same people. Strange, isn’t it? I would suppose, however, if Cayce’s suggestion is correct about reincarnataion, that some of those who authored these obstructions probably had previous lifetimes practicing the same kind of thing, for this has been going on in one form or another ever since man seriously attempted to do something good and creative.

Background

Background

B1. 8/27/43 She obtained 3180-1 for hay fever, bordering on asthma.

B2. 9/1/43 She obtained Life Reading 3180-2.

B3. 12/18/43 Questions were submitted for Ck. Physical Reading 3180-3, by her osteopathic physician, Dr. D. C. Harman: What condition or conditions internal or external have retarded the progress of this patient? Is diet very important? Has patient followed it? Patient was advised [by me] to discontinue drinking cow’s milk. Is this agreeable with your suggestions? Have osteopathic treatments been administered correctly? Have all lesions been adjusted? What factors cause lesions to reappear after good corrections? This is not a true Hay Fever case. What other conditions cause the congestion and inflammation in nasal membranes? I am not able to get liquid Simmons’ Liver Regulator. Where can this be obtained? Is there any involvement of glands of internal secretions in this patient? If so, what may be done to correct the condition?

Mentioned Entities

Almonds, California, Mexico, Free Will, A.R.E. (Association for Research and Enlightenment), John (Apostle), Germany, Osteopathy, Acid-Alkaline Balance, Book of Job, Canada, Gertrude Cayce, Gladys Davis, Glands (Esoteric), Law of Moses, Millennium, New York City, Physical Body, Radium, Russia

Source: The Complete Edgar Cayce Readings, A.R.E. CD-ROM (2006). Reading 3180-3, ReadingID 10560.