Reading 3255-1

TEXT OF READING 3255-1 F 64

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Date: 10/2/1943 Sex: F Age: 64 ReadingID: 10663

This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 2nd day of October, 1943, in accordance with request made by the self - Miss [3255], new Associate Member of the Ass”n for Research and Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by the book, THERE IS A RIVER.

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

Time of Reading 4:05 to 4:15 P. M. Eastern War Time. …, Mass.

1. GC: You will go over this body carefully, examine it thoroughly, and tell me the conditions you find at the present time; giving the cause of the existing conditions, also suggestions for help and relief of this body; answering the questions, as I ask them:

2. EC: Yes, we have the body here, [3255].

3. As we find here, there are changes taking place in the body forces. The body should consider as to the sources and causes for the neuritic and neurotic conditions that exist through the body. This is what might ordinarily be called a condition wherein the general taxation has run down the battery for the body; that is, the toxic forces in the body have become excessive. Thus there are pains in the arms, or shoulders at times, in the back, through the lower limbs and through the abdominal area. All of these come and go, dependent upon how well and how thoroughly the eliminations are in the body, and as to whether in the diet the body keeps the general physical forces alkaline or allows the greater portion to become acid. Then we have those reflexes that cause some disturbance with the heart, with the kidneys and with the liver. These all arise from toxic forces that affect naturally (for, as the body battery is) heart, liver, lungs and kidneys. These must coordinate. When they do not, some portion of it is going to revert.

4. These for this body would be the better:

5. Take at least once each week a general hydrotherapy treatment. This should include a cabinet sweat followed by a thorough rubdown.

6. About every twenty days have a high colonic irrigation, until there is no reaction of mucous in the stool at all.

7. After the sweat bath there should be the needle baths or showers followed by the massages.

8. These will aid the body in bringing back near to normal resistances.

9. In the diet beware of too much starches or too much combinations of proteins with starches.

10. Keep the eliminations better with the use of minerals for this body rather than vegetable laxatives. Owing to the batteries as it were - liver, kidneys and heart - being run down.

11. These will add to the system - or being more acid, as in a battery, then the water will create more activity in the system. Just as the creating of energies in locomotion in any machinery where such is needed.

12. In the general activities, these should not be excessive, but the massages with the hydrotherapy will be the better for the body.

13. Ready for questions.

14. We are through with this reading.

Two copies to Self - (one for the physiotherapist) Copy to Ass’n file ” ” Miss Goodall for indexing

(10/2/43 GD’s note: We would refer you to a physiotherapist such as Dr. H. J. Reilly, R.C.A. Building, 1250 6th Ave., N.Y.C.)

Reports

Reports & Follow-up

None.

Background

Background

B1. 4/15/43 “Late in June 1942 my knees and arms became very stiff. I took some diathermy treatments which did not seem to help. My doctor wanted me to go to Beverly Hospital for X-Rays and blood and urine tests, etc. The trouble seemed to be caused by an infection in the colon. It was called fibromyositis or old-fashioned muscular rheumatism. I ret’d from the hospital with a trained nurse. By this time I could not get downstairs or get my hands up to my face or behind my back. Then I twisted my right knee & had fluid around it. My knee was put into a cast & I tried to walk with crutches. All summer & early fall I had to lie on a couch or sit in a big chair. All this time I was unable to bathe or dress myself. The pain became quite intense. My doctor has tried everything known about rheumatism. I have had histamine by means of a hypodermic; colonic irrigations, vitamins and culture called Bacillus Acidophilus. I have had massage & infra-red treatments. My appetite is not good & very little taste to my food. My doctor said that I was inclined to overeat before this trouble. I am very much better now but still stiff & lame nearly all the time. It is very hard for me to walk up & down stairs, to step into a bus & I walk very slowly. I walked fast when well.”

B2. 9/25/43 Letter: “My condition is very much better since I wrote you in April. I get tired very easily. Very often I have a pain in my back down low & right or left side. It may be gas from vegetables. My arms do many things but ache when I use them much. My right knee is still bandaged every day. I have to rest often, if I try to walk or do some light work at home. I drive my car some. I get very nervous at times if the children are noisy near where I live.”

Mentioned Entities

Colon Hydrotherapy, Hydrotherapy, A.R.E. (Association for Research and Enlightenment), Alkaline Diet, Gertrude Cayce, Gladys Davis, Massage Therapy, New York City, Physical Body, Thomas Sugrue, Virginia Beach

Source: The Complete Edgar Cayce Readings, A.R.E. CD-ROM (2006). Reading 3255-1, ReadingID 10663.