Reading 5052-1

TEXT OF READING 5052-1 M 30 (U.S. Navy, Carpenter, Roman

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Date: 5/8/1944 Sex: M Age: 30 ReadingID: 13173

Catholic) This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at the office of the Association, Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 8th day of May, 1944, in accordance with request made by the wife - Mrs. […], new Associate Member of the Ass”n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc.

[Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Gussie W. Millaway, Stenos. Mr. [5052]”s wife.]

(Carpenter’s Time of Reading Shop, filing Set bet. 10:30 to 11:30 A.M. Eastern War Time. saws, Camp Bradford, Va.) …, N.J.

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, [5052].

3. As we find while there are many conditions that are very good, there are those that cause a great deal of disturbance to the body, and become very aggravating at times.

4. These as we find arise from a condition that exists through the alimentary canal, especially as part of the circulation in the colon. From the pressure there arises the periodic headaches that are the source of the general nervous disturbance in the body.

5. These as we find may be removed. They are the sources of those that are at times called the types of headaches which refuse to respond to any of the ordinary treatments, and will become constitutional unless there is something done about it.

6. As we find we would have the application once or twice a week of Castor Oil Packs. If these could be given regularly for several days, it might be more easily eliminated. But when it is practical, at least twice a week, apply over the abdomen, and especially the caecum, and extending up the right side to the gall duct area, Castor Oil Packs. Keep them on for at least one hour or one and one-half hours at the time. Cover this with an electric pad when it has been covered so that it doesn’t soil the linens from the oil. Make the pack with two or three thicknesses of flannel, preferably old flannel; saturate the flannel, not just pour on, but saturate the flannel with the Castor Oil.

7. The next day taken internally at least 2 tbsp. of olive oil.

8. Each time following the application of the oil packs, massage the body along the spine, especially the areas from the lumbar axis to that area between the shoulders, with cocoa butter; massage this thoroughly for at least fifteen to twenty minutes, and let all the cocoa butter that the body will absorb be rubbed into same.

9. This as we find, if it is followed, will relieve the sources of this disturbance.

10. Ready for questions.

11. (Q) Is this connected with the foot trouble which has recently developed, and what causes this? (A) This is, as has been indicated, a part of the condition. Massage from the lumbar axis. Foot trouble is a reflex pressure on the nerves that lead to the brain through the nerves of the sympathetic system to the cerebrospinal center.

12. (Q) Should the Olive Oil be taken the second day of the packs, or after every pack? (A) Should be taken after each pack, the next day after the pack is given. Cleanse the portions with a weak solution of soda water, then massage after each pack also. Use cocoa butter in the massage, see? Do that and we will rid the conditions in this body.

13. We are through with this reading.

Copy to Self ” ” Ass’n file ” for indexing

(See directions [which were enclosed] for Castor Oil Packs.)

Reports

Reports & Follow-up

R1. 5/44 Comment by IMG: “Shortly after the reading, Mr. [5052] and his wife came to my home in Oceana at GD’s suggestion, to discuss the instructions given in the reading regarding the application of Castor Oil Packs and massage. I observed their enthusiasm during that hour’s discussion, and they left saying they would begin the treatment at once.”

R2. 6/8/44 Comment by GC: “I met Mr. [5052]‘s wife in the grocery store today, and she said: ‘I’ve been intending to come in and see Mr. Cayce. Please tell him that since we’ve started the treatments, my husband hasn’t had a single one of those awful headaches. We’re so happy about it.”

R3. ?/45 Second class test mailing to Camp … Va. Whereabouts unknown.

R4. 3/24/50 Questionnaire sent to N.J. address. No reply.

R5. 9/10/52 No record of verbal or written contact on this case since 6/8/44.

R6. 10/25/52 Comment by D. H. Fogel, M.D: “In my opinion this is a typical Migraine case.”

Background

Background

B1. 1/30/14 Born in New Jersey; married, no children. In 1944, Mr. [5052] and his wife lived in a village near Virginia Beach. She came to A.R.E., met Mr. Cayce, and requested a reading for her husband.

B2. 5/8/44 Wife’s questions orally submitted to GD; and remarks: “(1) What may be done to eliminate his terrible headaches which come periodically? (2) What causes them? My husband has had these awful headaches since he was 14 years of age. At first doctors said it was his eyes. Later when the headaches were more frequent and appeared worse, they said it was sinus. Now they say they don’t know what the trouble is, and that he will just have to try to get his mind off them. When the headache come on, it seems like there is a tightening and pounding in the head, and the tiniest noise sounds like a bass drum, and they blind him at times. Apparently the atmosphere has nothing to do with the headaches, as he gets them in a hot, dry climate also, but he can always tell when a storm is coming by the way his head feels.” [Additional questions submitted are at end of 5052-1.]

Mentioned Entities

Massage Therapy, Castor Oil, A.R.E. (Association for Research and Enlightenment), Olive Oil, Virginia Beach, Baking Soda, Gertrude Cayce, Gladys Davis, Rome

Source: The Complete Edgar Cayce Readings, A.R.E. CD-ROM (2006). Reading 5052-1, ReadingID 13173.