Reading 561-1

TEXT OF READING 561-1 M 16

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Date: 5/28/1934 Sex: M Age: 16 ReadingID: 3969

This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his home on Arctic Crescent, Virginia Beach, Va., this 28th day of May, 1934, in accordance with request made by the mother - Mrs. […], new Associate Member of the Ass”n for Research & Enlightenment, Inc., recommended by Mrs. [267].

[Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. [561] and his mother, Mrs. [267] and Mildred Davis.]

Time of Reading 3:30 to 3:55 P. M. Eastern Standard Time. …, Va. (Physical Suggestion)

1. EC: Yes, we have the body here, [561].

2. Now, as we find, there are many conditions in the present that may be said to be almost perfectly normal; yet there are those conditions that, as we find, unless there are corrections made, will make for constitutional disorders of such natures as to make some complications in the body.

3. Then, in giving that which may be helpful - and in making for the corrective measures for this body, it would be necessary that we give something of the basic causes of this condition.

4. We find that in times back, or when the body was at that stage or age when - as it may be said - the first solid foods were given, or the more astringent foods; and there was during that period an illness that affected the body through the temperature and - through the properties given - the lacteal ducts; which has caused a stricture there that affects primarily the caecum and the area as in the ascending colon. And when there is the spasm to the head, or when the circulation between the liver and the heart is affected, if the hand is placed upon the caecum and the area about the lacteal ducts it will be found that there is a COLDNESS there - though the body may not be aware of same. [See 561-1, Par. R5, N.Y. Times article in re abdominal epilepsy.]

5. Unless the flow of lymph and the muco-membrane circulation is increased to the extent as to re-enliven this activity, the spasmodic condition must gradually grow - and rather than being of shorter duration it must necessarily become longer; for more and more is the tendency for the condition to grow. It is more in the form of that which may be called an adhesion, or like a stricture, in the area.

6. The general circulation is very good, save right after or just before such a reaction. And the reactions do not come by cycles of functioning, but from PRESSURES created there.

7. In the general activity of the organs and the rest of the body we find near normalcy, save as to the nominal eliminations through the alimentary canal, the liver and kidney activity that is disturbed by the condition spasmodically.

8. Then, in making the proper corrections for these conditions, we find that there should not be too great an activity of the body-physical until there is the feeling in the body itself that this condition is broken - and by the manipulations that may be had during such periods. For, there is a tautness there of which the body is scarcely aware, save in the right side at times - just below the ribs to a point just above the head of the bone of the leg, or the hip bone, there is the feeling as if it needs stretching; no hurt, but just taut.

9. We would begin with the applications of heavy Castor Oil packs; three to four thicknesses of flannel dipped in the oil and applied just as hot as the body can stand, over the area from the upper portion of the liver to the portion of the caecum and the ascending colon area. Keep these for at least three to four hours each day, one after the other, until there has been at least six to eight different applications.

10. Begin with small doses of Olive Oil taken internally, quarter to half a teaspoonful every two hours. Keep this up also for the six to eight days.

11. Each evening after the packs are given, we would have a thorough massage with the electrically driven vibrator - using the sponge applicator over the abdomen or stomach. Empty the stomach with this treatment; that is, begin with the circular motion just below the sternum over the stomach proper, over the area of the liver, continuing back and forth across the whole of the abdomen; not heavy, but so as to assist in breaking up the tautness there. Apply from five to fifteen minutes.

12. At the end of the six to eight day period, rest two or three days; that is, leaving off the oils and the vibrator, and during the rest period have a thorough osteopathic adjustment and massage - just one.

13. That would be one series of treatments.

14. Then we would begin another series, going through the whole procedure as outlined.

15. And we would have three such series.

16. Do these, and we will get rid of these troubles for [561] for we find they have been caused by the condition described.

17. Ready for questions.

18. (Q) Can the mother apply the packs and the vibrator treatment? (A) They can be given BETTER by the mother, if she will follow the directions outlined. Apply the packs as hot as may be stood on the hands, covering the area from the edge of the rib on the right side clear to the hip joint. Then, after the period of treatment with the packs each day give the general massage with the electrically driven vibrator, you see. Keep such treatments for six or eight days; then rest, and during the rest period have the manipulation or correction along the spine.

19. (Q) Will you suggest an osteopath to give the correction? (A) Anyone that knows his business as an osteopath, who will give a good general treatment and not undo what you are doing!

It is not necessary that such adjustments be given at first, you see; in fact, they would be injurious to the body DURING the periods the packs are being applied - for the packs are to produce within the area sufficient activity to cause the muco-membrane and lymph circulation to increase so as to remove the troublesome conditions.

20. (Q) Would it be necessary for the osteopath to know the treatments being followed at home? (A) If you desire to tell him!

21. (Q) Would Dr. Ober be alright? (A) He’s a very good doctor!

22. (Q) Any advice regarding diet? (A) To be sure, the diet should not be heavy; or of such nature as to make for clogging, or for constipation. Rather citrus fruit and the juices of vegetables during the whole periods that the treatments are given. Not that solid foods may not be taken in moderation, but do not OVEREAT - you see. A diet principally of citrus fruit and vegetable JUICES.

23. (Q) Would a few weeks of camp life be too much for him this summer? (A) This had best be judged by whether or not the body has been rid of these conditions first! It would not be well with the conditions as they are; nor would it be well for this to be had should any irritations be produced - for it would be too strenuous for the body. However, if the corrections are made and there are the readjustments in the system to the conditions, or the spasmodic reactions to the sensory system, the camp life would be well for the body.

24. (Q) Should any of his physical activities be curtailed? (A) As given, during the first portion of the treatment there should not be a great deal of physical activity, else we would strain or irritate the very lesions we are attempting to break up! For strictures, we remember, are as places in the portion of the internal system that adhere or stick, so as to prevent normalcy. Curtail activities, then, that would make too much irritation in such directions, see? Consequently, not too great an activity until at least two or three series of the treatments have been given.

Do this, and we will correct these conditions in this body, [561].

25. We are through for the present. [See GD’s ltr. to Dr. Ober under 561-1, Par. R1.]

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Reports

Reports & Follow-up

R1. 5/28/1934 GD’s letter to Dr. Ober:

Dr. Vincent H. Ober, Bankers Trust Bldg., Norfolk, Virginia

Dear Dr. Ober:

We have suggested treatments as follows for [561] (16 yr. old son of Mrs. […]) … Avenue, Norfolk, Virginia:

“There is a stricture that affects primarily the caecum and the area as in the ascending colon. And when there is the spasm to the head, or when the circulation between the liver and the heart is affected, if the hand is placed upon the caecum and the area about the lacteal ducts it will be found that there is a COLDNESS there - though the body may not be aware of same.

“The general circulation is very good, save right after or just before such a reaction. And the reactions do not come by cycles of functioning, but from PRESSURES created there.

“At the end of each six to eight day period, rest two or three days; that is, leaving off the oils and the vibrator, and during the rest period have a thorough osteopathic adjustment and massage - just one; general manipulation or correction along the spine. Give three in all, one at the end of each six to eight day period of the other treatments. It is not necessary that such adjustments be given at first, you see; in fact, they would be injurious to the body DURING the periods the packs are being applied - for the packs are to produce within the area sufficient activity to cause the muco-membrane and lymph circulation to increase so as to remove the troublesome conditions.

“Q. Would it be necessary for the osteopath to know the treatments being followed at home? A. If you desire to tell him!

“Q. Will you suggest an osteopath to give the correction? A. Anyone that knows his business as an osteopath, who will give a good general treatment and not undo what you are doing!

“Q. Would Dr. Ober be alright? A. He’s a very good doctor!”

Sincerely, Gladys Davis Secretary to Edgar Cayce of the ASS’N FOR RESEARCH & ENLIGHTENMENT

R2. 6/4/34 See 571-1 for his 13 yr. old sister who recently has been having epileptic attacks in her sleep.

R3. 7/7/34 Mother phoned to make an appointment for a check reading. The first series of treatments were completed today and as a consequence the spells have completely disappeared. She was highly elated and enthused. The osteopath pronounces the case 100% improved, after giving the last adjustment today. Medical physician, Dr. Raymond Kimbrough, in the Medical Arts Building, Norfolk, told “my husband he did not blame him one bit for trying Mr. Cayce, since he had given the medical profession every chance.”

Dr. Ober cooperated in every way, the mother said.

R4. 7/9/34 See 561-2.

R5. 10/8/72 The New York Times article “DOCTORS WARNED OF RARE EPILEPSY” - Physicians Fear Condition May be Misdiagnosed - by Lawrence K. Altman

Two California physicians have called their colleague’s attention to abdominal epilepsy, a rare condition in which few children experience recurrent episodes of abdominal pain without the seizures or convulsions that usually characterize epilepsy.

The physicians - Dr. Richard R. Babb, a gastroenterologist, and Dr. Paul B. Eckman, a neurologist, at the Palo Alto Medical Clinic - described the condition in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association because they said, “in our experience physicians know little about this rare entity.”

The doctors said they hoped the article would minimize the prospects of misdiagnosis, in which a surgeon, for example, might do an unnecessary operation or a physician might call the patient neurotic when the true condition was not recognized.

NOT JUST A BELLYACHE

The doctors emphasized that abdominal epilepsy could be effectively treated with the same drug that is used to prevent seizures from the more common form of epilepsy.

However, they pointed out that abdominal epilepsy was not the usual bellyache that just about every child suffers on occasion.

Although abdominal epilepsy is not common, pediatricians must remember it along with scores of other rare and more common disorders when they examine a child with abdominal pain. The reason is that without adequate examination and without considering the remote possibility, the physician can never be certain that this is “the one patient in a hundred” whose bellyache is due to such a rare condition.

So complex are the causes of abdominal pain that surgeons like Dr. Zachary Cope have earned fame within the medical profession for writing classic textbooks on the methods of distinguishing among the wide variety of causes of acute abdominal pain.

PAIN COMES ON FAST

Epilepsy has been known since ancient times. Doctors have long known that about one epileptic patient in five often experiences an aura - a brief period preceding a seizure - characterized by abdominal symptoms like pain, nausea and vomiting. But just since 1868 have doctors reported that abdominal epilepsy can occur without a seizure. Only in recent years have pediatric textbooks included brief descriptions of the conditions.

Abdominal epilepsy is characterized by an abrupt onset of pain in the mid or upper abdomen that usually lasts just a few minutes. Then the pain disappears until days or weeks later when another episode recurs.

Dr. Babb and Dr. Eckman pointed out in the journal article that in each attack the child generally loses his appetite, has nausea or vomiting and may become confused or disoriented. But the child does not become unconscious.

“Classically, after the attack is over, the patient will generally fall asleep, feeling well upon awaking,” the Pala Alto doctors wrote.

CONFIRMATION STRESSED

Others in the past, like Dr. Eustace F. Douglas and Dr. Philip T. White of Milwaukee, have emphasized that the diagnosis of abdominal epilepsy is not made just by examining the patient. Also, they emphasized the need to confirm the diagnosis by electroencephalograms, or brain wave tests.

Despite the absence of a seizure with abdominal epilepsy, neurologists have found that the brain wave tracings have abnormal patterns when the patient experiences an attack of abdominal epilepsy. Favorable response to treatment with a drug like Dilantin also is helpful in making the diagnosis of abdominal epilepsy.

Rigid criteria are needed to make the diagnosis, the doctors said, because otherwise many Americans would needlessly be taking medication every day for a rare condition that they did not truly have.

Background

Background

B1. See 561-3, Par. R11, report by Dr. Pahnke.

Mentioned Entities

Osteopathy, Electric Vibrator, Massage Therapy, Gladys Davis, Aura, California, Castor Oil, Gertrude Cayce, New York City, Olive Oil, Paul (Apostle), Virginia Beach

Source: The Complete Edgar Cayce Readings, A.R.E. CD-ROM (2006). Reading 561-1, ReadingID 3969.