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TEXT OF READING 979-2 F 53

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Date: 7/13/1923 Sex: F Age: 53 ReadingID: 5939

This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the Statler Hotel, St. Louis, Mo., this 13th day of July, 1923.

[Edgar Cayce; (?), Conductor; (?), Steno.]

Time of Reading 11:00 A. M.

  1. EC: Yes, we have the body here. We have had this before, you see. We have never carried out the conditions for this body, else, we would not have the conditions now as existing in the system, this taxation, this trouble we have, the pains through the intestinal tract, produced by the taxation, the condition and the age of the body. The blood supplying forces and conditions, as we have given.

  2. We would, for this body at the present time, take this into the system:

  3. To one gallon of rain water, add:

Sarsaparilla Root…2 ounces, Yellow Dock Root…2 ounces, Dogwood Bark…2 ounces, Prickly Ash Bark…2 ounces, Mandrake Root…15 grains, Buchu Leaves…20 grains.

Reduce by simmering, not boiling, to one quart, strain, while warm, add three (3) drams of Balsam of Tolu cut in six (6) ounces of grain alcohol. The dose will be dessertspoonful four times each day, half an hour before meals.

  1. For the rest of the body at night, in the evening just before retiring take the gentle massage, either by hand or the electric vibrator with the body lying prone, all over the portion of the spine from the 1st cervical to the end of the spine and down the lower limbs on the sciatic nerves. Do that.

  2. (Q) How much of this medicine should be taken to perfect a cure? (A) Depending on how the action of the body will be towards itself, and whether she takes it persistently and thoroughly by the middle of the second quantity as given, if the vibrations are kept up and the diet as given before, you see. Do as we have given if we would correct these conditions.


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Summary

Edgar Cayce prescribes an herbal tonic and spinal massage for a 53-year-old woman suffering from intestinal pain and taxation.

Conditions: intestinal pain, taxation

Remedies: sarsaparilla root, yellow dock root, dogwood bark, prickly ash bark, mandrake root, buchu leaves, balsam of tolu, grain alcohol, Massage Therapy, Electric Vibrator

Referenced readings: 979-1, 979-3


Mentioned Entities

Electric Vibrator, Massage Therapy, Vibration


Source: The Complete Edgar Cayce Readings, A.R.E. CD-ROM (2006). Reading 979-2, ReadingID 5939.

Citation and provenance

Edgar Cayce, Reading 979-2, 7/13/1923. Cite the numbered paragraph when available and include this page’s URL and your access date.

Transcript wording and paragraph numbers are retained. Topic links and the generated synopsis are research aids, not part of the original reading; associations may be mistaken. Historical medical material is not current treatment guidance.

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Psychological and Dream Interpretation Readings
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