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Varice Edgar Cayce
Varice Edgar Cayce
Varice Edgar Cayce
2.EC: Yes, we have the body here; this we have had before.
3. While there are some changes and some conditions that are improved since last we had
same here, the acute conditions that are the more disturbing in the present are those of the
varicose veins - that are the more aggravating and tiring to the body. Thus the great
distress that is caused when the body is on the feet for any great length of time; causing not
only the disorders through the lower limbs and thighs but in the feet also. 4. And this
general pressure, with the body attempting to go, causes the nerve pressures that become
reflexly aggravating throughout the body. 5. Parts of this, of course, have a reflex in the
general condition which has existed - where superacidity has caused distress. And this has
caused undue activity to the kidneys as well. 6. As we find in the present, those pressures
that exist in the lumbar and sacral axis, as well as in the lower portion - or coccyx end of
the spine - are the areas that need the more adjustment to alleviate those tendencies for the
circulation that carries blood away from the heart, and yet is so slow in the return of same;
thus causing the enlarging of the veins in the lower limbs. 7. We would also take Mullein
Tea. This should be made of the fresh, green, tender leaves. Pour a pint of boiling water
over an ounce of the Mullein leaves and let steep for about twenty to thirty minutes. Then
strain and keep in the ice box, so that it may be kept fresh. Take about an ounce to an
ounce and a half of this each day. Make this fresh at least every two to three days. Keep
this up, and it will aid in the circulation, in the elimination of the character of acid in
system, and aid in the circulation through the veins - that are disturbing. 8. When there is
the ability to rest, apply the Mullein Stupes to the areas in knee and along the thigh, and
just below the knee where the veins are the more severe. But the Tea taken internally will
be more effective. 9. Do keep up eliminations.10. Massage the feet and lower limbs daily
in a tannic acid solution, or that preferably obtained from using old coffee grounds - which
carries a mild tannic acid well as other properties that would be beneficial - that is, the
coffee made from same, see? Boil these and use these, as well as the liquid, to bathe feet in
- of evenings. 11. Do have the corrections osteopathically made in lumbar-sacral axis,
AND the coccyx area; and coordinate the rest of the body, for the tiredness and for the
relaxing of the nerves, when these are done.
12. (Q) Why do I have that soreness in my right side; sometimes so severe when I turn or
reach quickly?
(A) This is more of the pressure from the irritations of the nerves from the lumbar and axis
areas as indicated. This is the pressure upon the nerves that extend to the brachial center,
and thus to arms and shoulders, and through a portion of the lung. But it is not an
involvement in the lung, it is the encasement - or the pleura; the nerves to this area, and is
a sympathetic reaction in its nature. [Pleurisy?]
13. (Q) Do I wear the correct shoe?
(A) This is very good. It would be well if the elastic stocking were worn when standing on
feet a long time.
14. (Q) Why do I have the blur over my eyes at times?
(A) Taxation, weakness, and the general debilitation. The body needs a long, long rest.
15. (Q) I have had four or five colonics and they haven't seemed to help me at all. Should I
take them?
(A) For the body in the present we would take regularly for several days the Senna Tea.
Take this of evening when ready to retire. Then after it has been taken for several days,
regularly, have a colonic. And this will bring better results. Then, after a week, repeat this
again, and it will for this body bring better results. Do that.
16. (Q) Are my kidneys alright?
(A) As indicated, the pressures and irritations, and especially the areas of the lumbar axis
and the coccyx cause the overactivity, and sparse or scarce activity - also the superacidity
in the body produces the irritation.17. But do that indicated and we will bring better
conditions.
1. EC: Yes, we have the body [1093].
2. Now, as we find, in many respects the physical forces of the body are very good. Yet
there are disturbing conditions which have been gradually building. And at times, when
there are disturbances either from congestion, cold, exposure, or from an overactivity in
those necessary influences that arise at times (from pulling, moving or lifting), these make
for conditions that become rather aggravating.
3. But, as we find, these may be materially aided. 4. Then, these are the conditions as we
find them with this body, [1093] we are speaking of: 5. THE BLOOD SUPPLY, this
indicates something of an impoverishment. Not that it is weak, as it were, in those
necessary influences in the cellular forces, but rather in those abilities to make for that
necessary element IN the white or leukocyte force to produce proper coagulation. 6. Hence
from those conditions that have arisen from times back, by something of an injury to the
end of the spine (by a fall, apparently), there has gradually been a slowing up of the
circulation. Hence there has been produced in the lower limbs and in the feet a distress that
has taken on the form of varicose veins - or a filling of these without their EMPTYING
properly back into the system. This slowing in itself naturally causes a drawing upon the
luekocyte or the lymph circulation. Thus there is the tendency for this to become at times
overcharged, but the more OFTEN less efficient in the ability for the coagulation to be
normal in those particular portions of the body. 7. These tendencies, from the circulation,
tend to make for pressures then through the weakening of the body in its physical
reactions; sometimes to the organs themselves. For the kidney and the bladder become at
times involved (not always) in the conditions. And the greater warnings would be in these
directions. For by this gradually rebuilding, or this gradually building for resistances, there
would be made a greater impaction in the veins themselves. Thus eventually, unless
precautions are now taken or unless there are those activities to remove the causes, there
would be the necessity of REMOVING some of these veins - through either operative
measures or by the draining and cauterizing of same through other methods that are being
attempted in some of those directions. 8. THE NERVE FORCES OF THE BODY, in
these, to be sure, through the strains, there is produced a nervous reaction at times making
for an irritability; not only in the mental reactions but for the general or for the whole
system. While the natural inclinations or tendencies are for an even temperedness, an even
reaction, these conditions become very much exaggerated or active upon the body in such
manners as to produce irritability. This naturally calls for a flow into the blood supply of
the effluvium that makes for weakening rather than for aiding in a betterment of the
conditions.
9. THE ORGANIC REACTIONS, as indicated, the weakening of the body through these
stresses make for strains in the organs; though not a great deal of strain is experienced save
at periods when there is - through those manners as indicated - a congestion or a
destructive influence or force brought to bear upon the body.10. THEN, IN MAKING
FOR CORRECTIVE MEASURES, AS WE FIND. 11. We would take three to four
PERIODS (not three to four treatments, but three to four PERIODS of treatments), with
osteopathic adjustments and massage - as follows: 12. Three times each week for a period
of two to three weeks we would have the corrections osteopathically, especially in the
coccyx, the lumbar and the lower dorsal area. 13. Then we would have a rest period from
the adjustments for two to three weeks, during which rest period (not so much during the
period the adjustments are being made, but during the rest period) we would have each
evening before retiring a massage of the limbs. This may be done by self or by one close
attending same, but the massage would always be TOWARD the body, see? For such
massaging, use oils; not those that would tend to penetrate or inter-penetrate to deeper
tissue, but those that tend to make for a flexibility in the nerve ends and the supply. Hence
we would combine equal parts of Olive Oil, Tincture of Myrrh and Compound Tincture of
Benzoin. Heat the Olive Oil and add the others. This massage would be done each evening,
while during the adjustment period it may be done every OTHER evening, or less often -
or not at all; but during the adjustment period of rest (or rest period from the adjustments)
be sure the massage is given EACH evening. Begin at the toes, through the bursae of the
feet, especially around the ankle and the heel bursae; then to the inner portion and around
the calf and the heel bursae; then to the inner portion and around the calf of the leg, to the
knee, and then up to the thigh - through the whole portion to the groin, especially;
massaging toward the body all the time. 14. After the end of the rest period, then begin the
adjustments again. And continue in this manner until there have been three to FOUR
periods of the adjustments AND of the massage.15. Then there should be a vast difference.
After that, however, we would give further instructions; for there will be the necessity of
equalizing or ionizing the blood and nerve forces in these extremities.16. At times (though
this will become rather irritating), it will be well for the body to use the elastic stocking,
very tight. But if this becomes irritating, remove and use rather the cloth that may be
wound around same, see? This, of course, should be taken off when the massages are
given, or during the period of the massages - at the rest period from the adjustments. 17. In
the matter of the diet, keep very much in those things that have been outlined for the diet;
those that do not make for too great a strain upon the activities of the kidneys or the
bladder. But drink plenty of water, that these refuses may be washed - as it were - by the
activity of these applications through the system.18. Do these, for these periods, and then
we would give further instructions.
1.EC: Yes, we have the body here. Now we find this body very good throughout. There are
some abnormal conditions in this body to be corrected for the betterment of the physical
condition of the body. They have to do with the circulation, the blood pressure and the
condition through the lower extremities of the body. 2. Now, these are conditions as we
find them in this body: First, in the blood supply we find over quantity of blood both in the
building force of blood itself and the blood supply proper. The blood being too heavy for
the whole body, this producing fullness through the capillary circulation with the strain on
the system showing, especially, through the veinous circulation of the lower limbs, also,
the high hepatic circulation produced from the lumbar center, which has been produced in
turn by the nerve condition and taxation of the nervous system through the sacral plexus,
see. In the creative forces of blood supply through the lymphatic circulation shows through
the over-abundant of creation of tissue or of secretions throughout the whole system, this
producing overstimulation to the glands that function through secretive organs, producing
throughout the system the overtaxed condition of the body.
3. Through the nervous systems we find the body better than it has been in times back,
there being created through the mental forces to overcome the condition created in the
sacral plexus forces that hinders the circulation in its returning to trunk portion of body,
producing enlarged tissues or veins in portions of the system, the forces in the sympathetic
being overactive in their functioning producing sympathetic conditions through the
lymphatic centers and secretions as given. 4. In the functioning of the organs themselves
we find, except of functional conditions, at times the body very good, no specific organic
conditions showing through the system, yet in the overtaxed conditions, organs of the torso
suffers at times from the over-activity of pressure in circulation as well as strain from the
nervous systems through sympathetic conditions.5. To bring the equilibrium of the nerve
centers governing the circulation and to produce in the physical forces those action and
reaction to the muscular and nerve centers we would first take into the system, those
properties of the nature to produce the relaxation to the circulation in its building
functioning, take this: 6. To one gallon of rain water add, first,
Wild Cherry bark.......................4 ounces,
Yellow root............................2 ounces,
Black Haw bark.........................2 ounces,
Dogwood bark...........................2 ounces.
7. Reduce by simmering, not boiling, to one quart, strain, while warm add:
Grain alcohol..........................6 ounces, with
Balsam of Peru.........................2 drams, see.
8. The dose would be two teaspoonsful three times each day after meals. Upon retiring the
body should take the exercise to the lower limbs to assist the centers with their invigorated
forces from medicinal properties to force the blood supply to the trunk portion of body and
so equalize the circulation throughout the system. Drink plenty of water and keep the
intestinal tract well open throughout the equalizing of the conditions in the system. Do
that.
9. (Q) Now Mr. Cayce, what kind of exercise do you refer to upon retiring?
(A) With the body lying prone, that is, upon the back, see, the limbs drawn up and
extended and kept in the circular motion for some two to three minutes each evening, see,
the limbs raised high, see, then extended and kept in this circular bending motion to force,
with the medicinal properties, the equalizing of the blood forces. Do not remove by
operative forces, see, but by the absorption and by the equalizing of the circulation in the
body. The exercises taken in the evening or at time of retiring so that the body has
advantage of the physical rest of the body and gives the subconscious or superconscious
forces their incentives to carry the healing forces to the body, see.
2. EC: Yes - we have the body here - this we have had before.
3. As we find, there continues to be a much greater activity in the deep or internal
circulation than in the superficial. Here especially we find this indicated in the manner in
which the veins in the limbs show the fullness, and where - as indicated - the disturbing or
the rupture of same has caused and does cause disturbing conditions in the immediate. 4. If
a better superficial circulation will be stimulated by deeper stimulation, osteopathically, to
the lumbar and sacral area - and, of course, go UPWARD; coordinating the dorsal and
upper dorsal and cervicals with same - we will find better conditions for the body.
5. As to the specific disturbances - we find this is not what would be called superficial
infection, but rather in the nature of the INABILITY of the slowed circulation to carry
away from the area the poisons and accumulations - by the very nature and character of the
condition itself; that is, as combined with the general condition, see?
6. Then, with the lack of the superficial circulation being nominal, the abilities of
coagulation - or healing abilities in the blood supply have become impaired.
7. While we find that the present applications [plantain?] are beneficial, there will be
required the more active influence of ELIMINATIONS for the system.
8. And here, owing to the diet, we find that the minerals as an eliminant - as with oils -
would be preferable to the vegetable compound as an eliminant. Hence as we find, if there
would be a course of the Crazy Crystals taken, this would materially aid - with the
osteopathic corrections - in bringing a better balance to the system. 9. And if the present
local application is not effective, or does not combine with these other suggestions to bring
relief - or if the place becomes angry again - we would then use Iodex as combined with
the Animated Ash. As we have indicated for such, the proportions would be about three
grains of the Animated Ash to an ounce of the Iodex - but this thoroughly, of course,
mixed together; using mortar and pestle. These will assist in producing such conditions as
to make for healing, as well as purifying the areas ABOUT the abrasion or eruption.10. Do
that.
11. (Q) How often should the osteopathic treatments be given?
(A) During this particular siege or period, as we find about twice a week - and four
SHOULD be sufficient; and then they may be much farther apart - for the general
correction. This will require DEEP osteopathic manipulations in lumbar and sacral area,
and with special reference to the locomotions for the sciatic centers. Do these.
EC: Yes, we have the body here; this we have had before.
3. As we find, there are many changes in the physical forces of this body since last we had
same here. Most of these we find show considerable improvements. 4. In the present we
find there are those disturbances which are causing anxiety, owing to the general weakened
condition which at one time existed. There is the weakening of the cellular forces as
related to veins on the lower limbs.
5. These may be materially aided WITHOUT operative measures. But if there is the
continued necessity for using the limbs, or standing on them a great deal, or walking long
distances and the like, without the time to give a chance for that as might be applied to
react as a helpful influence, - then we find that the operative measures might become
necessary - or might be better; though this would require a long period of rest, AND the
disturbance as produced by same later would possibly cause more trouble than exists in the
present. 6. Thus the body must of necessity choose for itself.
7. There are also those conditions that are not fully corrected in the muscular forces above
the kidney, and across and below the kidney area. This is partially from toxic forces arising
from a kidney disorder, and partially from the general conditions in the body. 8. As we
find in the present, to remove the disturbance or to be benefited: 9. We would begin with
osteopathic adjustments twice each week, until at least fourteen such treatments are taken;
with special reference to the areas from which the lower limbs obtain their impulse for
circulation, - that is, through the sacral, the lumbar, and even to the 9th dorsal.
10. When necessary for a lot of activity we would wear the elastic stocking over those
areas.
11. Each evening before retiring, following a tepid bath - either a sponge bath, shower or
tub - massage the body with an equal combination of Olive Oil and Tincture of Myrrh.
Heat the Oil to add the Myrrh.
12. Do this, and with the general precautions as to diet, as to activities, we will make for
better conditions.
13. If the varicose conditions become so serious as to BREAK, then it would be necessary
to resort to operative measures.