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The importance of good circulation is apparent even to the lay person when it is realized that cutting off blood to the brain for only a few minutes results in coma; a few minutes more (six to eight, to be exact) and the brain is permanently damaged. The frightening prevalence of atherosclerosis and its grim companions—stroke, heart attack, senility, and other death-dealing diseases-should warn us all to do everything in our power to maintain good circulation. Circulation and the glucose-carrying properties of the blood can be increased to an amazing extent by exercise, and this is what Cayce frequently prescribed—in fact, he did so in over 1,300 readings. Where serious pathology was present (and one must always bear in mind that many who went to Edgar Cayce were seriously ill individuals who had been through the medical mill and had been dismissed as hopeless by conventional medical science), he prescribed exercise equivalents—massage, hydrotherapy, osteopathy, chiropractic, and other manipulative therapies that required a professional expert to administer. Here is what he said about a good blood supply—a state that is so dependent on good circulation:

. . . there is no condition existent in a body that the reflection of same may not be traced in the blood supply, for not only does the blood stream carry the rebuilding forces to the body, it also takes the used forces and eliminates same through their proper channels in the various portions of the system.

(283-2)

Parenthetically, I must point out here that in discussing the blood supply, Cayce scored another bit of precognition: “The day may yet arrive when one may take a drop of blood and diagnose the condition of any physical body.” (283-2)

Today, a small sample of blood is fed into computers that analyze and diagnose and return a complete range of tests as Cayce predicted.

In his explanation of his preference for osteopathy, Cayce makes clear how important circulation is:

As a system of treating human ills, osteopathy . . . is more beneficial than most measures that may be given. Why? In any preventative or curative measure, that condition to be produced is to assist the system to gain its normal equilibrium. It is known that each organ receives impulses from other portions of the system by the suggestive forces [sympathetic nervous system] and by circulatory forces [the cerebrospinal system and the blood supply itself]. These course through the system in very close parallel activity in every single portion of the body.

Hence stimulating ganglia from which impulses arise—either sympathetically or functionally—must then be helpful in the body gaining an equilibrium. (902-1)

It is interesting to note that when I studied manipulative therapy back in 1916 and 1917, I could have taken my degree in osteopathy, before going on to get my master’s and doctorate in physiotherapy. However, osteopathy, which had been founded by a Kansas physician, Dr. Andrew Taylor Still, about 1878 or 1879 was so little thought of that I snubbed that degree and took my examinations and degree as a doctor of massotherapy, which was then accepted by medical doctors. Here again we see Cayce’s powers of precognition at work, for today osteopathic medicine is not only recognized in most states, but both former Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York and former President Richard M. Nixon have taken regular treatments from Dr. Kenneth W. Riland, a noted osteopath. Dr. Riland has traveled all over the world with his famous clients and even accompanied the former president to China and the Soviet Union.

. . . [blood is] that criterion through which most any condition existent in the system may be found. (108-2)

. . . nerve force to the body . . . is the attribute to the mental man, same as circulation [is] to the physical [man]. (34-5)

In animals under emotional stress, fats are drawn from body deposits, emptied into the blood and deposited along artery walls. Presumably the same thing happens in man, producing those top killers, atherosclerosis and coronaryartery disease.

—Dr. Hans Selye

The strain between the physical and mental, with the spiritual attributes of the individual, finds expression not only in the brain itself, but in that of the sympathetic [nervous] system for the brain manifestation of soul forces in the body. (4566-1)