Edgar Cayce on the causes of high blood pressure
One of the rituals of modern medicine is the taking of blood pressure. At the beginning of a medical appointment the nurse will often take your blood pressure and record it in your chart. Sometimes people develop “white coat syndrome”, where their blood pressure goes up solely from the emotional stress of being in a medical office.
Low blood pressure is a good clue that can be investigated - some common symptoms of low blood pressure are dizziness, fainting, or shock-like effects. Low blood pressure is caused by bleeding, hypothyroidism, malnutrition, dehydration, complications from medications, etc. Someone I know took blood pressure medications for years, then his condition changed and he'd pass out from standing up. After falling several times he took himself off one of the two blood pressure medications his doctors had him taking.
The mainstream advice commonly given for high blood pressure is not very helpful. When a person’s blood pressure is higher than the recommended level, they’re often advised to reduce their salt intake, reduce alcohol consumption, and exercise. Most people would do well to reduce their alcohol intake, so that’s good advice. If the patient’s blood pressure remains above the average blood pressure of a healthy young person, they’re often prescribed medication to reduce their blood pressure.
Women who are pregnant get terrible blood pressure management advice from mainstream medical practitioners. I think the main causes of the high blood pressure associated with pregnancy is not getting enough salt, and not consuming enough protein.
Real-world harm of a context-free approach to blood pressure management
I had a ~47yo friend call me recently. He’s been on blood pressure medication for the last 10 years, but his blood pressure had recently spiked, he was noticing adverse effects, and he didn’t know what to do.
His blood pressure medication was an old generic medication that's more commonly used for heart failure than blood pressure. I speculate he was put on this medication because it’s inexpensive.
I asked some questions to find out if he’d changed anything in his routines recently. I advised against consuming any more of his new Oat/Soy beverage, and thought he’d benefit from more electrolytes. Coconut water is a natural electrolyte drink that’s now available everywhere. If he wanted a “milk alternative” product, I thought coconut milk would be better than any of the other “plant based” milk products. Oat and almond ‘milks’ commonly have mycotoxins. Edgar Cayce often recommended dairy products, sometimes with caveats, but this friend doesn’t care for cow milk, goat milk, etc.
It took a while, but I was able to convince him that salt intake did not directly cause his blood pressure to increase. He eventually found a video on youtube that explained why consuming extra salt in the morning can help the body manage its blood pressure better. He increased his intake of plain white salt, and found that helpful. He started walking regularly, stopped his habitual consumption of junk food, and started shedding weight. Before long, this fellow’s elevated blood pressure had normalized at an acceptable level, and he’s thinking about how to wean himself off his daily blood pressure pill.
Edgar Cayce on Blood Pressure
This motivated me to look into the history of blood pressure readings. Devices to measure blood pressure became commonly available in the early 1900’s.
Blood pressure was often covered in the Cayce readings - there are index entries for HYPERTENSION (high blood pressure) and HYPOTENSION (low blood pressure).
Edgar Cayce often said a person’s high blood pressure was frequently related to their colon - constipation, toxins from bacteria in the colon, and/or prolapse of the colon. Othertimes it was related to pressures in the thoracic region (Cayce used the term “dorsal” - these are the vertebrae that have ribs attached to them), or a combination of these causes.
I asked my hands on specialist if he had experience treating blood pressure. He said specific thoracic vertebrae are sometimes involved with high blood pressure. Then he said sometimes a person actually has an abscessed tooth, and it’s the poisons from that bacterial infection that are actually causing a person’s elevated blood pressure.
Two common interventions for high blood pressure in the Cayce readings are dealing with constipation (laxatives, enemas and colonics), and massage along the spine.
Below are two readings that mentioned high blood pressure. The ARE has some pages about Cayce's approach to high blood pressure, but I didn't think they were especially great so I'm not going to link to them here.
Do you have elevated blood pressure? Did your doctor prescribe a medication to treat this condition? Reply to this email to share your experience - I’m interested!
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I have plenty of my grounding coins and grounding pendants in stock. One of the other interventions for normalizing blood pressure is the Radio-Active Appliance (which is NOT ‘radioactive’, so the post-1945 name is the Radial Appliance). I currently have some copper tube at a machine shop getting cut to size, so my Radial appliance with a copper case will hopefully be available again soon.
Here are those two readings:
TEXT OF READING 126-1 F ADULT
This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce in New York City, this 14th day of October, 1924.
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6. Now we find there are many abnormal conditions in this body. These conditions that may be corrected for there are some that have become abnormal for this body, have to do with eliminations as are affected by specific conditions existing in the centers that affect directly the creation of the condition producing the functioning of the pancreas and secretions from same. These subluxated segments we find in the ninth dorsal [thoracic] region. This has existed in the body for such a length of time as to produce the creating of improper elements in the body in the digestive system, creating also reflexes in portions of the body producing high blood pressure in the circulation and an increase in the eliminations from the kidneys until the secretions from these are overcharged in the body. There are many conditions that these produce reflexly. These the conditions to be corrected first. Then as the reactions begin in the system this should be met as conditions arise in the body. This would be corrected first, and by taking into the system these properties: [recipe for making a sage-based herbal tincture]7. Correct the subluxation in the 9th, 10th and 11th dorsal, first by applying heat of a wet nature, so the body would be thoroughly relaxed.
8. The diet must be those properties not carrying sugars or proteins for the body. When this has been taken for at least ten treatments, conditions will arise that must be met at that time. We would give them from here.
9. (Q) Should a doctor be called into consultation on this case?
(A) Doctors should treat the body. Correct the impingements in the body. Without these, we will not have a correction of the body.
10. (Q) What special school of medicine should be represented?
(A) Not a school of medicine, but of osteopathy, or chiropractic.
Reading recipient #112 had high blood pressure that was mostly related to toxins from being constipated. Additionally their lungs weren’t working as well as they could (the lungs are an eliminative organ too):
TEXT OF READING 112-1 F ADULT
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2. Now, these are conditions as we find in this body: In the blood supply, which is limited for the condition and is weak, tending toward anemia, though not anaemitized - anemic wholly, - poor elimination, often poor assimilation. So the weakness to the whole system becomes a thing apart, and to the entity, when taken by the psychological forces, the effects become all over the system, affecting the organs and the whole body throughout. In portions of the system we find this being produced, that is, that which causes it; not an entire auto-intoxication or toxins absorbed, but rather of the impure form of toxins or alcoholic forces formed in the system and producing toxins from these, [...]
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4. To give the relief necessary to this body to bring the normal forces to relieve those areas from this condition, we would take that in the system that will overcome this overcharge in the intestinal system, and also overcome the condition through the bronchials and lungs themselves. We would take Clary Water in the system, tablespoonful night and morning.
5. For the condition through the larynx, through the lung forces we would inhale gases as produced from this:
6. To half gallon of GRAIN ALCOHOL in a container, preferably charred, and twice or three times as large as the amount put in, add to that two ounces of OIL OF EUCALYPTUS, one and one-half ounces of OIL OF JUNIPER, and two ounces of RECTIFIED OIL OF TURP. Inhale the gases through these, as you would inhale naturally into the mouth through a tube. Should be corked and heated just a bit before it is inhaled, once each day. Do that.
7. (Q) [...]
8. (Q) The body has been told that it has high blood pressure. What is the condition, Mr. Cayce?
(A) The toxins in the system, that overcharge the blood forces. It is not high blood pressure from the forces or the conditions of the body, but as we have given. Do as we have given to treat the body. We are through.