The Royal Road to Health; or, the Secret of Health Without DrugsTyrrell, Chas. A. (Charles Alfred)
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The Royal Road to Health; or, the Secret of Health Without Drugs
Tyrrell, Chas. A. (Charles Alfred)
Enema; Health; Health -- Popular works; Health promotion; Hygiene
If you suffer from nervousness, you are dyspeptic, your whole course of
life tends to render you so. Follow the treatment, especially the diet,
given under the head of “Dyspepsia.” Practice deep breathing, for lung
development, for strong lung power is never associated with nervousness.
Take plenty of exercise in the open air, but not to excess.
Be moderate in all things, except sleep, you cannot sleep too much.
Cultivate the sleeping habit, and don’t give up until you can sleep ten
hours a day.
THE MATTER OF FOOD
is important, for, as before stated, nervous people eat and sleep too
little. Fatty foods, or those that are easily converted into fat, are
what is necessary. Olive oil is one of the best nerve foods in
existence. Take a teaspoonful at a time, and gradually increase the
quantity until you can take a tablespoonful at each meal. If you really
can’t take olive oil, the best substitute is sweet cream. Celery is also
good, and lettuce.
Cultivate slow and measured movements, avoid undue activity, take life
easy and be moderate in all things.
To sum up. Flush the colon, sleep long, eat slowly, and plenty of oily
or fat food, exercise freely, but in moderation, develop the lungs by
breathing exercises, and take life easy.
This line of treatment, faithfully carried out, will cure the very worst
cases in time.
HEADACHE.
There are many causes for this distressing complaint. Generally the
cause is to be found in the stomach. Something that has no right there
is in that organ, and irritating the pneumogastric nerve that connects
the stomach with the brain. It is a common symptom of dyspepsia.
An engorged colon is one of the most common causes, on the same
principle that it causes paralysis and apoplexy. Stimulants invariably
promote headache.
To prevent the attacks, live regularly, avoid late hours and excessive
brain work, shun alcoholic beverages and tea and coffee, avoid sweets
and pastries, and anything fried in fat. Eat good, plain food, including
fruit (especially oranges), but never eat late at night. Develop the
lungs. Never let a day pass without gently exercising all the muscles.
Massage the abdomen each night before retiring. Keep the colon clean by
the use of the “Cascade,” and bathe at least three times a week.
To relieve an attack, flush the colon thoroughly. Take a hot foot-bath,
and while taking it, take a cup of hot lemonade--without sugar--so hot
that you have to sip it.
DROPSY.
In this disease the outlet to the intestinal canal has become clogged.
The kidneys wear out trying to evacuate the bowels through their
delicate tubular network and the capillaries have become helpless
through misuse in trying to do the work of others. So the tissues and
muscles of the extremities are loaded with this cast off material, and
we call it bloat. This is dropsy.
TREATMENT.
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