Ne te 
154 - RECIPES. 
: FOR NERVOUS DISORDERS. 
Neryous disorders are of two kinds: first, those which 
: _ proceed from the nervés being compressed by the swelling of 
the muscular flesh—or, second, when the nerves themselves 
are disordered. In the first case, temperance and abstemious- — 
ness will generally cure. In the latter, when the nerves per- 
_form their office too languidly, a good air is requisite. The 
patient should rise early, and as soon as thedew is off the 
ground, take a walk. Let his breakfast be mother of thyme 
tea gathered in June, using half as much as we do of com- 
mon tea. It should be drank with the finest sugar ahd 
cream. Coffee must be avoided when the nerves are too sen- 
sible. The patient should breathe a proper air, and let him 
eat veal, chickens, or mutton. Vegetables should be eat 
sparingly. The most innocent is the French turnip while 
young. Wine should be carefully avoided, so should all 
sauces. Sometimes he may breakfast on a quarter of an 
ounce of the powder of valérian root infused in hot water, to 
~ which: may be added | cream and sugar. Tea is not proper 
when the person finds an uncommon oppression—let him 
take a large spoonful of the tincture of valerian root. This 
tincture should be made thus: Cut to pieces six ounces of 
wild valerian root gathered in June and fresh dried, bruise it 
a little, and put it into a quart of strong white wine—oork 
the bottle and let it stand twenty days—shake it every day ; 
then strain it through three or four thicknesses of cloth. 
Take, also, as much as will lie on a shilling of the powder of 
mistletoe twice a day, when the stomach is most empty, fast- 
ing two hours after it—then one ounce a day, and afterwards 
every other or every third day, till cured. Let this plant be 
gathered in May, and the leaves and bark ‘be dried in the 
shade, 
a.» Sait saa ipiginetemamerremmen 
