TREATMENT.
You must apply a brake to that restless motor within you that is driving you too fast. You must step out of the busy stream of life for awhile, let it rush past you and take things easy. Flush the colon regularly—remove that great source of nervous irritation, for we have yet to hear of a nervous person that was not constipated.
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.