Dietetic Treatment

The first thing to be done for a person suffering from nerve exhaustion is to adopt a dietary and a habit of life that will rebuild the nerve cells. The lost energy must be gently and slowly "coaxed " back - not through medicines, but through proper environments, proper employment and proper food. There is no disease that requires so little medicine as nerve exhaustion. The dietary should be simple and nutritious, abounding in lettuce, parsley and the fresh green edibles in season. If there is much intestinal disturbance, potatoes and foods that are rich in starch should be discarded. Active stimulants should be entirely eschewed. Take freely of unfermented grape juice, malted milk and Sanatogen in milk or Vichy.

In functional nervous disease, such as hysteria and hypochondriasis, the appetite, muscular elasticity, and mental powers will often be observed to be deficient in the early part of the day, and to recover their tone in the evening. At this latter time, therefore, it is advisable to make the principal meal.