NATURE AS A HEALER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 8 June 1907, Page 3

NATURE AS A HEALER.

Sleep is Uic best ami onoapcst medicine, and it is within tliu reach <il' every - body. Wo require as much sloop as \vi: ran incKiiiv. \\V limy work nL high pressure it' we sleep enough, but. if \\v over-work and under-slocp, irralibility, insomnia and neurasthenia are almost certainly in store. One of the prime causes of ill-health among men and women who have to work with their brains is neglect of sleep. The woman who curtails her sleep begins to worry. Insullieient sleep, in the first instance, is a common cause. -a' iusomu'', Ucst and sleep are the only rational cures for bruin fag and nervous exhaustion. It is the highly-developed mind (hat is liable to worry, the alert, highly-strung in dividual who is prone to sull'or from ways sleep, and nobody ever saw a neurasthenic cow; but the higher the type, the greater need for rest, anil snlliThe placid easy going people, can ulVor.l to curtail their rest; they seldom do; Hut those of a, nervous, energetic disposition require all the sleep they can get. i'heir wear and Coin* is excessive, and when the symptoms of irratibilily and worry appear they should serve as :i warning that the brake is required. Unfortunately, most people at this stage resort to drugs and strong tea, medicine mid ajcohol. They feel the need of stimulants or sedatives, tliey say.

Knt drugging only aggravates matters, and by diminishing their will power and their resistance makes their hist stale Worse than the tirst. When the working woman yearns for tea or a cigarette, when the liarrassed society woman turns to strong coffee and liquor it is really rest that they should have. Rest is Nature's sedative, sleep Nature's sweet restorer. There is no drug that lias the reparative power, no remedy in the world to equal the healing properties of sleep.