Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1884 — A Simple Remedy. [ARTICLE]

A Simple Remedy.

A correspondent writes rtMs /ollqws : “You published not long since some very fine articles on dyspepsia, etc. I would like to suggest a good substitute for piLs, tonics and liver-regulators, used so much by in-door people "(who eat but little and have but little appetite for.what they do eat), as well as by many others, who suffer from constipation. "It is simply coarse wheat-bran. One can easily determine by experiment how much he should use. I have found a half tea-cupful a day to be my own proper quantity. I mix two teaspoonfuls of sugar with the bran, moisten it - well with cold water, and eat it raw I find it quite palatable. “Without further change in the diet, Constipation will disappear within a day or two, the appetite improve within a week, and, within two weeks, 4 one will find himself after dinner some clay with a headache on hand, caused by overeating—a shame in one old enough to know that he who has an appetite has something to control. The action of the bran is mechanical. There has not yet been time for any radical improvement of the digestive organs.” The above suggestions are well so far as they go. The bran will relieve constipation in all ordinary cases. This is what gave the old Graham bread its value. But the whole wheat-flour introduced within the last few years, we think in most cases, will be fouud an improvement on both. It is an improvement on the Graham bread, from the method of grinding and from the careful selection of wheat. It i 3 an improvement on the white flour plus bran from the great fineness of the bran, thus less liable to cause acidity, and. from its comprising that portion of the wheat—always bolted out from white flour—on which largely the brain and nervous system depends. The Avliole wheat-flour not only relieves constipation, in many cases, but helps to cure dyspepsia, by nourishing those nerve centres whose vigorous condition is essential to the action of all the organs. But it must not be forgotten that dyspepsia has many forms and many causes, and each should have its own peculiar treatment. Every form, however, requires the removal of the cause as the nine qua non. — Youth’s Companion. -i_