We seldom are aware of our nerves, until we have problems with those delicate, but powerful, little strings of "message delivery" lines. Each day tons of nervine medicines or drugs are being taken by people with nervous fidgets. Every adult human being has thousands of feet of nerves strung throughout the body and these important servants are begging to be fed properly to keep them in a smoothly operating condition.
The human body consists of several systems of organs and each has its own special job, but all the systems work together to keep the body alive and functioning properly. The major systems of the body include: 1) the skeletal muscular system; 2) the digestive system; 3) the urinary system; 4) the respiratory system; 5) the circulatory system; 6) the nervous system; and 7) the reproductive system. The nervous system regulates the activities of all the other systems and has three main divisions:

1) the central nervous system, which includes the brain and spinal cord;

2) the peripheral nervous system, made up of nerves that extend out from the spinal cord and the base of the brain to the various parts of the body; and

3) the autonomic nervous system, which regulates internal organs.

These systems contain thousand upon thousand of feet of nerves in the body, all of which must be properly fed, and if not fed properly or if injured, will cause problems that result in varying degrees of painful irritation.

Many have been the times when, in reading a patient's eyes, (iridology), I have made the statement that they are suffering from dizziness, light headedness, and/or locomotion problems.

This combination shows plainly in the iris of the eye at the "epileptic area". This problem slows up whenever there has been an injury or malfunction in the medulla area (Medulla Oblongata) of the iris of the eye.

A good example of this is a case that came to me in Orem, Utah. A chiropractor had brought his adult son and daughter to me from the west coast. He wanted to have an eye reading, and have his two children have readings at the same time.

As I was looking into his son's eyes, I said, "Your son is subject to epileptic seizures." The doctor flared up immediately and said that there was no epilepsy in his family and a statement like that was ridiculous. I did not even have a chance to answer him back when the boy's head started swaying and he fell to the floor in an epileptic seizure. The father spoke up and said "He has never done a thing like this before." Then his daughter immediately said, "Daddy, I've told you before about these 'funny spells' of his." But he just shrugged it off as unimportant.

The equilibrium and locomotive area at the medulla has been injured in many people who have had head injuries in automobile accidents. Many have received injuries at the base of the skull when they have fallen backward while ice skating, or injuries to the back of the head on other hard surfaces; as failing down steps or having a chair jerked out from under them just as they were sitting down.

A boy 12 years old, was brought to me as a patient several years ago, who was having severe epileptic seizures and these had started after the child had received head injuries in an automobile accident. I have had success treating epileptic patients up to this time, by using our basics; bowel cleaning and blood purification, as well as using antispasmodic herbs. However, none of the procedures I had used over the years so successfully, worked at all with this new 12 year old patient.

One night I sat alone in my office, after all my patients had left for the day, wondering why I was not getting the results with this boy as I had with others with the same condition. I realized that I needed "help" and so I prayed earnestly that something could be done for this child and after some time of praying and meditating an "idea" for a "formula" of herbs for nerves came to my mind. I quickly wrote down: blue cohosh, black cohosh, blue vervain, scullcap, and lobelia in a 90 proof tincture. I immediately went to the lab we had out in back of the office, and made up the tincture. When this formula was given to the epileptic boy patient, there was an immediate reaction, and before long, he showed great improvement.

We found this same amazing formula would stop hiccups and was great to use by drops in the ear with oil of garlic to clear up earaches, and has even restored hearing in some cases. We called it B & B Tincture.

I was impressed with the fact that this formula has in it three of the nerve herbs (foods) used to rebuild and renew the medulla oblongata. Then the scullcap herb in the formula has been used to cleanse and rebuild malfunctioning areas of spastic conditions of the spinal cord. To accentuate this formula, you will notice it contains lobelia, which is a great "nerve" herb and an excellent antispasmodic, but is also the "thinking herb". Following is a description of lobelia and its outstanding aids to mankind, taken from sources named.

LOBELIA

"Action: Expectorant, emetic, diaphoretic, anti-asthmatic, stimulant. This plant is extensively employed, and is regarded as one of the most valuable remedies ever discovered. It is chiefly used as an emetic, and may be prescribed wherever one is indicated. In bronchial troubles and pulmonary complaints, its action is speedily and wonderfully beneficial. All accumulation of mucus is instantly removed after a full dose of the infusion, and many lives have been saved by its timely use. In croup, whooping cough, and asthma, it is especially valuable, and it may be regarded as certain to give relief in the distressing paroxysms which characterize the last-named disease; in fact, it may be used wherever there are bronchial spasms. In cases of infantile coughs and bronchitis, where the child seems likely to be suffocated by phlegm, a dose will remove obstruction. Dr. Thomson recommends Lobelia in nearly every complaint, and there is no doubt of its general applicability in some ways to most diseases. In liver or stomach troubles, an emetic of Lobelia will remove all immediate obstructions, and pave the way for the use of other remedial medicines. Mixed with powdered Slippery Elm, it forms a stimulating poultice for inflammations, ulcers, swellings, etc. The infusion of one ounce of the powdered herb in one pint of boiling water may be taken in doses of ½ to 1 wineglassful." (POTTER'S CYCLOPEDIA OF BOTANICAL DRUGS AND PREPARATIONS, by R. W. Wren, F.L.S.)

"Indian Tobacco (Lobelia Inflata): Indian Tobacco is ruled by Mars, and may be obtained from the druggist. It may be called the emetic weed, but I should call it asthma weed; it is a safe emetic. It affords considerable relief in spasmodic asthma, croup, St. Vitus's dance, and whooping cough; 6 to 8 grains will prove emetic. In small doses, it is an expectorant." (THE SIMMONITE-CULPEPER HERBAL REMEDIES, by William Joseph Simmoniter and Nicolas Culpeper.)

Common Names

"Lobelia inflata, Lobelia, Green Lobelia (Po herb), Bladder Podded Lobelia, Wild Tobacco, Indian Tobacco, Emetic Weed, Emetic Herb, Lobelia Herb, Brown Lobelia (Po Seed), Poke Weed, Asthma Weed, Gag Root, Vomit Wort." (J. M. NICKELL'S BOTANICAL READY REFERENCE, by M. L. Baker).

References from Medical Volumes

"Lobelia: A genus of lobeliaceous plants. The leaves and tops of lobelia inflata, an herb of North America, are acronarcotic, emetic, sedative, expectorant, and depressant. They were formerly used in asthma, croup, and whooping cough." (This was taken from THE AMERICAN ILLUSTRATED MEDICAL DICTIONARY, 21st Edition, by W. A. Newman Dorland, A.M., M.D., F.A.C.S.)

Lobelia

"Indian or wild tobacco, emetic herb, asthma weed, bladder pod, vomit wort. Fried leaves and tops of Lobelia inflata, L. Lobeliaceae. (The seeds also are used). Habitat: Canada, U.S. Constituents: Leaves and tops: Chiefly lobeline, also lobelidine, lobelanine, lobelanidine, and other alkaloids. Seeds: Lobeline, fixed oil. Medicinal Uses: Has been used as expectorant. Dose: Lobelia tincture: horses and cattle: 30-60 ml; Dogs, 0.2-1.2 ml." (From THE MERCK INDEX, Eighth Edition).

The chemical formula of Lobeline is also given here in detail, as used in orthodox medieval practice. As herbalists, we do not isolate parts, such as lobeline, and discard the rest; we use the herb as given to us by nature.

"Commercial: Lobelia was popular with the North American Indians, but Dr. Cutler, of Massachusetts, introduced it into our medical practice." (From MATERIA MEDICA AND PHARMACOLOGY, by David M. R. Culbreth, Ph. G. M.D.)

"Lobeline is the active principle of Lobelia inflata, or Indian tobacco. Paschkis and Smita obtained the alkaloid as a viscous oil with an odor at once resembling honey and tobacco." (PHARMACEUTICAL AND MEDICAL CHEMISTRY, by Samuel P. Sadtler, Ph.D., Ll.D.; and Virgil Coblentz, Ph.D., F.C.S.)

"History.--Introduced into homeopathic practice in 1841 by a proving by Noack, Hygea, XV. 37." (ALLEN'S ENCY. MAT. MED. V. 661).

"There was no single instance in all the prosecutions of any harm ever resulting from the use of Lobelia. For the further information of the student we quote from the late Prof. W. Tully, of Yale College, in a letter written to Dr. H. Lee, of Middletown, Conn., dated March 22, 1838.

'Lobelia Inflata is entirely destitute of any narcotic powers. I have been in the habit of employing this article for twenty-seven years, in large quantities and for a long period, without the least trace of any narcotic effect. I have used the very best official tincture in the quantity of three fluid ounces in twenty-four hours, and for four and seven days in succession, and I have likewise given three large tablespoonfuls of it within half an hour, without the least indication of any narcotic operation.

(This was taken from a text book, DOMINION HERBAL COLLEGE, LTD., Lesson 26)"

Non-Poisonous

"Lobelia inflata: The herb and seeds of this plant are largely used by all herbal practitioners. It is employed in quite a number of cases and has won a richly deserved place in the annals of herbal writers. To Dr. Samuel Thomson is due the credit of first bringing this article into real use. It had, no doubt, been used to produce emesis in some localities previously, but its great uses were made known by him.

So successfully did he use it that the regulars of his day classed it as a poison, as some writers said only a poison could bring about the speedy results that Thomson obtained by its use. If the student goes to buy an ounce package of the herb from the drugstore, he will find it labeled poison, and in practically all the official works such as the B.P., the C.P. and the U.S.P., and the American Dispensatory, etc., it is classed as a poison.

That it has no poisonous properties was very definitely affirmed. Much has been said and written on this point, and it is because of this we devote a special lesson to this herb. Dr. H. Nowell has used it for nearly thirty years, in all manner of cases and at all ages. We have friends who have likewise used it freely, and if half that is said against it by the medical world were true, thousands should have been dead from its use.

In cases of cough, asthma, bronchitis, etc., we have used it with remarkable success. We believe there is nothing known to man that will so effectively clear the air passages of the lungs of viscid matter. Its influence is rapidly manifested, and it is frequently felt throughout the system, even to the toes.

As stated above, the allopathic schools call lobelia a poison, and as the student may possibly have done some medical work to which reference may be made, we desire to make very clear something of the history as well as some of the uses of this most valuable herb.

Samuel Thomson employed lobelia quite extensively in Vermont, New York, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts as early as 1795. There are extant many allopathic works such as Thatcher's Dispensatory (1817), the U.S. Dispensatory, Griffith, Royle, Carson, etc.; wherein the reader is informed that "Thomson himself was tried for murder for killing a man with this article." Did one know nothing outside the medical records, one would possibly accept the conclusion that Thomson was a careless empiric, who was called to account for using a deadly article.

We give the student a concise outline of the facts of the case. The trial took place in December, 1809, before the Supreme Court in Salem, Mass. Thomson was charged with the murder of one Ezra Lovett, Jr., by the administering of Lobelia. The complaint was laid by a Dr. French, an allopathic physician, who had repeatedly persecuted Thomson. So bitterly had this Dr. French persecuted Thomson that the latter had been compelled to take steps to have Dr. French bound over to keep the peace, because the M.D. had publicly threatened to blow Thomson's brains out.

Following this, Dr. French, seeking an opportunity to injure this wonderful man Thomson, finally procured his arrest on a charge of murder. (It is evidently the venom of French, and his charge against Thomson, that is the basis of the allopathic claim that lobelia is a poison.) We quote a few lines from Dr. Thomson's report of the case: 'Just before night, Dr. French arrived with the sheriff and ordered me to be delivered up by the constable to the sheriff. Dr. French again vented his spleen upon me by the most savage abuse that language could express, saying that I was a murderer, that I had, murdered fifty and he could prove it, that I should be either hung, or sent to the State Prison for life, and he would do all in his power to have me convicted.

I was then put in irons by the sheriff, and conveyed to the jail in Newburyport and confined in a dungeon with a man who had been convicted of an assault upon a girl six years of age. I was not allowed a chair or a table, nothing but a miserable straw bunk on the floor, with one poor blanket which had never been washed. I was put into this prison on the tenth day of November, 1809.' He then tells of the cold, the filth, the vermin, that infested the place, etc.

As there was no session of the court until the fall of the next year, it was expected that he would have to lie in this unhealthy confinement for a year, which would most likely have killed him. There were, however, some eminent friends who had benefited from his work, who, through their influence, after making fifteen trips from Salem to Boston, secured a hearing before Judge Parsons in a special session on December 10, 1809.

Vol. VI Massachusetts Criminal reports contains the report of the trial written by Judge Parsons himself. It is supposed that the Judge was favorably disposed to the prosecution, and gave only that which plain justice called for to Thomson. The report states, among other things, Thomson 'had administered the like medicines with those given to the deceased to several of his patients, who had died under his hands.' This charge was made by the Solicitor General; and to prove this statement he called several witnesses, of whom but one appeared. He testified that he had been the prisoner's patient for an 'oppression at his stomach,' that he took the emetic powders several times in three or four days and was relieved from his complaint, which had not since returned, and there was no evidence in the case that the prisoner in the course of his very noble practice had experienced any fatal accident among his patients.

'As the Court were satisfied that the evidence produced by commonwealth did not support the indictment, the prisoner was put upon his defense. The prisoner was acquitted.'

Such is the report of the case (written by the judge himself) that evidently gave rise to the blind repetition that lobelia is a poison. There were four justices on the bench at the trial, and only the blindness of allopathic prejudices continues to ban from general use one of our best remedies.

After this, laws were sought forbidding the prescribing, selling, or even the giving away of lobelia; meanwhile the same brand of allopathic knave went on prescribing arsenic, antimony, strychnine, prussic acid, etc. During the following years, many of the reformatory physicians were prosecuted and allopath regulars swore on oath that ten, eight, or even four grains of lobelia were sufficient to cause death. Yet no proof was even found that any life had even been lost or injured by it, while some physicians and many patients testified that they had taken from half an ounce upwards in the space of a few hours, always to their benefit." (BACK TO EDEN, by Jethro Kloss).

Many Uses
Priddy Meeks, the Mormon pioneer Herbalist and Tompsonian practitioner, was no less enthusiastic in his praise of this great herb, after using it almost a half-century in medical practice;

I sometimes took upon Lobelia as being Supernatural, although I have been using it for forty-six (46) years. I do not know the extent of its powers and virtues in restoring the sick and at the same time perfectly harmless. It is undoubtedly the best and purest relaxum in the compass of medicine. That is the reason that it is so good in childbed cases. It puts the system exactly in the situation the laws of nature would have it be to perform the object. Those in the habit of using it in such cases, look forward in pleasing anticipation of having a good time without the foreboding of trouble so common to women. Oh! glorious medicine!
(PRIDDY MEEKS JOURNAL, op.cit., p. 29).

The Great Healing and Relieving Agent:

"There have been numerous cases in which individuals have learned the great value of lobelia. Students at the author's school, suffering from damage to a limb (such as hitting a finger with a hammer), have immediately soaked the injured part in tincture of lobelia. This removed the pain at once.

Lobelia, in combination with other herbs, quickly draws out both pain and congested blood. Just a few drops of tincture of lobelia in the ear speedily relieves earache. Convulsing babies have been instantly calmed by rubbing a few drops of lobelia into the gums or mouth. Terrific pain from muscle over-exertion has been abated by massaging lobelia into the affected muscles. This relief has been so quick, patients have called it "blessed." Tincture of lobelia is also very useful in combating blood poisoning.

Many births have been markedly eased by the use of lobelia, despite the mother's past history of difficult deliveries. With the use of lobelia, a dead fetus will be passed in abortion, rather than remaining inside the mother's body, as is usually the case. People writhing in pain and rolling on the floor have been immediately calmed with the administering of one half teaspoonful of tincture of lobelia. There are so many cases of miraculous healings with the use of lobelia that it would take pages to cite the details. There is truly no end to the ways in which lobelia may be used to heal and regenerate the body. It is absolutely harmless.

A specific for Asthma

Lobelia is well known for its great value in curing asthma. I had an interesting experience during my practice in Evanston, Wyoming, more than twenty years ago. One night, after getting up for night calls and finally retiring at 2 a.m. I heard a knock at the door. There stood two young fellows carrying a little gentleman between them. They asked, "Can you help Dad? We can't reach his regular doctor, who has cared for him all these years, and he needs help." We brought him in and gave him a cup of peppermint tea. He had to sit up, because he had not been able to lay down in bed for over twenty years. He had suffered severe asthma attacks for twenty-six years, and for twenty of those years, had been propped up at night and could sleep for only short spells of thirty minutes or so. He had been under heavy medication during all those years, with no hope of ever getting well. After the peppermint tea had been down fifteen minutes or so, we gave him a teaspoonful of tincture of lobelia, followed ten minutes later with a second teaspoonful. He started to throw up phlegm from his lungs. During the time that the emetic principle was working and bringing up phlegm from his lungs and bronchial cavities, he ejected over a teacupful of varicolored materials, ranging from light to dark, plus other liquids. At five o'clock, we released him, and the boys took him home. Two days later, we heard the results. Instead of being propped up as usual in the chair, he said to his boys, "I'm going to lie in a bed; I can steep tonight." For the first time in twenty years, he slept the full night in a bed, and he had slept in a bed from that day on. As a result of his asthma, he had not been able to hold down a job for over twenty years; but that same week, he went out and got a job as a gardener. A short time ago, one of his boys stopped me on the street in Salt Lake City, and said that I probably would not remember him, but that years ago, he and his brother had brought their father in the middle of the night with an asthmatic attack, and though he had not been able to sleep in a bed for over twenty years, he had slept in a bed ever since, and had held a job ever since. This was another 20 years after this miraculous healing took place." (Taken from SCHOOL OF NATURAL HEALING, by Dr. Ray Christopher.)

To conclude a subject that thousands of pages could be written on, the following excerpt from the book by John Heinerman, JOSEPH SMITH AND HERBAL MEDICINE, is included:

"It was with great frequency that the Latter-day Saints used and employed lobelia; for it was "the cornerstone" of Thomsonian medicine and the chief herb around which all others revolved. Men such as Dr. Fredrick G. Williams, Dr. Willard Richards, Dr. Levi Richards, Dr. Calvin Pendleton, Priddy Meeks, Patty Sessions, and other skilled botanical physicians did not hesitate to recommend this important herb nor stress its vital significance in the practice of their art. We suppose countless volumes could be written of the times it was used, and hundreds of pages consumed in recording all of the marvelous experiences connected with this Divine creation. But one should suffice for now:

Another incident I will relate while I was cutting up the lap of a large oak tree, together with a man named Jackson, as it was our day to work tithing. We were strangers to each other. It was hot weather and very sickly. Some would take the fever and die before the news would get circulated. Early in the day he suddenly took a very high fever; it was a very serious case and he was very much alarmed about it. I told him that there was a little weed growing around I thought might do him good. He eagerly wished for it. It was lobelia of the first year's growth. Some not much larger than a dollar and lay flat on the ground. I got some of it and told him to eat it, just like a cow would eat grass and he did so, and in a few minutes it vomited him powerfully and broke the fever and he finished his day's work. I mention this to show you what virtue there is in lobelia."

Following is an explanation of how scullcap aids the nervous system.

SCULLCAP

Scullcap is one of mother nature's best nervine agents. It is as stimulating to the nerves as quinine but lacks the harmful side and after-effects. It is especially calming and nutritive in neurasthenic conditions (neural conditions characterized by emotional conflict, worry, disturbances of digestion and circulation, etc.) It is an excellent antispasmodic agent for restlessness, tremors, spasms, twitching of the muscles, and hyperesthesia (hypersensitivity). Dr. Nowell asserted that:

"It will influence the spinal cord and the sympathetic nervous systems (supplying the various involuntary organs and blood vessels) as well as the brain, bringing to all a tonic influence which is quite permanent. It tones and soothes the nervous system, and, without any narcotic properties, quiets the patient and often brings about quiet, natural sleep."

Dr. Shook concluded: "Scullcap is a slow-working, but sure remedy for practically all nervous affections, but it must be taken regularly for a long period of time to be of permanent benefit."

Scullcap is one of the favored nervine herbal foods listed in Jethro Kloss's BACK TO EDEN, in Alma R. Hutchins' INDIAN HERBOLOGY OF NORTH AMERICA, Culbreth's MATERIA MEDICA AND PHARMACOLOGY and in many more of the herbal texts from many years back.

The medicinal uses listed are: nervous sleeplessness (insomnia), hysterical fits, convulsions, spinal meningitis, chorea (St. Vitus Dance), epilepsy, delirium, nervous headache, facial neuralgia, insanity, hydrophobia (mad dog bites), poisonous insect and snake bites, cranial and uterine neuralgia, seminal (generative) weakness, general nervousness, nervous exhaustion, tremors, spasms, muscular twitching, hyperesthesia, neuralgia, intermittent fevers, palsy, rheumatism, suppression of excessive sexual desire, aches, pain, rickets, convalescence from fevers, and incontinence of urine.

The reason scullcap is so versatile is that it is a "food", provided by nature, that rebuilds and strengthens the spinal cord and all the nerves of the body.

In reference to the nervous system, let's take some notes on this subject from Thomas Deschauer:

The nerves are like a network of electrical wires in a city. Here electricity or power is carried to every home and factory to supply light and to run machinery, street cars, etc. Small wires are used where little power is in demand, while heavy loads are carried over cables. The proper wire is important. If a wire is too light or too fragile for the current, it might give way, and we would have a breakdown in the electrical system.

Like electricity, our nerve network carries nerve fluids. This fluid behaves in the same manner as electricity, running the chemical apparatus of our bodies, instigating and maintaining the flow of the different body juices and secretions. We have a large nerve wire with a mass of fine lines radiating from it. The nerve wires are as strong as their fiber, which must be replenished every day. The strength or weakness of these fibers are dependent upon the individual; for the nerve, like any other part of the body, depends upon blood and the habits of your daily life for their strength and efficiency.

Never use drugs to stimulate the nerves, as this will do more harm than good. Don't use bromides to diminish nervous activity, but remove the cause of nervousness by avoiding worry and incorrect habits of eating and drinking.

Exaggerated eating habits poison the system, introducing acids which irritate the nerve fibers, causing inflammation, sciatica, etc. Avoid excessive eating and drinking, and especially sexual excesses. Proper rest is also important. Excesses result in inadequate nerve fluid and eventual nervous prostration. The entire body will suffer, not a single organ escaping damage.

Nervines or neurotics are herbal agents which act as nerve tonics. Their function is to feed, regulate, strengthen and rehabilitate the nerve cells. They act as either stimulants or sedatives, with the net result of lessening the aberration, irritability, or pain of the nervous system. These should not be confused with the inorganic narcotics or opiates used by orthodox physicians, which are eventually debilitating, and damage life in the fibers and tissues.

Often, during times of convulsions, hysteria, or epilepsy, it is wise to use the nervine and many other types of herbal and nutritional aids by administering them by using a syringe and injecting the liquid into the rectum as required.

Scullcap has been the basis of a number of very fine nerve combinations used over the years. As a good example, there is an excellent combination in SCHOOL OF NATURAL HEALING (Dr. John R. Christopher, BiWorld Publishing, Provo, Utah). High in nutritional value, it aids in rebuilding the nervous system.

Following is a formula for feeding, not only the spinal cord, but the sheath, nerve capillaries, etc.:

Herbal Nerve Food Formula (Relax-Eze)

Equal parts of the following:
Black cohosh root (Cimicifuga racemosa)
Cayenne (Capsicum minimum)
Hops flowers or strobile (Humulus lupulus)
Lady's slipper root (Cypripedium pubescens)
Lobelia herb or seed (Lobelia inflata)
Scullcap herb (Scutellaria lateriflora)
Valerian root (Valeriana officinalis)
Wood betony herb (Stachys betonica)
Mistletoe (Viscum album)

Directions: recommended dosage is one cup, two or three times a day--children in proportion.

Scullcap (Scutellaria lateriflora; Labiatae) has a number of common names, corresponding to the growing locale; such as: scullcap, blue scullcap, pimpernel, helmet-flower, mad dog, skullcap, mad dogweed, madweed, mad-dog, hood wort, hooded willow herb, side flowering scullcap, American scullcap, blue pimpernel, Pimpernelle (Fr.), and jarajis (Span.).

A gentleman called us years ago in reference to his wife, a teacher. Her irritable nature had made her unbearable to live with and many complaints were coming from her associate teachers, as well as from pupils. Her husband said her main problem was insomnia, causing extreme fatigue. She would only sleep a half hour or less, then walk the floor for long periods of time, then sleep again but only for a few minutes, and so on throughout the night. They could find no help for her, and both were ready to sign the papers to have her committed to a mental institution.

After arriving at their home, we had her drink a nerve tea combination. In a few minutes, as we talked, she became drowsy. She interrupted our conversation to say she would like to relax a few minutes and then return. She left the room to lie down for a while, and her husband said she would be back in fifteen to twenty minutes, as this was her pattern. It was late in the evening, so, after assuring him that there was no narcotic ingredients in the tea, I left.

About 8 o'clock the next morning, the phone rang and a man said, "Dr. Christopher, you are a liar!" I asked him why such a blunt accusation. He said, "When my wife went in to lie down last night, instead of sleeping 'a few minutes', she slept all night and is still asleep this morning. After all these years of insomnia, she-has never slept all night. It has to be drugs and you guaranteed it was not."

I assured the gentleman that this very tea could be given to a small child with no side- or after-effects, and explained that the herbal food in the tea gave her nerves the first good nerve food they had received in many years. He apologized, adding he would have to awaken her or she would be late for school.

It can be seen now, how these nerve herbs, when combined as a B & B Tincture, can take care of the central nervous system, the brain and spinal cord.

Then there is the peripheral nervous system, made up of the nerves that extend out from the spinal cord and the base of the brain to the various parts of the body, and the autonomic nervous system, which regulates internal organs. Obviously, these systems must be fed properly throughout one's life in order for them to work properly. If there has been many years of neglect and wrong eating habits that has caused malfunctions and nervous disorders, there is the nine-nerve herb formula (we call Relax-Ease) that can make life work living again!

These two sets of herbal formulas work well together, the B & B Tincture aiding the brain, medulla, spinal cord and the nine-nerve herb formula aiding the rest of the nerve systems.

When the basic cleaning is done, 1st bowel functioning properly with the help of our herbal Lower Bowel Formula; 2nd the blood stream moving smoothly to carry food to the cells and waste material away. Then the nerve formulas will work faster and with more ease than before the "cleansing program."

How much more pleasant it is to be an individual who is calm, cool and collected, then one who is a nervous wreck, who throws fits and tantrums because of a severe nervous condition.

Follow these suggestions on nerves and see if life isn't more pleasant and happier than before.