#dyspepsia

[thatsbelievable]

[goose-onthe-loose]

[stay-natural]

A stagnant bowel is a centre of disease, it leads to malformations of the lower part of the belly, affects the digestive organs, the stomach and the intestines by its backward kick, and may lead to dyspepsia with neurasthenia or other diseases which would seem to be located elsewhere.

Practical Nature-Cure (9th Ed.) by K. Lakshmana Sarma, 1956 Chapter: XIV Exercise And Other Aids

[hagleyvault]

To get you through the home stretch of a tough week, we’re using this #ThrowbackThursday to remember a time when ginger ale advertisements were bold in both design and claims.

This ca. 1890 trade card for Sachs-Prudens & Co. ginger ale encouraged buyers to bring home one (or a dozen) bottles to “please the wife and children”. The soft drink was also marketed as a dyspepsia remedy, promising to be “[a] pleasant Cordial Medicine and Stimulant, of great value to Lawyers, Preachers, Writers and Business Men, who are troubled with the loss of Nerve Power. It makes the languid and debilitated feel bright and cheerful. Indispensable to restore patient after Alcoholic Excess.” Sounds good to me!

Sachs-Pruden & Co. was a Dayton, Ohio wholesale and retail business founded by chemists Edward Sachs (1851-1901) and David Pruden (1854-1910) in 1874. In addition to ginger ale, they sold other tonics and patent medicines, including Saline Lemonade and Sach-Pruden's A. T. 8 Agaric Tonic.

By 1888, the company had expanded to include a brewery for lager beer and reincorporated as the Sachs-Pruden Ale & Co. By 1895, however, Edward Sachs had left the company to found the Sachs-Pruden Ginger Ale & Co. and the brewery was sold to the Dayton Brewing Company when the Sachs-Pruden Brewing and Ale Company  failed and filed for bankruptcy.

This trade card is from Hagley Library’s Advertising cards and calendar collection (Accession 1992.229) in our Audiovisual Collections.  

[thatunhealthysideblog]

Made myself a meal from scratch... no longer hungry for it.

What a waste of time.

[neurosciencenews]

Earbud-like nerve stimulator shows promise for relieving indigestion For the 15% of American adults who suffer from frequent indigestion or functional dyspepsia, a new, non-invasive treatment may provide some relief. Respiratory-gated Auricular Vagal Afferent Nerve Stimulation (RAVANS), a form of taVNS, delivers short pulses of painless electrical current to the vagus nerve in tune with respiratory rhythms. The device can modulate the stomach’s response to food ingestion, which is often impaired in those with functional dyspepsia.

[likeaustralianotcrosby]

Who else is part of team “need to recover from eating” ><

[food-is-evil]

Diagnosis questers remember:

Exaggerate tf out of your symptoms.

Tell your doc they’re ruining your life

Tell them you’re suffering and can’t go on.

Tell them about your worst days, not yesterday.

Make them pay attention and take you seriously. Any doctor that tells you “that’s a teenage girl problem” or “you’ll grow out of it” or “you seem healthy to me” is not taking you seriously. This is especially common with men doctors and woman patients. Do not be afraid to request a specialist or seek a new doctor yourself. Not all doctors are good doctors. Not all doctors are prepared to take your case.

Get upset. Cry. Tell them you NEED help. Do not be complacent.

You are your own best advocate and nobody knows your struggle better than yourself. Keep seeking a diagnosis because this is the only way a doctor can help you.