HEALTH NOTES

Grey River Argus, 10 December 1938, Page 11

HEALTH NOTES

DO YOU SUFFER FROM NEURALGIA ? When you have unpleasant pains in the face and head and you cannot discover any special cause for your suffering, you have neuralgia. Neuralgia is generally the result of being overtired, and it is nature’s warning that you should do something about it. If you disregard this warning and say it is impossible to take a rest, then nature will probably reply sooner or later by taking you off your feet with an illness which will necessitate several weeks in bed. You then have to rest whether you like it or not. If you fell down and broke your leg, the enforced rest would cure your neuralgia as ’well as your broken leg. Just imagine the peace of it all! No early morning scramble, no exacting employer to contend with, and no harassing work to worry you! Of course, as you may suggest, the rest cure would be just as efficacious without having to break one’s leg, but it would not be so easy to tell an exacting employer that you were just a bundle of nerves and chronic neuraliga, and you were just about fed up with him, and were in need of a month’s rest! Do, Inoefore. take the advice of a Iriend and try a week-end rest cure. Don’t take six dozen bottles of medicine and rest afterwards —try the rest first. Sleep as much as possible and eat as little as possible during your “cure.” When you feel tired and nervy all the time, it is because you are tired How simple it is—and there is only one treatment for yeur tiredness —and that is rest. Two days in bed will ofen save a complete breakdown. It is sometimes very trying to find; that the majority of the kind-hearted and. unselfish folk are the most difficult to persuade to take off their harness. Their boast that they “never give in” may be a vain and foolish one. In spite of nature’s warnings, they prefer to work, and work until they drop. And inen, what happens? They probably cccupy a bed in an hospital, doing no good to themselves or anyone else, but only causing trouble and anxiety to those very loved ones they are over-anxious to serve. When you

feel tired or ill there is no sense or reason in going on working until you can work no longer. If your dear mother should say one day: “I have scrubbed, washed and cooked for you all for 30 years and now I am going away for a month’s rest before my headaches and bodyaches get worse,” don’t think she is taking leave of her senses—it would be the most sensible thing she has ever done—and you would agree when you saw her dear face wreathed in smiles, her eyes sparkling with renewed health, and her head free from neuralgia after a month of doing nothing.

BLACKHEAD TROUBLE. Blackheads are a common beauty disfigurement and one which can give much annoyance, but they can be removed by taking a little time and trouble. Oil applied to the surface of the blackhead area and allowed to penetrate the pores, surrounds the blackheads with a lubricant, making their removal easy. First steam the affected parts with hot towels. Dip the folded towel in very hot water, wring it slightly and then hold it to the skin. Repeat three or four times. Then pat the skin dry quickly, so that olive oil may be applied before the pores close again. The oil should be warm, not hot, and should be patted on with a piece of cotton wool. Use a generous amount and let it remain on five minutes or longer before removing. Use a turkish towel in preference to one of smooth texture, for its rough surface helps to wipe out the blackheads which have become soft and oiled by the treatment. For the next step use powdered Castile soap if you can obtain it. If it is difficult to get, almond meal may be used with effective results. Place a little on a skin brush that has been dipped in warm water, and rub it briskly over the blackhead area. After thoroughly washing in this, manner, rinse the skin with warm water before patting it dry with a soft cloth. Now massage a liberal amount of nourishing cream into the skin, letting it remain on for five minutes. At the end of that time remove the cream and dash cold water over the face until it tingles and glows. Pat the face dry.