INDIGESTION.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6492, 11 April 1908, Page 3

INDIGESTION.

(By “Cured.")

Food must be oaten in sufficient quantity, and must be digested, and be converted into blood. Nature mates this one of her most imperative laws of life. During the process oi digestion food is entirely changed in composition by the action of tho juices of tho internal organs through which it passes. In the month it is thoroughly mixed with saliva. Then it is swallowed, and enters the stomach, where it is acted upon by the gastric juices, anu becomes partly liquefied. From the stomach it passes to the smaller intestines—which is about 18 feet in length—and there certain portions of the lood are liquefied bv the bile and other juices. 'The lood thus made fluid is in a condition to be absorbed into and become a constituent part of the blood. The indigestible portion of the food is discharged into the larger intestines, whence it is in turn exjlellod from the body together with other refuso matter.

Just as certainly as that it is necessary to life that food must be absorbed, so, likewise, is it essential that the blood must be in a condition to absord the food. Torpidity of the liver is tho chief cause of nearly every case of indigestion, and when tile liver is torpid the kidneys are generally sympathetically affected. The blood, wJiioh should be transformed, cleansed and filtered by the dikneys and liver, then contains uric and biliary poisons, and is therefore a fecfile absorbent of nutriment. This condition of the blood reacts upon the nervous system of the digestive organs, and prevents the flow and alters the quality of the digestive juices. The entire nerve energy of a person suffering from indigestion is weakened, owing to the contaminated condition of the blood, and the general feeling of mental- and physical depression, which is experienced during an attack of dyspepsia, is due to this causa..

The blood must be continuously puriflea by the action of the liver and kidneys, or good digestion cannot •ho expected to occur.

Many sufferers frpm indigestion obtain temporary relief by eating predigested foods or taking medicines, such as pepsin, which act os digestives in the intestines. A course of such treatment merely encourages a slotaiul action of the digestive organs, and causes them to become gradually weaker and less capable of performing their duty, just in tho same way that a person who takes little or no caercise becomes incapable of responding to any demand for exertion. Other sufferers irritate vue digestive organs into temportary and abnormal activity by taking purgative medicines so frequently that presently tho stomach and intestines refuse to act except under such irritating stimulation. The only rational and permanent cure for indigestion is fo create such a condition of tho blood that each corpuscle becomes hungry for food, and ready and eager to absorb it. The digestive secretions will then respond To the demands of the blood and tho stomach and intestines will perform their work as a matter of course. When the bloo* is laden with uric and biliary poisons it cannot adequately absorb fooa, hnd makes but a feeble attempt to ao so. Warner's Safe Cure is not a purgative medicine. It permanently cures indigestion and dyspepsia, simply because it restores the liver and kidneys to health and activity, so that the blood naturally > becomes free from uric and biliary piosons, and ravenous to absorb nutriment freely. Nutriment is then conveyed by the blood to the nerves throughout the body. k The nelrves of the digestive organs being properly nourished, the organs are in a condition to do th-fir efficiently. Nature is merely aided in her efforts to preserve a balance in the manifold and complex processes of waste and renewal by which life is maintained.

In addition to the regular 5s and 2s Sd bottloß of Warner's Safe Cure, a concentrated form of the medicine is now issued at 2s 6d per bottle. Warner's Safe •?r (^^^^ntratedj, is not. compounded with alcohol, and contains the same number of doses as the 5e battle of Warners Safe Cure. ■ ■