Definition of Restorative:
These restore or renew strength or vitality. These include:
- Foods,
- Digestive ferments (which are animal and vegetable substances for aiding digestion when the normal alimentary secretions are inefficient: pepsin, pancreatin, papain, diastase, ingluvin, etc.);
- Digestive acids (which check the production of glands having acid secretions, but increase those having alkaline secretions: diluted hydrochloric, nitric, sulfuric, nitro-hydrochloric, lactic, phosphoric, etc.);
- Fats and fatty oils (which form the molecular basis of the chyle, are indeed necessary for the digestion of nitrogenous food, and by oxidation become the chief producers of vital force and heat: cod-liver, cottonseed, linseed, olive, sweet almond, theobroma);
- Hematics (which increase the amount of hematin in the blood, improving its quality by enriching the red corpuscles: salts of iron, manganese, chalybeate waters, etc.);
- Tonics (which improve the tone of specific tissues, restoring energy and strength to the entire debilitated system, by imperceptibly stimulating vital functions). (1) Mineral: phosphorus, phosphates, phosphites, bismuth, arsenic, etc. (2) Vegetable: (a) Simple Stomachic Bitters, containing a bitter principle: gentian, calumba, quassia, chirata, calendula; (b) Aromatic Bitters, containing a volatile oil, bitter principle, resin, tannin: serpentaria, wild cherry, eupatorium, anthemis, matricaria.[Culbreth1927, pg 38].