Nervine was a patent medicine tonic with sedative effects introduced in 1884 by Dr. Miles Medical Company . The name is a cognate of 'Nerve', and the implication was that the material worked to calm nervousness.
Formulation
The original form of Nervine was in a liquid form containing bromide, sold in a glass bottle with the label "Dr. Miles' Restorative Nervine". Later versions of Nervine replaced the bromide, which is dangerous if consumed in high quantities, with an antihistamine. ==Modern appropriation of term==
Modern appropriation of term
In the late 20th and early 21st century, promulgators of alternative medicine and herbalism have begun to use the term nervine as an adjective. This is not a term used by mainstream medicine, where anxiolytic is the preferred term. Euell Gibbons uses the term as a generic noun in his books published in the 1960s. == See also ==