Burning Spear

I believe music is like medicine. Like a good tonic, it can open your mind, strengthen and possibly even cure you. Music can work on many levels, and nothing I know of possesses the healing force that exists within music.

Jamaican Musician

Ernie Pyle

In their eyes as they pass is not hatred, not excitement, not despair, not the tonic of their victory - there is just the simple expression of being here as though they had been here doing this forever, and nothing else.

American Journalist

Lolly Adefope

Much has been written on the subject of self-care, and what truly counts as such; one woman's double gin and tonic is another woman's culturally appropriated yoga retreat.

Orison Swett Marden

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.

American Writer

Joy Reid

The work of anti-racism can only take place inside each individual soul, where we all try to grow into better people. There is no national tonic or instant cure.

J. D. Vance

Trump brings power to those who hate their lack of it, and his message is tonic to communities that have felt nothing but decline for decades.

American Author

Roy Blount, Jr.

A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.

Naseeruddin Shah

Granted, patriotism is not a tonic that can be forced down people's throats.

Indian Actor

June Allyson

The role of Barbara, in Music for Millions, was literally a tonic for me.

American Actress

Charlie Chaplin

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

English Actor

Use it to describe something that makes you feel physically better.

Improves Health

Suggests a quick boost in energy or well-being, often temporary.

Vitality Boost

Commonly used in health and wellness contexts or discussions.

Health Context

Often has a positive and encouraging connotation when used.

Uplifting Connotation

Relates to improving mental or spiritual health, not just physical.

Effect on Mood

Usually combined with alcohol to make cocktails, common in bars.

Mixing Drinks

Tonic water has a distinct bitter taste compared to other sodas.

Slightly Bitter

Refers to the foundational note or chord in a musical key.

Music Theory

Considered the 'home base' in music, to which melodies often return.

Starting Point

 there he has an amazing set of data and this is doc and a pair of waders is his torsos out of the water is his lower half is in the water here holding on one of these lemon shark pups and he's holding it upside down and what's called tonic immobility where you can turn certain species of sharks upside down

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 glass of wine if you're a squirrel from the Cape Birds most people will have a gin and tonic and when they come at this time of this sort of nights and then you'll find that they kind of spend up at a time enjoying the sounds and so it's good when you having that to have a nice big booming

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 But most scientists call it tonic immobility, or TI. How and why TI occurs depends on the species and situation. Spewing stench and adopting odd postures are common and often play important roles. Other animals sacrifice their quail chicks that freeze while their kin run amok

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 they need that wood for cooking and for heating the house. The sea buckthorn has these berries on it that are easily gathered in winter when the berry are frozen. Because in summer if you take them, they break. The skin is too thin. Great heart tonic and lower cholesterol.

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 they will move into these shallow mangroves and harbors and very deftly pick up a stingray they actually turn it upside down and essentially put it to sleep and something called tonic immobility which works with some species of sharks and rays if you

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 extract their gill rakers to use in bogus Chinese medicinal tonic and even though this was really disturbing we were starting to say we're gonna fight back we're gonna use all the information that we've been ascertaining over the

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 mushroom tonic that's actually gonna be for boosting your immune e we're gonna make it fresh so I got kind of the recipe and all my jars you got ground-up Rasika mushroom right here one full tablespoon

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 I'm pretty sure that dykey would have come to have a drink if it hadn't been brass here there he is nice going on to the back of the car to see it and can't get himself a gin and tonic he's not

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 will leave us with powerful new templates to think about and grapple with, about the relative nature of risk, about transformative connections to home, and about the magnificent tonic

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 It aids digestion by producing a special tonic made of water, sodium bicarbonate, and digestive enzymes. Sodium bicarbonate neutralizes the stomach's natural acidity,