tonics in English

noun
1
a medicinal substance taken to give a feeling of vigor or well-being.
Nineteenth-century medicine vendors often peddled tonics as a cure-all for symptoms as varied as a mild cough or severe rash.
2
the first note in a scale that, in conventional harmony, provides the keynote of a piece of music.
Britten's score breaks off at bar 30, just at the moment of the return to the tonic .

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1. Two tonic waters/tonics, please.

2. 25 Melissa had guzzled gin and tonics like they were lemonade.

3. Bluster believes that he is going bald, so he mixes all his hair tonics together

4. Bryonia alba, or white Bryony, is the species that many associate with homeopathic tonics

5. Alcoholic and non-alcoholic tonics with medicinal properties, made using plant and herb extracts

6. Mum was living on gin and tonics. How was I supposed to take care of her?

7. Skin tonics make the skin feel fresh and help to remove residues of soap or cleanser.

8. In addition, tonics from plants can be used preventively by healthy people, as our grandparents may attest.

9. Yves Rocher Dynamic Corp Bio-Vegetal range includes gel, tonics and creams all with a high proportion of sea algae.

10. Regular Consumables are stackable and disappear after one use; some have multiple uses and don't stack, such as kits.Some have unlimited uses, such as everlasting tonics.

11. Albizzia flower is revered as one of the most powerful types of herbal tonics available; it is used to treat conditions such as depression, insomnia and irritability

12. The Buckbean, or Bogbean or Marsh Trefoil, which is common enough in stagnant pools, and on our spongy bogs, is the most serviceable of all known herbal tonics

13. Properties and Uses: Bebeerin, and also the sulphate of Bebeerin, as above prepared, are quite strong tonics, promoting digestion, sustaining the circulation, and mildly stimulating the nervous system

14. Chi-Med has six London shops under the Sen brand name in places such as Harvey Nichols, colourful spaces that sell teas and tonics as well as acupuncture and reflexology.

15. Astringents and skin tonics were an important part of their strategy to get women to move away from soap and water to a more profitable cleanser and toning regime

16. ‘Polyphenols - phytochemicals that act like Astringents - are major sources of antioxidants in apples.’ ‘Hawthorn berry and flower, for example, are considered excellent cardiac tonics, diuretics and Astringents.’ ‘Rosewood and grapefruit are both mild Astringents …

17. ‘The thin aqueous Cataplasm retains a moisture-protecting effect on the skin and provides comfortable feeling in its use.’ ‘It is employed where a cooling and astringent Cataplasm is required.’ ‘It is used in the form of Cataplasms, tonics, salves and plasters.’

18. The practice of "Cosmetology" means providing service to the hair, head, face, neck or scalp of a human being, including but not limited to shaving, trimming, and cutting the hair or beard either by hand or mechanical appliances and the application of antiseptics, powders, oils, clays, lotions or applying tonics to the hair, head, or scalp, and in addition includes providing, for a fee or any