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To develop a nonstimulating evening ritual, you might recall what your parents did when you were young to get you in sleep mode.

From US News • Sep. 29, 2016

Such additional precautions as keeping the cow in a stall higher behind than in front, and seeing that the diet is slightly laxative and nonstimulating may be named.

From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry

The food taken should be small in amount and nonstimulating; that is, no tea or coffee should be given, and nothing too hot or too cold.

From Disturbances of the Heart by Osborne, Oliver T. (Oliver Thomas)

Instead of the customary coffee, tea or cocoa, delicious drinks, which are nutritious and at the same time nonstimulating, may be prepared from the different fruit and vegetable juices.

From Nature Cure by Lindlahr, Henry

Therefore at such times the diet should be nonstimulating, any excess of grain, and above all of buckwheat, Indian corn, or wheat, being avoided.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.