light a candle

I looked across at Anna, and I noticed that her eyes had grown strangely blank, without expression. I felt instinctively that the subject brought up by Victor was one she would not have chosen. Victor, insensitive to this, went prattling on.

Centrally acting sympathicolytics cause a decrease in the sympathetic outflow from the brainstem. This reduction in sympathetic outflow brings about vasodilatation of the peripheral vascular bed with a concomitant drop in the blood pressure

There’s an Indian method called dhungar, which involves setting tiny bowls of smoldering charcoal within covered casseroles of cooked food.