Regimen

1. Orderly government; system of order; adminisration.
2. Any regulation or remedy which is intended to produce beneficial effects by gradual operation
3. A syntactical relation between words, as when one depends on another and is regulated by it in respect to case or mood; government.
4. The word or words governed.
5. a systematic course of diet, etc., pursed with a view to improving or preserving the health, or for the purpose of attaining some particular effect, as a reduction of flesh; -- sometimes used synonymously with hygiene.