pick-me-up vs stimulant

pick-me-up

noun
  • Something that improves one's mood. 

  • A drink, especially an alcoholic one, taken as a stimulant or sometimes as a hangover cure; a restorative, tonic or bracer. 

stimulant

noun
  • Something that promotes activity, interest, or enthusiasm. 

  • A substance that acts to increase physiological or nervous activity in the body. 

adj
  • Acting as a stimulant. 

How often have the words pick-me-up and stimulant occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )