Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1874-07-23
The leapes ,oere for ate healing of the nations.
A Valuable Medicinal IIerb.

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A Valuable Medicinal Herb.
BY r.. v. Pierce. M. D., OF the Worlds Dis.
pensary, Buffalo, New York.
Smart Weed, sometimes called Water Penner
but. known to botanists aa Polygonum P,tnc.
tdtum, is we'll known, very common and
modest little plant found growing in ditohes,
low grounds, among rubbish and about brooks
and water courses, Towering in August and
September. In many sections OF this country
it Is deservedly highly esteemed family rem.
| edy. The Indians also make great use OF this
plant for the cure of various diseases. But
| neither the Indians nor the whites learned
one-tenth OF the yalue Of this modest little
weed, as they had no method OF extracting its
virtues without the application OF heat, which
destroys most OF its properties, and usually
kept on hand for a long time until it had lost
most OF it's medical properties. No educated
chemist had ever tried to make an ANALYSIS of
tho plant and produce an extract from Il upon
having become convinced of the wonderful
medi al virtues OF this little weed, inyestiea-
| ted it's properties and made an extract from
tie fresh herb by o cold process -using no
heat at oil, but bringing out it's Juices. oils
and volatile properties complete and unimnnir.
ed: IL this remedy had heretofore Iean vaIr,
able, when prepared in the most crude man
Ir, ner, from the long dried herb and by the ap-
virtues, I REASONED that it must, when proper.
~ prepared, by q cold process and from the
freshly dried herb prove e wonderfully effioa.
cious and potent remedy for human suffering.
al anu can assure the people, upor my honor,
thus preparing 1t, my most sanguine expecta-
tions have been more than realized. I have
FOUND 1t to contain medicinal properties which
stepping steer IN Wator could not bring out at all, as
tract, containing all these medical properties
| unimpaired, have been enabled to produce
most astonishing remedial effecte. BY much
| study, large experience in prescribing this
and other medicines, and very close obserya-
ton. have been enabled to compound and
combine with the simple Extract of Smart
Weed extracts of other medicinal herbs and
fo1ss, that greatly improve its power and use-
edy-besides they 80 flavor and modify it as
to remove it's pungent, smarty taste, and rem
der 1t pleasant remedy for both adults and
children. Tho greatest difficulty that expe-
valuable remedy to The public is that Smart
Weed is such q common and unpretendinp
looking little herb that people are apt to think
thatit cannot possess any great or valuable
tract Of Smart-Weed, put it up and labelled it
with somo great name. and told tho people
that the herbs of which it was composed were
collected in Africa by tho Arabs carried across
tho Sahara Desert on the backs OF camels,
| and brought across the Atlantic ocean for nv
special use, and that it's ingredients were
therefore very expensive, I have no doubt that
some would have beon thereby inspired with
greater confidence in it. But prefer to deal
honestly with the people and tell them that
| the chief ingredient Of my Compound Extract
is the modest little plant seen growing BY the
road side, in all parts Of North America, aud
known as Smart-Weed. believe that God
has caused to grow in each climate and region.
those medicinal plants best calculated for tho
cure of the diseases that prevail in the section
OF the country where those plants are found
that the leaves were for he healing OF the
Nations " and that fha TO- To-,
dies we employ the better, il we would thor
oughly investigate and understand those we
have at home. So far as Smart-Weed has
been employed by the medical profession it
fact that heretofore they have had only a very
imperfect preparation OF it to use, owing to
heat being always employed in extracting it's
properties. A celebrated medical author saws
ously ill with summer complaint. He had en-.
ployed great variety OF the usual means for
relief but all appeared unayailing. The child
was finally given Smart-Weed and it was en-
and purging in short time AMI without the
| aid or other medicine entirely restored the lit
tie patient" As remedy for dysentery Cor
bloody tlux) 1 have mover seen my Extract OF
Smart Weed equaled, yet have used all tho
most modern and approved medicines usually
employed in that disease. The Smart Weed
is rendered still more efficacious in all bowel
complaints, cramps and pains in tho stomach,
| ~ ASoSoat VI SiS OuhdlCd billbeT, WHICH,, VIII
other valuable ingredients, is compounded
with the Smart Weed in making my Extract
hence the name Compound Extract OF Smart
weed. The ginger aud other ingredients not
only add greatly to the value OF the Smart
Weed as a remedy for internal administration
and render it moro pleasant to take by impart-
ing an agreeable flavor to it, but also enhance
It's value as an external application. In all
cases OF tdiarrhna, whether acute or chronic
i'll young or old, as well as in cholera and
cholora infantum, the symptoms of which are
severe vomiting and purgng, feeble pulse
with cold or clammy skin, my Extract of Smart
| Weed will give almost Immediate relief and
speedily effect q cure. All authors writing
upon Smart Weed speak particularly about a
dose of it producing q warmth aud peculiar
tlnglng sensation throughout tho system
This is especially the case whom my Extract is
given and indicates n perfect arousing of the
whole eystem AZ II from insction aud s!eep
and resembles shock Of electricity only that
1t ls more lasting i'll effect. The whole system
and it's various functions arc aroused to pcr-
form their normal functions by it's electrical
effect upon the nervous system. Hence, too,
it's great and mastery control over rheumatic
and neuralgia affections, for which it is partc-
ularly ad vised by medical authors and in which
it has performed remarkable cures. It should
be used in these cases both externally and in
ternally. Being great daphoretic, or sweat
ing medicine. aids greatly in relieving pain,
but, independently of that, it possesses great
ahead l Of hlptes Ter so sasd
instant Relief" "Golden Relief" GaS, or any
other plain remedy that has oyor been offered
to the public. Besides, it is perfectly harm
less which is not the case with many of the
preparations patented and put up for sale by
Quacks, Indian doctors, and those knowing
nothing Of the delicate and intricate structure
Of the human system, nor the action OF medi-
cine upon it. My Extract of Smart Weed is
not n secret patent medicine, no patent having
been asked or obtained upon it, and it's ingre.
dients arc no secret-all that claim is that
az an educated and skilled analytical and prao
tical chemist, have devised a superior pro-
cess for bringing out and obtaining the most
valuable prOparIieR of tho nlants from xrhinI,