The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-07-17
% The beGUes t0ere for the healing Of the nations
Valuable hIe1ic.ir,nI IIerh.

Smart Weed, sometimes called Water Pepper, |
but known by botanists as POlygonotrIs Pune
tdtttnl, is a well known, very common and mod
est little plant found growing in ditches low
among rubbish and about brooks and
water courses, Towering in August and Sep
TENDER. In many sections Of this country it
is deservedly highly esteemed family RENE
dy. 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 value 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
made tea from the dried herb that had been
kept on hand for long time until it had lost
most of its medical properties. No educated
chemist had ever tried to make an analysis OF
the plant and produce an extract from it uToS
scientific principles, by cold process, until i,
having become convinced of the wonderful
medical virtues of this little weed, investiga-
ted Its properties and made extract from
the fresh herb by a cold prOcess-using no
heat at all, but bringing out its juices, oils
volatile properties complete and unimpaired.
If this remedy had heretofore been valuable,
when prepared IN the. most crude manner,
from the long dried herb, and by the applica-
ton of heat, that destroyed so much of its
virtues, 1 reasoned that it must, when proper
~, prepared by cold process and from the
freshly dried herb, prove wonderfully efica-
cious and potent remedy for human suffering
And can assure the people upon my honor
as professional man, that in its use, since
thus preparing it, my most sanguine expecta-
tons have been more than realized. l have
found 1t to contain medicinal properties which
sleeping IN water could not bring out at all,
they are resinous principles. With my Ex-
tract, containing all these medical properties
unImpalred have been enabled to produce
most astonishing remedial effects. By much
study, large experience in prescribing this
and other medicines and very close observa-
ton, have been enabled to compound and
combine with the simple Extract of Smart
Weed extracts of other medicinal herbs and
roots, that greatly improve it's power and use
fulness, both an internal and external rem
dy-besides they so flavor and modify it as to
remove its pungent SnnartV taste, and render
1t q pleasant remedy for both adults aud chill
dren. The greatest difficulty that experience
IN the way of introducing this most valuable
remedy to the public is the fact that Smart
Weed is such common and unpretending
looking little herb that people are apt to think
that 1t cannot possess any great valuable
medical properties Had [ prepared my Ex-
tract of Smart Weed, put it up and labelled it
with some great name, and told the people
that the herbs of which it was composed were
collected in Africa by the Arabs, carried across
the Sahara desert the backs of camels,
and brought across the Atlantic ocean for my
special use, and that its ingredients were
therefore very expensive, 1 have no doubt
that some would have been 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 grow
ing by the roadside, in all parts of North
America, and known as Smart Weed. I be-
ieve that God has caused to grow in each
climate and region, those medicinal plants
best calculated for the cure of the diseases
that prevail in the section of country where
those plants are fOund-that " the leaves were
for the healing of the nations" and that the
fewer far-fetched remedies. we employ the bet
ter. if we would thoroughly investigate and
understand those we have at home. So far as
Smart Weed has been employed by the medi-
cal profession it has won golden opinions, not
withstanding the fact that heretofore they
have had only a very imperfect preparation of
it to use, owing to heat being always employed
IN extracting its properties. A celebrated
medical author says: - friend of ours had
an only child dangerously i'll with summer
complaint. He had employed a great variety
! of the usual means for relief but all appeared
| unavailing. The child was finally given Smart
| Weed and it was entirely successful It ar
| rested the vomiting and puTging IN a short
/ time and without the aid of other medicine
entirely restored the little patient" AS a
| remedy for dysenteTy Cor bloody hu1) have
never seen my Extract of Smart Weed equal
1 ed, yet have used all the most modern and
| approved medicines usually employed in that
| disease. The Smart Weed is rendered still
| more eficacious in all bowel complaints,
! cramps and pains in the stomach, by reason of
| the Jamaica ginger, which, with other valu-
| able ingredients, is compounded with the
| Smart Weed in making my EXtract-hence the
name Compound Extract of Smart Weed. The
! ginger a I'D other ingredients not only add
greatly to the value of the Smart Weed as
| remedy fer internal administration and render
! it more pleasant to take by impartinS al
| agreeable flavor to it, but also enhance Its
| value an external application. In all cases
! of diaTThRa, whether acute chronic, IL
| young or old as well as in cholera and cholera
infantum, the symptoms of which are severe
vomiting and purging, feeble pulse, with colo
or clammy skin, my Extract of Smart Weed
| will give almost immediate relief and speedily
] effect a All authors writing S01aTT
Weed speak particularly about dose of Il
producing a warmth and peculiar tingling sen
sation throughout the system. This is especial
! ly the case when my Extract Is gwen and lndl
Gates perfect arOUsing Of the whole system
as if from inaction and sleep, and resembles
a shock of electricity only that ii Is more last
ing in effect. The whole system and its va
rOus func tons are aroused to perform then
normal functions by it's electrical effect upon
the nervous system. Hence, too, its great
and mastery control over rheumatic and neu.
raIgic affections, for which it is particularly
advised by medical authors and in which it has
performed remarkable cures. 1t should be
used in these cases both externally and inter.
nally. Being q great diaphOretic or seating
medicine, aids greatly IN relieving pain, but
independently of. that 1t possesses great anO-
dyne or soothing properties, that render 1t fan
| ahead of any pain killer" $50 called, - In
! slant relief" 50 golden relief" or any other
pain remedy that has ever been offered to the
| public Besides, it is perfectly harmless
| which is not the case with many of the pre-
paratiOns patented and put up for sale by
quacks, 90 Indian doctors, and those knowing
nothing of the delicate and intricate structure
Of the human system, nor the action of medi-
! cines upon it. Ny Extract of Smart Weed If
not a secret patent medicine, no patent having
been asked for or obtained upon it. and its in
| gradients are no secret-all that I claim is
that, as an educated and skilled anaIy teal aud
practical chemist have devised a superior
/ process for bringing out and obtaining the
most valuable properties of the plants from
| which my Compound Extract is made. This
! have done only after great expense IN erecting
machinery for grinding, pressing and percO-
| lating. I wish particularly to call public at
tentiOn to my Extract of Smart Weed as q
remedy for all colds, febrile and iniammatOry
| attacks. Nor can too highly extol it as a
remedy for inflammation of the kidneys and
! bladder, gravel, and to break up the cold stage
of fever and ague or chills and fever.
As an external application, it is perfect
| panaces, if there eRer was one. No family
can afford to be one day without it in the
house. Besides it is equally as good FOR the
| horse as for man. 1t subdue5 Inflammation
of all kinds Used a gargle and applied
freely externally to the throat, it is sovereign
remedy in diphtheria and quinsy or infiamma-
| ton of the tonsil glands To all wounds,
! bruises, sprains, burns, bee stings, insect and
snake bites. chilblains, caked breast, swollen
| glands, rheumat ism, and in short, to any and
all ailments, whether affecting man or beast,
| requiring a direct external application, either
to alay Inflammation or Eoothe pain, or both.
/ Extract Of Smart Weed cannot be excelled.
do not extol this medicine as a cure all, nor
is 1t necessary to mention all the diseases
| wherein 1t will be found to effect cures, as
have said enough to indicate its properties
| and the intelligent viii at once see wherein Its
use may properly be extended. Recollect it is
| sold under a positive guarantee. If, after
using twO-third5 Of the contents of the bottle,
you are not satisfied with it, return the bottle
| to me and your money will be promptly re-
funded Allow me to say, in conclusion, that
my Compound Extract of Smart Weed, is a
safe remedy in all cases, which cannot be said
Of many medicines put up for sale to the PEG
| pie. So harmless is it, that it may be given in
II doses NJ Ecr, in in