Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-07-23
The leaues ,oere for the healing of the nations
| A Valuable Medicinal Herb.

Valuable Medicinal HerDs
By R. v. PIERCE, NJ. D., of the WORLDS DIS
| PKssARY, Buffalo, N. Y.
| Smart Weed, sometimes called Water-Pepper
| but known by Botanists as POlyqOntnl rune
tatuns, is q well-known, very common and
modest little plant found growing in bitches,
low grounds, among rubbish and about brooks
and water-conrses Towering in August and
September. In many sections Of this country
it is deservedly highly esteemed family
remedy. 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 it's
virtues without the application of heat, which
destroys most Of its properties ana usually
made a tea from the dried herb, that had been
kept on hand for a long time until 1t 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 upon
scientific principles, by cold process, until l,
having become convinced OF the wonderful
medical virtues Of this little ~eed, investi-
| gated Its properties and made an extract from
the fresh herb by cold process-using no
heat at all. but bringing out its juices, oils
and volatile properties complete and unirn-
paired. If this remedy had heretofore been
valuable when prepared in the most crude
manner. from the long dried herb aud by the
| application of heat, that destroyed so much Of
properly prepared. by cold process and from
the freshly dried herb, prove a wonderfully
efficacious and potent remedy for human suf-
fsring. And can assure the people, upon
my honor as a professional man. that IN its
use, since thus preparing it, my most sanguine
expectations have been more than realized.
1 have found it to contain medicinal proper
| ties which sleeping in water could not bring
out at all. as they are resinous principles.
With my Extract containing all these medical
| properties unimpaired, have been enabled to
produce most astonishing remedial effects.
By much study, a large experience in prescrb-
ing this and other medicines, and very close
observation. have been enabled to compound
and combine with the simple Extract OF Smart
Weed extracts of other medicinal herbs and
roots, that greatly improve its power and
usefulness. both as an internal and external
remedy-besides they so flavor and modify it
as to remove its pungent smsrty taste, and
render 1t pleasant remedy for both adults and
children. The greatest difficulty that / sx-
perience in the way of introducing this most
valuable remedy to the public is the fact that
Smart-Weed is such common and unpre-
tending looking little herb that people are apt
to think that 1t cannot possess any great or
valuable medicinal properties. Had l pre-
pared my Extract of Smsrt-Weed, put It up
and labeled it with some great name, and told
the people that the herbs of which it was COM
posed were collected in Africa by the Arabs,
| Carried acrOSs the Sahara Desert on the Dacke
OF camels and brought across the Atlantic
ocean for my special use, and that its ingredi-
ente were therefore very expensive, have no
doubt that some would have been thereby in
spired 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 roadside, in all parts of
North America, and known Smart-Weed.
l believe 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
better, II We would thoroughly investigate
and understand those We have at home. So
far as Smart-Weed has been employed by the
medical profession il has won golden opinions,
notwithstanding the fact that heretofore they
have had only very imperfect preparation OF
it to use, owing to heat being always en-
ployed in extracting its properties. A cele-
brated medical author says: "A friend of
ours had an only child dangerously i'll with
Summer Complaint. He had employed q
great variety Of the usual means for relief,
but all appeared unsvsiling. The child was
finally given Smart-weed, and it WAS entirely
successful. II arrested the vomiting and
purging in a short time, and without the aid
of other medicine entirely restored the little
patient" As remedy for Eysentery Cor
Bloody Flux) have never seen my Extract of
Smart-Weed equaled, yet have used all the
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 the Stomach.
by reason Of the Jaimscs Ginger, which. with
other valuable ingredients, is compounded
with The Smart-Weed in making my Extract
hence the name Compound Extract of Smart
Weed. The Ginger and other ingredients not
only add greatly to the value of the Smart
Weed as remedy for internal administration
and render it more pleasant to take by impart-
ing an agreeable flavor to it. but also enhance
Its value a. an external application. In all
cases Of Diarrhea, whether acute or chronic
in young or old, as we'll as in Cholera and
Cholera Infsntum, the symptoms of which
! are severe vomiting and purging feeble
pulse, with Geld or clsmmy skin, my Extract
OF Smart-Weed will give almost immediate
relief and speedily effect cure. All authors
writing upon Smart-Weed speak particularly
about dose of it producing warmth and
peculiar tlngling sensation throughout the
system. This Is especially the case when my
Extract is given aud indicates perfect arous-
ing of the whole system, if from inaction
aud sleep, and resembles a shock of electricity
only that it is more lasting in effect The
= whole system and it's various functions are
aroused to perform their nominal functions
by its electrical effect upon the nervous sys-
tem- Hence, too, it's great and mastery con-
troll over Rheumatic and Neuralgia Affections
for which it is particularly advised by medical
authors and in which it has performed re-
markaUle cures. 1t should be used in these
cases both externally and internally. Being a
great Diaphoretic, or S,ceating Medicine, aids
greatly IN relieving pain, bur. independently
of that, it possesses great anodyne or sooth-
ing properties. that render it far ahead Of ard
= Pain Killer" $50 called), Instant Relief"
Golden Relief, or any other pain remedy
that has ever been offered to the publicly
Besides, it is perfectly harmless which is no.
the case with many of the preparations patti
ented 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 medicines upon it.
My Extract of Sulart-Weel is not o secret
Patent Medicine. no patent having been asked
for or obtained upon it, and it's ingredients
are no secret-all that claim is that, as an
educated and skilled analytical and practical
chemist, / have devised superior process for
bringing out and obtaining the most valuable
properties OF the plants from which my Com
pound Extract is made. This have done
only after great expense in erecting machinery
for grinding. pressing and percolating /
wish particularly to call public attention to
my Extract of Smart-Weed "a a remedy for
all Colds Febrile and Infiammatorv Attacks