Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-07-17

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Valuable NJ deal Herb.
By R. V. PIERCE, NJ D., of the WORLDS
Buffalo, n. Y.
Smart-Weed sometimes called Water
PEPPER, but known by Botanists as Po'Bgonum
PtmctdtuBl, is q well-known, very common
and modest little plant found growing in
bitches, low grounds, among rubbish ana
about brooks and water courses, Towering in
August and September. In many sections OF
this country it is q deservedly highly-es
teemed 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, us 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 n 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 upon
scientific principles by a cold process until |,
having become convinced of the wonderful
medical virtues ofdhis little weed, investigated
its properties and made an extract from the
fresh herb by a cold process-using no heat at
ALL but bringing out its juices oils and vola-
tile properties complete and unimpaired. II
this remedy had heretofore been valuable when
prepared in the most Crude manner, from the
long dried herb and by the application Of heat
that destroyed so much of its virtues, | rea-
soned that it must, when properly prepared
by a cold process and from the freshly-dred
herb, prove wonderfully etficacious and po-
tent remedy for human suffering And | can
assure the people, upon my honor as n pro-
IA since
pairing it, my most sanguine expectations have
been more than realized. / have found il to
contain medicinal properties which sleeping
in water could not bring out at all, as they are
resinous principles. With my Extract, con-
| tanning all these medical properties unim-
paired, have been enabled TO produce most
| astonishing remedial effects. BY much study,
a large experience in prescribing this and
\ other medicines, and very close observation,
l have been enabled to compound and com
! bine 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-be-
| sides they so flavor and modify il as to re
move its pungent, smarty taste and render it
| pleasant remedy for both adults and children.
The greatest difficulty that l experience in
the way Of introducing this most valuable
remedy to the public is the fact that Smart
Weed is such a common and unpretendng-
| looking little herb that people are apt to
| Illnk Ln0J IL cannot possess any great OF VAL
liable medical properties. Had | prepared my
Extract of Smart Weed. put it up and labeled
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 Saharah Desert on the backs of caInes,
and brought across the Atlantic Ocean for my
special use and that its ingredients were
therefore very expensive, 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 growing by the
roadside in all parts Of North America, and
known as Smart-Weed. | 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 ma
tions," and that the fewer far-fetched remedies
we employ the better, If we would thoroughly
investigate and understand those we have al
home. So far as Smart Weed has been en-
ployed by the medical profession il has won
golden opinions, notwithstanding the fact that
heretofore they have had only Il very Imperfect
. preparation of it to use, owing to heat being
always employed in extracting its prop
critics. celebrated medical author says
A friend of ours had an only child danger
ously i'll with Summer Complaint. He haC
employed great variety of the usual mean'
for relief, but all appeared unavaling. Th'
child was finally given Smart-W Weed and i
J was entirely successful. 1t arrested tht
vomiting and purgng in short time an(
! without the aid of other medicine entirely re
stored the little patient" As q remedy TO
,, Dysentery Tor Bloody Flux) l have never seei
: : my Extract of Smart-Weed equaled, yet
: have used all the most modern and improved
medicines usually employed in that disease
l The Smart Weed is rendered still more effca
: cous in all Bowel Complaints, Cramps ant
Pains in the stomach by reason of the Jamai
, ca Ginger which, with other valuable ingre
dients, Is compounded with the Smart-Wec'
in making my eXtract-hence the name Con,
pound Extract of Smart-Weed. The Ginge
5 and other ingredients not only add greatly +
Y the value of the Smart-Weed as a remedy 70
4 internal administration and render 1t NOR
2 pleasant to take by imparting an agreeabl
I flavor TO it, but also enhance its value as a
: external application. In all cases of Diarrhei
a whether acute or chronic, in young or old, a
: : well rs in Cholera and Cholera Infantum, th
I symptoms of which are severe vomiting an
e purging, feeble pulse, with cold or clamm
: skin, my Extract Of Smart-Weed will civ
e almost immediate relief and speedil
4 effect cure. All authors writing upo
!. smart-Weed speak particularly abou
a dose of it producing warmt
and peculiar tinging sensation through
! out the system. This is especial
u the case when my Extract Is glyeT
i and indicates a perfect arousing OF th
l. whole system, as If from inactOn an
v sleep, and resembles a shock OF eectricit,
4 only that II is more lasting in effect Th
whole system and its various functions al
" aroused to perform their normal functions
Z its electrical effect upon the nervous system
II Hence, too, its great and mastery contr'
IS over Rheumatic and Neuralgia Affections, fC
L which il is particularly advised by medic
n authors and in which it has performed r.
n markable cures II should be used in thes
10 cases both externally and internally. Being
- great Diaphoretic, or S,oedting Medicine, aiC
y greatly in relieving pain, but, independent
. of that it possesses great anodyne or SCOT
q ing properties, that render il far ahead OF az
Pain Killer" $50 called), "Instant Relief
a. Golden Relief" or any other pain remeC
II that has ever been offered TO the public Is
a sides il is perfectly harmless, which Is N
n, the case with many OF the preparations pi
~ ented and put up for sale by Quacks, Inc
n an Doctors" and those knowing nothing
" the delicate aud intricate structure OF the II
~ man system, nor the action OF medicines up'
p II. My Extract OF Smart Weed Is not seer
Is Patent Medicine, no patent having been ask
k, for or obtained upon Il, and It's ingredients .
Nv no secret-all that claim is that, as an ca
~ Gated and skilled analytical and PRAGUE
Z, Chemist, have devised superior process
y bringing out and obtaining the most Valuat
p properties Of the plants from which my Col
H. pound Extract Is mode. This have DO
IS, only after great expense In erecting machine
in for grindi00. nIessng and percolating.
,h wish particularly 10 call public attention
No. my Extract OF Smart Weed as remedy
~ all Colds, Febrile and Inhammatory Attacl
80 Nor can too highly extol II as remedy