Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-07-17

" The le0geS a0ere for the heating Of the nations.
VaIuab Medical Herb.
BY r. V. PIERCE, M. d., of the WORLDS
DIsPENsARY, Buffalo, N. Y.
Smart Weed, sometimes called Water
PEPPER, but known by Botanists as Poluqonasaa
and modest little plant found growing in
bitches, 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 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, 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 it's
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 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. If
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 dried
herb, prove wonderfully efficacious and po-
tent remedy for human suffering. And I can
assure the people, upon my honor as a pro-
fessonal man, that in its use, since thus pre-
pairing it, my most sanguine expectations have
been more than realized. have found it 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,
large experience in prescribing 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,
smarty taste and render it q pleasant remedy
for both adults and children. The greatest diff
fculty that experience in the way of intro
ducing this most valuable remedy to the pub
lie is the fact that Smart Weed is such COM
mon and unpretendmg-l looking little herb
that people are apt to think that it cannot
possess any great or valuable medical prop
critics. Had [ prepared my Extract of Smart
Weed, put it up and labeled it with some
OF which it was composed were collected in
Africa by the Arabs, carried across the
Saharah Desert on the backs of camels, 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 re-
gion, 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, if we would
thoroughly investigate and understand those
ave have at home. So far as Smart Weed has
been employed by the medical profession it
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 employed in
medical author says: A friend of ours
had an only child dangerously i'll with Sum
mer Complaint He had employed great
variety of the usual means for relief, but
all appeared unavailing. The child was
finally given Smart Weed and it was
entirely successful. 1t arrested the vom-
iting and purging in a short time and
without the aid of other medicine entirely re-
stored the little patient" As remedy for
Dysentery Tor Bloody Flux) [ have never
seen my extract of Smart Weed equaled, yet
have used all the most modern and i'm
proved medicines usually employed in that
disease The Smart-W Weed is rendered still
more efficacious in ali Bowel Complaints,
Cramps and Pains in the Stomach by reason
of the Jamaica 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 a remedy for internal administration and
render it more pleasant to take by imparting
an agreeable flavor to it, but also enhance its
value as an external application. In all cases
OF Diarrhea whether acute or chronic, in
young or old, as well as in cholera and
Cholera Infantum, the symptoms of which
are severe vomiting and purging, feeble pulse,
with cold or clammy skin, my Extract of
Smart tweed viii give almost immediate re-
lief and speedily effect a cure. All authors
writing upon Smart-Weed speak particularly
about dose of it producing a warmth and
peculiar tingling sensation throughout the
system. This is especially the case when my
Extract is given, and indicates perfect
arousing of the whole system, as if from
inaction and sleep, and resembles a shock
of electricity, only that it is more lasting in
effect The whole system and its various
functions are aroused to perform their normal
functions by its electrical effect upon the
nervous system. Hence, too, its great and
mastery control over Rheumatic and Neu-