The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-07-23
{ The leores were for the healing Of the nations
A Valuable Medicinal Herb.
By ". PIERCE, NJ. D., of the WORLD
DISPENSARY, Buffalo, y. Y.

By r. V. PIERCE, VI. D., of the WORLDS
DIsPENsARY, Buffalo, n. Y.
Smart Weed, sometimes called Water Pep
per- but known by BOtanists, as POtygOnum
Punctdtunl, is a well-knOwn, very common
and modest little plant found growing IN
bitches, low grounds, among rubbish and
about brooks and water-cOurseSy s1loWerlng IN
August and September. In many sections OF
this country it is deservedly highly esteem
ed family remedy. The Indians also m 4e
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 proper
ties, 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 upon scientific
principles, by cold process, until |, 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
volatile properties complete and unlmpalred.
If this remedy had heretofore been valuable,
when prepared in the most crude manner,
from the long dried herb and by the appllca-
ton of heat, that destroyed so much OF It's
virtues reasoned that it must, when prop
erly prepared, by cold process and from the
freshly dried herb, prove wonderfully efhca-
cous 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 it to contain medicinal properties
which sleeping in water could not bring out
at all, as they are resinOus principles. With
nv Extract. containing all these medical
properties unimpaired, have been enabled
to produce most astonishing remedial effects.
By much study, large experience IN pre-
scribing this and other medicines, and very
close observation, | have been enabled to
compound and combine with the simple EX-
tract of Smart-Weed extracts of other medl-
| cinal 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 rene
| dv for both adults and children. The great
| est difficulty that | experience in the way OF
| introducing this most valuable remedy 10 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 or valuable medical prop
critics. 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 collect
| ed in Africa by the Arabs, carried across the
| Sahara Desert on the backs OF camels, ana
| 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 1t. But prefer
to deal honestly with the people and tell
them that the chief ingredient OF my COM
pound Extract is the modest little plant seen
growing by the roadside, in all parts of North
America, and known as Smart Tweed. / be-
lieve 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 EN-
plov the better, if we would thoroughly In
vestigate and understand those we have at
home. So far as Smart-Weed has been EN-
plOyed by the medical profession It has won
golden opinions, notwithstanding the TACT
that heretofore they have had only very
imperfect preparation Of 1t to use, owing 10
! heat being always employed in extracting It's
properties A celebrated medical author
says: - A friend of ours had an only child
dangerously i'll with Summer Complaint. DE
had employed a great variety of the usual
means for relief but all appeared unaYalllng:
The child was finally given Smart-Weed and
it was entirely successful. 1t arrested the
vomiting and purging in short time and
without the aid of other medicine entirely re.
stored the little patient" As 4 remedy for
Dvsenterv Tor Bloody FluX) 1 have never
seen my Extract Of Smart-Weed equaled, yet
| have used all the most modern and APP
proved medicines usually employed in that
disease. The Smart-Weed is rendered shll
more efficacious in all Bowel Complaints,
Cramps and Pains in the Stomach, by reason
of the Jamaica Ginger, which, with other