Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-07-23
'~7he ledgeS ,cefe for the healing Of the nations.
A Valuable Medical Herb.

| DIsPENsARY, Buffalo, N. Y.
Smart-Weed, sometimes called Water
PEPPER, but known by Botanists as PolygonstDl
| Pstuctatum, is q well-known, very common
| 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 a deservedly highly es-
teemcd family remedy. The Indians also
| make great use of this plant for the care 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 upon
scientific principles by cold process until !,
having become convinced of the wonderful
medical virtues of this little weed, inyesti-
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 un-
impaired. 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, | reasoned that it must, when
properly prepared by cold process and from
| the fresLly-dricd herb, prove a wonderfully
efficacious and potent remedy for human
suffering. And ] can assure the people,
upon my honor as a professional man,
that i'm its use, since thus preparing II, my
most sanguine expectations have been more
than realized. | have found it TO contain
medical properties which sleeping In water
could not bring out at all, as they are RESIN
GUS principles. With my Extract, containing
all these medical properties unimpaired,
/ have been enabled to produce most aston
isbing remedial effects. BY much study,
a large experience in prescribing this and
other medicines, and very close observation,
/ have been enabled to compound and com
bine with the simple Extract Of Smart-Wced
extracts of other medicinal herbs and roots
that greatly improve its power and usefulness
both as an internal and external remedy
besides they 50 flavor and modify 1t as to re-
move its pungent, smarty taste and render
it a pleaSdst rem'dy for both dtuttS and emit
dren. The greatest difficulty that expert
ence in the way Of introducing this most
valuable remedy to the public is the fact that
Smart Weed il such common and UMPIRE
tending looking little herb that people are
apt to think that it cannot possess any great
or valuable medical properties. Had pre-
pared my Extract Of Smart Weed, put IL up
and labeled 1t with some great name, ana
told the people that the herbs Of which ii was
composed were collected in Africa by the
Arabs, carried across the Saharah Desert on
the backs of camcls, 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 ingredients Of my Compound Extract
Is the modest little plant seen growing by the
roadside In all parts Of North America, ana
known as Smart Weed. j believe that God
has caused to grow in each climate and region,
those medical 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,n and that the fewer far-fetched remedies
we employ the better, If we would thoroughly
investigate and understand those we nave at
home. So far as smartW Weed had peen en-
ployed by the medical profession IT has won
golden opinions, Notwithstanding the fact that
heretofore they have had only very imperfect
preparation of IL TO use, owing 10 heat being
always employed in extracting It's prop
critics. A celebrated medical author says;
A friend Of ours had an only child danger,
ously iii with Summer Complaint. lie had
employed a great variety Of the usual means
for relief, but all appeared unayalling. lbe
child was finally given Smart-Weed and IL
was entirely successful. 1t arrested the
vomiting and purging in short TIME ana
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 lm
proved medicines usually employed In that
disease. The Smart Weed Is rendered sun
more efficacious in all Bowel Complaints,
Cramps and Pains In the Stomach by reason
OF the Jamaica Ginger which, with other
| valuable ingredients, is compounded with the
Smart tweed in making my Extract-hence
| the name C0np0,fnd Extract Of Smart. weed.
| The Ginger and other ingredients not only
add greatly to the value Of the srnart-W weed
| as a remedy for internal administration ana
| render ii more pleasant 10 take by lmparting
an agreeable flavor to it, but also enhance It's
| value az an external application. In All cases
Of Diarrhea, whether acute or chronic, I'D
| young or old, as well as In Cholera ana
| Cholera Infantnm, the symptoms % whloh
are severe vomiting and purging, feeble pulse,
| with cold or clammy skin, my Extract OF
| Smart-Weed will give almost immediate re-
lief and speedily effect a cure. All authors
writing upGss Smart Weed speak particularly
about dose Of it producing warmth
and peculiar tingIing sensation throughout
| the system. This is especially the case when
my Extract Is given, and indicates periect
| arousing Of the whole system, as II rom In.
action and sleep, and resembles o shock o.
electricity, only that it 10 more lasting In