Sassafras. The hospitality tea.
The feel-good root-beer component, just from the bark of the sassafras tree, not an additive, not a "drug," part of a food. And available all over America at one time, and even now.
Consider its ancient hospitality use: Native Americans, others, see the history of the uses of sassafras, at this site. Yet, even a site that says it explains "dangers" never finds any, all is hearsay, there has been no testing as is done when Pharma is seeking a patent (can't patent the sassafras). So what is the problem?
You read it. The title has no bearing on the content, at Lifescript.com - ://www.lifescript.com/Health/Alternative-Therapies/Herbs/The_Dangers_Of_Sassafras.aspx?trans=1&du=1&gclid=COrd7-O0spkCFQu-GgodUz6y7w&ef_id=1350:3:c_6077ee56874670969761bdf470921909_2540435225:TIGaiEo-KR4AAB-JJuMAAAAS:20090320210705/
Sassafras, waiting for the sunrise? Sketch, gift to us, by Hermann Dahl, now deceased, can find no trace of family.
The site otherwise gives a good history of its traditional uses. Are these folks on Pharma's payroll?Cultural use: facilitation.
Invite the stranger in your home, offer hearth and food, and the last thing you need is someone getting up in the night and beating everyone to death and making off with your possessions. The colonials - here is a brew that makes you feel good. It may not cure, but you feel better. Sassafras tea. In great demand.
Now: We have at Guantanamo a number of people who hate us, as anyone with an ideological difference and experience of torture would.
If safrole is not really carcinogenic to people - that is the important point.
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