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We do need serious testing on this plant, leaves, roots, bark, all used in different ways historically.
Does someone know if the FDA has withdrawn its concern for safrole? Here is a site that touts its uses with no mention of anything carcinogenic - for rats or anything else - and that is a surprise.
Visit ://dotcrawler.com/natural-herbs.html. Find uses such as for:
- stimulant
- diaphoretic (?)
- alterative (?)
- add "qualacum of sarsaparilla" and treat your rheumatism
- distill the bark for soaps and a yellow dye (so no ingesting)
- the young shoots are used for beer (these would be the ones that the rats are allelopathic toward, so the plant defends itself?)
- the "pith variety" has mucilant in it and is used as an emulcent
- catarrhal infection
- syphilis
- pain of periods
- dental disinfectant
Now: On to testosterone. Reports that the roots contain testosterone are mixed: see ://www.planbecovillage.org/native-plants.php/ Scroll down. They describe the way the plant spreads - those underground runners - as 'suckering'.
Sassafras: single leaf node form at the upper story levelAdd uses:
- mosquito repellent (great now that we seem to lost our bats).
- Use the shoots to make a drink, and add yeast for carbonation - root beer (we knew that one)
- add some sassafras to your moonshine.
- antidiarrheal
- measles
- chew the roots for bad breath
- poultice for wounds
- eyewash for sore eyes
And finally, sassafras for family planning. See ://www.drugs.com/npp/sassafras.html. Is that the real reason, a cultural one, for treating sassafras differently from other matters where we are merely warned and informed? Impatience with abortifacience? Abortifacient. Do you dare say it. Might reasonable, intelligent, moral people want information? Who decides?
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