Sassafras and Cholesterol Control? Liver Detox?

Sassafras and Cholesterol Control?

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Sassafras, as a tea, made from de-barked, and minced-pounded, tender roots from the understory level,  has long been ingested as a "blood purifier."  See ://www.florahealth.com/flora/home/International/HealthInformation/Encyclopedias/Sassafras.htm/ 

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Sassafras, summer grove, understory emerging

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Even that mainstream site is skeptical of the ban on sassafras/safrole (issues of preparation and dosage really) but it gives a sensible overview of the status today of use of sassafras; and how a plant that used to be useful we now handily discard.  The site also gives the recipe for making tea, with the sensible precaution to use it only for 4-6 weeks over the course of a year. We can live with that. Now, to get the roots and try it. The site also offers a bibliography. See also ://www.foundationsofherbalism.com/pdf/11.pdf/.

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Issue:   High bad cholesterol; toxins building up in the liver. Some 17,000 people are waiting for liver transplants, do a search for liver transplants and get that and other stats.

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Start with the premise that centuries of use of sassafras as a "blood purifyer" produced enough good results for the practice to become widespread.  Then, logic would have it that "purifying blood" - whatever that is, but the term recurs so often in folk remedies and cultures - would be beneficial in purifying blood of its nastier cholesterol elements, and help the liver in that and other filtering actions. 

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Research in the public interest. 

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Not to criticize our national Pharma Preservation of Profits cult, but is there not a public interest component in exploring and testing folk remedies to see how and if they work, even though the ingredient cannot be patented.  Or do we only test the moneymakers?  Wrong question.

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Look up, do a search for words like blood purifier sassafras cholesterol.  Sassafras is known as a good liver detoxer and general stimulant.  See ://www.steaptv.com/2008/05/06/how-to-dandelion-tea-sassafras-tea/.  

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Liver detox.

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Liver detox? What is that?  See ://www.liverdoctor.com/index.php?page=liver-detoxification/. 

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Livers go amok trying to filter out all the bad stuff we eat, drink, are exposed to environmentally that gets inside. Think great big gobs of greasy grimy fatty stuff, greasy grimy fatty stuff, greasy grimy fatty stuff, great big gobs of greasy grimy fatty stuff and me without my spoon. See, if you must, ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBK1RBj1sKo/ and ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaX95ImQcqc&NR=1/  

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Sassafras, understory close-upThe point is, if we can do little backyard remedies as in the old days, take your tonic in the spring when the little roots are nice, pare them and mash them up, the little things, and add your hot water, and go rock on the porch to health, why not. 

It often looks like surrounding vegetation.  Takes some looking when it is just taking hold in a woods of other woods.  

Beats ICU. Make some bread of it even - see ://www.ingestandimbibe.com/Articles_p/rootbeer_p.html/  And if the testing ever shows toxicity to humans in the doses we use, that, of course, is different.

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FDA,  you are interested in the proper functioning of all the Cholesterols, Healthy Livers. 

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Here is your mission, should you choose to accept it.  

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Unhinge from Pharma and profits.  Unembed yourself.  And sponsor government or other altruistic and well-funded group testing of the ordinary remedies in our back yards.  

Offer sensible dosing and preparation information, while continuing to foster regular medical checkups. Sassafras:  less toxins than in a beer beer.