Sassafras as Insect Repellent
Uses of Plants: A Matter of Dosage, Extraction, Information
Give a bug enough aspirin and it, too, will expire.
Economic opportunity. Bedbug resurgencies are in the news. See Just Try To Sleep Tight. The Bedbugs are Back at ://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/27/nyregion/27bugs.html?_r=1/ Our solution is at hand. Put people back to work. Use sassafras wood to make your bed frame. See ://www.woodmagazine.com/materials-guide/lumber/wood-species-3/sassafras/. Here's more: see://www.crabapplehillsfarm.com/chf2001/showrooms/ArkansasSassafras/ArkansasSassafras.shtml/
Sassafras in Summer: three leaf forms, on one branch in understoryUse it in the kitchen, for cupboards. Insecticides have used sassafras oil for years, from early explorer and colonial times, see current use at ://www.diatect.com/kill-bed-bug-ppc.php/. Grow your own. See ://www.kerrysgarden.us/2006/03/01/digging-sassafras-trees/
We already know it repels rodents. Use it for children's cribs.
A multi-purpose plant. How it is used, with what dosage, with what preparation, makes the difference between a good use and a malignant one. Just as with aspirin.
1 comment:
Figures the FDA would ban something beneficial and in use, SAFELY, for such a lont time. Plus, it certainly doesn't fincancially benefit the pharmaceuticals that the FDA officials are connected to. Thank you for a great website!
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