Sassafras as healer. Itch, mange, cracked heels. Treatments. Newspaper 1885

Red sassafras, fall. Metacomet.

Sassafras as a healer?  You have an itch?  Your horse has an itch? Fret not, gentle reader.  Your condition has been noted and its happy resolution is freely provided in this small column:  Springfield Globe-Republic, 11/20/1885 Springfield, OH (Image 2).  Courtesy of the Library of Congress. Tap the plus to render the teeny invisible visible.

Summations: Veterinary and humanitary. Veterinary: pertaining to beasts of burden, see etymonline,  Veteran: old enough to bear burden?

The Itch.   As to a horse, change the diet and sponge the horse daily with one ounce of the following:  "a weak dye of saleratus water" to which has been added equal parts of sassafras and sulphur. Cover the parts to which the solution has  been applied with linen, not flannel.

Mange.  Mange in man is generally denominated Itch instead.  This is a contagious condition, so isolation is recommended.  For an animal topical treatment, sponge with lime water. Mix and shake well the following:  4 oz. pyrolygneous acid, 1 oz. spirits of turpentine,  3 oz. linseed oil, 1 oz. sulphur.

As a medicine for the horse, rub the following in a mortar:   2 oz. sulphur, 2 oz. cream of tartar, 2 oz. sassafras, 2 oz. powdered mandrake.  Divide the result into 12 equal parts, and mix one part with fodder for the morning feed, and one part with the fodder for the evening feed. Also, make "some change" in the feed, and avoid musty grain and ground meal.

Q.  Is the reference to sassafras for a tea, as from peeled, tender roots? Or a powder of some other part?  We await.

Ecstasy, MDMA, Sassafras and Help: for autism, schizophrenia, anxiety, depression, other?

Sassafras takes on autism, anxiety, how about PTSD?

Who will test that?

PTSD and Sassafras.  A hopeful possibility for aid?

Sassafras, fall green turning red, Metacomet, Reservoir, CT

Coming full circle from the ban on sassafras based on allelopathic rodent responses (humans are not allelopathic as to sassafras, so why use rodents for us?), it now appears that medical benefits from sassafras could outweigh earlier imprudent restrictions on use of elements of sassafras. See http://psychcentral.com/news/2010/12/17/drug-%E2%80%98ecstasy%E2%80%99-may-help-individuals-with-schizophrenia-autism/21876.html/  Long used as a hospitality beverage -- loosening everyone up -- good uses were known and promulgated back in 1983, for example, see http://www.motherearthnews.com/organic-gardening/sassafras-uses-herbal-medicine-zmaz83jazshe.aspx/.  Farther back, starting at least in 1603, hunting the sassafras to bring back the roots was profitable and healthful, see http://sites.google.com/site/atimelineofamerica/1603/  Sir Walter Raleigh had been given rights to develop the possibilties by Elizabeth I, see site.  Alas, add, in 1997, the book Food Safety and Toxicity, edited by John DeVries, the unexamined claim of carcinogenic safrole and the use of mice to conclude that, at page 128. 
Call for more testing, without rodents, please, Mr. DeVries.

Add to the list of conditions to be tested with sassafras:  PTSD.  Is the safrole in sassafras as dire as publicized?  Not necessarily, see http://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=218174/  Is it more likely that the rampant natural availability of sassafras, read: not profit producing if you can raise it in your yard -- and the industries who like labs instead, are at work?

Any overload use can be addressed as we do with alcohol, sudafed, other matters where reasonable restrictions on purchases apply.  PTSD:  The Evil Hours, by David J. Morris, this review by Jen Percy, does not address use of sassafras, to my recollection.  To be checked.

Wax poetic.  Enjoy http://hellopoetry.com/words/19353/sassafras/poems/