I've been looking for this stuff the past few weeks in eastern NC. Seems impossible to locate right now, idk. It's driving me nuts I can't find it. I know it's out here because I remember someone brewing up sassafras tea around a campfire when we were kids.
@georgegates5265 жыл бұрын
Holy cow! Are they big!
@USAlien2344 жыл бұрын
Isnt the oil poisonous ? How do you get the poison out to make safe root beer ? Im just going off what I heard. I think thats why its illegal to uae it in food production...at least I thought. Thank you for the video thou. Very informative. ✌ 😊 ✝ ❤
@EatThePlanet4 жыл бұрын
The component safrole has been deemed carcinogenic based on one flawed rodent study in the 60s. It's consumed by foragers and herbalists frequently. There are no claims of short term toxicity when eaten in its natural form. The essential oil may be acutely toxic in large quantities. The difference is that essential oil is extracted in such a way that its concentrated in levels that would never be found naturally. Any type of essential oil should be treated cautiously even from certain edible plants. When making tea or eating leaves you'll never see concentration level anywhere near that of essential oil. You can get a little more information here(particularly in the 'Known Hazards' portion) pfaf.org/user/plant.aspx?LatinName=Sassafras+albidum
@EatThePlanet4 жыл бұрын
Interestingly the components in the plant can be used to make the drugs MDA and MDMA(ecstacy). There are conspiracy theories that the pharmaceutical companies didn't want MDMA used to treat psychological issues which some psychiatrists were doing. So as the theory goes they created this flawed rodent study to get safrole banned from commerce in the US in certain forms.
@seedsofsatya4363 жыл бұрын
@@EatThePlanet Totally, they did this with so many other natural medicines. Turpentine Pine Gum Spirits is another they created so much fear around, and created a Manufactured Turpentine that is poisonous. People are catching on though. YAY!
@EatThePlanet3 жыл бұрын
@@seedsofsatya436 Thanks for the info. I'm curious what you mean by turpentine pine gum. Are you just referring to the gum from pine trees and that they say the terpenes in the pine are more toxic than they actually are?
@seedsofsatya4363 жыл бұрын
@@EatThePlanet Pine Gum Spirits was a very widely used medicinal for our ancestors, but there was a lot of fear placed around it's usage through research and creation of manufactured Turpentine, which is dangerous. This curbed the usage and became a lost forgotten medicine, but has been making a come back healing and helping so many with parasites, Lyme, Candida, etc. It's a powerful medicine.
@ryanblaze9325 жыл бұрын
Can you find that in the smokies?
@EatThePlanet5 жыл бұрын
according to this map you should be able to find them there upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Sassafras_albidum_range_map.jpg/220px-Sassafras_albidum_range_map.jpg . I'm in CT and they are pretty common here. I don't know how common they are in the smokies, but its basically smack dab in the center of their range so I would expect them to be common.
@seedsofsatya4363 жыл бұрын
@@EatThePlanet yes, all over the place in the smokies, Birch too. :)