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Sassafras tree

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Native to the Eastern United States, Sassafras albidum is a tree or a shrub known for its variable uses in medicine and cooking. It comes from the Lauraceae family, which also includes some popular spices like cinnamon.


This deciduous tree is often grown for its ornamental appearance and fragrance. The Sassafras distinct leaves come in three different shapes – entire, mitten-shaped, and three-lobed leaf. In fall, the leaves turn into beautiful shades of yellow, orange, and red.


This medium-sized tree, with a moderate growth rate, can reach up to 49-65 feet (15–20 m) height while the canopy can spread up to 39 feet (12 m) wide. The tree is very hardy and it’s found at elevations varying from Mississippi River bottom lands and the southern Appalachian Mountains where the tree can grow at altitudes of sea level up to 5000 ft (1,500 m).


It grows in various types of soil, but it grows best in moist, well-drained, sandy loam soil. This tree prefers partial shade and a plenty of space. If you wish for a fruit production, you should plant both male and female trees.


Sassafras albidum was an important plant to Native American tribes of the southeastern United States and was used for many purposes, especially for medical treatments and as a culinary ingredient with its Sassafras root bark.

It became the second-largest export from America to Europe after tobacco in the early 17th century. For many centuries, Sassafras has been used for its diuretic properties and it’s said that can be beneficial for the urinary system. It is also used as a body cleanser since it can purify the blood.


It also has a particular culinary significance, especially in Louisiana Creole cuisine, since distinct national foods such as traditional root beer and file powder are made of Sassafras Tree’s parts. 

Sassafras tree oil  is used in aromatherapy and soap and perfume manufacturing, or as a skin remedy.


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Native American Uses of Sassafras

 

Native Americans used sassafras wood for dugout canoes, and its leaves, roots, and bark as food and medicine. Cherokees gave an infusion of sassafras bark to treat children with worms, used sassafras poultices made from root bark to treat open wounds and sores, and applied sassafras infused water to flush sore eyes. Chippewas/Ojibwes used the root bark as a blood thinner, and the  Choctaw used a decoction of roots to treat the measles. Houmas used the roots to treat scarlet fever, and the Iroquois soaked sassafras roots in whiskey to treat tapeworms.  The Coushatta/Kosatis used a poultice of sassafras to treat bee stings and  Rappahannocks used a branch pith decoction to wash burns as well as raw buds to “increase vigor in males.”  The  Seminoles used an infusion as mouthwash and as an appetite stimulant. William Strachey described how the Powhatan Indians used sassafras to treat syphilis to “quencheth and mortifieth the malignant poyson of that fowle desease.”

In the late sixteenth century, Englishman  Thomas Harriot reported the Algonquian speaking Indians  of coastal North Carolina called sassafras winauk, and Scotsman Robert Gordon also claimed the Indians of Nova Scotia called it by the same name. Spanish botanist  Nicolas Monardes said the Timucua speaking Indians of southern Georgia and northern Florida called it pauame or pavame.

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