sassafras is a plant. the foundation bark is used to make medication, regardless of severe protection concerns, sassafras is used for urinary tract problems, swelling within the nose and throat, syphilis, bronchitis, excessive blood strain in older people, gout, arthritis, pores and skin issues, and most cancers. it's also used as a tonic and "blood cleanser."

some human beings apply sassafras immediately to the pores and skin to deal with skin problems, achy joints (rheumatism), swollen eyes, sprains, and bug bites or stings. sassafras oil is likewise applied to the pores and skin to kill germs and head lice.

in drinks and sweet, sassafras changed into used inside the beyond to flavor root beer. it turned into extensively utilized as a tea. however sassafras tea includes a whole lot of safrole, the chemical in sassafras that makes it toxic. one cup of tea made with 2.5 grams of sassafras carries approximately two hundred mg of safrole. that equates to a dose of approximately three mg of safrole in keeping with 1 kg of body weight. that is about 4.five times the dose that researchers suppose is poisonous. so, in 1976, the usa food and drug management (fda) ruled that sassafras ought to now not be bought as sassafras tea.

different names is sassafras known by using:
ague tree, bois de cannelle, cinnamon wood, common sassafras, kuntze saloop, laurier des iroquois, laurus albida, saloop, sasafras, sassafrax, sassafras albidum, sassafras officinale, sassafras variifolium, saxifrax.

inadequate proof to rate effectiveness for:
urinary tract problems.
gout.
arthritis.
pores and skin troubles.
eye swelling.
sprains.
insect bites and stings.
purifying the blood.