Sassafras is another name for methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDA). It’s a hallucinogenic drug that can cause feelings of euphoria but may also lead to sleep disturbances or hallucinations. Share on ...

Medical professionals do not recommend consuming sassafras tea. This is because sassafras oil is extremely toxic to humans. Some of this toxicity may be present in sassafras tea. Sassafras is a tree ...

Following Independence Day, what better wild ingredient to feature than sassafras? The aromatic bark, leaves, and roots were believed to be the first plant exported from North America to Europe, back ...

Sassafras was once one of the largest exports from the U.S. to Europe. Native Americans used the inner root bark of the tree, indigenous to the eastern part of the country, to calm upset stomachs and ...

AGAINST the Indian-summer sky, a tree lifts up its hands and testifies to glory, the glory of a blue October day. Yellow or orange, or blood-orange, or sometimes softest salmon pink, or blotched with ...

Catherine Redcloud was a sickly and stunted child, given to congestions, coughs and wheezes. She needed medicine, but medicine tasted bad. Her grandmother, a Creek Indian from the Poarch Creek ...