[Sca-cooks] Re: Sca-cooks Digest, Sassafras

[Harry Bilings]

But is in all natural and could even be organically grown, there for it must be good for you.
plachoya
humble archer 
Ravens Fort Ansteorra



  Sassafras ---Contains safrole, a carcinogen. Safrole is not permitted in
  licensed medicines and it is controlled in food additives.
  The oil should never be taken internally as it can cause
  liver and kidney damage. Aromatic sassafras tea,
  once popular as a stimulant and blood thinner and as
  a reputed cure for rheumatism causes cancer in rats when taken in large 
  amounts.
  Oil of sassafras and safrole, major chemical components
  of the aromatic oil in sassafras root bark,
  were taken out of root beer more than 30 years ago.
  And sassafras bark was banned from use in all food.

  http://www.nhsc.com.au/consumer/safesearch/toxins.html<http://www.nhsc.com.au/consumer/safesearch/toxins.html>


  John Frampton's immensly popular 1596 translation of Spanish botanist 
  Nicolas Monardes' work, titled in English Joyfull newes out of the 
  new-found world, reported of sassafras that among Spanish soldiers ".it 
  did in them great effectes, that it is almost incredible: for with the 
  naughtiye [rotten] meates and drinkyng of the rawe waters, and sleeping 
  in the dewes, the moste parte of them came to fall in cuntinuall Auges.."
  http://www.wku.edu/kentuckyfolkweb/KYFolklife_Medicine.html<http://www.wku.edu/kentuckyfolkweb/KYFolklife_Medicine.html>

  Johnnae