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Deodorize Gasoline! Add about 20 drops of sassafras oil to a gallon of gasoline or solvent

ROOT BEER

• 1 gallon water
• 1-1/2 cups molasses
• 1 tsp. dry yeast
• 1/2 ounce each of hops, dried burdock, yellow dock, sarsaparilla, dandelion, sassafras and spikenard roots
• Wash the herbs and bruise them thoroughly with a potato masher or pastry blender. Cover with the water, bring to a boil and simmer for 20 minutes over low heat. Strain into a large crock. Add the molasses and cool to lukewarm.
• When the mixture is lukewarm, add 1 teaspoon dry yeast and stir. Cover the crock with a cloth and put it in a warm, draft-free place 70-80 degrees F. After 2 hours, pour into clean bottles to within 1/2 inch of the tops. Cap with capper and metal caps, but not corks. Place the capped bottles on their sides in a warm and draft-free spot (70-80 degrees F) for 5 days, then set upright in a cool place. The root beer will be ready to drink in 10 days, but will keep for the whole summer.

Folk Remedy for Arthritis and Rheumatis

• Steep six ounces of sassafras root in fifth of whiskey for 24 hours. Take one tablespoon three times a day before meals.

Plant Portrait - Sassafras albidum -- - edible uses and growing conditions; free online information provided by Friends of Plant for a Future

Doryphora sassafras Free online information provided by Plants for Medicine Botanic Gardens Trust, Sydney, Australia

Sassafras: Spice of Spring Free online information provided by Suite University.

Sassafras - Natures Medicine Chest Card Series - Free online info card.

Sassafras Free online information provided by Alternative Nature Online Herbal

Sassafras Free online information provided by Edwardsville High School

Medical Attributes of Sassafras albidum Free online information: "This paper was developed as part of the BIO 368 - Medical Botany course offered at Wilkes University during the summer of 2003."