Anybody here familliar with sassafras tea? I'm looking for a recipe on how to prepare it. Also, anyone aware of any psychoactive effects? I heard somewhere along the lines of a stimulant, light amphetamine-like buzz due to the safrole. Any information would be greatly appreciated friends! thanks.
Whatever you do, be careful not to buy a lot -- since safrole is a precursor to some MXXX productions, sassafras distribution is checked.
It appears to not be too healthy liver cancer http://www.bccancer.bc.ca/PPI/UnconventionalTherapies/SassafrasTea.htm
yea sass was the ingredient in root beer until they found it to be carcinogenic. so id steer clear of sass tea lol
People spend good money on sassafras oil? Just dig up a root. This is the time of year for it. I've had personal experience with using sassafras as "LSD helper" when making a batch of electric tea for a party. No empirical evidence, don't ask me how the chemistry works, but it sure seemed like it got more people more high with less. Don't you have to do massive doses of sassafras over an extended period of time for it to be carcinogenic? It is a traditional spring tonic.
Sassafras is bad for rats. Are you a rat? Sassafras has never been tested on humans, says this site, "Your Sassafras Has Been Neutered," at chow.com/stories/10129. The FDA ban in the 1960's was based on rodents who came up with liver cancer after massive doses. But rodents and sassafras are in an allelopathic relationship, see below, with the sassafras defending itself against being decimated by little and big rodents. There may be good reason for regulation, as chow.com and other sites "Allelopathy" - nature's exclusionism. What grows well with what, and around whom. What creatures eat what from plants, as part of the overall food chain. As to plants, Sassafras has this on its stay-away chart for other trees: The terpenoids, whatever those are, make elms, silvermaples and boxelder throw up. See more on allelopathy at sustland.umn.edu/implement/trees_turf. Safrole is listed as one of the allelopathic substances, useful for keeping competitors at bay. An allelopathic substance is a plant-strengthener. Uses include buckets, furniture, soap, perfumes, tea, soup-thickener, restoring used-up soil, repelling rats and bedbugs Allelopathy as an internal plant strengthener. Sassafras vs elm, sassafras wins. It is an important and telling part of the food chain for woodchucks and deer eating leaves, beavers staying with the stems. Rodents and leaves and stems.(note - not bark or trunk, where the safrole is - the rodents stay away from that in the first place, so why use them for carcinogenic testing as to people? Just because something is natural does not mean it is safe for all uses anywhere, but it probably is safer than synthetic, says this site: natural probably less deleterious than synthetic allochemicals Toxicology Forum: Good long discussion at that site of natural allelochemicals. I also see alleopathic and allopathic. What is allelopathic and when may depend on the time of year that the substance is harvested. Why not use them instead of chemical weed controllers? Hey - if a plant changes its chemistry when under stress, why couldn't poor rats increase the carcinogenity of what they eat when the substance is already allelopathic as to them, and be sure to get those tumors? Still, what connection to people here? This site, Pharmacology studies, limitation of use section, says,"...safrole and other allylbenzenes that may be mutagenic or carcinogenic (in animals), may be of limited concern for human consumption and would not cause one to avoid a herb altogether."
"In concentrations of 1% of the diet, safrole is toxic, producing weight loss, testicular atrophy, and bone marrow depletion. It also induces hepatomas (liver cancer)." [Homburger F, Boger E. The carcinogenicity of essential oils, flavors, and spices: a review. Cancer Res 1968;28:2372-2374.] "It is estimated that a few drops of sassafras oil are sufficient to kill a toddler and as little as one teaspoonful has proved fatal in an adult. Symptoms of poisoning are described as vomiting, stupor, and collapse. High doses may cause spasms followed by paralysis. Large amount of the oil are reported to be psychoactive with the hallucinogenic effects lasting for several days." [Newall CA, et al. Herbal medicines, a guide for health-care professionals. London: Pharmaceutical press, 1996:235-6.] there's a reason we do research on rats before humans; the basic systemic biological functions carry over. yes, sometimes things don't apply cross-species, but that's a risk you take yourself. If drinking this tea is worth getting cancer to you, have fun. It's only about as bad as a cigarette habit probably. though that's pretty bad
find a sassafras tree and dig up a root, chop it up and put it in a big pot of boiling water, let it brew for a couple hours, I like to add honey. I dunno bout effects but i know it tastes good.
If it was that easy, every single person in the world would be synthesizing MDMA. Apparently you don't understand the importance of it.
^ ok, well just cause it doesn't grow in florida doesn't mean it doesn't grow wild. It actually grows wild in the north eastern America. And honestly the thread is specifically about the tea so I don't think you understand the context of the discussion.
You need a huge amount of roots to get enough of the essential oil to synth MDMA. For tea maybe not I never heard of sassafras tea before.
It's not really psychoactive, but it's delicious. It grows all over WV. I used to have it when I was a kid. My grandpa would take a day or 2 and pick shitloads.
Sasafrass tea is good. Have always been curious how much root it would take to make some oil. Though it does not sound good for human consumption
i used to make this stuff (tea) when i was a kid. long before i knew it had anything to do with drugs. i would just go out on the edge of the woods and pull up a few small saplings, cut the roots off, and boil them in water. sometimes i dried em, sometimes i didn't. it was just a drink like rootbeer flavored tea or whatever. I never noticed any effects. used to make boiled dandy lion leaves too. those probably tasted better. kinda like spinach.
