This herb is BULK DISCOUNTED in our 10 lb & 25 lb bulk packs. To find the bulk packs, just copy and paste the herb name into our Search, or refer to our Bulk By The Kilo & Ton category. We use only 100% Gluten-free, Vegetable Cellulose ”00” capsules for all of our encapsulated products. We offer both bulk powder and capsules. Obviously our bulk bottles are bulk powder, not capsules, but the capsule weight is included to give you a way of judging the recommended dosage. Sassafras – Botanical Powder — Approximately 600 mg. each capsule. 1/2 teaspoon of powder is about equal to one capsule. Powder can be consumed by sprinkling it over your food or mixing it with a syrup such as maple or chocolate. You could also mix it with orange juice. The citric acid in the orange juice will help to mask any unpleasant powder tastes. Other common names: Cinnamon Wood, Fennel Wood, Ague Tree, Smelling Stick, White Sassafras, Red Sassafras, Silky Sassafras, Saxifrax Sassafras has been used for centuries as a tonic to cleanse the liver and blood, which thus helps to alleviate internally caused skin ailments, such as acne, eczema and psoriasis, as well as relieve gout, arthritis, rheumatism and liver ailments. It is said to help the body rid itself of toxins and pollutants through efficient removal of wastes. History: Sassafras is one of three species of laurel and the only one that is native to eastern North America (the other two are found in eastern Asia), and it is considered the most important. It may be a small, aromatic bush or grow as a large, deciduous tree to a height of fifty or sixty feet with a rough, gray (or reddish brown) bark, bearing many slender branches and hairless leaves, which can be of three different types (a smooth oval, a two-lobed or a three-lobed leaf) – sometimes all three being found on the same tree and even the same branch. The young leaves and twigs are mucilaginous and produce a lemony fragrance when crushed. The roots are large and woody, with a spongy bark, and the plant also produces small greenish-yellow flowers that bloom in the spring, followed by small, pea-sized fruit (actually, a blue-black berry on a red stem). Sassafras is an attractive ornamental that thrives in deep, rich, neutral-to-acid soil in sun or shade, sheltered from late spring frosts. When the Spanish arrived in Florida in the early sixteenth century, they discovered the fragrant Sassafras tree but mistook it for a cinnamon tree, which has given it one of its common names, Cinnamon Wood. The name, Sassafras, was given to us by the sixteenth-century botanist, Nicolas Monardes, and is said to be a corruption of the Spanish word for saxifrage, another plant species. Native Americans added many drugs to our modern pharmacopoeia, including Sassafras, and they used the bark as a general tonic and as a diaphoretic and diuretic or ”blood purifier,” by urinating or sweating out impurities from the system. They also used it to rem
