🏞️Appalachian Folk Medicine
Sassafras Root
Sassafras albidum
About Sassafras Root
Sassafras Root (Sassafras albidum) is a herb used in the Appalachian Folk Medicine tradition to help with Arthritis, Skin Health, Blood Purifier, and Detox. The root is the part traditionally used, used both internally and topically.
Botanical background
Sassafras albidum (sassafras, white sassafras, red sassafras, or silky sassafras) is a species of Sassafras native to eastern North America, from southern Maine and southern Ontario west to Iowa, and south to central Florida and eastern Texas. It occurs throughout the eastern deciduous forest habitat type, at altitudes of sea level up to 1,500 m (5000 feet). It formerly also occurred in southern Wisconsin, but is extirpated there as a native tree.
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist
Parts used
Root · both