Sassafras was once widely used in Herbal Medicine, and its export to Europe was among the first major industries in the North American colonies. Amy Stewart writing in The Drunken Botanist, mentions, “In 173, sassafras was described in an early history of the colonies as being used to ‘promote perspiration, to attenuate thick and viscous humours, to remove obstructions, to cure the gout and the palsy,’ Godfrey’s Cordial, a popular 19
I’ve been wanting to find a small sassafras sapling somewhere so we can grow one on our property, but have had no success.