{"id":79170,"date":"2024-10-23T02:18:49","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T08:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=79170"},"modified":"2024-10-23T11:06:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T17:06:11","slug":"homesteading-101-sassafras-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/23\/homesteading-101-sassafras-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Homesteading 101: Sassafras Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"

H\/T Kensho Homestead<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Sassafras Tree<\/a><\/h1>\n

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Sassafras<\/em>
\nSassafras albidum<\/em><\/h2>\n

I\u2019ve written several times about this tree in past posts and have been meaning to include it in the\u00a0Herbal Explorations<\/a>\u00a0for some time. Thanks once again to\u00a0Gavin Mounsey<\/a>\u00a0for putting a bee in my bonnet! His contributions are featured below.<\/h2>\n

A quick peak at a couple of those previous posts of mine to set the stage:<\/h2>\n

One of my favorite trees, the Sassafras, is flaming red now, one of the few to have changed so brilliantly in this unusually warm and dry fall in East Texas. Between now and winter is\u00a0the best\u00a0time to clip the leaves and dig up the tenacious roots so as to indulge in a couple of our ancestors\u2019 favorite libations\u2014root beer and Sassafras tea. Gumbo fil\u00e9 is also made from it, which is an essential ingredient in some Cajun cooking.<\/h2>\n

Our ancestors adored it, science calls it a carcinogen. At the same time vast groves of it are grown in regions of the globe more easily controlled, in order to mass extract their\u00a0saffrole<\/em>\u00a0to make a highly concentrated and synthetic version of the popular street drug called ecstasy.<\/h2>\n

https:\/\/kenshohomestead.org\/2016\/11\/11\/science-fraud-and-fantasy-part-1\/<\/a><\/h2>\n

A\u00a0quite undermined\u00a0tree of the South, considering its illustrious origins and conspiratorial fate.\u00a0 It is a tree widely cultivated in Asia-Pacific as an essential ingredient to the popular drug, or versions of it anyway, generally called \u201cecstasy\u201d.<\/h2>\n

At first, like cannabis, it was classified among the most harmful of substances by the FDA, though our ancestors had previously been very acquainted and attached to these and so many other suddenly\u00a0\u2018dangerous\u2019 plants. Then while\u00a0they were deemed \u201ccarcinogenic\u201d by our government, simultaneously expanding was its\u00a0cultivation in foreign countries for the manufacture of street drugs.\u00a0 This was actually before \u201cPoppy Bush\u201d but perhaps setting that very precedent for the former\u00a0president?!<\/h2>\n

While I\u2019ve no idea how to make the popular street drug, I can assure you it makes a deliciously fragrant tea, traditional root beer, and gumbo fil\u00e9 powder.<\/h2>\n

https:\/\/kenshohomestead.org\/2018\/04\/19\/more-foraged-favorites\/<\/a><\/h2>\n

As for the drug version, I did come across this for any who wish to research further along those lines.<\/h2>\n

\u201cThe most common synthetic routes for production of MDA, MDMA, MDE (MDEA), and MDOH are from the precursor MDP-2-P. To get MDP-2-P first a natural source of safrole is acquired. Safrole can be extracted from sassafras oil, nutmeg oil, or several other sources which have been abundantly documented in Chemical Abstracts over the years. The safrole is then easily isomerized into isosafrole when heated with NaOH or KOH.\u201d<\/em><\/h2>\n

Zubrick, James W. \u201cThe Organic Chem Lab Survival Manual: A Students Guide to Techniques.\u201d ISBN #0471575046. Wiley John&Sons Inc. 3rd ed.<\/h2>\n

Some partial information from\u00a0The Druid\u2019s Garden<\/a>, visit her post for much more!<\/h2>\n

RTWT<\/a><\/h2>\n

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H\/T Kensho Homestead   Sassafras Tree   Sassafras Sassafras albidum I\u2019ve written several times about this tree in past posts and have been meaning to include it in the\u00a0Herbal Explorations\u00a0for some time. Thanks once again to\u00a0Gavin Mounsey\u00a0for putting a bee in my bonnet! His contributions are featured below. A quick peak at a couple of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[14154,14101,398,399,2161,496,5481,15551],"tags":[7334,17216,8989,5823,18128,18127],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79170"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79183,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79170\/revisions\/79183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}