I am a very strong advocate of eating like our great grandparents. It was a way of eating (and quality of food) that was proven to work over thousands of years.
I have been collecting and grinding my own file for 60 years. To use for thickening it should be collected and dried just before the leaves are fully formed in the spring. Roots can be harvested any time, but have more intense flavor if dug in the winter. The flavor is concentrated in the inner bark. I scrub, then scrape the outer bark, before peeling the inner bark for drying out of the sun.
I think it is illegal now to sell sassafras root. However, file powder for file gumbo is sassafras leaf. I think the reasons for its ban were political not medical (a can of beer is more threat to your liver than sassafras. Duke 2002) Safrole is used in many products and drugs and that is why it is controlled. However, the trees are very abundant in the South and very easy to come by.
I heard old Justin Wison,, the cajun chef, say that the leaves are only good for picking a certain time of the year. November or maybe it was Feb, 🤷🏼♀️ Anyway.. im.glad I stumbled here to ask a real Botanists opinion.. Thank Dean 😀👍✌
From my experience, around here (central Indiana) for flat well drained abandoned fields/lots, its often the 3rd tree to pop up. Right after Cedar and Mulberry.
Great Vid Green Deane, one thing you didn't mention. If you rub a sassafras leave on your skin it will repel mosquitos and other biting insects. Further if you drink sassafras tea regularly you will have this natural insect repellent eminating from your pores and be much less bothered by the skeeters chiggers and such. I can personally attest to the drinking of the tea helping but I've never tested the leaf to skin method.
hoosierarcher Are you harvesting it yourself or getting it from someone locally that's selling it ?...because it's almost impossible to find ,unless you see it somewhere and get the root yourself. I used to drink it as the kid when it was sold in a local health food store.. then of course they took it off the market .
Our front yard has been grass for over a hundred years and while digging a ditch we dug out a huge wonderful smelling sassafras root, I guess it doesn't rot as much as the other kinds of trees in WV
While I like and respect science and empiricism I have lived long enough to know that experts can use science to be dogmatic and very wrong. Ancel Keyes and our hysteria about eating fat is an excellent example. Dr. James Duke showed in 2002 that safrole was essentially hamless in small amounts. By the way, there is old but good research that shows those who drink sassafras tea suffer far less colds than others.
@APBiologyNerd a 2002 study by the Dr. Duke shows that the safrole in a can of rootbeer was/is less cancer-causing than the alcohol in a can of beer. The rat study was a pretext in that safrole was being used in the 60s to induce abortion which were illegal then.
i have 4 massive 1 foot across 50ft tall sassafras trees in my yard and im in Missouri. that's crazy that they can be 1k years old ill have to look up the one in Kentucky
It looks as if you have had some recent guests eating some of those delicious sassafras leaves. It is the host plant the one and only plant that the caterpillar for the spicebush swallowtail and the Tiger Swallowtail butterfly.
I went rummaging around out side and found one plant still flowering, so maybe I can get one in this season after all. But, it will be a while before the fruit is large enough to photograph.
It grows naturally in Eastern North America, Texas to Ontario. However, you can plant some and they will grow in California. I have no idea how commercially made products differ. There is only one species of sassafras so any sassafras is sassafras.
@EatTheWeeds Thanks for the reply! I've been in the Shawnee Natn'l Forrest in the Southern part of the state and plan to go back. I will be on the lookout for the 'Sas! Maybe Sasquatch eats Sassafras?
This plant is all over the place in the woods of south Eastern New England. It was in A&W Root Beer Extract when I used to buy it before I went in the Army in 1978, and was not in it when I became a civilian in 1982.
A&W is garbage. I was born in the 80s, and I heard my parents' generation praise it, but whenever I had an A&W root beer, I was always disappointed. I had one recently out of desperation and it's exceptionally watery. A real tragic end to something that must have tasted so great.
Your videos r not only great with information, but u present them so most people can understand. The world of plant names is so bizarre and loooooooongg, it is easy 2 loose interest in the botanical world. But u have made it easy and interesting 4 us common folk.
Hi Green Deane, I have a question, im in Australia, and we have sassafras Trees not shrubs, i wanted to know if they are the same thing, the leaves dont look the same they have no thumbs and also have like spikes or flames on the edges, they do smell of a sweety fruit loop kind of smell, and i just made some tea from the leaves, it was beautiful, i hope i cooked up the right sassafras. cheers.
@Omnignosis Sassafras likes openings and or edges. The USDA maps say Sassafrass doesn't grow in northern Illinois, but is rather abundant in the lower two thirds of the state.
@JimmyDationStudios Thanks guys. I'm sure it was fun and you even mentioned Eat The Weeds. Ya know... putting plant's latin names to music would be unique, and sound real different. Again, thanks. Folks, please visit their video.
Hey Dean, would Sarasota be too far south to find the sassafras? I've done some research and founding varying maps of the distribution of this tree. Some note it as growing all the way to the southern tip of Florida.
Very good video... I have been drinking sassafras tea since I was a boy. I was wondering if you could give me some tips on how to find the sassafras in winter? It's very easy to spot in summer and I make tea from the branches in summer but always find it hard to spot the trees in winter when I want to go after the roots for a stronger tea. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks
Whoever say don't stir that filé into your gumbo must have been from up North. It's not a spice, flavoring or condiment. How you gonna thicken dat gumbo, if you don't mix it in, Cheŕ?
The USDA says it stops mid-state with Hernando and Orange counties. I'm in Seminole County and I don't see it too often. Here it is a spindly small tree.
I found sassafras leaves with an extra two little knobs on each side.. 5 lobes in all (two are very small). They were about 6 inches long; surely sassasfras though.
Man, I can;t find this tree anywhere. I live in northern IL. Does it like forests or open areas? I spend most the time in the woods. Can't find Pawpaws either :( lol.
I've found the roots in the bulk food section of one super market. File is certainly available commercially in Louisiana. I get it that you're looking for the plant, but thought you might consider other options.
Yes but.... that was a political decision not a medical one per se. The amount of safrole in a can of root beer was less cancer causing than the alcohol in a can of beer. Duke, 2002, showed the ban was a farce from a cancer point of view. However, in large doses it was used back then to induce abortions which were illegal then. And that is why it was banned. The cancer element was a scare tactic to get the legislation passed.
Hey, EatTheWeeds. Can you please check out sassafras on JimmyDationStudios. I think you would really like it. We even mention you in it. please leave a comment so we know that you saw it. Thank you for your time.
I thought I had found a bunch of Sassafras on the side of my house, now I'm not so sure. It has "Turkey foot," "mitten," and "pointy oval" leaves on it. The leaves feel like sand paper to the touch, also, upon further inspection, I find it is growing on a single tall stalk. I'm not sure what it is now.
awesome! thank you for you rapid r response. I googled imaged searched sassafras tree is a sassafras tree that is huge It says the tree us estimated up to 300 years old . check it out rather very interesting
I know- I wasnt meaning to say you were wrong. There have been lots of hypes... and what's okay for us to eat today might tomorrow be decreed a poison due to silly reasons
I dont know if there is a plant that will actually IMPROVE eyesight.. once its bad it seems to stay that way, unfortunately. But you could look up foods good for eye health to try and stop it from getting much worse. Honestly I'm not sure about those claims though cause I was a carrot-eating kid and I still have poor eyesight. I'd need proper coke-bottle glasses if we still used plain glass lenses.
HeatherC19 Yes but you also need healthy fats the brain and the whole neurological system need healthy fats good fats to stay healthy and that includes the optic nerve it's very important that's why I often will eat three soft boiled eggs I make some toast I butter it and then cut it into strips and you just dip it into the eggs it's also good idea to add fresh cracked black pepper I say fresh cracked not the kind that's already a powder because an ayurvedic medicine which is thousands of years old black pepper when it is fresh and has the enzymes will help make sure that some of the important nutrients and minerals are absorbed into the body because sometimes they cannot easily be absorbed for example the body cannot easily absorbed curcumin from turmeric... but it becomes at least 1000 times more bioavailable with fresh cracked black pepper so you might want to think about having the soft boiled eggs regularly as well as having raw milk buy raw milk I mean grass-fed cows no hormones not homogenized and especially not pasteurized meaning not boiled rule of thumb that which reverses aging of the skin reverses aging of the brain that was reverses aging and the Brain reverses aging of the skin ; hence the Brain /Beauty connection . You should go to some of the channels that talk about these natural healers one is the superfoods Evolution Channel there's also the Nyishar Channel. There's also Butterfly Pea Tea , botanical name Clitoria Ternatea.. which is a beautiful blue flower on a vine similar to the Blue Morning Glory put maybe four five six of those flower buds and let it steep for at least 20 minutes. That's another thing, when it comes to herbs and herbal teas most Americans don't know you need to let them steep for at least 20 minutes. You might want to increase your vitamin C but don't do this just threw lemons if you have an Indian or Indian Pakistani Grocers near you then you are very lucky because most of them sell amla amla is also called Indian Gooseberry and its fruit has at least 30 times more vitamin C than lemons or oranges of course it is sour tasting it usually comes in a powder or a liquid but if you could grow them ..that would be wonderful. The reason why vitamin C is so important is because it has what are called donor cells anything that I've mentioned here can be looked up on the internet as well as CZcams also please look into your microgreens any of them like your Sprouts but especially broccoli sprouts please look into them there are very powerful healer and usually don't cost much dr. Rhonda Patrick here on CZcams shows you how you can grow them wheatgrass is another one. If you can find or grow the black Chinese wolfberry it is much much much more powerful than the reddish-pink goji berry that so many people believe in. I had wonderful results with reversing aging with that but I can't afford it I'm really struggling and have health problems which brings me to another thing a lot of these healers that I named are so powerful that when there are working you can end up in a lot of pain aches and pains and feeling quite ill because if you have any pathogens or viruses or anything going on your body that shouldn't be there these Healers will attack it. This is called the herxheimer effect some refer to it as getting hoechst I have been through it myself and only more recently realized what was happening to me and the after learning about being herxed found out what i needed to do to feel better. If by any chance you should be doing any of those superfoods and healers and feel yourself getting ill and realize you're having the herxheimer effect one of the best things to do is take the powdered bentonite clay you can buy a pretty big container of it by the NOW company for $15 or you can take finally powdered diatomaceous earth. I know that my vision problems are slowly reversing because back in November my eye doctor told me that i needed a stronger prescription for my glasses but then about two months later i had to revert back to my old pair of glasses which i had for 3 years or longer because they were making everything too blurry . That was weird because at first those new glasses were a godsend . Also you know you could have an absorption problem and if a person has an absorption problem then it is harder for them simply to absorb certain nutrients and vitamins also certain illnesses will contribute to vision problems and are part of the syndrome but many American and Western doctors don't know this or won't tell you this
This is continuing( about your eyesight ) So like I said if you have an absorption problem which a lot of Americans do you might want to look into doing a very small amount of pure gum Spirits turpentine but please do not buy the kind from the hardware store Like Home Depot or paint shop or an artist supply shop because those are usually a waste product from paper mills and are processed through a petroleum distillate which makes them very dangerous I always recommend Diamond G Forest brand from Georgia it is a clear liquid and smells a little bit like watered-down sambuca is very strong very powerful I would not do anything more than a quarter teaspoon with some sugar then skip a day then do it again then skip a day do it one more time then maybe wait a couple weeks to see how your body reacts. People from the mountainous areas like the Appalachians do it about once a month I hear they do a teaspoon which I think can be awfully strong at first for a lot of people that's why I recommend starting off easy and they always do it with some sugar. If you have something like pernicious anemia that will make it almost impossible for you to make vitamin B12 or possibly the whole B complex I forget but some of those B vitamins are very important for vision pernicious anemia is no joke ... before the days of vitamin B shots people could actually die from it... I have had it all my life and it just will make you tired all the time extremely tired no matter what you do. If you have the H pylori bacteria and many people do yet don't know it ..also their doctors don't bother to tell them that it sets up a whole syndrome.. you will have an absorption problem ..i had a bleeding ulcer when i was only 18 years old ..a stomach ulcer.. it has come back off and on over the decades ...powerful healers such as the pure gum Spirits turpentine i told you about really can make a difference. Also if you're doing any big Pharma drugs at all I said get off of them because every single one of those things has side effects most of them are really bad the rule of thumb all you have to remember is this big Pharma drugs take out of your body something it needs whereas natural from plants ,roots ,flowers.. whatever ,natural healers give your body something it needs.
It's a true story. Her name was Grace Rash. Her husband was a doctor and he worked hard to get the tree named the national champion. He passed on and it happened just as I said about six years later. They were going to take it down and she met them with a shotgun...
Regina Dickerson I think will Never be there . We can turn our volume down to zero but are limited to how high it will go . Mine stays on full blast and that's not good for many youtube videos except for the advertising
My goodness, with the economy the way it is u should be getting so many more viewers then what u have. Free food, hey a great new buisness. Cheap lanscaping company will turn your weeds into a great green drink. Oh sorry, might not work. It is easier 2 just buy stuff with your food stamp card. And the survivors in this world will be the green lovers. Amen.
I am a very strong advocate of eating like our great grandparents. It was a way of eating (and quality of food) that was proven to work over thousands of years.
I have been collecting and grinding my own file for 60 years. To use for thickening it should be collected and dried just before the leaves are fully formed in the spring.
Roots can be harvested any time, but have more intense flavor if dug in the winter. The flavor is concentrated in the inner bark. I scrub, then scrape the outer bark, before peeling the inner bark for drying out of the sun.
I think it is illegal now to sell sassafras root. However, file powder for file gumbo is sassafras leaf. I think the reasons for its ban were political not medical (a can of beer is more threat to your liver than sassafras. Duke 2002) Safrole is used in many products and drugs and that is why it is controlled. However, the trees are very abundant in the South and very easy to come by.
I heard old Justin Wison,, the cajun chef, say that the leaves are only good for picking a certain time of the year. November or maybe it was Feb, 🤷🏼♀️ Anyway.. im.glad I stumbled here to ask a real Botanists opinion.. Thank Dean 😀👍✌
My friend Dick Deuerling said he found a sassafras tree once that had all five-lobed leaves. He also said he found a tree once with no aroma.
There is a vine thats leaves look almost exactly like sassafras leaves but doesn’t have the smell
Just discovered I have sassafras trees on my land! Thank you for your time, knowledge, and efforts, Sir. Great vid!!
James A. Duke made an extensive study of it in 2002. Consuming sassafras does not worry me at all.
From my experience, around here (central Indiana) for flat well drained abandoned fields/lots, its often the 3rd tree to pop up. Right after Cedar and Mulberry.
Thanks for being such a fine teacher!! Love your vids.
Great Vid Green Deane, one thing you didn't mention. If you rub a sassafras leave on your skin it will repel mosquitos and other biting insects. Further if you drink sassafras tea regularly you will have this natural insect repellent eminating from your pores and be much less bothered by the skeeters chiggers and such. I can personally attest to the drinking of the tea helping but I've never tested the leaf to skin method.
hoosierarcher
Are you harvesting it yourself or getting it from someone locally that's selling it ?...because it's almost impossible to find ,unless you see it somewhere and get the root yourself.
I used to drink it as the kid when it was sold in a local health food store.. then of course they took it off the market .
Our front yard has been grass for over a hundred years and while digging a ditch we dug out a huge wonderful smelling sassafras root, I guess it doesn't rot as much as the other kinds of trees in WV
I can remember the real stuff... I used to love root beer... now it seems closer to bubble gum in taste than root beer.
Thanks... it would be nice to see one that old... I'd even hang around to see it...
While I like and respect science and empiricism I have lived long enough to know that experts can use science to be dogmatic and very wrong. Ancel Keyes and our hysteria about eating fat is an excellent example. Dr. James Duke showed in 2002 that safrole was essentially hamless in small amounts. By the way, there is old but good research that shows those who drink sassafras tea suffer far less colds than others.
@APBiologyNerd a 2002 study by the Dr. Duke shows that the safrole in a can of rootbeer was/is less cancer-causing than the alcohol in a can of beer. The rat study was a pretext in that safrole was being used in the 60s to induce abortion which were illegal then.
i have 4 massive 1 foot across 50ft tall sassafras trees in my yard and im in Missouri. that's crazy that they can be 1k years old ill have to look up the one in Kentucky
It looks as if you have had some recent guests eating some of those delicious sassafras leaves. It is the host plant the one and only plant that the caterpillar for the spicebush swallowtail and the Tiger Swallowtail butterfly.
I love your channel!! Thanks for taking the time out to make these vids!
Nice video. I'm from Owensboro and we are quite proud of our magnificent sassafras tree. Thank you for the memories. I grew up with sassafras tea.
There's some along the Wekiva Seminole bike trail.
I went rummaging around out side and found one plant still flowering, so maybe I can get one in this season after all. But, it will be a while before the fruit is large enough to photograph.
It grows naturally in Eastern North America, Texas to Ontario. However, you can plant some and they will grow in California. I have no idea how commercially made products differ. There is only one species of sassafras so any sassafras is sassafras.
Thank you, I suppose. I don't own a TV and haven't watched it for around 40 years.
@EatTheWeeds
Thanks for the reply! I've been in the Shawnee Natn'l Forrest in the Southern part of the state and plan to go back. I will be on the lookout for the 'Sas!
Maybe Sasquatch eats Sassafras?
Wow, a thousand years. Great video!
This plant is all over the place in the woods of south Eastern New England. It was in A&W Root Beer Extract when I used to buy it before I went in the Army in 1978, and was not in it when I became a civilian in 1982.
And rootbeer hasn't tasted the same since...
A&W is garbage. I was born in the 80s, and I heard my parents' generation praise it, but whenever I had an A&W root beer, I was always disappointed. I had one recently out of desperation and it's exceptionally watery. A real tragic end to something that must have tasted so great.
Your videos r not only great with information, but u present them so most people can understand. The world of plant names is so bizarre and loooooooongg, it is easy 2 loose interest in the botanical world. But u have made it easy and interesting 4 us common folk.
You have to be the coolest person!! The only other person I met like you is the medicine man on the reservation in NY
Hi in western north Carolina the large sassafras trees can have 5 different leaf shapes.
It also has a plain leaf. I have sassafras growing all over the edges of my yard.
Love your video, your a great teacher.Thanks for sharing :)
Hi Green Deane, I have a question, im in Australia, and we have sassafras Trees not shrubs,
i wanted to know if they are the same thing, the leaves dont look the same they have no thumbs and also have like spikes or flames on the edges, they do smell of a sweety fruit loop kind of smell, and i just made some tea from the leaves, it was beautiful, i hope i cooked up the right sassafras.
cheers.
I love your website, I didn't realize you had a youtube channel.
@Omnignosis Sassafras likes openings and or edges. The USDA maps say Sassafrass doesn't grow in northern Illinois, but is rather abundant in the lower two thirds of the state.
My grandfather and I used to pick sassafras root. Great video.
I think they are past season, but if not I will try. If so, then in the spring. I do have an article on them at my website eattheweeds
Thank you for this program' you just don't know when you will need this kind of knowledge
@JimmyDationStudios Thanks guys. I'm sure it was fun and you even mentioned Eat The Weeds. Ya know... putting plant's latin names to music would be unique, and sound real different. Again, thanks. Folks, please visit their video.
Great... it also does not grow too fast. I think mine put on .25 of an inch this year... just think... It could be around in 3000 AD...
my favorite wild edibles videos! thanks
Hey Dean, would Sarasota be too far south to find the sassafras? I've done some research and founding varying maps of the distribution of this tree. Some note it as growing all the way to the southern tip of Florida.
I would like to see a video on the best way to get the roots.
I am in Texas and I found a parch but they are pilosa, while the ones you show donnot look pilosa. Is it a different species?
Very good video... I have been drinking sassafras tea since I was a boy.
I was wondering if you could give me some tips on how to find the sassafras in winter? It's very easy to spot in summer and I make tea from the branches in summer but always find it hard to spot the trees in winter when I want to go after the roots for a stronger tea. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks
Find it in the summer when it is in full leaf, then tie a ribbon or mark it in some way. That way you can harvest in winter when sap is in roots.
We have hundreds around our home and live in the city!
Josh Kidner
What city is that.. that you have so many of them there ?
i love old-school root beer, hard to find
Thank you for the info.
This is real America
My pleasure... though I'm running out of seasonal material...
Wonderful video!!!
There IS A TREE NEAR ME IN CAPE MAY, LEAF LIKE A SHAMROCK ALMOST, IN SOMEONE'S YARD SO IT WAS ORNAMENTAL I GUESS. ANY IDEA WHAT IT IS?
can sassafras leaves and stems be use to make tea in addition to the roots? please write
@123JumpingJacks Yes, a couple of them.
Whoever say don't stir that filé into your gumbo must have been from up North. It's not a spice, flavoring or condiment. How you gonna thicken dat gumbo, if you don't mix it in, Cheŕ?
i did a line of sas yesterday
pretty mild
The USDA says it stops mid-state with Hernando and Orange counties. I'm in Seminole County and I don't see it too often. Here it is a spindly small tree.
it is considered a sassafras tree or a shrub? I looked online to search for the answer and what I found was it is considered a tree just wondering
Thanks for writing. I'm not sure what you mean by "decrease the minus eye." Got a definition?
Do you have a video on the mullberry bush
I love your voice! You remind me of the voice of Orson on Desperate Housewives!
I found sassafras leaves with an extra two little knobs on each side.. 5 lobes in all (two are very small). They were about 6 inches long; surely sassasfras though.
Its pretty much herbal mdma.. Love it. Great video!
it also has a leaf that has no "thumbs" or "fingers"...just straight oval.
Man, I can;t find this tree anywhere. I live in northern IL. Does it like forests or open areas? I spend most the time in the woods.
Can't find Pawpaws either :( lol.
I've found the roots in the bulk food section of one super market. File is certainly available commercially in Louisiana. I get it that you're looking for the plant, but thought you might consider other options.
Im pretty sure deciduous forrests. They are in Missouri so they are probably in Illinois.
sassafras is a tree... a small, spindly tree but a tree. It has one main trunk. Shrubs have several trunks.
Sassafras leaves get significantly larger, and there's a no thumb variation as well.
How to find a bay tree in the wild?
I would need to know the exact species to answer that.
Yes but.... that was a political decision not a medical one per se. The amount of safrole in a can of root beer was less cancer causing than the alcohol in a can of beer. Duke, 2002, showed the ban was a farce from a cancer point of view. However, in large doses it was used back then to induce abortions which were illegal then. And that is why it was banned. The cancer element was a scare tactic to get the legislation passed.
@AresCassell
you sure? ive seen tons just driving through there
Hey, EatTheWeeds. Can you please check out sassafras on JimmyDationStudios. I think you would really like it. We even mention you in it. please leave a comment so we know that you saw it. Thank you for your time.
Two thumbs up.
Do you think the oil was given a negative light because Dupont canal replace a natural oil with a artificial petroleum-based oil?????
I thought I had found a bunch of Sassafras on the side of my house, now I'm not so sure. It has "Turkey foot," "mitten," and "pointy oval" leaves on it. The leaves feel like sand paper to the touch, also, upon further inspection, I find it is growing on a single tall stalk. I'm not sure what it is now.
awesome! thank you for you rapid r response. I googled imaged searched sassafras tree is a sassafras tree that is huge It says the tree us estimated up to 300 years old . check it out rather very interesting
i hear cicadas i never seen one only in anime i seen a drink made out of that plant
Yasou, Dinos!
Delightful as ever.
can anyone tell me if sassafras survives the winter?
Yes. Deciduous trees lose their leaves in the fall. but it will bud again next spring.
Just a side note it has 4 leaf types. Thumb on left, right, two or no thumb. I still drink the tea i dont care what "they" say.☺
I have eaten Sassafras suckers @ See's Candies until they got discontinued.
I know- I wasnt meaning to say you were wrong. There have been lots of hypes... and what's okay for us to eat today might tomorrow be decreed a poison due to silly reasons
*le sigh* youtube played a Round-Up advertisement before this video. 🙄😑
They are not supposed to. One can mark ads that should not run and that is one that should no.
Leaves yes... the flavor is a bit different.
Sarsparilla
I dont know if there is a plant that will actually IMPROVE eyesight.. once its bad it seems to stay that way, unfortunately. But you could look up foods good for eye health to try and stop it from getting much worse. Honestly I'm not sure about those claims though cause I was a carrot-eating kid and I still have poor eyesight. I'd need proper coke-bottle glasses if we still used plain glass lenses.
HeatherC19
Yes but you also need healthy fats the brain and the whole neurological system need healthy fats good fats to stay healthy and that includes the optic nerve it's very important that's why I often will eat three soft boiled eggs I make some toast I butter it and then cut it into strips and you just dip it into the eggs it's also good idea to add fresh cracked black pepper I say fresh cracked not the kind that's already a powder because an ayurvedic medicine which is thousands of years old black pepper when it is fresh and has the enzymes will help make sure that some of the important nutrients and minerals are absorbed into the body because sometimes they cannot easily be absorbed for example the body cannot easily absorbed curcumin from turmeric... but it becomes at least 1000 times more bioavailable with fresh cracked black pepper so you might want to think about having the soft boiled eggs regularly as well as having raw milk buy raw milk I mean grass-fed cows no hormones not homogenized and especially not pasteurized meaning not boiled rule of thumb that which reverses aging of the skin reverses aging of the brain that was reverses aging and the Brain reverses aging of the skin ; hence the Brain /Beauty connection .
You should go to some of the channels that talk about these natural healers one is the superfoods Evolution Channel there's also the Nyishar Channel.
There's also Butterfly Pea Tea , botanical name Clitoria Ternatea.. which is a beautiful blue flower on a vine similar to the Blue Morning Glory put maybe four five six of those flower buds and let it steep for at least 20 minutes.
That's another thing, when it comes to herbs and herbal teas most Americans don't know you need to let them steep for at least 20 minutes.
You might want to increase your vitamin C but don't do this just threw lemons if you have an Indian or Indian Pakistani Grocers near you then you are very lucky because most of them sell amla amla is also called Indian Gooseberry and its fruit has at least 30 times more vitamin C than lemons or oranges of course it is sour tasting it usually comes in a powder or a liquid but if you could grow them ..that would be wonderful.
The reason why vitamin C is so important is because it has what are called donor cells anything that I've mentioned here can be looked up on the internet as well as CZcams also please look into your microgreens any of them like your Sprouts but especially broccoli sprouts please look into them there are very powerful healer and usually don't cost much dr. Rhonda Patrick here on CZcams shows you how you can grow them wheatgrass is another one.
If you can find or grow the black Chinese wolfberry it is much much much more powerful than the reddish-pink goji berry that so many people believe in.
I had wonderful results with reversing aging with that but I can't afford it I'm really struggling and have health problems which brings me to another thing a lot of these healers that I named are so powerful that when there are working you can end up in a lot of pain aches and pains and feeling quite ill because if you have any pathogens or viruses or anything going on your body that shouldn't be there these Healers will attack it.
This is called the herxheimer effect some refer to it as getting hoechst I have been through it myself and only more recently realized what was happening to me and the after learning about being herxed found out what i needed to do to feel better.
If by any chance you should be doing any of those superfoods and healers and feel yourself getting ill and realize you're having the herxheimer effect one of the best things to do is take the powdered bentonite clay you can buy a pretty big container of it by the NOW company for $15 or you can take finally powdered diatomaceous earth.
I know that my vision problems are slowly reversing because back in November my eye doctor told me that i needed a stronger prescription for my glasses but then about two months later i had to revert back to my old pair of glasses which i had for 3 years or longer because they were making everything too blurry .
That was weird because at first those new glasses were a godsend .
Also you know you could have an absorption problem and if a person has an absorption problem then it is harder for them simply to absorb certain nutrients and vitamins also certain illnesses will contribute to vision problems and are part of the syndrome but many American and Western doctors don't know this or won't tell you this
This is continuing( about your eyesight )
So like I said if you have an absorption problem which a lot of Americans do you might want to look into doing a very small amount of pure gum Spirits turpentine but please do not buy the kind from the hardware store Like Home Depot or paint shop or an artist supply shop because those are usually a waste product from paper mills and are processed through a petroleum distillate which makes them very dangerous I always recommend Diamond G Forest brand from Georgia it is a clear liquid and smells a little bit like watered-down sambuca is very strong very powerful I would not do anything more than a quarter teaspoon with some sugar then skip a day then do it again then skip a day do it one more time then maybe wait a couple weeks to see how your body reacts.
People from the mountainous areas like the Appalachians do it about once a month I hear they do a teaspoon which I think can be awfully strong at first for a lot of people that's why I recommend starting off easy and they always do it with some sugar.
If you have something like pernicious anemia that will make it almost impossible for you to make vitamin B12 or possibly the whole B complex I forget but some of those B vitamins are very important for vision pernicious anemia is no joke ... before the days of vitamin B shots people could actually die from it... I have had it all my life and it just will make you tired all the time extremely tired no matter what you do.
If you have the H pylori bacteria and many people do yet don't know it ..also their doctors don't bother to tell them that it sets up a whole syndrome.. you will have an absorption problem ..i had a bleeding ulcer when i was only 18 years old ..a stomach ulcer.. it has come back off and on over the decades ...powerful healers such as the pure gum Spirits turpentine i told you about really can make a difference.
Also if you're doing any big Pharma drugs at all I said get off of them because every single one of those things has side effects most of them are really bad the rule of thumb all you have to remember is this big Pharma drugs take out of your body something it needs whereas natural from plants ,roots ,flowers.. whatever ,natural healers give your body something it needs.
It's a true story. Her name was Grace Rash. Her husband was a doctor and he worked hard to get the tree named the national champion. He passed on and it happened just as I said about six years later. They were going to take it down and she met them with a shotgun...
there are 4 leaves not 3. He forgot there is also a oval leaf.
autumn ellis
Yes that is very true
Grows like weeds in my backyard.
Efharisto poli...
I think of Goofy when I see it. He said "Sassyfras". ROFL!
@mikejazz22 sell the saplings with this video.
ALLOT OF UR VIDS THE VOLUME JUST ISN'T THERE, NOT PUTTING OUT LEVEL SOUNDS!
Regina Dickerson I think will
Never be there . We can turn our volume down to zero but are limited to how high it will go . Mine stays on full blast and that's not good for many youtube videos except for the advertising
Cancuuuuuun cancuuuuuun!
He's sounds like George Carlin if George Carlin was a calm herb guy. Simmilar accent and speech pattern
I think you have something else.
The root smells kinda like bitch beer. Is this sassafras?
Tastes like fruity pebbles to me.
My goodness, with the economy the way it is u should be getting so many more viewers then what u have. Free food, hey a great new buisness. Cheap lanscaping company will turn your weeds into a great green drink. Oh sorry, might not work. It is easier 2 just buy stuff with your food stamp card. And the survivors in this world will be the green lovers. Amen.