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'''Sassafras''' is a genus of three extant and one extinct species of deciduous trees in the family Lauraceae, and it is native to eastern North America and eastern Asia.<ref name="int"/> The genus is distinguished by its aromatic properties, which have made the tree useful to humans.

== Description Uses=={{Uses|Wounds}}, {{Uses|Cuts}}, {{Uses|Snakebites}}, {{Uses|Curing liver disorders}}, {{Uses|Skin eruptions}}, {{Uses|Blotches}}, {{Uses|Pimples}}, {{Uses|Diarrhea}}, {{Uses|Sore throats}}

Sassafras trees grow from 9–35 m (30–115 ft) tall with many slender sympodial branches, and smooth, orange-brown bark or yellow bark==Parts Used=={{Parts Used|Leaves}}. All parts of the plants are fragrant. The species are unusual in having three distinct leaf patterns on the same plant: unlobed oval, bilobed (mitten-shaped), and trilobed (three-pronged); the leaves are hardly ever five-lobed. Three-lobed leaves are more common in sassafras tzumu and sassafras randaiense than in their North American counterparts, although three-lobed leaves do sometimes occur on sassafras albidum. The young leaves and twigs are quite mucilaginous, and produce a citrus-like scent when crushed. The tiny, yellow flowers are five-petaled; sassafras albidum and sassafras hesperia are dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate trees, while sassafras tzumu and sassafras randaiense have male and female flowers occurring on the same trees. The fruit is a drupe, blue-black when ripe.<ref name="int"/>

The largest known sassafras tree in the world is located in Owensboro==Chemical Composition==Six monoterpenes, 2 sesquiterpenes, 6 allylbenzenes, Kentucky2 propenylbenzenes, 2 acroleins and measures over 100 feet high and 21 feet in circumference1 benzaldehyde derivative were identified. Eleven out of these 19 sassafras constituents are reported for the first time.However, 1′-hydroxysafrole was not detected<ref name="chemical composition"/>

== Uses Common names=={{Common names|kn=|ml=|sa=|ta=|te=|hi=|en=Agrimony}}  ==Properties==*All parts of sassafras plantsReference: Dravya - Substance, including rootsRasa - Taste, stemsGuna - Qualities, twig leavesVeerya - Potency, barkVipaka - Post-digesion effect, flowersKarma - Pharmacological activity, and fruitPrabhava - Therepeutics.===Dravya=== ===Rasa===Tikta (Bitter), have been used for culinaryKashaya (Astringent)===Guna===Laghu (Light), medicinalRuksha (Dry), and aromatic purposesTikshna (Sharp)===Veerya===Ushna (Hot)===Vipaka===Katu (Pungent)===Karma===Kapha, both Vata===Prabhava=== ==Habit=={{Habit|Herb}} ==Identification=====Leaf==={{Leaf|Simple||The leaves may turn yellow while veins remain green in areas where they are endemic and alkaline soils}}<ref name="Leaf"/> ===Flower==={{Flower|Unisexual|2-4cm long|greenish-yellow|5-20|Flowers that appear in areas where they were imported, such as Europe. The wood of sassafras trees has been used as a material for building ships and furniture clusters at the branch ends in Chinaspring}} ===Fruit==={{Fruit||7–10 mm|Yellow, Europe, and the United States, and sassafras played an important role weakly fragrant flowers in the history of the European colonization April; male trees are more showy|dark blue drupes|}} ===Other features=== ==List of the American continent Ayurvedic medicine in which the 16th and 17th centuries. Sassafras twigs have even been herb is used ==* [[Vishatinduka Taila]] as toothbrushes or fire starters.''root juice extract'' *Sassafras leaves and flowers have also been used in salads, and ==Where to flavor fats or cure meatsget the saplings====Mode of Propagation=={{Propagation|Seeds}}.*Numerous Native American tribes used the leaves of sassafras ==How to treat wounds by rubbing the leaves directly into a wound and used different parts of the plant for many medicinal purposes such as treating acne/cultivate==Landscape Uses:Pest tolerant, urinary disordersMassing, and sicknesses that increased body temperatureSpecimen, such as high feversWoodland garden.Requires a deep, fertile, well-drained, lime-free, near neutral soil in sun or light shade<ref name="How to plant/cultivate"/>*Sassafras wood and oil were both used ==Commonly seen growing in dentistryareas=={{Commonly seen|Deciduous woodlands}}, {{Commonly seen|Thickets on rich sandy well-drained soils}}. ==Photo Gallery==<gallery class="left" caption="" widths="140px" heights="140px">File:Odermennig. Early toothbrushes were crafted from sassafras twigs or wood because of its aromatic propertiesjpgFile:Agrimonia eupatoria02.jpgImage:Agrimonia eupatoria MHNT.BOT.2004. Sassafras was also used as an early dental anesthetic and disinfectant0.jpg</gallery> ==References==

<ref name="intchemical composition">[httphttps://www.eflorassciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0031942200974806 "chemical constituents"]</ref> <ref name="Leaf">[https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/all/sassafras-albidum/ "plant decsription]</ref> <ref name="How to plant/cultivate">[https://www.pfaf.org/florataxonuser/plant.aspx?flora_idLatinName=1&taxon_id=129310 Sassafras+albidum "SassafrasCultivation details"]</ref>

== External Links == * [https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/sassafras Sasafras albidum on science direct]* [http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?kempercode=i820 Sasafras albidum on missouri botonical garden]*[https://enwww.wikipediagardeningknowhow.orgcom/ornamental/trees/wikisassafras/what-is-a-sassafras-tree.htm Where Do Sassafras SassafrasTrees Grow]* [https://www.gardeningchannel.com/how-to-grow-a-sassafras-tree/ Sasafras albidum on gardening channel informtion.in]