With the sassafras.....it is recorded that the Choctaw introduced....I know this is going to shock some of us....file' like in file' gumbo seasoning to the first Europeans.....it's made from sassafras leaves. No, was not the Cajuns....they adopted it from the NA East of the Mississippi. And, some of the natural "drugs" that the ancient one's used are toxic if the wrong amount is used....healing if correct weight with the person's age and health which our ancestors had figured out correctly. They even had birth control herbs that worked....not the counting days as with moon times, etc. We've gone backwards with a lot of thing it seems. TT ----- Original Message ----- From: <TalliyaSoutheast@aol.com> To: <creek-southeast@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 12:04 PM Subject: [CREEK-SOUTHEAST] Traditional Creek medicines used in contemporaryhealth treatments > Yes, it is true that quite a few herbal medicines traditionally used by > the Creeks, are in use today by contemporary medical practitioners. In > addition, would you believe . . . that the psychedelic drug, ecstasy, is > made > from sassafras oil - i.e. grandma's old remedy for many things, sassafras > tea? > > A man involved in healthcare wrote this email to me today, so I thought I > would pass it on. > > Remember that several "modern drugs" did come from Native Americans but of > course the synthetic meds did not. Next to proper identification of herbs > and other medicinal plants the next obstacle is being sure you come up > with > a proper metered dosage. This can be tricky because concentrations can > differ from one plant to another and can further be affected by a rainy > season > or drought conditions. When dealing with medicinal plants that are > alkaloids it is easy to cause a shift in ph by taking too many are too > frequent dosages of alkaloids. > > > Richard T. > Notes on the Creek Indians > http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/creeknotes/index.htm > > Early Creek History > http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/creek/early-history/ > > Migration Legend of the Creek Indians > http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/creek/migration/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > CREEK-SOUTHEAST-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message