Plant Details

Accepted name:: Sassafras albidum (Nutt.) Nees [Lauraceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
ague tree	Other	Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
cinnamon wood	Other	Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007)
fenchelholzbaum	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
filé	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
sa ssafrás	Other	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)
saloop	Other	Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007)
sasafras	Other	Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacopée: Liste A (2000)
sasafrás	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
sassafras	Other	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) Jamaican Root Tonics (Mitchell, 2011) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
sassafras officinale	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
sassafras oil	Other	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020)
saxifrax	Other	Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007)
silky sassifras	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
white sassafras	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
wood, root		Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacopée: Liste A (2000)
Inner root bark		Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007)
root, resin	oil	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
leaf		Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
bark, root, oil		Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
bark, root	essential oil, powdered drug, vegetal drug	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 20 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Sassafras albidum var. molle (Raf.) Fernald Rhodora 38: 179 (1936).
Sassafras officinale T.Nees & C.H.Eberm. Handb. Med.-Pharm. Bot. 2: 418 (1831), nom. superfl.
Sassafras officinale var. albidum (Nutt.) S.F.Blake Rhodora 20: 99 (1918).
Sassafras sassafras (L.) H.Karst. Deut. Fl.: 505 (1881), not validly publ.
Laurus albida Loudon ex Meisn. in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1): 513 (1864), not validly publ.
Laurus albida Nutt. Gen. N. Amer. Pl. 1: 259 (1818).
Laurus diversifolia Stokes Bot. Mat. Med. 2: 426 (1812), nom. superfl.
Laurus salsafraz Noronha Verh. Batav. Genootsch. Kunsten 5(4): 19 (1790), nom. nud.
Laurus sassafras L. Sp. Pl.: 371 (1753).
Laurus variifolia Salisb. Prodr. Stirp. Chap. Allerton: 344 (1796), nom. superfl.
Persea sassafras (L.) Spreng. Syst. Veg., ed. 16. 2: 270 (1825).
Sassafras albidum f. moldenkei Oswald Phytologia 7: 321 (1961).
Sassafras laurus Macloskie Torreya 5: 198 (1905), nom. superfl.
Sassafras officinarum J.Presl in F.Berchtold & J.S.Presl, Přir. Rostlin Aneb. Rostl. 2: 68 (1825).
Sassafras rubrum Raf. Sylva Tellur.: 134 (1838).
Sassafras triloba Raf. Autik. Bot.: 85 (1840), nom. superfl.
Sassafras triloba var. mollis Raf. Autik. Bot.: 85 (1840).
Sassafras variifolium Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 574 (1891).
Sassafras variifolium var. albidum (Nutt.) Fernald Rhodora 15: 16 (1913).
Tetranthera albida (Nutt.) Spreng. Syst. Veg., ed. 16. 2: 267 (1825).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Sassafras albicus	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Sassafras albidum	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020) Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007)
Sassafras albidum (Nutt.) Nees	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998) Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Sassafras albidum (Nutt.) Nees.	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) Jamaican Root Tonics (Mitchell, 2011)
Sassafras albidum (Nuttall) Nees	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Sassafras albidum var. molle	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
Sassafras officinale Nees et Eberm.	Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacopée: Liste A (2000)
Sassafras officinale Nees et Ebermayer	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Sassafras officinale Nees et Ebermayer var. albidum Blake	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Sassafras officinale Ness & Eberm.	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
Sassafras officinale T.Nees & Eberm.	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
Sassafras sassafras (L.) H.Karst.	Med. Pl. Braz. Pharm. (Brandão et al., 2006)

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