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To: Chuca Marsh who wrote (32703)6/6/1998 8:59:00 AM
From: Bill Jackson  Read Replies (1) of 35569
 
Chuca, sarsaparilla was popular in my youth, both in the UK and here you could buy if from street vendors. A sweet cloying material. Is it made from sassafras? I have never had the tea. If live is not worth living it may be the liver.
My father ate Carters little liver pills every day of his life, when he died they had to kill his liver with a stick.

There are a number of plants that kill browsing animals with tasteless liver poisons. Mushrooms are the commonist, perhaps sassafras eveolved that mechanism to discourage browsers. Peppers evolved hot taste to stop animals from eating their seeds. Birds cannot detect the hotness and are unaffected. A common squirrel eliminator from bird feeders is based on this.

Bill
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