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SASSAFRAS
WHEN I WAS 8
YEARS OLD MY DAD USE TO GIVE US QUININE TABLETS EVERY DAY. HE BELIEVED IN
PREVENTATIVE MEDICINE BEFORE PEOPLE KNEW WHAT THAT MEANT. WE ALWAYS HAD A
BIG BOTTLE OF QUININE TABLETS IN THE MIDDLE OF OUR BIG ROUND KITCHEN
TABLE.
AT BREAKFAST
EACH MORNING MY BROTHER AND I HAD TO SWALLOW ONE OF THOSE EVIL TASTING
TABLETS BEFORE WE COULD HAVE ANYTHING TO EAT. THIS WAS IN 1940 AND A LOT
OF PEOPLE IN EAST TEXAS TOOK QUININE TABLETS BECAUSE OF ALL THE
MOSQUITOES.
I COULDN’T
UNDERSTAND WHY I HAD TO TAKE THESE PILLS IN THE WINTER TIME WHEN THERE
WERE NO MOSQUITOES, BUT DAD SAID WE HAD TO AND THAT MADE IT LAW. WHILE
DAD TOOK HIS PILL EACH MORNING, I NOTICED THAT MOTHER NEVER TOUCH THE EVIL
THINGS. BUT I KNOW ENOUGH NOT TO SAY ANYTHING ABOUT IT. BUT THAT’S A
WHOLE NOTHER STORY FOR A DIFFERENT TIME.
NOW DAD HAD
ANOTHER BELIEF THAT HE IMPOSED ON US. ON THE FIRST WEEK END OF MARCH EACH
YEAR, WE WOULD GO TO THE WOODS AND FIND SOME SASSAFRAS SAPLINGS AND DIG UP
SOME OF THE ROOTS. WE WOULD TAKE THEM HOME AND MOTHER WOULD BOIL THEM AND
MAKE A STRONG TEA.
YOU SEE DAD
THOUGHT THAT EVERY SPRING YOUR SYSTEM NEEDED A GOOD FLUSHING OUT. HE SAID
AFTER A WINTER OF STAYING INSIDE SO MUCH WE WERE FULL OF GERMS AND WE HAD
TO FLUSH OUT THE GERMS.
SO WE HAD TO
DRINK A BIG CUP OF THAT SASSAFRAS TEA AND BELIEVE ME, IT FLUSHED OUT
EVERYTHING IN YOU. IN FACT IT TURNED YOU WRONG SIDE OUT! EACH PERSON IN
THE FAMILY HAD THEIR OWN ROLL OF TOILET PAPER.
AFTER THAT
SPRING RITUAL WE WERE SUPPOSE TO BE IN GOOD HEALTH UNTIL THE NEXT WINTER.
I GUESS IT MOST HAVE WORKED BECAUSE I NEVER GOT SICK IN THE SUMMER TIME.
BUT I SURE HATED TO SEE THE FIRST WEEK END OF MARCH ROLL AROUND EACH YEAR.
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