Pure is the word at Medicine Woods; syrup or drugs it's the same thing.

Between times I can fell every tree I'll need for the new cabin, and average a dollar a day besides on spice, alder, and willow, and twice that for sassafras for the Onabasha markets; not to mention the quantities I can dry this year.

Aside from spring tea, they seem to use it for everything.

I never yet have had enough.

It goes into half the tonics, anodyne, and stimulants; also soap and candy.