poke salet has to be picked when it's very young and then boiled to get all the toxins out (the dark berries on it are poison) It tastes like spinach and is full of vitamins. It's one of the first greens growing after winter, so long ago that was the only fresh vegetables people had before the gardens came in. Did you know green pine needles have more vitamin C then any other food? Sasasfras root will fortify your immune system. My grandmother use to make tea from sassafras roots every spring to 'clean the blood'. In the winter time she made tea from green pine needles when fresh fruit wasn't available. I can't remember a time when any of us kids or family members were sick with the flu or had any illness at all other then a cold now and then. And we were told because we didn't keep our hand clean was why we got a cold.