Its scientific name is Smilax Aspera and is of the family of the Liliaceae. It is native to Asia, Africa and Europe. The sarsaparilla is a perennial vine plant that stays green 365 days a year and can reach about 15 meters in length. Its thorny branches cling and thrive on the branches of trees or grow in shrubby layers. It is a shrub with thin, voluble stems, one to two meters long and spiny, leaves petiolate, alternate, rough, with many nerves, chordal, and persistent, cream-yellow flowers in axillary clusters, the fruits in the form of globose berries such as peas and fibrous and almost cylindrical roots sarsaparilla is very common in forests, hedges and shrubby areas. It contains saponin glycosides, resin, and essential oil, which confer diuretic, sudorific, purifying, aperitive and toning properties. Some add to these virtues a supposed hypolipidemic activity, that is, the property of lowering body fats.