Willow Bark and Aspirin

When symptoms relief is needed would you choose herbal alternatives or synthesized clones?

Watch: Aspirin and Sex Drive http://health.howstuffworks.com/medicine/medication/aspirin.htm

Consider: 

• Fifth century B.C., Hippocrates wrote about a bitter powder extracted from willow bark that relieved aches pains and reduced fevers.

• In the 1700s, scientist Reverend Edmund Stone wrote of the success with willow bark to cure "agues" or fevers with aches.

With a bit of detective work scientists identified salicin as the part of willow bark that was (1) bitter and (2) good for fever and pain. … [Dr. Frankenstein enters the building]

Garlic and Lemon contains salicylates.   http://thehealthalert.blogspot.com/2012/11/power-to-tonic-nutritional-garlic.html

• … In the 1800’s Italian chemist Piria made salicylic acid from salicin for the first; his relatives used high doses to treat symptoms of arthritis and influenza   http://health.howstuffworks.com/medicine/medication/aspirin.htm

Acetyl Salicylic Acid, the active ingredient in aspirin is a synthetic derivative of salicin, which occurs naturally in the willow tree. http://www.aspirin-foundation.com/what/100.html
 

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