2007-01-09 09:16:33 · 15 answers · asked by mac 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
1- Ancient Egyptians took an infusion of dried myrtle leaves to treat muscle pain, while Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, prescribed willow bark tea for the pain of childbirth. The active ingredient of both these remedies is salicylic acid - aspirin's active ingredient.
2- In 1758 the Reverend Edward Stone of Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, chewed a twig of white willow to ease pain and fever. He was so impressed with its effect that he wrote to the Royal Society in 1763 to alert them to its benefits.
3- In 1835 the German chemist Karl Jakob Lowig found a second source of salicyclic acid in Meadowsweet (Spiraea ulmaria), a wild flowering plant that grows on riverbanks.
4- By 1853 salicylic acid was successfully being synthesised in the laboratory, enabling mass production for the first time. But while it was effective in reducing fever and relieving pain, its side-effects were unpleasant: severe irritation of the mouth, oesophagus and stomach.
2007-01-09 09:20:27 · answer #1 · answered by slipstream 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Aspirin is originally from the bark of the willow tree . Though nowadays the formula ,Acetyl Salicylic acid is produced in the laboratory.
It was widely used as a medication by the South American Indians as their cure for tropically disease fever.
2007-01-12 05:49:36 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Willow tree
2007-01-09 17:23:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Think it is derived from the bark of the willow tree.
2007-01-09 17:20:42 · answer #4 · answered by Daisy the cow 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Distilled bark of the white willow tree. It was used in witchcraft against the pain of torture inflicted to the witches.
Smile.
2007-01-09 18:13:32 · answer #5 · answered by Nicolette 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It comes from the Willow tree in the form of acetylsalicylic acid.
2007-01-09 17:21:39 · answer #6 · answered by tucksie 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The bark of the willow tree.
2007-01-09 17:25:39 · answer #7 · answered by Chris H 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The weeping willow tree, but I dont think a cricket bat over the head wood! (lol)
2007-01-09 17:21:49 · answer #8 · answered by cassie s 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Salix - willow tree
2007-01-09 19:10:42 · answer #9 · answered by rosie recipe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it comes from a tree called willow. love birds feed on it and they breed very often
2007-01-09 17:22:48 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋