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What type of tree was used as asprin?

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What type of tree was used as asprin?

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Willow – it has been used (as you mention) since antiquity for treatment of pain. Willow’s latin name – salix, give us salicylic acid, the active ingredient in aspirin. Its use goes back even further than Hippocrates, as his writings referred to even older remedies.