Comments on: How To Get Natural Aspirin From The Woods https://prepperswill.com/how-to-get-natural-aspirin-from-the-woods/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-get-natural-aspirin-from-the-woods We have the will to outlast everything! Preppers Since 2014! Sat, 28 Aug 2021 21:25:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Survivormann99 https://prepperswill.com/how-to-get-natural-aspirin-from-the-woods/#comment-73470 Sat, 28 Aug 2021 21:25:59 +0000 https://prepperswill.com/?p=14351#comment-73470 I have no training in medicine or pharmaceutical matters (but I did stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night). I have read numerous survival site articles about the use of salicylic acid for pain, but I did not have the necessary knowledge to determine whether the articles gave useful advice or not.

All I can tell you is that in the BBC-produced series, “Pain, Pus, & Poison,” the development of aspirin, among many other things, is discussed. In it, it is mentioned that salicylic acid that was produced from coal tar brought down fevers, but it had no effect on pain.

Dr. Walter Sneader, former head of the School of Pharmacy of the University of Strathclyde, said that he keeps hearing about the use of salicylic acid in ancient times. He concedes that ancient people may have used salicylic acid as pain killers but, he says, “[T]hey didn’t work.” Put simply, without salicylic acid’s combination with another compound (please excuse me, but I can’t understand the word he used because of 1) my lack of pharmacological training, and, 2) his British accent), simple salicylic acid has no effect on pain.

Once German scientists figured out how to synthesize the new compound christened “Aspirin” they were off to the races and Bayer made it the world’s No. 1 best-selling pain killer.

My advice is to stock up on aspirin. It is cheap and plentiful everywhere now, and no serious prepper’s medicine cabinet should be without it.

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