A poultice made from powdered willow bark can be applied topically where you feel pain or tension. Mix powdered willow bark ...

Aspirin is the most widely used drug in the world. In the U.S. alone, roughly 80 billion tablets are consumed annually. In the fifth century B.C., Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, used ...

A new study has found that an extract made from willow bark, the precursor to aspirin, possesses effective broad-spectrum antiviral properties. The discovery may mean we will soon have a new way of ...

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A newly published study reveals that hot willow bark extract shows broad-spectrum antiviral activities that have not been previously identified. The study, designed and carried out by a team of ...