Wonderful eesay ,however it would be more insightful if u had included ayurvedic indian origins and Chinese medicine origins of the this drug the article would b more insightful and whole some.keep up the good work...
This is an interesting suggestion, but my brief attempt to find scholarly citations for the popular conception that traditional Chinese medicine and ayurvedic medicine are at the origins of aspirin don't pull anything up. Given the hard-to-swallow dosing math on willow bark, I suddenly feel just as skeptical about ancient Chinese and Indian origins as I do about ancient Egyptian and Greek origins.
Thank you for sharing this fascinating investigation! During the pandemic I developed an interest in herbal remedies (most notably, mint) for Covid. In my first draft of the Intro section of a review I wrote (link below), I blithely talked about how aspirin started off as an ancient herbal remedy. Cue gameshow wamp-womp. I quickly realized that the citations for that claim were fishy as all hell - and I decided to go with the better documented story of artemisinin instead. Phew!
Wonderful eesay ,however it would be more insightful if u had included ayurvedic indian origins and Chinese medicine origins of the this drug the article would b more insightful and whole some.keep up the good work...
This is an interesting suggestion, but my brief attempt to find scholarly citations for the popular conception that traditional Chinese medicine and ayurvedic medicine are at the origins of aspirin don't pull anything up. Given the hard-to-swallow dosing math on willow bark, I suddenly feel just as skeptical about ancient Chinese and Indian origins as I do about ancient Egyptian and Greek origins.
This is one of my favourite genre of essays: someone goes really, really far to check if a common claim is true. It takes so much work!
Trivial point but Spiraea salicifolia is Bridewort. Meadowsweet is Filipendula ulmaria.
Wow - what an interesting story & terrific read.
Thank you for sharing this fascinating investigation! During the pandemic I developed an interest in herbal remedies (most notably, mint) for Covid. In my first draft of the Intro section of a review I wrote (link below), I blithely talked about how aspirin started off as an ancient herbal remedy. Cue gameshow wamp-womp. I quickly realized that the citations for that claim were fishy as all hell - and I decided to go with the better documented story of artemisinin instead. Phew!
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306987723000439?via%3Dihub