BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT Fatimiyah College
Thursday 10 September 2015
Medicinal plants -- willow trees
The bark of
willow
trees contains large amounts of
salicylic acid
, which is the
active metabolite
of
aspirin
. Willow bark has been used for millennia as an effective
pain reliever
and
fever
reducer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicinal_plants
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