Willow Bark and Herb Tea (50 tea bags, ZIN: 510816) - 2 Pack

Willow Bark and Herb Tea (50 tea bags, ZIN: 510816): The bark of the willow tree is the source of one of our most potent drugs, acetylsalicylic acid, known as aspirin. Natives used several varieties of the willow; they wove baskets with willow, used willow for pain and reducing fever; the gray willow (S. exigua) was called "Kosi tsube" by the Paiutes and the Shoshones. They used willow twigs with salt, steeped and drank for laxative. - Willow was one of the first herbs to be scientifically investigated. In the 19th century, the French chemist, Leroux, extracted the active ingredient "salicine." By 1852 it was being synthetically produced, and by 1899 a less irritating acetyl salicylic acid was manufactured and marketed as aspirin. This was the first plant-derived drug of the modern generation. - The white willow bark was used to help support fevers, support headache. Unlike the synthetic drug, acetyl salicylic acid, called aspirin which can cause stomach irritation, white willow bark c