Salicin

Add boswellia aka frankincense at 1,000 mg a day and willow bark so you get 120 to 240 mg of the active component called salicin, which is also, by the way, the active component of aspirin—we like the aspirin itself. ❋ Michael F. Roizen (2008)

“Well,” Alex said, “people do know that they can chew on the bark or leaves of willow trees, which contain salicin, which is related to aspirin, so—” ❋ Margaret Peterson Haddix (2009)

It also furnishes the principle called salicin, which, from the ❋ Unknown (1863)

"The leaves and bark of the willow tree contain a substance called salicin, a naturally occurring compound similar to acetylsalicylic acid, the chemical name for aspirin." ❋ Unknown (2009)

Alder bark contains the anti-inflammatory salicin which is metabolized into salicylic acid in the body. ❋ Mukul (2010)

White Willow Bark Extract provides anti-inflammatory phenolic glycosides, such as salicin, which have been shown to be effective in the treatment of arthritis, back pain and other joint inflammatory conditionsWhite willow bark does not destroy the stomach lining on contact the way aspirin does, however, it does have the same blood thinning effect as aspirin and caution is indicated. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Aspen contains salicin and populin, which have properties similar to aspirin in reducing fever, pain and inflammation. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Aspirin is a chemical imitation of salicin, found in the bark of the white willow tree. ❋ Earl Mindell (2008)

We not only resent the imputation that our watch is wrong, or our car shabby, but that our conception of the canals of Mars, of the pronunciation of “Epictetus,” of the medicinal value of salicin, or of the date of Sargon I is subject to revision. ❋ Dale Carnegie (1981)

With the help of synthetic chemists, morphine has become hydromorphine; lysergic acid has been converted to methylysergide; cocaine has yielded procaine; physostigmine has been converted into neostigmine and salicin has been changed into acetylsalicylic acid. ❋ Unknown (1991)