(January 26, 2021 at 11:53 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote:(January 26, 2021 at 11:40 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: So opium doesn't count because it wasn't used widely in one area of the world for a couple centuries?
Willow bark is essentially where we get aspirin from and it's been in use for thousands of years.
I know you don't like to be wrong, but on the idea that pain relief medications/remedies are a new thing is not correct.
Well, I am trying to get to the bottom of this. I mean the article is what people used in the past to relieve pain, but that doesn't mean it was successful, like the willow bark you single out - after all these years there are no conclusive evidence that it works, and at best it seems to work in the range of aspirin.
Yeah, they didn't have Oxy pills. That doesn't mean that other things weren't/aren't effective. Pain relief is not a modern invention. It has surely been refined and better controlled as far as dosage in a medical setting but that doesn't mean pain relief is a new thing.
As for "in the range of aspirin", I will, and do, take aspirin quite often and will choose it over Tylenol or Advil any day. What works for one may not work for another.
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