SC - Jeff Smith Cook book " Keeping the feast"

[Schumacher, Deborah]

Phlip wrote:

>Since its main ingredient is aspirin, a willow bark derivative, probably
>partially.

I'm not sure if Midol contains aspirin or not.  But in speaking of the
period"ness" of aspirin,  you are correct.  The active chemical (at
least one of them) in aspirin is salicylic acid*.  In nature, this
chemical is derived from white willow bark.  If you want a period "cure"
for headaches and other minor pains, you can either chew the bark from a
white willow tree or make a tea of it.  If you are interested in this,
there is a company that sells white willow bark tea (no other
additives).  I don't remember the name off-hand, but you can find their
products in any health store.  They sell several different herbs loose
and in tea bags, they are in blue and white boxes.

*- Take this from a former chemistry major who got to perform a
distillation process on aspirin.

Failenn
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