Banning Aspirin
By uditpanda
@uditpanda (1023)
India
November 15, 2008 1:37pm CST
In the view that aspirin has higher propensity to cause increased gastric acid secretion & advent of useful NSAIDS those are relatively safe why do you thinkaspirin is still in so much of use???
2 responses
@owlwings (43897)
• Cambridge, England
15 Nov 08
Aspirin is very cheap and easy to produce (and is also out of proprietary 'copyright' so can be made in a generic form). I don't believe that it is still manufactured from willow bark - salicylic acid is a constituent of willow bark, so if you are out of aspirin, you could use that, at a pinch!
It still has its uses as a basic anti-inflammatory and also as a preventative against heart disease.
@uditpanda (1023)
• India
15 Nov 08
thanx for the info...i can recollect its cardioprotective in low doses...
@fwidman (11514)
• United States
15 Nov 08
Maybe they still make it for those of us that like it because it works. Ibuprofin does nothing for my aches and pains, but aspirin works wonders 
