[pct-l] Trail medicine

[wpseditor at charter.net (Richard Woods)]

May be an interesting tidbit for on-trail medicine:

"Eat powdered willow bark, and call me in the morning." For pain and  
fevers, that's what the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates told his  
patients.

Apparently willow bark contains salicylic acid, a component of  
aspirin. Does it have to be powdered/dry? Would willow bark tea work  
as well? And how much willow bark would I have to nibble if I needed  
some pain relief out of reach of the neighborhood RX?

Rick