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[pct-l] Trail medicine
Ask Meadow Mary to get involved. She has been helping out hikers for years.
geomarwoodard@yahoo.com
Chance
Richard Woods <wpseditor@charter.net> wrote: 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
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