Aspirin as an Ancient Medicine

Amardamu is waking on the ancient soils of the Sumerian empire when he gets a crap. His leg twisted and he falls right on the ground overwhelmed with pain. Reaching to the only thing he saw which was his trusted chisel. Chisels were often used by hunter-gathers for killing animals and for grounding stones. Amardamu slowly crawls towards a willow tree wich using his chisels to start to grind. He carefully breaks willow bark and starts chewing on it. Soon his pain gets relieved and he awaits further care.

The story of Amardamu is a common myth of how aspirin was discovered told by various archaeologists. But the fact remains that aspirin discovered in ancient Sumer revolutionized ancient medicine. This discovery was so important that Hippocrates of Kos III who was considered the father of medicine recommended willow bark tea to ease childbirth.

Later in the mid-18th-century German-born pharmacologist and chemist named Johann Ludwig Andreas Buchner discovered the main component behind the medicine. It was a white powdery compound made of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen called salicin (C₁₃H₁₈O_7). 

_{Asprin was later widely used for pain relief fevers and inflammation in arteries or organs. All just in a simple powder!}