Animals sometimes seek new foods because illness has affected their tastes—leading them to medicate with foods they normally ...

Dr. Contreras notes that many home remedies have been at the root of discoveries that became synthetic drugs, such as the use of willow bark in a natural medicine context, from which salicylic ...

Dr. Janet Tootoosis, Vice Dean of Indigenous Health at the University of Saskatchewan’s College of Medicine, has spent years ...

For example, willow bark was used by the ancient Greeks to help cure fevers and pains. It was later discovered that the active ingredient was salicylic acid. This was modified by chemists into the ...

willow bark. Why? The bark contains salicin, a compound related to aspirin, and it reduces the aches and inflammation resulting from a half year of inactivity. The bears are taking medicine.