[ladyjane]

I have never understood why the medical establishment pushes Tylenol as a safer alternative to aspirin. Aspirin has been used for more than 100 years and its precursor, willow bark, has been used for thousands of years. Aspirin is an analgesic, antipyretic, anti-inflammatory, antithrombotic, and antiviral. Tylenol is an analgesic that doesn’t even work for some people and has some antipyretic effects. There must be some $$ motive.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

There must be some $$ motive.

There was until the patents ran out.

[Sparticus]

I have never understood why the medical establishment pushes Tylenol as a safer alternative to aspirin. Aspirin has been used for more than 100 years and its precursor, willow bark, has been used for thousands of years. Aspirin is an analgesic, antipyretic, anti-inflammatory, antithrombotic, and antiviral. Tylenol is an analgesic that doesn’t even work for some people and has some antipyretic effects. There must be some $$ motive.

Doctors stopped recommending Aspirin because it causes digestive tract bleeding. Sometime severe bleeding. One estimate I read was it contributed to between 7 and 10 thousand deaths per year in the US back when it was a main line drug.