It is a drug that is used as an anti-inflammatory, analgesic, antipyretic and antiaggregant. Its real name is acetylsalicylic acid, but it remained as "aspirin", a word that was used to launch it on the market. Specifically, this widely used treatment lowers fever, prevents and treats blood clots, and relieves moderate pain. The most primitive forms of aspirin arose in ancient times, in the Orient, parts of Europe and Asia; The most common source of this medicine, came from the willow, which gave off a substance that helps reduce pain, by removing pieces of its bark.
Great scientists and philosophers wrote about the medicinal properties of the white willow, whose use became more popular with the passage of time; But it was in the year 1828, when Johann Buchner managed to completely isolate the essential component of the white willow bark. The Italian chemist, Raffaele Piria, managed to create some samples of salicylic acid; This later became acetyl salicylic acid, the Frenchman Charles Frédéric Gerhardt being the first to extract these pure samples from the bark of the white willow, whose flavor was less bitter than that which could be appreciated in the first. However, Félix Hoffmann became the pharmacist who could synthesize aspirin in a concise way, giving way to Bayer Laboratories, where they began to mass-produce the drug.
Similarly, aspirin has become one of the most widely used substances with medicinal properties in the world, consuming at least 100 million of them per day. It is produced in one of the Bayer companies, located in Spain, to later be distributed to around 70 countries.
