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Your body already has it; just eat some berries

SWALLOWING an aspirin tablet, every time you have a headache, might not be necessary anymore. You could simply let your body produce its own. Fortifying yourself with some fruits, preferably berries, might be useful. This comes in the wake of a new discovery made by a team of scientists claiming that the human body can produce a chemical called salicylic acid (SA), the active ingredient of aspirin. Salicylic acid is a natural ingredient of fruits, mainly berries, produced by plants regularly to fight pathogens.
Aspirin has been used for managing moderate pains, inflammations and fever for nearly 100 years. Currently over 40,000 tonnes of aspirin tablets are sold annually making it one of the most popular prescription-free drugs in world.
Aspirin functions by breaking down to salicylic acid. It is salicylic acid that is responsible for aspirin

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