Chapter 11 Willow Bark with Salicylic Acid

Soak an aspirin in the water in the vase, and the flowers in the vase will be fresher and last longer.The British "New Scientist" weekly magazine has an article on the reason why plants need aspirin, saying that the popular method is really scientifically based, and that aspirin has many benefits for plants, and can even protect and encourage crops. The article said: Plants contain compounds similar to aspirin; it is not surprising that plants like aspirin.North American Indians used to treat headaches by mashing willow bark and applying it on their foreheads, which is quite right.Aspirin is acetylsalicylic acid (Acety-salicylic Acid), the juice exuded from willow bark is exactly salicylic acid (Salicy licacid), which is very similar to aspirin in nature, and it gets its name from the Latin word "willow" (SaliX).The name Aspirin is derived from Spiraea, and herbalists also use many plants such as Spiraea as medicine.In addition to pain relief, aspirin can also reduce inflammation, treat various skin problems, and has antiseptic and antibacterial effects.Aspirin controls a group of hormones called prostaglandins, so it has these effects.A lot of prostaglandins will cause a tingling sensation when a person is injured or has gastrointestinal problems.Aspirin does not actually eliminate the "cause" of the sting, it prevents the body from producing more prostaglandins.

Aspirin is very common, everyone knows that it can relieve pain; flowers and plants are too common, not many people would think that they also need aspirin; people who study science combine the two and come to interesting and useful conclusions, It also proves that the ancient popular method is also very scientific.Knowledge is boundless and fascinating, this is a good example. Literature and art are different from scientific knowledge, so they cause a lot of trouble.People who don't like literature and art say that literature and art are all about intuition and have no practical knowledge.People who engage in literature and art talk about literature and art and talk about "pure" or not "pure".The two arguments are enough to annoy people.

What's the use of making noise!Literary and art theory talks about "man" a lot, and I have added a lot of views on life after reading it; however, the method of literary and art theory about "man" is a bit like the Indian's method of using willow bark to cure headaches, relying on experience rather than knowledge; People who looked for the word "salicylic acid" in literary works found the word "willow bark", so of course they didn't like it.People who engage in literature and art often rely too much on popular methods. They only pound willow bark when they have a headache, and they don't want to know that a hormone called prostaglandin is at work.When the flowers bloomed, I desperately wrote about flower viewing, and when the flowers withered, I was busy writing about funeral flowers. I would never try to soak an aspirin to water the flowers, for fear that the flowers would not be "pure" if they got aspirin.As for movies and TV that use literature and art to create box office records and create ratings, it is inevitable that they can't help but paint "salicylic acid" as "popular flowers" and "willow bark" as "flower streets and willow alleys".In "Bride shead Bevisited" by Evelyn Waugh, there are five or six lines of text describing what Charles and Julia do on the bed. The TV series was too revealing, and it was finally submitted to the Hong Kong Public Prosecutor's Office. cut off.These few lines of Waou have really filtered willow bark into salicylic acid, and borrowed practical knowledge such as private land, contracts, and real estate to describe the senses; Ou's vase of flowers, hoping that the bouquet is as fresh as when Wao picked it.How wronged!

The difficulty in literature and art lies in when to pound willow bark and when to use a laboratory to extract salicylic acid.It's not good for science fiction writers to put on white robes and shut themselves up in a laboratory to concoct chemically synthesized aspirin.The romance novelist's head does not hurt and his forehead is covered with smashed willow bark, which is not good.DMThomas' "The White Hotel" (The White Hotel) used Freud's psychoanalysis to deal with Jewish tragic stories.It is good for literary and art workers to learn more about various subjects.Gong Zizhen's "Luohong is not a ruthless thing, it turns into spring mud to protect flowers" is in line with the purport of ecology, without losing the interest of literature and art, great! What does "pure" literature and art look like?have no idea.