Make Your Own Pain Killer

1. Soak 1/2 tsp. of dried willow bark in 2 cups of cold water overnight. 
2. Bring to a boil and simmer for 20 minutes.
3. Strain, cool, and bottle.
4. Dosage is 1/4 cup, to be sipped slowly as needed for pain.

It can be added to juices or teas if you wish. Often, people are surprised that it works so fast. It's not so surprising when you remember that willow served as our first aspirin. Willow contains salicylates and was used as a pain killer until 1853. It was then taken from folk medicine and mass produced by a German chemist. In 1893, another German chemist, working for the Bayer company, came up with the aspirin we now use. Aspirin's ingredients now come from coal tar and petroleum products. We use about 100,000 tons of aspirin a year worldwide and it has become a favorite to treat many disorders or discomforts.