Humans Make Aspirin's Active Principle -- Salicylic Acid
Submitted by hemangi_purarkar on Sat, 01/17/2009 - 10:12Salicylic acid (SA), which is central to defense mechanisms in plants
and the principal metabolite of aspirin, occurs naturally in man with
higher levels of SA and its urinary metabolite salicyluric acid (SU) in
vegetarians overlapping with levels in patients on low-dose aspirin

