Honestly, aspirin is really closer to "grinding up rhino horns" than to complex pharmaceuticals you have to make in a lab. It's literally "drink this tea made f

Honestly, aspirin is really closer to "grinding up rhino horns" than to complex pharmaceuticals you have to make in a lab. It's literally "drink this tea made from willow bark" except we got better at isolating the active components and finding other ways to produce them and more reliably measuring the dosage. The difference is that empirical studies have demonstrated the effect of "willow bark tea" and the lack of an effect of "ground up rhino horn".