Nokoni
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I’ve started using methyl salicylate topically and find that it has advantages over aspirin. For example, applying it to my knees reduces joint pain better than oral aspirin. Aspirin definitely helped, but even in doses large enough to cause gut irritation it wasn’t as effective as dabbing a bit of methyl salicylate on them.
Plus it also uncouples oxidative phosphorylation, per this emergency guide, which lumps it in with aspirin, and it has equivalent platelet inhibition, per this study. And transdermal administration, which is often preferred around here, works quite well.
And then according to this article:
Which makes aspirin sound a bit like just another pharmaceutical scam. So it makes me wonder if, apart from convenience in certain circumstances, aspirin has any advantages over methyl salicylate? Any thoughts are appreciated.
Plus it also uncouples oxidative phosphorylation, per this emergency guide, which lumps it in with aspirin, and it has equivalent platelet inhibition, per this study. And transdermal administration, which is often preferred around here, works quite well.
And then according to this article:
Aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) really only came into popular use through (a) recognition of the need to obtain a drug which was more palatable and less upsetting to the gastrointestinal tract than sodium salicylate, (b) the powerful competitive forces operating at the time, and (c) clever marketing approaches (Rainsford, 1984).
Which makes aspirin sound a bit like just another pharmaceutical scam. So it makes me wonder if, apart from convenience in certain circumstances, aspirin has any advantages over methyl salicylate? Any thoughts are appreciated.