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Prevention of cancer 预防癌症 Wonder drug 特效药 Aspirin continues to amaze 15:17:29 For more than a headache 治的不仅仅是头疼 FOR thousands of years aspirin has been humanity s wonder drug. 几千年来，阿司匹林就一直是人类的特效药。 Extracts from the willow tree have been used for pain relief in folk medicine since the time ofthe ancient Greeks. 从古希腊开始，在民间医药中，人们就用柳树的萃取物缓解疼痛。 By 1897 a synthetic derivative acetyl salicylic acid of the plant s active ingredient wascreated. 1897年，这种植物中的有效成分的人工合成衍生物诞生了， This allowed aspirin to become the most widely used medicine in the world. 于是阿司匹林变成了世界上应用最广泛的药品。 In recent years its benefits as a blood-thinning drug have led to it being prescribed in lowdoses of around 50mg to reduce deaths from stroke and heart attack. 最近几年，由于阿司匹林的防血凝功能，在用其治疗中风和心脏病的时候，剂量很小，维持在50mg的水平左右。 | 
