Quotes about Aspirin from the world's top natural health / natural living authors
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 "Beware of aspirin
Who would have thought that the "harmless" aspirin pills millions of people swallow each day a week could actually cause one of the most serious cancers? A study at the Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston. Massachusetts) of nearly 90,000 women, spanning 18 years, shows a 58% increased risk of pancreatic cancer when the participants took more than two aspirin a week. When the dosage exceeded 14 pills a week, the risk increased by 86%.
Avoid the Drug Trap!
It is becoming increasingly apparent that pharmaceutical drugs carry great risks."- Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) |
 "Numerous studies have shown that propranolol and aspirin are highly successful in reducing heart attacks. aspirin in particular has been hailed as a great white hope of heart disease prevention. Nevertheless, large studies have shown that the effect size of propranolol is 0.04 and aspirin is 0.03, respectively ?or about ten times smaller than the effect sizes of the PEAR data. One method of determining the magnitude of effect sizes is to convert the figure to the number of persons surviving in a sample of 100 people. An effect size of 0."- Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.) |
 "The types of drugs that have been implicated in these reactions are aspirin, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and beta-blockers.
Aspirin is found as an ingredient of many brands of cold and flu medications, and asthmatics should be careful to check the ingredients when buying them. A relative of aspirin, a salicylate, is found in some foods, and this can also affect sensitive people.
NSAIDs are anti-inflammatory medications that are often prescribed for back pain, joint pain, swelling resulting from arthritis and gout."- Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.) |
 "Baby aspirin Reduces Heart Attack Rates in Diabetes ng a baby aspirin just before each dose of niacin is anothet way to effectively block the flushing effects of niacin. Since many doctors now recommend low-dose aspirin to their diabetic patients as a way to lower heart attack and stroke risk, using aspirin along with niacin is a way to "kill two birds with one stone." Diabetes is associated with an increased risk of catastrophic events due to blood clotting (primarily stroke and heart attack)."- Michael T. Murray, Beat Diabetes Naturally: The Best Foods, Herbs, Supplements, and Lifestyle Strategies to Optimize Your Diabetes Care (Get the book.) |
 "Most people have used aspirin and given baby aspirin to their children, but how many know that aspirin and its modern counterparts increase the need for vitamin C? How many people take some extra vitamin C and B with the aspirin? And keep in mind that aspirin is probably the simplest medication people use.
Medications used for IBD range from corticosteroids,
which increase the need for the B-complex of vitamins, to resins, which can reduce the absorption of important minerals and the water-soluble vitamins."- James Scala, The New Eating Right for a Bad Gut: The Complete Nutritional Guide to Ileitis, Colitis, Crohn's Disease, and Inflammatory Bowel Disease (Get the book.) |
 "This may lead to iron deficiency if aspirin is taken for long periods. Patients with vitamin K deficiency should use aspirin cautiously as increased bleeding may result. Vitamin A may protect against stomach ulcers and bleeding in those taking aspirin.
Aspirin may also lead to deficiencies of folic acid, thiamin, vitamin C, potassium and vitamin B12 if used for a long time. Calcium decreases the absorption of aspirin if taken at the same time. The nicotinamide form of niacin causes flushing when taken in large doses."- Nicola Reavley, The New Encyclopedia of Vitamins, Minerals, Supplements and Herbs (Get the book.) |
 "Extracts of salicylic acid from white willow bark were originally used to make aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid). Willow bark and aspirin are similar in their pain-relieving properties. However, gastrointestinal problems are virtually nonexistent with willow bark, but are a serious problem with aspirin. Other components in willow bark seem to work synergistically to mediate its effects on the stomach and intestinal tract, thus preventing negative side effects.
Synergy between herbs is extremely important and is typically what makes herbal combinations much more powerful. All herbalists know this."- James Occhiogrosso, N. D., Your Prostate, Your Libido, Your Life (Get the book.) |
 "Even drugs that are generally recognized as safe, such as aspirin, can cause serious side effects. aspirin belongs to a class of drugs known as nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), which irritate the stomach lining, can cause ulcers and lead to leaky gut syndrome, thus permitting potentially damaging nonnutrient substances to gain access to the bloodstream. In fact, NSAIDs are one of the leading causes of stomach ulcers, and their misuse leads to more than 100,000 hospitalizations and more than 16,000 deaths each year in the United States."- Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) |
 "It was found that in the case of a heart attack, where aspirin is commonly prescribed, the isothiocyanates in wasabi had an immediate effect as opposed to thirty minutes for aspirin.
MELANOMA: Eighty-two percent of lung tumors resulting from metastatic melanoma were reduced in mice who were administered a component of wasabi.
BREAST CANCER: A human cell line study showed that a relatively small concentration of wasabi inhibited up to 50 percent of breast cancer cells.
CANCER: Both wasabi and horseradish inhibited the growth of colon, lung, and stomach cancer cells in a human cell study."- David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.) |
| "Gingerol blocks inflammation and thins the blood much like aspirin does, except without the harmful side-effects that result from the use of aspirin. [Pharmazie 60: 83-96, 2005]
• Ginger juice produces better recovery from symptoms of nausea than ondansetron, a commonly prescribed drug during chemotherapy. [Journal Ethnopharmacology 62: 49-55, 1998]
• Ginger has been shown to inhibit the growth of tumors in the colon in animal studies." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) |
 "Vitamin B-3 is a superior to aspirin as anti-aging agent. aspirin used in low dose is widely touted as the one of the main answers to geriatric decline, but it has serious side-effects, such as excessive bleeding. It is estimated that 67 patients must take aspirin in order to protect one against a stroke or myocardial infarction, but from each 100, one will suffer serious bleeding. In comparison, niacin is safe."- Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD, Feel Better, Live Longer with Vitamin B-3 (Get the book.) |
 "In the classic study of aspirin, it seems that the aspirin label works independently of the drug inside the bottle. In other words, what is working is just words. At first, this position seems ridiculous. Yet we should not dismiss the significance of words, written or oral. One who does not believe in the power of rhetoric is one "who has never been told T love you.'"16
Not just words, but actions, or at least presumed actions, can be placebos. In common sense, sham surgery cannot in and of itself be a beneficial effect."- Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) |
 "Since oxidation is critical to NF-kB activation, anti-oxidants can play a pivotal role in its suppression; chief amongst these is Ot-Lipoic acid which, as we have seen, the patient supplements at high levels, not to mention all the other antioxidants the patient also takes. aspirin, as already mentioned, also inhibits NF-kB activation but the patient ultimately declined aspirin. (However a trial of aspirin in Myeloma may be well warranted in this context."- Michael Gearin-Tosh, Living Proof: A Medical Mutiny (Get the book.) |
 "Patients with arthritis could buy a variety of cheap and effective over-the-counter medicines like aspirin or ibuprofen and ease their pain for just pennies a day.
But in 1998 news stories began to appear about the new "super-aspirins" that were coming soon. The media reports said the new drugs would offer great pain relief without the dangerous side effects of standard anti-inflammatory pain pills. The stories were the result of early corporate public relations campaigns to promote products that were still months away from gaining government approval."- Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) |
 "Aspirin has become famous for producing such a reduction in platelet aggregation and is now recommended for patients who have already suffered a heart attack. But aspirin has side effects in the gastrointestinal tract and has been linked to an increase in brain hemorrhaging. aspirin also has no effect on the aggregation caused by ADP. In fact, no previous study has identified a single substance which inhibits aggregation caused by all four of these inducers—and no significant side effects from MAK have been reported (see below)."- Hari Sharma, Freedom from Disease: How to Control Free Radicals, a Major Cause of Aging and Disease (Get the book.) |
 "That includes aspirin. Though it's been around for eighty or more years, doctors still don't know how aspirin works. Because it's been a "friend of the family" for so long, people don't realize that aspirin is not without side effects and dangers of its own. Besides the most common side effect, stomach bleeding, aspirin can cause a hemorrhage under the scalp of a newborn if a mother takes it within seventy-two hours of delivery. I've often wondered why doctors always say to take "two tablets" of five grains each despite the availability of a single, ten-grain aspirin tablet."- Robert Mendelsohn, Confessions of a Medical Heretic (Get the book.) |
 "Some examples of these drugs are aspirin, oral contraceptives, and barbiturates. For example, two aspirin tablets taken every six hours for a week have been reported to lower the amount of vitamin C in white blood cells by half.
Vitamin C has been used under medical supervision to treat cancer with variable success. High intravenous doses have sometimes resulted in lessening of pain and extended life. This treatment is very controversial.
Vitamin C is needed to catalyze enzymatic reactions that activate hormones such as oxytocin."- Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.) |
 "Significant reductions were also seen in platelet adhesiveness in patients taking the vitamin E plus aspirin relative to those taking aspirin only. Based on these findings, the authors conclude that vitamin E plus aspirin is an effective preventive therapy for transient ischemic attacks and related cerebrovascular disorders.
—M. Steiner, et al., "Vitamin E Plus aspirin Compared with aspirin Alone in Patients with Transient Ischemic Attacks," American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 62(6 Suppl), December 1995, p."- Gary Null, Ph.D., The Clinician's Handbook of Natural Healing (Get the book.) |
 "A study of one hundred patients with transient ischemic attacks, minor strokes, or residual ischemic neurologic deficits compared the effects of aspirin plus 400 IU per day of vitamin E with aspirin alone (325 mg) for up to two years. Results showed patients in the vitamin E plus aspirin group experienced a significant reduction in the rate of ischemic events relative to patients taking just the aspirin. Significant reductions were also seen in platelet adhesiveness in patients taking the vitamin E plus aspirin."- Gary Null, Ph.D., Gary Nulls Ultimate Anti Aging Program (Get the book.) |
| "Even drugs that are generally recognized as safe, such as aspirin, can cause serious side effects. aspirin belongs to a class of drugs known as nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), which irritate the stomach lining, can cause ulcers and lead to leaky gut syndrome, thus permitting potentially damaging nonnutrient substances to gain access to the bloodstream. In fact, NSAIDs are one of the leading causes of stomach ulcers, and their misuse leads to more than 100,000 hospitalizations and more than 16,000 deaths each year in the United States." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) |
 "A more familiar drug with antiglycation properties is aspirin. aspirin inhibits the development of diabetic retinopathy, and a recent study showed that it can inhibit the formation of pentosidine, a glycation end product. Other drugs with antiglycation properties include angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors. We'll discuss the antiglycation properties of ACE inhibitors in more detail when we discuss antihypertensive medications."- Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.) |
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