How aspirin was discovered - Krishna Sudhir

4000 years ago, the ancient Sumerians made a surprising discovery: if they scraped the bark off a particular kind of tree and ate it, their pain disappeared. Little did they know that what they’d found was destined to influence the future course of medicine. Krishna Sudhir traces the history of aspirin.

Lesson by Krishna Sudhir, directed by Artrake Studio.

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[supermoris]

"Wow! This tree looks cool, what does it taste like?"
. -Sumerian #9371

[zacharywinkle]

"Oh let's just eat some stuff off this tree."

*2, 000 years later*
"It's a discovery!"

[HealthChronicle]

Another Great animation !
One very important thing to know about aspirin is that If you take it on an empty stomach, you will most likely suffer from stomach irritation. It might affect the inner lining of your stomach and can cause gastric ulcers or bleeding. Keep up the great videos TED ED.
You are a true inspiration for us !

[HAL-cpmt]

DAMN those summerians invented and discovered A LOT, Mesopotamian cultures deserve much more recognition .

[supercanadian]

I wonder how many things were discovered because someone decided to just eat something random

[ValerioRhys]

Thank human curiosity of eating and drinking random stuff.

[skzk]

You forgot to say why we use acetylsalicylic acid and not the original salicin or its metabolized form salicylic acid.
The "natural" ones have worse side effects!
The acetyl version reduces the side effects

[stef]

What if I eat this rock outside my yard?

Eats it

Finds cure for cancer

[thomaszamazal]

I have been using willow bark for years in a tea. It's amazing how many things like this are just laying around waiting to be picked up and used.

[Alexa-lqfo]

Me: eats grass


Ted-ed 2000 years later: and that is how we found the cure for cancer

[mothpo]

Some guy eats randomly tree and thousands of years later tree become medicine.

[mitalijoshi]

I've started believing one of the reasons for the success of human race is our willingness to eat absolutely anything!

[aureusyarara]

i love animated videos narrated by this dude. he's simply awesome at his job.

[ishbanyadav]

I had no knowledge about this. Really interesting!

[JNUARY]

My dad had a heart attack in 2014, and we all knew that aspirin saved his life that day.

[Hamza]

Thanks to all those genuis people, I can cure my headache almost instantly.

[plshiee]

I did a research paper about the creation of aspirin but I still learned more information while watching this video! Great video!

[gutenman]

You know, this is very high quality educational video, even with no music, fast talking or interesting animation(im not a fan of the artstyle but its still good), the video still gets my attention and not boring at all .

[godscardioscar]

I have a sudden urge to take aspirin...

[marianaABC]

How are these Ted Ed animations always so mind blowing? 🔥