Aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) used to reduce pain, fever, and inflammation. It is derived from salicylic acid, originally found in willow bark, and is one of the oldest and most widely used medications globally. It also has anti-platelet properties, used to prevent blood clots.
it's obviously because it works and it's based on um a plant substance called salic salicylic acid um which gave us aspirin and we still use the basic molecule to create the what we call nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs or nsaides and ibuprofen is one of the most widely used of those and basically they cut the
""The speaker explicitly states that ibuprofen is based on salicylic acid, 'which gave us aspirin,' directly naming Aspirin as a specific drug derived from this plant substance. This establishes it as a distinct, purchasable pharmaceutical product."