herbs that contain salicylic acid
I often hear herb commerce and the media call meadowsweet and other salicylate-rich plants the âherbal aspirinsâ. Aspirin got its name, of course, from spirea (salicylic acid, the active ingredient in aspirin, is named after another rich source, Salix, or willow).eadowsweet, willow, cottonwood, black haw, cramp bark, birch, wintergreen, black coshosh and Indian pipe all have some derivatives of salicylic acid, though slightly different depending on the plant family.