A Eurasian stream-side willow which has narrow leaves with silky white hairs on both sides, and bark which contains salicin.
白柳
Salix alba, family Salicaceae
Example sentencesExamples
Herbs that alleviate pain are meadowsweet and the white willow tree - both are a natural source of aspirin.
Today's aspirin is a synthetic copy of the compound from a white willow tree studied by Dioscorides, who noted that juices from its bark and leaves eased colds' aches and fevers.
To relieve headache pain, herbalists recommend white willow bark.
The water comes from what the company says was once land covered in vast forests of white willow containing Salicin.
He had ended up in a clearing, with white willows leaning to towards the water, trailing their long leafy curtain of fingers through the cool refreshing spring.
Definition of white willow in US English:
white willow
noun
A Eurasian streamside willow that has narrow leaves with silky white hairs on both sides, and the bark of which contains salicin.
白柳
Salix alba, family Salicaceae
Example sentencesExamples
The water comes from what the company says was once land covered in vast forests of white willow containing Salicin.
To relieve headache pain, herbalists recommend white willow bark.
Today's aspirin is a synthetic copy of the compound from a white willow tree studied by Dioscorides, who noted that juices from its bark and leaves eased colds' aches and fevers.
He had ended up in a clearing, with white willows leaning to towards the water, trailing their long leafy curtain of fingers through the cool refreshing spring.
Herbs that alleviate pain are meadowsweet and the white willow tree - both are a natural source of aspirin.