Companies spend more on headache medications than the government
spends on nutritional education. Pain is big business. The most
common are acetylsalicylic acid (ASA), Tylenol or ibuprofen. All
three are hard on the liver and kidneys. Aspirin also triples
the excretion rate of vitamin C. Here is a quote from About Your
Medicines. Too much use of aspirins during the last three months
of pregnancy may increase the length of pregnancy, prolong
labor, cause other problems during delivery, or cause severe
bleeding in the mother before, during, or after delivery.
Prescription pain killers start at Tylenol Twos and Threes, and
then increase in potency through Darvon, Fiorinal, Talwin and
Percodan. Pain killers are hard on the liver and kidneys. They
are addictive, cause constipation and kill intestinal bacteria.
The body adapts to them extremely quickly, diminishing the
drug's pain killing effect until the dosage is increased. More
than one out of twenty hospital deaths occur due to an adverse
drug reaction. Prescri