A passage from Medicinal Plants of the American Southwest:
The bark tea is a reliable, broadly acting antiinflammatory agent. Whether the pain is from an acute sport’s injury or long–standing arthritis, Cottonwood’s cyclooxygenase inhibition will prove relieving.
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