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Summary Drinking black birch tea can lower risk of a heart attack just as effectively as low-dose aspirin.
The twig of the black birch which tastes like spearmint is used in muscles to relieve pain. Self-taught naturalist Steve Brill showed the Medicine Hunter Chris Kilham, the twig also known as betula lenta, and asked him to give it a try. “It has these leaves with these teeth, (and) it has these cones,” Fox News quoted Brill as saying.Kilham said that the twig tasted like spearmint and reminded him of the compound methyl salicylate, which is used in muscles to relieve pain.
