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Throughout history, plants containing cardiac steroids have been used as heart drugs and as poisons (e.g., in arrows used in combat), emetics, and diuretics.
Aspirin is the most widely used drug in the world. It has even been recognized as such by the Guinness Book of World Records.
Earwax has antimicrobial properties that reduce the viability of bacteria and fungus in the human ear.
Thyroid conditions may make getting pregnant impossible.
The use of salicylates dates back 2,500 years to Hippocrates's recommendation of willow bark (from which a salicylate is derived) as an aid to the pains of childbirth. However, overdosage of salicylates can harm body fluids, electrolytes, the CNS, the GI tract, the ears, the lungs, the blood, the liver, and the kidneys and cause coma or death.