Over the years of use, aspirin was considered analgesic anti -inflammatory means. Only relatively recently, scientists managed to identify several more amazing properties of this drug — the prevention of heart attacks and the prevention of aging of the whole organism in general. Every year there are new facts associated with the therapeutic and preventive effect of the well -known aspirin in the fight against cancer and many neurological diseases. This drug has recently turned a hundred years old, so it is not at all surprising that it will soon become a universal drug of all time. The active component of aspirin is acetylsalicylic acid, which was used in the twentieth century.