Are willow trees in the garden a good thing if you suffer from seasonal allergies?.?

I read that willow and oak are bad for people who are effected by pollen and air born spores.

Are willow trees in the garden a good thing if you suffer from seasonal allergies?.?
Although willows elicit strong allergic responses from individuals in allergy tests, willows tend to be pollinated more by insects than by wind, and therefore present fewer people with the allergenic challenge than other tree types. its the pollen that causes allergy not the seed pods as an earlier .answer
Reply:Not sure about seasonal allergies but I knew that Asprin was made from the bark so I looked it up.



" The use of aspirin in one form or another goes back centuries. Every Native American tribe had a medicine man. They didn't know the molecular structures of their plant-based medicines, but they had a wealth of practical knowledge. The medicine men would use the bark of willow trees (usually in thr form of tea) to treat pain and fever. When chemists analyzed willows in the last century, they discovered "salicylic acid, the basis of the modern drug aspirin.



But aspirin goes back even further in history. Ancient Egyptians took an infusion of dried myrtle leaves to treat muscle pain, while Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, prescribed willow bark tea for the pain of childbirth. The myrtle leaves were also found to contain salicylic acid.



Willow bark surfaced in Europe in 1758 when the Reverend Edward Stone of Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, chewed a twig of white willow to ease pain and fever. He was so impressed with its effect that he wrote to the Royal Society in 1763 to alert them to its benefits. "
Reply:Willow trees give of thousands (millions) of little fluffy pods,,when we lived on the rivers it was the one tree we would avoid mooring near because of the fluff,,,
Reply:not good for allergies,and the roots are not good for your drains they get everywhere
Reply:If you have hey fever avoid them

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