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Common Name | Aloe |
| | Family | LILIACEAE Lily Family |
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Aloe Aloe barbadensis |
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| Parts Used: | Juice of the inner leaf |
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 Remedies using Aloe
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Use fresh pressed juice or buy only the pure gel and use topically as needed
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The leaf juices of the aloe plant have important medicinal uses, making aloe one of the most respected medicinal plants found in many gels, creams and lotions. Do not confuse aloe gel with aloe juice (drug aloes) , which acts as a strong laxative. Modern researchers have identified several reasons why aloe gel spurs wound healing: It has antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral compounds that help prevent wound infections. It also has immune-stimulating and anti-inflammatory compounds, and it stimulates collagen synthesis and skin regeneration. Aloe gel contains vitamins C and E, plus the mineral zinc. Aloe vera gel is soothing, anti-inflammatory, and antibacterial - helps heal wounds of all kinds. |
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 The thick juice from a broken leaf of Aloe may be rubbed on the skin as a beauty treatment to nourish the skin and diminish wrinkles. Wash the face with hot water and vinegar, then rub on the Aloe and allow to remain on skin all night. | | As soon as you suffer a burn, break or cut off an outer leaf of an Aloe plant, split it open with your fingernails, and squeeze the leaf gel onto the burn | | Use pure aloe vera gel to quell the sting of herpes lesions. |
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| Wound healing | | [581] Aloe is soothing, anti-inflammatory, and antibacterial - helps heal wounds of all kinds. Buy only the pure gel and use topically as needed
(White,Linda B., M.D. ) | | Flea bites, feline leukemia | | [1014] Aloe brings cooling relief to fleabites, reducing itching and scratching, minor burns and rashes. A chemical compound found in Aloe, Acemannan, is approved for use in animals for cancers, feline leukemia virus (FeLV).
(Tilford, Gregory L. ) | | Skin care | | [992] Aloe is soothing, anti-inflammatory, and antibacterial - healing to dry, irritated skin
Aloe also takes the sting out of bites and hydrates the skin.
| | [676] Fresh aloe gel soothes pain, cools the skin, and stimulates blood flow to burned skin. It also encourages healing to occur between tissue cells.
(Duke, James A, Ph.D. ) | | Acne | | [989] Applying a thin layer of aloe vera gel will help ease discomfort caused by painful skin irritations and acne.
| | [863] Aloes, or drug aloe, made from the juice of the dried inner leaves, is a very strong laxative
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 Aloe looks like a cactus, but is actually a member of the lily family. A tender tropical, native to Africa, you can grow aloe as a houseplant, in fact is it wise to do so. Not only does an aloe plant provide quick relief from a burn or scald, the potted plants have been shown to remove formaldehyde from tainted indoor air. Commercial aloe skin care products (containing stabilized aloe) rarely, if ever, pack the therapeutic punch of fresh aloe.. avoid them.
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 It is a martial plant, hot in the second degree, and dry in the third; of a very bitter taste; the juice being refined and clarified from its dross, is of a clear and blackish clean brown colour: it opens the belly, and purges cold, phlegmatic, and choleric humours which overburden and hurt the stomach: it is the basis in almost all pills and comforts, cleanses and dries up all superfluous humours. Nicholas Culpeper |
 Aloes was employed by the ancients and was known to the Greeks as early as the forth century B.C. Uses by Dioscorides, Celsus and Pliny. It is said one of the reasons Alexander the Great invaded the Scocotra Islands was to provide Cleopatra with Aloe. |
Common Typos: aloevera, aleo vera
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Aloe Medicinal Uses
