ALOE Sabil

aloe vera, aloe barbadensis

ALOE Sabil
aloe vera, aloe barbadensis

Description.

History.

Generalities.

Properties.

International references.

Use and therapeutic applications.

Contraindications.

Major chemical compounds.

Uses of Aloe Vera of the "A" to "Z".

Items of Interest.

Medicinal uses.

Preparations.

Use homemade Aloe.

Internal use.

Allergies.

Final Warnings.

Contraindications.

Savile, Sabil, aloe, TOECHII, POSACMETL O ALOE VERA.

Aloe vera Linnaeus Fam. Liliaceae.

Castilian: Zabira, aloe, zabida, zadiba, acíbar, aloe agave, aloe vera.

English: aloe.

INTRODUCTION: It is a species that is part of maguey and its use is very old, since the sixteenth century, the indigenous people used for broken bones, erysipelas, sores, asthma and intestinal parasites. The road macerated as poultice is a common skin problems such as rashes, bruises and minor injuries. The resin called acíbar or bitter aloe juice or concentrate the ribs, is applied without the skin and roast in sores and bruises. Furthermore, by its bitter flavor is ideal for weaning the baby or as a tonic or soap to clean the scalp and grow hair. Other uses are for acne and burns from the sun, which is liquefied juice that is obtained by cutting the ribs with prickly pear and is taken on an empty stomach.

Plant stem short and fleshy leaves few in number, at the apex and curved edges with thorny, flowers are abundant and directed downward. Lives in warm climates, semi, semi - dry and mild. It is grown in home room and is associated with the tropical deciduous forest, subcaducifolia, subperennifolia, evergreen, Xeric scrublands and mountain cloud forests of oak and mixed pine.

History.

The use of aloe goes back to the origins of humanity. The Chinese were the first to use the aloe and in ancient Egypt and was used commonly referred to as the aloe plant of immortality by including it among the funerary gifts buried with the Pharaohs.

It has been written that Alexander the Great conquered the island Socotora in southern Arabia, because it had large amounts of Aloes that provide for the healing of wounds and diseases of its soldiers during the campaigns.

Also, Cleopatra used daily aloe as an essential ingredient in their daily care.

Already in the first century AD, Dioscorides described it in his intensely by its Greek herbal medicinal and cosmetic.

There are historical records of the Romans, Greeks, Hindus, Arabs and other peoples of warmer climates, commented that its medicinal and cosmetic.

The Spanish Franciscans moved to America from our lands, surely the island Barbados, where it comes from its current scientific name Aloe barbadensis.

In Spain, along the shores of the Mediterranean, Aloe was an essential element in folk medicine, until the widespread use of modern pharmacopoeia relegated to oblivion along with most of the medicinal plants.

During World War II has been rediscovered its therapeutic value. Burns caused in the populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by atomic explosions, healed faster with aloe and in many cases without leaving any scars or signs.

Today its properties have been clinically tested and scientists are increasingly interested in their medical applications.

NASA uses it because it absorbs 90% of the toxicity of chemicals such as PVC, fiber glass, coatings, paints, radiation from computers, televisions and other electronic devices.

It is believed that brings good luck, and is widely used in shamanic rituals by his great energy and power because it purifies the soul.

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Generalities.

Aloe is a genus of the subfamily Asfodeloides belonging to the Liliaceae, which includes more than 200 species. It is originally from Eastern and Southern Africa.

It reaches 2 to 3 meters in height, although rarely up to 6 meters. The species of the genus of Aloes are almost always woody, but with very large leaves and carnudas, arranged in large rosettes and a thorn in his reece extreme, armed marginal spines of other smaller ones. Miss one or several bohordos axillary crown in that beautiful bouquets. The flowers are tubular, because the six pieces that make up the floral cover all are welded to each other in a generally straight or curved tube sometimes. These flowers are often red, orange or yellow. The stamens are also six, with long filaments to start the bottom of the flower, beneath the pistil. The fruit is a capsule walls inconsistent.

Medicine is used in the juice of its leaves curdled into a solid mass of very dark color, and very bitter, call acíbar. Usually, you get left flowing liquor to be drained of their leaves cut crosswise, by cutting the outline of which placed on a container on purpose. This liquor is left to concentrate and be thickens the heat of the sun or with artificial heat.

Depending on the process of drying, acíbar adopts colors ranging from reddish brown to black, in the form of lump - like mud dry, brittle, fracture concoide, which must be protected from humidity.

The leaves, whose sap is used, are fleshy, measuring about 50 cm. Long, 10 or 20 cm. in width and 5 cm. thick. If the court makes a watery liquid exudan a very bitter taste, accumulated in secretory cells that surround the region cribosa. Because the cell wall that separates them is very thin, the juice flowing with ease. We must cut the leaves so that the secretions can be collected in a container. Here is the condensed liquid by putting it to fire or water bath. After separating the foam was poured into another container in which solidify. That is how it reaches the market and is prepared later in preparations Galen (drops, pills, suppositories, gels, etc. It is rare to use pure Aloe.

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Properties.

The composition of aloe acíbar varies by country of origin, the season of harvest and how to produce it.

Contains the 6 - 10% water and the higher quality leaves a 2% ash. What varies is the most amount of resin, which ranges between 40 and 80%. This resin that does not matter pharmacology, is an acid ester alcohol and a paracumárico resins, the aloerresinotanol.

In addition, the acíbar contains up to 20% of aloinas. Hydrolysis, the aloínas give emodina which is the active constituent of acíbar.

Also contains aloe aloemicina of great power and anti - inflammatory analgesic, and aloeuricina, whose property is to activate and fortify the epithelial cells, which makes it very useful in gastric ulcers and stomach.

Contains a large amount of amino acids such as valine, methionine, phenylalanine, leucine and lysine. It also has the polysaccharide lignin, the glucomannan and other carbohydrates such as pentose, galactose, and urónicos acids that provide a deep cleaning of the skin, then enter all your layers, removing bacteria and fatty deposits that impede sweating through the pores. Among the elements contained iodine, copper, iron, zinc, phosphorus, sodium, potassium, manganese, sulfur and magnesium large amount of calcium. It is one of the few species that contains vitamin B12, in addition to vitamin A, B1, B2, B6 and C.

Contains strong proportions of germanium which acts as a filter cleaner of the body, eliminates poisons and waste from the cells, restructure and revitalize the bone marrow, reactivates the immune system, stimulates production of endorphins, which calm in pain. All plants that contain germanium have been considered miraculous and include: Aloe vera, the Seng - ging and Shitake mushrooms.

The aloe gel obtained from the effected six antiseptic agents of high antimicrobial activity: cinamónico acid, a type of urea nitrogen, lupeol, phenol, sulfur, folic acid and an acid salícico natural that combined with lupeol has significant analgesic effects.

It is astringent, analgesic, and anticoagulant. It was also found its benefits as stimulating cell growth and appears to be an incredible antitóxico and antimicrobial.

The tincture or juice diluted with water in equal parts used repeatedly as a gargle for 3 to 4 minutes act effectively against dental pain, and the gums, neuralgias, thrush, laryngitis, hoarseness, tonsillitis, angina, and any plates nostril or mouth disease.

Necrotizing heals wounds like burns, regenerating tissue and scar, in turn, restoring the sensitivity of the affected area.

Cutting cure the wounds, herpes, shingles, ringworm, and infections caused by staphylococci and other bacterial infections internal and gastroenteritis, colitis, enterocolitis, vaginitis, cervicitis, scurvy, cholera, dysentery, gonorrhea, syphilis and other venereal diseases.

Relieves pain of the blows, sprains, dislocations, muscle pain, arthritic and rheumatic, the feet are tired,

In eruptive disease of children as measles, chicken pox, scarlet fever the other. Its anti - inflammatory properties reduce the itch and keeps the kids are scratching the blisters.

Warts can be treated, the frostbites, the eczema, psoriasis, seborrheic dermatitis, erysipelas, athlete's foot, the stinging insects, spiders, scorpions, snakes, poisonous jellyfish and plants.

It is very suitable for the treatment of varicose veins, and to calm their pain and improvement.

There have also been found beneficial effects in the treatment of cellulite.

The aloína revitalizes the hair making it more flexible, shiny, docile and hardy.

Regenerates cells in the skin after shaving. After depilation avoids rojeces, rashes, grains, and quickly closes the pores dilated.

Heal the wound of the baby's navel and circumcision.

Avoid streaks in the abdomen and breasts. After delivery relieves the pain of episiotomy, facilitating the recovery of vulvar ring.

The cándidas, trichomes and other vaginal infections or irritations disappear with aloe.

Reduce the effects of allergies, indigestion, heartburn, gastritis, duodenal ulcers and stomach, eye sores, hemorrhoids, disorders of the digestive system, easing the stomach, small intestine, liver, kidneys and pancreas.

It is a natural laxative and facilitates bowel movements in people with constipation problems.

It can be used as photoprotectors against sunburn, even once produced such burns.

Invigorate the body and opens the appetite.

Absorbs and reduces the body odor, being a great deodorant.

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Items of interest:

The wounds heal more quickly.

An animal - based study published in the Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association found that oral and topical preparations of aloe accelerate the healing of wounds.

One group of animals were administered aloe in drinking water (100 mg / kg body weight) for two months because another group had to apply cream of aloe directly into the wounds for six days. In both cases the aloe had positive effects. The size of the wounds decreased by 62% in animals who took the oral aloe compared to 51% in the control group. The topical aloe produced a 51% reduction in the size of the wound compared to 33% in the control group.

It reduces recovery time after surgery.

According to a report of the Journal of Dermatologic Surgery and Oncology aloe reduces recovery time after surgery.

A Eighteen patients of acne, who underwent surgery for facial dermabrasión were applied in the middle of the face of each patient gel post - surgical treatment standard, and the other half of the face was treated by adding aloe. Half of the face treated with aloe cured about 72 hours faster than the other half of his face.

The dermatologist James Fulton of Newport Beach, California, lead author of the report states: "Any wound that we try, either suturing a cut or remove a superficial cancer, heals better with aloe vera".

Soothes burns.

A report by the Journal of the Medical Association of Thailand, indicated that 27 patients with wounds caused by minor burns were treated with either aloe gel or Vaseline ™ (petroleum jelly) The burns healed more quickly in the aloe group, with an average time of healing 12 days compared to 18 days for the group treated with Vaseline.

Minimized the damage by freezing.

A study published in Annals of Emergency Medicine indicates that the aloe minimizes the effects of freezing.

The researchers applied the standards by freezing treatments (antibiotics, ibuprofen, and overheating) to 154 patients suffering from severe freeze. Of the patients who received the addition of aloe vera cream, 67. 9% healed without any tissue loss (amputation) compared to 32. 7% in the control group. The researchers concluded that aloe prevented a decrease in the flow of blood to tissues frozen, a common cause of the loss of tissue in the freeze.

Protected from the effects of radiation.

The aloe protects the skin from damage caused by X - rays, according to researchers at Hoshi University in Japan and that the newspaper published Yakugaku Zasshi.

They found that aloe was an effective antioxidant, absorbing free radicals caused by radiation, and which protected two of the substances in the body, superoxide dismutase (an antioxidant enzyme) and GLUTATHIONE (an amino acid that stimulates the immune system)

Cure psoriasis lesions.

In a double, placebo - controlled, published by Tropical Medicine and International Health, 60 patients with chronic psoriasis were treated with 0. 5% of extracts of aloe vera in a cream of the mineral oil. The ointment was applied three times a day for five consecutive days (total 15 applications per week) for four weeks.

When controlled for the patients after eight months, the skin lesions of psoriasis had healed much more in the group of aloe (82. 8%) than in the placebo group (7. 7%) In addition, 83. 3% of the aloe group were considered cured of their psoriasis compared to only 6. 6% of the placebo group.

Treats intestinal problems.

The aloe vera juice is effective to treat inflammation of the intestine, according to a study published in Journal of Alternative Medicine.

Ten patients were given two ounces of aloe juice, three times daily for seven days. At the end of the week, all patients were cured his diarrhea, four had improved bowel regularity, and three had increased their bowel function.

The researchers concluded that the aloe could rebalance intestinal function "regulate gastrointestinal pH at the same time improves the gastrointestinal mobility, and reducing some fecal organisms, including yeast. " Other studies have shown that aloe vera juice helps clean the intestines, to neutralize the acidity of the stomach, gastric ulcers and prevent constipation.

Reduces blood sugar for diabetes.

Hormone Research indicates that the aloe reduced levels of blood sugar in diabetics.

Five adult patients with diabetes (non - insulin - dependent) were treated with 1 / 2 teaspoon of extract of aloe daily for 14 weeks. The blood sugar levels were reduced in all patients by 45% on average, unchanged weight.

Prevents and reduces the arthritic inflammation.

According to the Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association the aloe can help prevent arthritis and reduce inflammation in joints already affected by arthritis. The aloe may also inhibit the auto - immune reaction associated with certain forms of arthritis, which attacks its own tissues.

The guinea pigs were injected with a bacteria to cause arthritic symptoms, including inflammation and swelling. To determine whether we could prevent arthritis, was supplied aloe, for 13 days (150 mg / kg bw / day) The checks were made daily to determine how much swelling and inflammation.

According to the researchers several compounds of aloe showed a antiartrítica. An organic acid of aloe reduced inflammation in 79. 7% and abolished the auto - immune response in a 42. 4%. Another compound Aloe (anthraquinone) reduced inflammation in 67. 3% but had no effect on the auto - immune response.

Annotations of HIV infection.

An extract of mannose, one of the sugars of aloe, can inhibit HIV - 1 (associated with the AIDS virus)

A study in Molecular Biotherapy (1991) HIV - 1 cells were treated in vitro with an extract of mannose. Aloe slowed the reproduction of the virus about 30%, reduced the viral load (amount of virus) suppressed the spread of the virus in infected cells, and increase the viability (chance of survival) of infected cells.

Food supplement for patients of HIV.

The aloe vera juice proved to be an effective part in a food aid program for patients of HIV + according to the newspaper Advancement in Medicine.

For four months, 29 patients gave 100% pure juice of aloe vera (five ounces, four times a day) together with a supplement of essential fatty acid and other vitamins and supplements containing amino acids. Patients were told to continue with their normal diet and not take other supplements.

After 90 days, all patients reduced the level of incidence of associated infections, thrush, fatigue and diarrhea, and increased the number of white blood cells in the blood (which meant that their immune systems were responding positively) Will appreciate an improvement in their quality of global health. In 25% of patients, the aloe reduced the virus' ability to reproduce. Researchers found that aloe (the extract of mannose and perhaps other compounds) stimulates the body's immune system, particularly T4 cells and white blood cells that activate the immune response to infection.

Stimulates the immune response against cancer.

The aloe may help prolong survival time and stimulate the immune system of cancer patients, according to recent research.

A 1994 study published in the medical journal Japanese Yakhak Hoeji shows that mice with cancerous tumors were treated with aloe orally for 14 days. While the aloe did not delete tumor growth, the average life of the mice was prolonged by 22% (with dose 50mg / kg body weight per day) and 32% (with a dose 100mg / kg body weight per day) A simultaneous experiment in human cancer cells (outside the body) found that high doses of aloe significantly suppressed the growth of these cancer cells.

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Use and therapeutic applications.

The most common forms of employment of aloe are used externally, through gels and creams, and oral administration usually in the form of syrups or juice. The primitive system of direct application was simply to press the blade to cut in half transversely to the injured area and keep it there for a few minutes.

Some of its therapeutic applications are:

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Major chemical compounds.

ALOEMITINA: prevents and controls the spread of certain forms of cancer.

ALOEMODINA: It regulates the functioning of the intestinal mucosa.

ALOEOLEINA: Improved duodenal ulcers and stomach. It reduces the acidity.

ALOETINA: neutralizes the effect of microbial toxins.

Amino acids: Speaker in the formation of proteins.

CARRISINA: Strengthens the immune system and increases the defenses.

CRETININA: It is essential in the reactions of storage and transmission of energy.

Emolina, EMODINA, BARBALOINA: Generate analgesic effect of salicylic acid and antifebril.

PHOSPHATE hands: It acts as an agent of growth in tissue healing effect.

MINERALS: Calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, zinc, copper.

Mucilage: Activity emollient to the skin.

Saponins: Antiseptic.

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