Principal Characteristics
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The ancestral Aloe Vera is a p/ant that evolved from the lilac family, on which garlic is great curative and nutritive properties.
Aloe Vera, with its curative and regenerative properties, is mentioned in Bible passages as well as in ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphics, carried by Alexander the Great on his conquests as the only palliative for bruises and injuries.
In modern times, Aloe Vera is being rediscovered. Now, however, it has undergone more serious and in depth investigations. Including laboratory analysis and controlled clinical tests that assure the effectiveness of its curative properties.
Of the 200 types of Aloe Vera that exist, the one that has the greatest nutritional and therapeutic properties is the Aloe Vera Barbadensis.
The aloe vera plant contains its greatest nutritional properties at 2 to 3 years of age.
The succulent aloe vera gel is obtained from within the leaves, from which it is necessary to remove the peel or skin, leaving a slimy, sticky, gelatin-like tissue containing tremendous medicinal properties.
This marvelous gel cannot be exposed to the elements for more than 2 hours since it tends to oxidize easily, thus losing some of its therapeutic properties. This makes it necessary to subject it to a stabilization process. or refrigeration to neutralize the undesirable effects of oxygenation.
Laboratories like the Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine in Palo Alto. California, the International Council of Aloe, and the University of Oklahoma all work in formal studies of Aloe.
What are the properties in Aloe that make it such a marvelous natural product for health and beauty?
Doctor Greg Henderson. Director of a naturalist clinic
in the state of California, Michael T Murray N.D., Guillermo Pelly N. D.,
Dr Jeffrey Bland, with the support of laboratory tests, mentions the following
properties:
Contents are taken from Enrigue Garza's book ' Guide to Natural Remedies for Health and well-Being'