ALOE SABILA (aloe vera, aloe barbadensis)

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	ALOE SABILA
	*aloe vera, aloe barbadensis*

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ALOE SABILA

Scientific Name
aloe vera, aloe barbadensis

ALOE SABILA

Description

History

Majorities

Properties

International references

Use and therapeutic applications

Contraindications

Main composed chemical

Uses of the Aloe Side of "A" to "Z"

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Medicinal uses

Preparations

Homemade use of áloe

Internal use

Allergies

Final warnings

Contraindications

SÁVILA, SÁBILA, ZÁBILA, TOECHII, POSACMETL Or ALOE SIDE

Aloe side Linnaeus Fam. Liliaceae

Castilian: Zabira, zabila, zabida, zadiba, aloe, toot zabila, aloe side

English: aloe

INTRODUCTION: It is a species that has maguey aspect and its use is very old, since from century XVI, the natives used it for broken bones, erisipelas, sores, intestinal asthma and parasites. The macerated leaf as cataplasm is very common in problems of the skin like ronchas, bruises and minor wounds. The bitter resin called aloe or aloe or the juice concentrated of pencas, is applied roasted and without epidermis in sores and contusions. In addition, by his bitter flavor he is ideal for the weaning of the baby or like soap or tonic to clean the hairy leather and to let grow the hair. Other applications are for burns of the sun and acne, for which the juice is liquefied that is obtained along with cutting pencas nopal and it is taken in uninformed.

Plant of short stem and little numerous fleshy leaves, curved in the apex and with thorny edges; the flowers abundant and are directed downwards. It inhabits in climates warm, semiwarm, semidry, dry and tempering. Room is cultivated in houses and is associate with the tropical forest caducifolia, subcaducifolia, subperennifolia, perennifolia, scrub xerófilo and forests mesófilo of mountain, encino and compound of pine.

History

The use of the aloe goes back to the origins of the humanity. The Chinese were first in using the aloe and in old Egypt he was commonly used and they talked about the aloe as the plant of immortality including it between the buried funeral gifts with the Pharaohs.

It has been written which Alexander Magno conquered the Socotora island in the south of Arabia, because in her there were great amount of áloes which they would serve for the treatment as wounded and diseases of its soldiers during the campaigns.

Also, Cleopatra daily used the aloe like essential ingredient in its daily cares.

Already, in century I of ours it was, Dioscórides intensely described it in its Greek herbario by its medicinal and cosmetic virtues.

Historical documents of the Romans, Greek, Hindu, Arab and other warm climate towns exist, that comment their medicinal and cosmetic virtues.

The Franciscanos Spanish transferred it from our earth to America, surely to the island Bearded, from where ALOE BARBADENSIS comes its present scientific name.

In Spain, throughout the shore of the Mediterranean, the Aloe was an essential element in the popular medicine, until the generalized use of the modern farmacopea relegated it to the forgetfulness next to most of the medicinal plants.

During II the World war redescubrió its therapeutic value. The burns caused in the populations of Hiroshima and Nakasaki by the atomic bursts, were cured more quickly with the aloe and in many cases without leaving to signals nor scars.

At the moment their properties have been verified clinically and the scientists are interested more and more in their medical applications.

The NASA uses it because it absorbs 90% of the toxicity of substances like: the PVC, the fiber glass, the varnishes, the paintings, the radiations of the computers, the television sets and other electronic devices.

It is thought that it brings good luck, and very is used in the chamánicos rituals by its great power power and because it purifies the soul.

Summary

Majorities

The Aloe is a sort of the subfamily Asfodeloides pertaining to the Liliáceas, that includes/understands more than 200 species. She is original of Eastern and Southern Africa.

It reaches between 2 and 3 meters of height, although rarely up to 6 meters. The species of the sort of áloes are ligneous almost always, but with the very great and carnudas leaves, arranged in great rosettes and with a strong thorn in their end, Navies of other smaller marginal thorns. One or diverse axillary bohordos throws that end in beautiful ramilletes. The flowers are tubulosas, because the six pieces that form the floral cover to each other weld all in a tube generally straight or bent some times. These flowers usually have reddish, orange or yellowish color. Estambres is also six, with long filaments that start of the bottom of the flower, underneath pistilo. The fruit is a capsule of inconsistentes walls.

In Medicine the juice of its leaves materialized in a mass solid of very dark color, and very bitter, call is used aloe. Generally, it is obtained letting flow the licor that slips cross-sectionally of its cut leaves, by the cut from which summarizes placed on a container to intention. This licor is left is concentrated and it is thickened to the heat of the sun or with artificial heat.

According to as it is the drying process, the aloe adopts colors that will go from brown the reddish one to the black, in form of lumps similar to the dry mud, fragile, of concoide fracture, to which there is to protect of the humidity.

The leaves, whose sap is used, are fleshy, measure about 50 cm. in length, 10 or 20 cm. wide and 5 cm. of thickness. If a cut becomes exude a watery liquid of very bitter flavor, accumulated in secretory cells that surround the cribosa region. Since the cellular wall that separates them is very thin, the juice flows with facility. It is necessary to cut the leaves so that the secretion can take shelter in a container. Next the liquid is condensed putting it to the fire or the bath Maria. After separating the foam it is spilled to him in another container in which it will be solidified. Thus it is as it arrives at the market and it is elaborated later in form of prepared galénicos (drops, pills, supositorios, gels, etc.). The use of áloe is rare pure.

Summary

Properties

The composition of the aloe varies according to the aloe from which it comes, the time of harvesting and the form to elaborate it.

It contains from the 6 to 10% of water and those of greater quality leave a 2% of ashes. What it varies more is the amount of resin, that oscillates between the 40 and 80%. This resin that does not have farmacológica importance, is a ester of paracumárico acid and a resínico alcohol, aloerresinotanol.

In addition, the aloe contains until 20% of aloinas. By hydrolysis, aloínas gives emodina that is the constituent assets of the aloe.

The aloe also contains aloemicina, of great anti-inflammatory and analgesic power, and aloeuricina, whose property is to activate and to fortify the epithelial cells, which does of much utility in the gastric and stomach ulcers.

It contains great amount of amino acids as they are the valina, metionina, fenilalanina, lisina and leucina. It has in addition to the lignina polisacárido one, glucomannan and other glúcidos like the pentosa, the urónicos galactosa, and acids that provide a deep cleaning of the skin, because they penetrate in all its layers, eliminating greasy bacteria and deposits that make difficult the exudation through pores. Between the constituent elements they appear iodo, receives, iron, zinc, phosphorus, sodium, potassium, manganese, sulfur magnesium and great amount of calcium. She is one of the few species that B12 vitamin contains, in addition to vitamin To, B1, B2, B6, and C.

It contains forts proportions of germanium that acts as purifying filter of the organism, eliminates poisons and remainders of the cells, reconstruct and revitalize the bony marrow, reactivate the immunological system, stimulate the production of endorfinas, that calm in pain. All the plants that contain germanium have been considered miraculous and are: the Aloe side, ging-seng and the mushrooms shitake.

The obtained gel of the aloe produces six antiseptic agents of high antimicrobial activity: the cinamónico acid, a type of nitrogen urea, lupeol, fenol, sulfur, fólico acid and a natural salícico acid that combined with lupeol has important analgesic effects.

It is astringent, analgesic, and anticoagulant. Also one has verified its benefits as stimulating of the cellular growth and turns out to be incredible antitoxic and a antimicrobial one.

The water dye or juice diluted to equal parts used several times in form of gárgaras of 3 to 4 minutes acts effectively against the dental pains, and of encías, neuralgias, aftas, laryngitis, crosstalk, tonsilitis, anginas, plates and any buccal or faríngea affection.

It cures the necrosantes wounds, like the burns, regenerating the weaves and healing them, recovering as well the sensitivity of the affected area.

It cures the sharp wounds, herpes, culebrilla, the tinea, and the infections produced by estafilococos and other internal bacterial infections like the gastroenteritis, colitis, enterocolitis, vaginitis, cervicitis, escorbuto, venereal rage, disentería, blenorragias, sífilis and other diseases.

It alleviates the pain the blows, esguinces, muscular, arthritic and rheumatic luxaciones, pains, the tired feet,

In the eruptivas diseases of the children like the measles, varicela, the scarlet fever etc., their anti-inflammatory properties reduce picazón and avoids that the boys rasquen the blisters.

The warts, sabañones, eccemas, the soriasis, the seborreica dermatitis, erisipela, the foot of athlete, the punctures of insects, spiders, scorpions, serpents, medusas and the poisonous plants can treat.

It is very suitable for the treatment of the varices, since calm its pain and them improvement.

Also their beneficial effects in the treatment of the cellulitis have been verified.

Aloína revitalizes more flexible, brilliant, docile and resistant the hair returning it.

It regenerates the cells of the skin after the shaved one. After the shaving it avoids rojeces, eruptions, grains, and quickly closes expanded pores.

It heals the wound of the navel of the baby and the circuncisión.

It avoids the striae in the abdomen and the sines. After the childbirth it alleviates to the pains the episiotomía, facilitating the recovery of the ring to vulvar.

The innocent ones, vaginal tricommas and other infections or irritations disappear with aloe.

It reduces the effects of the allergies, indigestión, stomach acidity, duodenal and stomach gastritis, ulcers, ocular, hemorroides ulcers, affections of the digestive apparatus, clearing the stomach, the thin intestine, the liver, the kidneys and the páncreas.

It is a natural laxative and it facilitates the intestinal movements in the people with constipation problems.

It is possible to be used like fotoprotector against the solar burns, once even produced this type of burns.

Tonifica the organism and opens the appetite.

It absorbs and it reduces the corporal scent, being an excellent deodorant.

Summary

Articles of interest:

The wounds are cured soon but.

A study animal-based published in the Journal of the American Medical Podiatric Association determined that the oral and topical preparations of the aloe accelerate the treatment of the wounds.

To an animal group aloe in the water administered itself to them that drank (100 mg/Kg corporal weight) during two months and to another group I am directly applied cream to him of aloe in the wounds during six days. In both cases the aloe had positive effects. The size of the wounds diminished a 62% in the animals that took áloe oral compared to 51% in the control group. Áloe topical produced a diminution of 51% of size of the wound compared to 33% in the control group.

The post-surgical time of recovery diminishes.

According to a report of the Journal of Dermatologic Surgery and Oncology the aloe diminishes post-surgical time of recovery.

To eighteen patients of acne, who were put under surgery of face dermabrasión was applied in half of the face of each patient the gel to them of standard post-surgical treatment, and other half of the face was treated adding áloe. Half of the face dealt with áloe cured approximately 72 hours faster than other half of the face.

The dermatologist James Fulton de Playa de Newport, California, main author of the report declares: to "Cualquier wounded that we treated, or to suturar a cut or to clear a superficial cancer, better heal with aloe vera"

It alleviates the burns.

A report of the Journal of the Medical Association de Thailandia, indicates that 27 patients with wounds produced by slight burns were dealt indifferently with gel of aloe or Vaseline? (petroleum jelly). The burns healed more quickly in the group of áloe, with a curativo average time of 12 days compared to the 18 days for the group dealt with Vaseline.

It diminishes the damage by freezing.

A study published in Annals of Emergency Medicine indicates that the aloe reduces to the minimum the effects by freezing.

The investigators applied the standard treatments by freezing (antibiotic, they ibuprofen, and overheating) to 154 patients who underwent severe freezing. Of the patients who received in addition the aloe cream side, 67.9% cured without no loss of fine weave (amputation), compared to 32.7% of the control group. The investigators concluded that áloe prevented a diminution with the flow of the blood to congealed fine weaves, a cause common of the loss of the fine weave in the freezing.

It protects of the effects of radiation.

Áloe protects the skin of the damage produced by x-rayses, according to investigators of the university of Hoshi in Japan and that published the newspaper Yakugaku Zasshi.

They found that áloe was antirust an effective one, absorbing the free radicals caused by the radiation, and that protected two of the substances of the body, it dismutase superoxidizes (an antirust enzyme) and glutathione (an amino acid that stimulates the immune system).

It cures soriasis injuries.

In a double study, placebo-controlled, published by Tropical Medicine and International Health, 60 patients with chronic soriasis were dealed with with 0.5% about extracts about aloe side in a cream the mineral oil. The ointment was applied three times to the day by five days consecutive (15 total applications per week) during four weeks.

When they controlled to the patients after eight months, the injuries of skin by soriasis had cured much but in the group of áloe (82,8%) that in the group of placebo (7,7%). In addition, 83.3% of the group of áloe were considered cured of their compared soriasis to only 6.6% of the group of placebo.

It treats the intestinal problems.

The aloe juice side turns out effective to deal with the inflammations the intestine, according to a study published in Journal of Alternative Medicine.

To ten patients one occurred two ounces them of juice of áloe, three times to the day, during seven days. After the week, all the patients cured their diarrea, four had improved the regularity of the intestine and three had increased their intestinal function.

The investigators concluded that áloe could simultaneously reequilibrar the intestinal function "regula pH gastrointestinal that improves gastrointestinal mobility, and the reduction certain fecales microorganisms, including levadura." Other studies have demonstrated that the aloe juice side helps to clean the intestine, to neutralize the gastric acidity of the stomach, ulcers and to avoid the constipation.

It reduces the sugar in the blood by diabetes.

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

Five adult patients with diabetes (noninsulino employees) were dealed with with 1/2 extract teaspoon áloe daily during 14 weeks. The blood sugar levels were reduced in all the patients in a 45% of average, without alterations of weight.

It prevents and it reduces the arthritic inflammation.

According to the Journal of the American Medical Podiatric Association áloe can help to prevent arthritis and to reduce the inflammation in the joints affected already by arthritis. Áloe can also inhibit the associate car-immune reaction to certain forms of arthritis, in which their own weaves are attacked.

The coberries were injected with a bacterium to cause arthritic symptoms, to knowing to inflammation and swelling. In order to determine if arthritis could be come up, aloe was provided to them, during 13 days, (150 mg/Kg corporal weight and day). The controls took place daily to determine the amount swelling and inflammation.

According to the investigators several compounds of áloe showed an antiarthritic activity. An organic acid of the aloe reduced the inflammation in a 79.7% and suppressed the car-immune answer in a 42,4%. Another compound of áloe (antraquinona) reduced the inflammation in a 67.3% but it did not have any effect in the car-immune answer.

Demarcation of the infection of the VIH.

An extract of mannose, one of sugars of the aloe, can inhibit the VIH-1 (virus associated to the AIDS).

In a study made in Molecular Biotherapy (1991), cells VIH-1 were dealed with in vitro with an extract mannose. Áloe slowed down the reproduction of the virus near 30%, reduced the viral load (total amount of the virus), it suppressed the extension of the virus in the infected cells, and increase the viability (occasion of the survival) of infected cells.

Nutritional complement for patients of the VIH.

The aloe juice side demonstrated to be an effective part in a nutritional program of aid for the VIH+ patients according to the Advancement newspaper in Medicine.

During four months, they gave to 29 patients pure juice 100% of aloe side (five ounces, four times to the day), along with an essential fatty acid supplement and another supplement that contained vitamins and amino acids. It was said to the patients who continued with their normal diet and they did not take other supplements.

After 90 days, all the patients reduced the degree of incidence of the infections associated, afta, fatigue and diarrea, and increased the number of white globules in the blood (that meant that their immune systems responded positively). Esteem one improves in its quality of global health. In 25% of the patients, the aloe reduced the capacity of the virus to reproduce. The investigators found that the aloe (the extract of mannose and perhaps other compounds) stimulates the immune system of the body, particularly the cells of the T4 and the white globules of the blood that activate the inmuno-answer to the infection.

It stimulates the inmuno-answer against the cancer.

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

A published study of 1994 in the medical newspaper Japanese Yakhak Hoeji, indicates that mice with cancerous tumors were dealt with oral aloe during 14 days. Although the aloe did not suppress the growth of the tumor, the average life of the mice was prolonged a 22% (with dose 50mg/kg corporal weight and day) and a 32% (with dose 100mg/kg corporal weight and day). A simultaneous experiment in human cells with cancer (outside the body) found that the high doses of áloe perceivably suppressed the growth of these cancerigenic cells.

Summary

Use and therapeutic applications

The common forms but of use of the aloe are their external use, by means of gels and creams, and the oral administration via normally in form of syrups or juice. There the primitive system of direct application consisted, simply, in pressing the leaf cut to means in cross-sectional sense against the injured zone, and maintaining it during minutes.

Some of their therapeutic applications are:

Summary

Main composed chemical

ALOEMITINA: it prevents and it controls the propagation of certain cancerigenic forms.

ALOEMODINA: It regulates the operation of the intestinal mucosa.

ALOEOLEINA: Improvement duodenal and stomach ulcers. The acidity diminishes.

ALOETINA: It neutralizes the effect of microbial toxins.

AMINOACIDOS: It takes part in the protein formation.

CARRISINA: It reinforces the immune system and it increases the defenses.

CRETININA: It is fundamental in the reactions from storage and transmission from the energy.

EMOLINA, EMODINA, BARBALOINA: They generate acid salicílico of analgesic and antifebrile effect.

MANOSA PHOSPHATE: It acts like agent of growth of weaves with healing effect.

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

MUCILAGO: Emollient activity on the skin.

SAPONINAS: Antiseptic.

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