HEALING PROPERTIES OF ALOE VERA

 

Many are the institutes that have been in charged of studying the healing properties that Aloe Vera has. One of them is the Science and Medicine Institute of Linus Pauling in California, that after a research confirmed the beneficial effect of the consumption of Aloe Vera over the digestive system. Taking daily juice of the leaves of Aloe Vera produces a great improvement in the persons who have diseases of the digestive apparatus , as colitis, heartburn and irritable colon. Also it was proved the action of the Aloe Vera juice as an antiacid and healer in treatments as gastritis and ulcer. The Aloe Vera, is from tropical Africa and it arrived to the Occidental Indies in the XVI century. This plant has antibacterial, antifungicide and antiviral properties.

 

The transparent gel that is found inside its leaf is used as a domestic emergency treatment in burns, injuries and solar erithema, also it is applied externally on hemorrhoids and foe a good cicatrisation. Aloe Vera contains at least two active compounds that decrease the levels of sugar in the blood and its extract is also used in patients with hypoglycemia. Its juice is consumed as prevention and treatment of many gastric disorders, but it has to be drank in small dozes because it contains compounds that can be toxic or cause intestinal irritation acting as a laxative. The efficiency of Aloe Vera in the treatment of burns is due because it has a similar structure as aspirin, that in combination with magnesium have an anesthetic effect and because of its antimicrobian composition it helps for the hygiene of the burns, avoiding a possible infection.

 

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