Aloe Vera
February 19, 2012 Tags: Aloe veras, asia, cure plant, herb, medicinal, Thailand
Category: Treasures and Tastes of Asia No Comments 
Aloe Vera is a species of Aloe, and native to North Africa. It is a stem less or very short-stemmed succulent plant growing to 80-150 cm tall, it spreads with upward growing off shoots and sprouts, these shoots can be removed and re planted.
When the flower appears it can reach to around 90cm tall, has yellow tubular corolla 2 – 3 cm long.
Aloe has been for a quiet a while a houseplant, sitting doing nothing when you had a doctors pot in your home.
A plant considered a magician with many properties to heal both internally and externally, flourish well in warm and dry climates, therefore looking similar to a cactus plants.
You are then wrong it is part of the lily Family, a plant that remains moist when others dry and die away; it closes its pores to reduce water loss. It’s mentioned that there are around 400 types or species of Aloe worldwide, the main Aloe for medicinal or should be considered the “True Aloe”
Aloe Barbadensis Miller that is used mainly today.
Action: Adjuvant, Alterative, Anthelminitc, Antipyretic, Bitter tonic, Blood tonic, Emollient, Emmenagogue, Hepatic, Laxative, Purgative, Vulnerary. All these from one lily!
Taste: Bitter
Parts used: Leaf and Gel
Internal applications: Have great benefits for the liver, spleen, uterus and our blood. Taking the gel internally can assist in the regulating of the menstrual stages, detoxification, to assist with long illnesses, and to help with liver diseases, and for chronic constipation. A great help with infectious diseases, taking large dose of Aloe acts as a purgative and can remove intestinal worms and parasites. Some hill tribe people of Thailand believe that it can assist with epilepsy, rabies and seizures.
Combine fresh gel with, palm sugar of sweet fruit juice and take 1 – 3 tablespoons 1 – 3 times per day, don’t forget you can make tea from the dried leafs.
Topical applications: dab a gel of aloe on your temples to reduce tension headaches, great also for boils, swelling, tendinitis, soothes sunburn, cuts, herpes, and eczema along with other skin irritations. For me I like to make a gel and mix with fruit juice and yogurt for a healthy drink!
