COMMON NAME: Aloe
Vera
KARNATA:LOELE SARA
TAMIL NADU:KATHALA, KERALA:KATTAR VAZHA
ANDRA PRADESH:Kalabanda,
HINDI:Ghee Kunwar, Gwarpattha
SANSKRIT:Ghritkumari, Kumari
LATIN:Tourn ex. Linn
DESCRIPTION:Plant erect, 2-3 ft. high, cespitose. leaves fleshy, convex
below,1/2-2 ft. long,tapering toa blunt point, smooth,pale
green,irregulary white bloched, cylindrical,the margins. flowers
yellowor orange coloured, cylindrical, about 1 in. long.
DISTRIBUTION:Throughout India
Aloe Vera uses and benefits
FAMILY NAME: LILIANCEAE
BOTANICAL NAME:ALOE VERA, ALOE BARB AND ENSIS
PARTS USED:FLOWER,ROOT,LEAF
NAME OF THE FLUID:LATEX
ALOE VERA USES:IT IS USEFUL FOR X-RAY BURNS.CUTANEOS&DISORDERS OF SKIN.
DRUG FROM JUICE IS TONIC JAUNDICE,AMENEORRHOEA,ATONIC & PILES. ALOE VERA
GEL HAS THE REMARKABLE ABILITY TO HEAL WOUNDS,ULCER.
WHEN APPLIED EXTERNALLY ALOE VERA RESTORES THE SKIN TISSUE AND MAY AID
THE HEALING OF BURNS AND SORES.IT CAN ALSO BE USED ON BLEMISHES AND
DANDRUFF.USED COSMETICALLY,ALOE VERA SOFTENS THE SKIN.
ALOE VERA IS ALSO TAKEN INTERNALLY FOR STOMACH DISORDERS.DRIED ALOE
LATEX,A SUBSTANCE DERIEVED FROM THE LEAF,IS A STRONG LAXATIVE.
DOSAGE:ALOE COMES IN NUMBER OF FORMS:NATURAL GEL,PREPARED OINTMENT,SALVE
OR LOTION,LIQUID DRINK CONCENTRATE AND ENCAPSULATED POWDER. CAN BE
EXTERNALLY OR TAKEN INTERNALLY DEPENDING ON CONDITIONS.
THE LEAVES ARE ALTERNATIVE, STOMACHIC, ANTHELMINTIC, CATHARTIC
EMMENAGIC,ASTRINGENT,ANTIDOTAL,ANTHELMONTIC AND HEPATIC STIMULANT; AFTER
RERMOVING THEIR SKIN THEY ARE GIVEN IN FEVERS,ENLARGEMENT OF THE
LIVRE,SPLEEN AND OTHER GLANDS,SKIN DISEASES,GONORRHOEA,CONSTIPATION,
MENSTRUAL SUPPRESSION, PILES, JAUNDICE AND RHEUMATIC AFFECTIONS; IN
DISEASES OF THE LIVER AND SPLEEN THE PULP OF ONE LEAF IS ADMINISTRATORED
WITH BLACK SALT AND GINGEREVRY MORNING FOR TEN DAYS: THE JUCE OF A
ROASTED LEAF IS GIVEN WITH HONNEY FOR COUIGH AND COLD; THE PULP OF ONE
LEAF IS GIVEN DAILY IN ABDOMINAL TUMERS, DROPSY, CARBUNCLES, PILES,
SCIATICA, LUMBAGO, RHEUMATISM AND RETENTION OF URINE IN FEAFERS;IN
INDIGESTION, COSTIPATION AND FLATULENCE A SALAD OF HHE LEAVES IS EATES
AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR THE FRESH LEAVES THE INSPISSATED LEAF JUICE LOCALY
KNOWN AS 'ELIO', IS USED IN SMALL DOSES OF TWO TO FOUR GRAINS; IT IS A
HOUISEHOLD REMEDY FOR INTERSTINEL WORMS IN CHILDREN; IN LORGE DOSES ELIO
IS A OURGATIVE, EMMENAGOGUE AND AUNTHELMINTIC; IT IS TO BE TAKEN
CONTINUESLY FOR MANY DAYS