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Aloe as an Anti-Inflammatory

Filed under: general, Aloe — pillfreevitamins at 10:44 am on Thursday, October 5, 2006

 Inflammation in the body has gotten out of control. Where as it used to just shoot up when an injury or disease was present and left when the disease or injury did, now it comes with the injuries and diseases, and stays long after they are gone.

The inflammation process has turned on it’s self, instead of staying in the infected area, inflammation can wander all over your body causing pain and harm to where ever it goes.

Aloe Vera is a common cure for this. Aloe contains at least three different anti-inflammatory agents, and there are possibly even more. These agents are fatty acids, which also have other healing properties to them as well.

One of the fatty acids doubles as an anti-cholestromatic that takes bad cholesterol levels down. Aloe is used to reduce inflammation and can help control it in certain areas of the body.

Aloe Vera can be used to lower inflammation but should not be used every time inflammation occurs unless the inflammation is covering a large area or is causing a great amount of pain. Inflammation is a reaction that the body goes through during a healing process.

When something is suffering from inflammation the inflammation actually has something to do with the healing process. Aloe Vera can also be used on inflammations to bring them down, and sooth them.

The soothing ability in aloe is causes by the fatty acids and is the reason why aloe is also used for burns bruises and cuts. Today Aloe Vera comes in pill form, liquid form, and its most natural form.

How you take it is up to you, what it does in you is what it is meant to do. Aloe Vera is not harmful to you and has many uses besides being used for inflammations. So when you are looking for something new to use, check out aloe vera and what all it can do.
 

Steven Godlewski - Liquid Vitamins and Life Force International

Aloe as a Digestion Aid

Filed under: general, Aloe — pillfreevitamins at 10:44 am on Thursday, October 5, 2006

Aloe has been used for many different things in the past. One of the uses has been as a laxative. When Aloe is cut and prepared a certain way it has certain properties to it that help clean and empty your digestive tract.

The properties in aloe are used inside of your body to help clean it. The aloe is cut in a certain way and then prepared. The outcome is a brown substance that can be eaten or stirred into a drink and then digested.

Aloe has been known to cause diarrhea and stomach pains, but is a valuable source of all the proteins vitamins and minerals found with in it. While in the body aloe can also clean the digestive tract of any extra toxins, and unwanted food items that your stomach refused to digest fully.

Your stomach digests what is good for you and sometimes it even gets what isn’t good for you, but there are times when the stomach finds something in foods that it does not digest. The left over undigested food then stays in the stomach and starts to collect around the outer edges of the stomach.

After enough foods have been passed through there is usually a small clump of undigested minerals and such that is sitting in your stomach causing you discomfort. Aloe breaks this clump down and kind of pushes it through the digestive tract.

Aloe is also used to help clean out your digestive tract of other types of waste that can be found there. By using aloe to clean out your digestive tract you are able to also clean out toxins that are not needed, and can keep your self healthier.

So with all the other uses of aloe, it is slightly amazing that it can also be used for this. Whether healing minor burns or detoxifying yourself, be sure to know that aloe can do both.

 

Steven Godlewski - Liquid Vitamins and Life Force International

Aloe as a Topical Ointment

Filed under: Aloe — pillfreevitamins at 9:42 pm on Saturday, August 12, 2006

Aloe has been used for centuries to heal burns cuts and bruises. Aloe also helps diabetics who suffer from topical sores due to their disease. Another topical use for aloe is skin care.

The list of topical problems that aloe is used for is of a decent size. Aloe can be used to enhance skin growth, and the acid inside of aloe can be used as an effective pain-killer.

Aloe vera also produces at least six different antiseptics, which can kill mold, bacteria, funguses, and viruses. Aloe can help with skin blemishes and some people even use it to treat acne.

Aloe vera is a very useful plant, having been used for hundreds of years for all kinds of problems. Aloe has been used for baldness, burns, cuts, bruises, broken bone relief, and much more.

There are about 500 different medical uses that were actually written down in the past 50 years. That’s not including everything from century’s way back. Topical uses have been used for as long as many people can remember.

The most common form of aloe used for topical ointments is aloe jelly, which is the natural extract from the leaves of the plant. The uses of aloe are numerous and all have been proven scientifically over the years.

Many people around the world use aloe as a topical ointment. Whether for burns sores cuts or bruises, they still use aloe because they are still happy with the results.

Aloe is also used in cosmetics, and as a beauty restoring thing. When using aloe for burns or cuts, you usually feel a soothing feeling on contact, this is the fatty acids in the aloe interacting with the burn and killing off the harmful bacteria.

As a result, aloe vera is most commonly used as a topical cure, and is more often found being used for burns on people in America.

Steven Godlewski -  Liquid Vitamins and Life Force International 

The Many Uses of Aloe Vera

Filed under: Aloe — pillfreevitamins at 9:42 pm on Saturday, August 12, 2006

Most people know what Aloe Vera is. It is a type of plant grown on land that is most commonly used for sun burns. What people don’t know about Aloe Vera is the many uses of it from the past.

The ancient Greeks used Aloe Vera for many things, including baldness and insomnia. The Native Americans called Aloe Vera the “Wand of the Heaven. The uses go on and on for lots of different cultures.

The list of what all Aloe Vera has been used for includes things such as an aphrodisiac, to expel worms, purgative for lazy and weak people, used to help heal blisters, head aches, jaundice, cough, and more. All of these things cured with one plant.

Cultures around the world have not taken Aloe Vera lightly either. The plant is mentioned in the bible about five times, including the story about the people who wandered for 40 years.

Aloe Vera can now be found just about everywhere. You can tell the Aloe Vera plant by it’s rigid looking cactus like leaves. Aloe Vera is most commonly used for burns and bruises now, mainly because it gives a soothing sensation almost on contact.

There are over 240 different species of Aloe, but so far only four of them have been recognized for their potent nutritional value. In one leaf of Aloe alone you can find 75 nutrients, 200 active compounds, 20 minerals, 18 amino acids, and 12 vitamins.

All of that in just one leaf! Aloe has also been used for skin therapy, by the French, and even by Cleopatra. There are even some types of Aloe that have been known to fight bacteria that cause tuberculosis.

All in all, Aloe Vera is one plant that has definitely gotten around in the world. Scientists are even trying to use it to find cures for AIDS and other deadly illnesses.
Steven Godlewski -  Liquid Vitamins and Life Force International 

Different Types of Aloe

Filed under: Aloe — pillfreevitamins at 3:53 pm on Sunday, July 2, 2006

There are over 500 different species in the Aloe family. Each one is different in size and appearance going any where from as small is a half dollar coin to full sized trees.

They are found all over the world, but are native to Africa Yemen and other countries in that region. The differences between the Aloes are actually very odd ones. Some of them can survive in cold weather; others die in cold or wet climate.

When you think of aloe, what do you think of? Most people think of the aloe that is used for sun burns and other minor injuries? Have you ever thought of it as a small little shrub? Or a big tree? With over 500 different species no matter how you look at it, it is still a very big species.

Aloe Vera is the most commonly known, it has been used for burns, cuts, bruises, nutritional values, and much more by all the different cultures of the world. The aloe that we are familiar with grows like a desert plant; it has long slender leaves that are thick all the way up to around the middle where they start to thin out.

Caring for these plants is very easy, and most aloe plants can be found in a garden or in a home used as decoration. Aloe is also a good source of vitamins, and so there are a lot of different cultures that experiment with the different types of Aloe.

With all the different types of aloe, and all of the evidence of it’s healing abilities, it is a wonder it is not extinct yet. The plants are all over and easy to find once you know what you are looking for. Using aloe for injuries is also easy, simply by cutting off a leave and squeezing the juice out you are able to work with aloe juice.

 Steven Godlewski -  Liquid Vitamins and Life Force International 

Aloe and the Immune System

Filed under: Aloe — pillfreevitamins at 9:26 am on Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Aloe Vera is greatly enriched with vitamins, minerals, and other important things. Aloe has also been around for as long as any one can remember, with evidence of it even being there during the dinosaurs’ age.

Not only has it been around for a really long time, but it has been used during almost all of the time it has been around. Aloe is able to cure burns and bruises, small cuts and some medium sized cuts, stomach problems, and there are extensive research’s being done.

One of the many things that Aloe can do is help raise your immune system. That’s right; studies have shown that aloe can actually help protect you from cancer, sickness, and other problems.

So how does aloe raise your immune system? Inside of aloe there are numerous vitamins, minerals, and trace elements. All of these things combined into one creates a type of shield against bacteria that causes sickness and disease.

Now not every aloe plant contains everything it should. Because of the fact that earths soil is starting to become depleted of its old minerals and enrichments, earths vegetation is suffering as well. How ever, there are people who build green houses and buy enriched soils for them.

These green houses help keep air and ground pollution down inside of the green houses, and also can keep the soil inside of them from becoming depleted like other soil.

With green houses, and proper care, the aloe plant can continue to work its healing properties on humans and can continue to decorate houses as well. What some people don’t understand though, is that aloe can be used for numerous things.

You don’t even have to go to a store to buy it. You can take a leaf off of an aloe plant that you own go on the web and find out what you can do to it to get the type of healing you require from it.

 

Steven Godlewski -  Liquid Vitamins and Life Force International 

Some Information on Aloe Vera

Filed under: Aloe — pillfreevitamins at 7:25 pm on Thursday, June 8, 2006

 

Aloe has a long history as a remedy for many different ailments. Commonly known as Aloe Vera, the plant can be separated into two basic products: gel and latex. Aloe Vera gel is the leaf pulp or juice, a thin clear jelly-like substance obtained from the leaf that makes up the inner portion of the leaves.

The gel contains carbohydrate polymers, plus various other organic and inorganic compounds. Aloe latex, commonly referred to as “aloe juice,” is a yellow extract from the pericyclic tubules just beneath the outer skin of the leaves. For use as a laxative, the juice is often dried to produce aloe granules that are dark brown from exposure to the air.

The separation process is not always complete, so aloe latex can be found in some aloe gels. It is better to make the gel as pure as possible, because aloe latex contains some things that are used for strong laxatives.
The processed Aloe is difficult to keep stable, a problem that can cause differences in potency. The best source of aloe gel would be right from a broken leaf of the plant.

Aloe gel has been used for treatment of wounds, minor burns, and skin irritations. Most consumers are familiar with aloe’s use in skin-care products, but aloe can also be used as a drink.

Aloe products for internal use have been used for constipation, coughs, wounds, ulcers, diabetes, cancer, headaches, arthritis, and many other conditions. Aloe has been used for all different types of things through out the years, and is now sold openly on the market.

People who buy Aloe normally know exactly what they are going to use it for, and some just buy it to be safe. Aloe is now one of the few plants that can cure so many different ailments that can be found on the surface of the earth.

Steven Godlewski -  Liquid Vitamins and Life Force International  

 

Aloe and Blood Sugar

Filed under: Aloe — pillfreevitamins at 5:14 pm on Wednesday, June 7, 2006

Inside of every ones blood there are sugar levels that need to be at certain amounts each day and all day. When the amount of blood sugar is low in some one they can experience irritability, weakness, fatigue, head aches, shakes, jitters, and uncontrollable hunger.   When blood sugar levels get too high our body makes insulin. Blood sugar is not something you can play around with, it can affect your entire body, and if it gets low enough you could have a real problem on your hands.   Aloe has been used in studies of blood sugar and has yet again come out with good responses. Studies have been run and research has been done, aloe vera can help with blood sugar levels.   

Today over half of our population is over weight. There are also more cases of diabetics. These two problems are caused by blood sugar levels, and are also some of our most dangerous problems. When blood sugar levels are balanced, we have more energy to exercise.   We also find that we don’t feel as sluggish and lazy feeling when our blood sugar levels are up. Keeping a balanced blood sugar level is important for our health, and aloe is capable of doing so. The minerals and trace elements in aloe are being used more and more for problems in the body.    

Aloe contains the right minerals, trace elements, and vitamins to help control blood sugar levels. What one study did, was when a diabetic took their medicine, they also took a spoon full of aloe juice with it, while this diabetic did this, another one took nothing but his medicine.   The diabetic who had taken the spoon full of aloe juice had a balanced blood sugar level, while the person who took nothing but the medicine experienced lower blood sugar.  

Steven Godlewski -  Liquid Vitamins and Life Force International