The Healing Plant

Throughout history as Aloe Vera moved across the continents from Africa it was known as the “healing plant”. Early man, ancient medical practitioners, and civilizations around the world have experimented with Aloe vera. Many have marveled at the seemingly magical properties this plant possessed as it was used for internal and external ailments.

There is a misconception that it is the gel in the Aloe Vera leaf that carries these 'magical properties' but instead, researchers have found it is a thin layer between the rind and the colorless gel called sap which holds the healing agents. This sap has an acrid smell, bitter taste, and what has been referred to by one early researcher as, “an unpleasant odor,” while the gel has no odor. If you were to visit an Aloe vera processing plant you would smell the sap long before you see it because of this very acrid odor.

Aloe Vera is composed of a multitude of vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and enzymes; natural ingredients the body needs to heal itself.

Additionally, the Aloe Vera sap also contains:

• Vitamin B complex, choline, folic acid, carotene (a precursor of vitamin A); some of these vitamins are vital to the formation of some enzymes

• At least 6 antiseptic agents, three of which are anti-inflammatory fatty acids, which explains the soothing healing affects on burns, cuts and abrasions

• Nine minerals, 20 amino acids, triglycerides, carbohydrates and water.