Aloe - medicinal properties and contraindications

Aloe is one of the most popular and common indoor plants. Aloe is completely noncapritic - it grows in almost any conditions. However, the popularity of the plant is not achieved due to its unpretentiousness, but largely due to its beneficial properties. Aloe is a real pharmacy on the window, which is ready at any moment to provide a fresh, and most importantly, effective medicine. Aloe has a huge number of species and subspecies. Speaking of aloe, we mean medicinal aloe vera, on the basis of which numerous cosmetics and therapeutic ointments are made. Today we will talk about aloe - how to extract juice from it, how to use it and what useful properties this unique plant has.

How to get aloe juice

Most often in various recipes used pulp or aloe juice.And if the flesh is not difficult to get - just cut off the peel, then the juice is quite difficult to extract. The fact is that when grinding, we get only a slimy mass, which is not filtered through a sieve or gauze. Therefore, before chopping raw materials must be frozen. When frozen, aloe changes its texture, but does not lose its beneficial properties.

Before collecting the leaves, the plant does not need to be watered for several days. Then the concentration of nutrients in the pulp will be maximum. To collect the raw materials you need to choose an adult plant, which is more than three years old - young shoots do not have as many useful components. It is necessary to cut the bottom, the largest leaves, which then should be washed, wiped with a towel and put in the freezer for a day. A day later, remove the leaves and chop them in a blender or meat grinder. It is very convenient to grate a frozen sheet on a grater, especially if you need quite a bit of juice. Next, the pulp must be squeezed out with the help of gauze - you get a useful, vitamin-rich product that can be used for its intended purpose.

Useful properties of aloe for skin

Another property of aloe juice is a bactericidal action. Fresh aloe juice is able to cope with any inflammation, redness, itching. Therefore, aloe is effectively used in the fight against acne, black spots, boils.Aloe penetrates the skin and suppresses the center of inflammation from the inside. Aloe is useful for various skin diseases - lichen, allergic rashes, psoriasis, herpes, trophic ulcer, eczema. With severe pain and itching, you can simply cut a fresh leaf of aloe along the length and apply a cut to the affected skin. Aloe helps you if you are cut or burned. The flesh of the plant helps with frostbite.

Medicinal aloe for the human body

However, aloe is not only a skin care product. It contains a huge amount of minerals, acids, vitamins and flavonoids, which have a beneficial effect on many human organs. The juice and pulp of the plant have a rather bitter taste, so not everyone can undergo such treatment. But if you overpower and force yourself to drink bitter medicine, you can improve the work of many organs.

1. To work the digestive tract. Aloe juice is actively used in gastritis with low acidity. If your stomach produces little gastric juice, take aloe three times a day before each main meal, about half an hour, one teaspoon.Aloe has a mild laxative effect if you drink it on an empty stomach. The drug is effective for cleansing the intestines, easily copes with colitis and diseases of the biliary tract. Often, aloe is prescribed to patients after major surgeries and long-term illnesses. It gives the patient strength, improves the appetite, facilitates the absorption of products. In this case, you need to mix aloe with honey and a small amount of red wine. Drink a mixture of one tablespoon in the morning and evening.
2. Cough. Aloe has an expectorant effect - it gently dilutes the sputum and brings it out. The plant soothes inflamed lungs, relieves exhausting barking cough. Aloe juice is recommended for use in whooping cough and tuberculosis to alleviate the symptoms of the disease.
3. Joints Aloe helps with various diseases of the joints. Aloe juice should be rubbed into the knees and elbows, making massage for at least 10 minutes. Aloe gently warms, penetrates into the structure of cartilage, stimulates the production of cartilage fluid. If you do these procedures every other day, you can forget about senile pain in the joints.
4. Inflammation of the mucosa. The bactericidal properties of aloe juice are actively used in various inflammations of the oral mucosa.For pharyngitis, tonsillitis and sore throat, a tablespoon of juice should be dissolved in a glass of warm water and gargle every three hours. Within a day, the sore throat subsides. The same solution can rinse your mouth with stomatitis and toothache. The juice is also effective in erosion of the cervix - a tampon soaked in the juice and placed in the vagina.
5. Against the fungus. Old aloe tree has antimycotic properties. This means that it is effective against a different type of fungus. With the help of the juice of this plant, you can get rid of seborrhea, if applied to the scalp and wrap for a couple of hours. If you regularly rub the juice on the skin and nails affected by fungus, itching and irritation will pass, a healthy nail plate will begin to grow. A swab moistened with aloe juice is used in the fight against vaginal candidiasis. In this case, you need to use only purified aloe medical juice, which is sold in ampoules.
6. Against viruses During the cold season, doctors recommend drinking a teaspoon of aloe juice every day in the morning. This will improve the body's resistance against SARS, you will be sick much less often. And even if you get sick, you will carry the disease much easier.
7. Rhinitis, otitis media, blepharitis. Aloe juice is often used for instillation into the nose, ears, eyes. Juice is often dripped into the nose to open nasal breathing, relieve swelling of the mucous membrane, suppress inflammation. It is effective even in sinusitis. Remember, juice needs to be diluted in half with water if the child is a patient. When keratitis and blepharitis need to use only pure aloe extract in ampoules. By the way, in pharmacies there are special eye drops - aloe vera according to Fedorov. This remedy is effective in various inflammations of the eye area, during drying of the cornea, severity and burning in the eyes, it is also used in night blindness. The composition of the drug includes purified aloe extract, which is enriched with various vitamins.
8. Against cancer Doctors say that taking regular aloe vera juice significantly reduces the risk of developing cancer. Aloe pulp should be mixed with honey in the ratio of 1: 5, drink a tablespoon of the mixture every morning for a month. Store the prepared medicine in the refrigerator for no more than 5 days, after which you need to prepare a fresh composition. However, there is one subtlety that must be observed. In the treatment against oncology, you need to take only the aloe pulp, but in no case the skin.It is the skin that can cause benign or malignant tumors.
9. Fight against hemorrhoids. The bactericidal and anti-inflammatory property of aloe juice is used in the fight against hemorrhoids. For the treatment of the disease, you can use candles and lotions. But only if the nodes do not bleed. From a large sheet of aloe need to cut a longitudinal candle, smear it with honey and butter and place in the rectum for half an hour. Effectively wet a piece of gauze in fresh aloe juice and make lotions for hemorrhagic nodes.
10. Against male impotence. Aloe juice in combination with some components is effective for improving potency in men. In equal parts you need to mix good butter, goose fat, aloe juice and ground rosehip powder. Store the mixture in the refrigerator. Take one tablespoon, after having dissolved the mixture in a glass of milk. In a week you will feel that the male power is coming back to you.

In the treatment, not only juice is used, but also aloe tincture, sabur (juice evaporated to a small clot), syrup, extract, and balsam. In each case, you need to use a different dosage form of this noble plant.

Contraindications to the internal reception of aloe

The plant has some contraindications that you need to know before starting treatment. Firstly, aloe juice cannot be consumed during gastritis with high acidity of gastric juice. Secondly, aloe is contraindicated in various diseases of the cardiovascular system, as well as in hypertension. Internal use of aloe is also prohibited during pregnancy and for the treatment of children - only external use. Only a diluted juice can be dripped into the child’s nose, and then, children from the age of one.

Aloe cannot be used for various bleeding - hemorrhoidal or menstrual. Do not resort to treatment with aloe, if you have a tendency to diarrhea. For any chronic diseases (especially in the acute stage), it is possible to take aloe only after consulting with your doctor.

Take aloe for the first time you need a little, carefully watching the reaction of the body. After all, there is an individual intolerance to the product, which can be expressed by nausea, a rash on the body, and diarrhea. With an overdose of aloe, severe diarrhea, blood in the feces and urine can occur, and miscarriage can occur in pregnant women.

Modern shelves of cosmetic stores are full of all kinds of care products containing aloe extract. However, research scientists have shown that processed and preserved raw materials lose their useful properties during long-term storage. This means that a leaf cut from a plant is much more useful if it is properly processed and stored. Use the power of nature to preserve beauty and health for many years!

Video: the healing properties of aloe