There are about 400 species of aloe, but the most useful is the aloe vera, otherwise called medical aloe, or just an agave. The properties of aloe have a healing, miraculous and universal effect. Aloe, whose beneficial properties have long been used in folk medicine in many countries, has been used for many centuries to treat various disorders and diseases, and is considered a first aid in cases of burns, injuries, and various skin diseases.
Gel and milky juice are obtained from the agave. Aloe milky juice is located under the skin of the plant, it has a yellowish color. And the gel is a transparent, jelly-like substance inside the leaves. In the manufacture of some drugs, these substances are used separately, while others can be prepared from crushed leaves, so they have both juice and gel. Aloe, the beneficial properties of which have long been used for a variety of purposes, is even mentioned in the Bible, as a plant used for incense.
Aloe: Health Benefits
Aloe leaves with mucous pulp have anti-inflammatory, wound healing and bactericidal effects. Complex ointments, balms, elixirs and essences were prepared from leaves in the old days. The leaves are most used in the treatment of eye diseases and skin grafts. Substances that inhibit the growth of cancer cells, as well as those that contribute to the growth of normal tissues and cells, have been discovered in tree aloe. In medicine, aloe is used to restore damaged tissues in the body, as a laxative and choleretic agent. Traditional medicine uses many recipes and with the use of aloe juice.
They drink fresh juice from agave with radiculitis, neuralgia, headache, and stomach diseases. To make the medicine taste better, aloe juice is mixed with honey, sugar, wine.
The pulp of the leaf and aloe juice have a softening effect on the skin and other tissues, contribute to the breakthrough of pustules. So, with bruises or sprains, the crushed leaves are passed through a meat grinder, then the resulting slurry is applied to the sore spot, and covered with a film or paper, a layer of cotton wool. Then wrapped in woolen cloth (scarf, scarf, etc.). The compress is left for 6 hours. The cut sheet is applied for several hours to the inflamed areas of the skin to facilitate the breakthrough of ulcers.
With a runny nose, the juice is instilled into the nose (three drops in each nostril). Aloe juice can be diluted with boiled water, the ratio is 1 to 10. It is necessary to drip drops twice a day into each nostril until the condition improves.
When coughing, you need to mix 100 grams of aloe juice, three tables. l honey and about 50 grams of butter. The mixture is taken twice a day in a tablespoon, before meals. Treatment lasts at least a week.
For headaches, juice is recommended to be taken once a day, five drops for two weeks.
Aloe juice with stubborn bronchitis is used together with honey and butter (100 tbsp of honey and butter per tablespoon of juice). Take on the table. spoon of this mixture, drink hot milk, twice a day.
In chronic sinusitis, aloe juice is mixed with honey and sage herb in equal parts. The mixture is instilled into each nostril for 6-10 drops. thrice a day.
Phytoncides, natural antibiotics, are considered the main wealth of the agave. Thanks to them, aloe are often used as anti-inflammatory and antiviral agents.
For diseases of the gums and oral cavity, rinse your mouth with a 50% solution of agave juice or drink fresh juice diluted with milk, a teaspoon three times a day.
As a laxative for constipation, they take inside the juice of the agave for 2 teaspoons twice a day.
With ulcers, 100 g of crushed leaves are mixed with 200 g of honey, the mixture is insisted in a dark place for three days; add 200 g of red dry natural grape wine, insist another day. Filter, take under Art. spoon before meals three times a day for 5 weeks.
The healing properties of aloe are also used to strengthen immunity. To do this, it is useful to eat a piece of its sheet 2 cm long before eating for two weeks.
When wounds are glued with plaster, cut aloe leaves (with the cut side to the wound). Leaves change several times a day.
Aloe gel is also taken orally for diseases of the intestines, osteoarthritis, as well as for skin itching, heat and inflammatory processes, or as a tonic, tonic. It is also used for asthma, diabetes, treatment of side effects after radiation therapy. Aloe gel tastes very bitter, it is recommended to take it, mixing with honey or snack immediately with something with a strong taste.
Aloe: useful properties in cosmetology
Aloe is very appreciated by cosmetologists for the high content of aloin in it - an element that has the ability to neutralize the harmful effects of sunlight, and also gives the skin elasticity and smoothness. That is why often the agave is part of creams, masks, lotions and many other skin care products.
So, to make a mask for aging skin, you need to apply crushed leaves on the skin of the face. Wash off after 15 minutes. Repeatable twice a week.
For a rejuvenating mask, mix a teaspoon of honey, aloe juice, boiled water and glycerin. In the resulting mixture, stirring, add a teaspoon of oatmeal (chopped). The mask is applied for 25 minutes. and rinse off. It tones and refreshes the skin of the face well. Rejuvenation occurs after 2 months when applying the mask twice a week.
The properties of aloe are also beneficial for hair. To make a mask against dandruff, three hours before shampooing, rub tincture or aloe juice into her skin. Repeat twice a week. The mask eliminates dandruff and strengthens hair roots.
When boils mix vegetable (preferably olive) oil with aloe juice, half a glass of each. Gauze soaked in this solution is applied once a day to a sore spot. The treatment is about a week.
With burns, pour the cut leaves with honey, insist a month in a cool dark place. After which the leaves are crushed, mixed again with honey and filtered. Apply in the form of compresses.
Also, for burns, juice from squeezed lower leaves of the agave is used. They are impregnated with a gauze swab and applied to the affected areas of the skin.
As we see, aloe, whose beneficial properties are so diverse, has found wide application in the treatment of various diseases: diabetes, ulcers, arthritis, constipation, colds, headaches, burns, sinusitis and many others.