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ALOE (ALOË)
evergreen perennials and shrubs growing in South Africa, in the Arabian Peninsula, in India; cultivated in countries of similar climatic conditions and in greenhouses.
The leaves are used in medicine. Antranoid glycosides contained in Aloe show a strong stimulating effect on the large intestine; they also reduce water resorption from the intestine. Alona is contained in laxatives.
Moreover, water and alcohol extracts of fresh aloe, as well as unconcentrated juice, have a general strengthening effect, accelerate granulation and wound healing.
Aloe was already known and used as a medicinal plant 3000 years BC in Somalia and in Sokotra. It was mentioned in the Ebers Papyrus under the name of Khetawa. Dried juice of aloe leaves was already known in the medicine of ancient Greece and Macedonia. In European medicine, it has been known since the 12th century, since the times of Albert the Great.
Products containing this component:
Alax
Source
dr Henryk St. Różański
"Zielarstwo i metody fitoterapii. Wszystko o ziołach i preparatach ziołowych".
www.rozanski.henryk.gower.pl/fitoterapia2.htm
"Encyklopedia zielarstwa i ziołolecznictwa"
pod redakcją Haliny Strzeleckiej i Józefa Kowalskiego
Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN Warszawa 2000 |
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