Aloe - medicinal properties and contraindications

Aloe is one of the most popular and common indoor plants. Aloe is completely capricious - it grows under almost any conditions. However, the popularity of the plant is achieved not due to its unpretentiousness, but largely because of 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 healing aloe vera, on the basis of which numerous cosmetics and medicinal ointments are made. Today we’ll talk about aloe vera - 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, various recipes use pulp or aloe juice. And if the pulp is not difficult to get - just cut the peel, then extract the juice is quite difficult. The fact is that when grinding we get only a slimy mass that does not filter through a sieve or gauze. Therefore, before grinding, raw materials must be frozen. When frozen, aloe changes its texture, but does not lose its beneficial properties.

Before you collect 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 raw materials, you need to choose an adult plant that is more than three years old - young sprouts do not have so many useful components in their composition. It is necessary to cut off the lower, largest leaves, which then should be washed, wiped with a towel and put in the freezer for a day. After a day, remove the leaves and grind them in a blender or meat grinder. It is very convenient to grate the frozen sheet on a grater, especially if you need very little juice. Next, the pulp must be squeezed with gauze - you will get a healthy, vitamin-rich product that can be used for its intended purpose.

Useful properties of aloe for the skin

Another property of aloe juice is its bactericidal effect. Fresh aloe juice can cope with any inflammation, redness, and itching. Therefore, aloe is effectively used in the fight against acne, black spots, boils. Aloe penetrates deep into the skin and suppresses the focus 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 attach the cut to the affected area of ​​the skin. Aloe will help you if you cut yourself or burn yourself. The pulp of the plant also helps with frostbite.

Therapeutic aloe for the human body

However, aloe is not only a skin remedy. 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 a treatment. But if you overpower and force yourself to drink a bitter medicine, you can improve the work of many organs.

1. For the digestive tract. Aloe juice is actively used for gastritis with low acidity. If your stomach produces little gastric juice, take aloe three times a day before each main meal, in about half an hour, one teaspoon. Aloe has a mild laxative effect if drunk on an empty stomach. The medicine is effective for cleansing the intestines, easily copes with colitis and diseases of the biliary tract. Aloe is often prescribed to patients after serious operations and prolonged illnesses. It gives the patient strength, improves appetite, facilitates the assimilation of products. In this case, you need to mix aloe with honey and a little red wine. Drink the mixture one tablespoon in the morning and evening.
2. Cough. Aloe has an expectorant effect - it gently dilutes sputum and brings it out. The plant soothes the inflamed lungs, eliminates the debilitating barking cough. Aloe juice is recommended for use with 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 on the knees and elbows, making a massage for at least 10 minutes. Aloe gently warms, penetrates the structure of the cartilage, stimulates the production of cartilage fluid. If you do these procedures every other day, you can forget about senile joint pain.
4. Mucosal inflammation. The bactericidal properties of aloe juice are actively used for various inflammations of the oral mucosa. With pharyngitis, tonsillitis and tonsillitis, a tablespoon of juice should be dissolved in a glass of warm water and gargle every three hours. After a day, the sore throat will subside. The same solution can rinse your mouth with stomatitis and toothache. Juice is also effective in cervical erosion - a tampon dipped in juice and placed in the vagina.
5. Against a fungus. The old aloe tree has an antimycotic property. This means that it is effective against different types of fungus. Using the juice of this plant, you can get rid of seborrhea if applied to the scalp and wrapped for a couple of hours. If you regularly rub the juice on the skin and nails affected by the fungus, the itching and irritation will disappear, a healthy nail plate will begin to grow. A swab soaked in aloe juice is used in the fight against vaginal candidiasis. In this case, you need to use only purified medical aloe juice, which is sold in ampoules.
6. Against viruses. In 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 suffer 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 mucosa, and suppress inflammation. It is effective even with sinusitis. Remember, the juice must be diluted in half with water if the child is the patient. With keratitis and blepharitis, only pure aloe extract in ampoules should be used. By the way, in pharmacies there are special drops for the eyes - aloe extract according to Fedorov. This tool is effective for various inflammations of the eye area, when drying the cornea, heaviness and burning in the eyes, it is also used for night blindness. The composition of the medicine includes purified aloe extract, which is enriched with various vitamins.
8. Against cancer. Doctors say that regular course intake of aloe juice significantly reduces the risk of cancer.Aloe pulp should be mixed with honey in a ratio of 1: 5, drink a tablespoon of the mixture every morning for a month. Keep 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 flesh of aloe, but in no case the skin. It is the skin that can provoke the appearance of benign or malignant tumors.
9. The fight against hemorrhoids. The bactericidal and anti-inflammatory property of aloe juice is used in the fight against hemorrhoids. To treat the disease, you can use candles and lotions. But only if the nodes do not bleed. From a large sheet of aloe, you need to cut a longitudinal candle, grease it with honey and butter and place in the rectum for half an hour. Effectively moisten a piece of gauze in fresh aloe juice and make lotions to 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 dissolving the mixture in a glass of milk. Within a week, you will feel that male power returns to you.

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

Contraindications to the internal intake of aloe

The plant has some contraindications, which you need to know before starting treatment. Firstly, aloe juice should not be consumed in gastritis with high acidity of gastric juice. Secondly, aloe is contraindicated in various diseases of the cardiovascular system, as well as with hypertension. The internal intake of aloe is also prohibited during pregnancy and for the treatment of children - only external use. You can only drop diluted juice into the nose of a child, and then, children from one year of age.

Aloe can not 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), aloe can be taken only after consulting with your doctor.

Take aloe for the first time a little, carefully observing 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, diarrhea. With an overdose of aloe, severe diarrhea may occur, blood in the feces and urine, miscarriages may occur in pregnant women.

Modern shelves of cosmetic stores are full of all kinds of care products containing aloe extract. However, studies by scientists have proven that processed and canned raw materials lose their beneficial properties during long-term storage. This means that the leaf cut from the 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 to come!

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