Aloe and the Immune System

Aloe Vera is greatly enriched with vitamins, minerals, and other important nutrients. Aloe has also been around for as long as any one can remember, with evidence of it even being there during the dinosaurs’ age.

Not only has it been around for a long time, but it has been used during almost all of the time it has been around. Aloe is able to cure burns and bruises, small cuts and some medium sized cuts, stomach problems, and there is extensive research being done on other uses.

One of the many things that Aloe can do is help raise your immune system. That’s right; studies have shown that aloe can actually help protect you from cancer, sickness, and other problems.

So how does aloe raise your immune system? Inside of aloe there are numerous vitamins, minerals, and trace elements. All of these things combined into one create a type of shield against bacteria that causes sickness and disease.

Now not every aloe plant contains everything it should. Because of the fact that earths soil is starting to become depleted of its old minerals and enrichments, earth’s vegetation is suffering as well. How ever, there are people who build green houses and buy enriched soils for them.

These green houses help keep air and ground pollution down inside of the green houses, and also can keep the soil inside of them from becoming depleted like other soil.

With green houses, and proper care, the aloe plant can continue to work its healing properties on humans and can continue to decorate houses as well. What some people don’t understand though is that aloe can be used for numerous things.

You don’t even have to go to a store to buy it. You can take a leaf off of an aloe plant that you own go on the web and find out what you can do to it to get the type of healing you require from it.

Different Types of AloeThere are over 500 different species in the Aloe family. Each one is different in size and appearance going any where from as small is a half dollar coin to full sized trees.

They are found all over the world, but are native to Africa Yemen and other countries in that region. The differences between the Aloes are actually very odd ones. Some of them can survive in cold weather; others die in cold or wet climate.

When you think of aloe, what do you think of? Most people think of the aloe that is used for sun burns and other minor injuries? Have you ever thought of it as a small little shrub? Or a big tree? With over 500 different species no matter how you look at it, it is still a very big species.

Aloe Vera is the most commonly known, it has been used for burns, cuts, bruises, nutritional values, and much more by all the different cultures of the world. The aloe that we are familiar with grows like a desert plant; it has long slender leaves that are thick all the way up to around the middle where they start to thin out.

Caring for these plants is very easy, and most aloe plants can be found in a garden or in a home used as decoration. Aloe is also a good source of vitamins, and so there are a lot of different cultures that experiment with the different types of Aloe.

With all the different types of aloe, and all of the evidence of it’s healing abilities, it is a wonder it is not extinct yet. The plants are all over and easy to find once you know what you are looking for. Using aloe for injuries is also easy, simply by cutting off a leave and squeezing the juice out you are able to work with aloe juice.