The efficacy of aloe

Aug 28
20:44

2013

David Yvon

David Yvon

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In Egypt, aloe vera is known as the "immortality plant". Traditionally, taken orally for catharsis, external application is used to treat wounds.

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Later,The efficacy of aloe Articles people have found a variety of other effects. In the current market, beauty, skin care, detoxification, anti-tumor, anti-aging is its really selling point.

In fact, there are many studies on aloe vera, especially in the aspect of catharsis and cure wounded. Aloe Vera has some laxative ingredients, so the ancients laxative experience has been supported by modern medicine. In the United States, aloe vera extract has been used for constipation for many years. Later, people found this laxative effect has adaptability - that is, with a long time, the required dose to produce laxative effect will be gradually increased.

The concerns about aloe product safety make the researchers conducted a two-year animal carcinogenicity experiment. It was found that without decolorization aloe vera extract on rats has obvious carcinogenic effect. But it is not found in mice. While others aloe products getting from other treatment process is no researched. Based on such an experiment, of course, it is impossible to speculate whether it has carcinogenic effect to human, but the result itself is sufficient to arouse people's attention, it is necessary to carry out further research.

Aloe vera extract is divided into two kinds, one is those transparent gel inside the aloe leaf, second is yellow latex under the leaves skin. Latex is used for catharsis, while the gel is used for painting. There are some products are simply extracted, so they are containing both the gel and latex.

There are some small-scale experiments showed that the gel smears wound is good for wound healing. Some compositions in the gel seem to be able to promote blood circulation in small blood vessels and have sterilization effect. This is providing a "modern evidence" for "traditional experience". However, scientists' opinions are not uniform, that's a little hasty to get a conclusions. And there is a study showing that it not only did not help wound healing, but also delay the healing. It is difficult to judge the reliability of the study, but makes the efficacy of this confusing is reliability. To figure out this role, it needs more rigorous experiments.

For this type of product, it should be noted that although Aloe Vera is a natural plant, but we can not guarantee its security. In addition to the carcinogenicity of earlier experiments, the possible security risks of oral aloe products are still more. First, the latex can be relaxing the bowel, naturally can produce abdominal pain and diarrhea. Different with insoluble dietary fiber laxative mechanisms, the laxative effect of aloe latex is achieved by stimulating bowel, this stimulation causes intestinal cells of potassium loss. If long-term use aloe latex, it may cause kidney damage, hematuria, hypokalemia and muscle weakness and other symptoms.

In addition, diabetes, kidney disease, intestinal disease and hemorrhoids people should avoid oral aloe vera products. It is not necessarily to have what kind of effect, but may affect drug action or make symptoms worse. If you can not remember so much, then the simple answer is that: the risk of oral aloe products is exceeded the benefits.

However, according to cosmetic raw material suppliers, topical aloe products are basically safe. Therefore, those beauty, skin care, wound treatment topical aloe products are not hazardous to health. For example, there are some studies have shown that people with psoriasis smear lotion containing aloe vera extract, four weeks after the symptoms have abated.

Source:http://www.cosprm.com