Aloe Vera and Pogamoonga

Aloe vera products are used internally and externally. Here are some products that use aloe vera for internal use. Gel caps, caplets, natural juice and concentrate gel form. The caplets usually contain Aloe ferox latex (yellow juice that leaks from the plant not the gel), beetroot, fennel seed, Aloe barbadensis (the aloe leaf). The gel caps contain aloe vera extract, silica and gelatin. It can also contain any of these ingredients, Vegetable Magnesium, Rice Bran Oil, Glycerin (a sweet tasting sugar alcohol) Beeswax and Water.

The juice is just what it says, untouched straight from the plant. The concentrate is usually condensed by removing liquid from the juice, which makes it more potent. Because aloe vera is unpleasant tasting on it’s own, it is also combined with many other juices for flavor enhancement. The medicinal internal uses are ulcers, rheumatism and arthritis pain, liver problems and kidney infections. It relieves heartburn, lowers blood sugar in diabetics, congestion, urinary tract infections, prostate problems, colitis, stomach ulcers, asthma, intestinal worms, liver problems and is a great detoxifier.
But aloe vera products used externally are unlimited. You can buy aloe pillows and pillowcases. It is used in facial creams and lotions, aftershave, deodorants, sunscreen, toothpaste, shower gel, eardrops and many more products. Every week they put aloe in another product because of its healing and medicinal powers. It is also sold for pets to use internally and externally.

But the external medicinal uses of aloe vera, which are better known, are relief from sunburn, burns, wounds and helps heal bruises. It is used for mouth irritations, it eases hemorrhoids, salves boils and helps insect bites. It is used for sores, sties, dry skin, athlete’s foot, rashes, blisters, conjunctivitis, as a laxative. It helps treat acne, sunburn (by preventing scaring), warts, shingles, wrinkles, eczema and even herpes. Aloe vera products used internally and externally make it one of the most effective natural products you can use for countless illnesses and ailments.


Aloe vera health has come into it’s own. It has been used for centuries for it’s healing powers. It is used in skin products for its ability to rebuild skin. It is well known for its ability to solve constipation and gas. It can control you reflux and heartburn naturally. It is used as a treatment for Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.

Athletes use it for working out and competitions because it helps with stamina and recovery. It is used to fight skin infections and ailments because it helps increase the blood flow to the infected area which speeds healing. Because it is natural, it can treat all of these ailments without harmful side effects like pharmaceutical drugs have. It’s contains many vitamins, such as B1, B2, B3, B6 and C. It also contains minerals, chlorine, germanium, calcium, manganese, potassium, copper, iron, silicon, sodium, lactate and sulfur. But the phytochemicals are what really sets it apart from other plants.
Phytochemicals are plant chemicals that have no nutritional value but contain protective and disease preventive properties. The phytochemicals in aloe are polysaccharides (a complex carbohydrate), enzymes (a protien that catalyzes chemical reactions), organic acids (an organic acidic compound) and various resins. These are the great aloe vera health properties that cannot be found in other plants.

These are what make aloe vera the great healing plant it is. That is why it has been used back as far as recorded time. All plants contain vitamins, minerals and other ingredients found in aloe but only aloe contains the polysaccharides that give it its magical healing powers. The history of aloe vera, according to botanists, seems to start in the warm dry climate of Africa. But today it can be found in many warm climates around the world. Because the plant is very adaptable it can grow in temperatures as high as 104 degrees and the root can survive freezing air temperatures as long as the ground does not freeze. It can also survive in a drought.

Aloe vera history is recorded as far back as Persia. It has also been recorded in most other areas of the world, like Egypt, the Middle East, Greece, Europe, India, Africa, Asia, Japan, the Philippines and in Hawaii. An Egyptian document, dating back to B.C. 1550, is the first detailed discussion on the powerful properties of aloe vera. It discussed 12 different formulas using aloe vera mixed with other ingredients, taken internally and used externally to treat human disorders.

Western mans understanding of medicinal plants came from the father of modern medicine, Hypocrites around 460 B.C. and during the same period aloe vera had reached widespread use according to Copra’s Indigenous Drugs of India. It noted it pure cleansing power along with the external use for inflamed, painful parts of the body, were too well known in India to need any special mention.

Western man’s aloe vera history began with Dioscorides, the master of Roman pharmacology, who wrote about the powers of aloe vera. Today aloe vera is used for everything from beauty supplies, creams for external use and juices and pills for internal use. The more it is studied, the more it is being recommended to use for many more disorders and chronic illnesses.

*(B.C. is “before the Christian era”. B.C. is used following dates before the supposed year Christ was born)