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The use of medicinal plants has modernized over the years, from the easiest ways of treatment to the most technological forms of industrial handling used by modern man. Aloe vera, popularly known in Brazil as aloe vera has been used for thousands of years in traditional medicine for various treatments. The work aimed to make a bibliographic survey of articles that point to the pharmacological action of Aloe vera. It was found that several biological activities are attributed to aloe. Evidence suggests efficacy in the treatment of psoriasis, genital herpes, burns and hyperglycemia. Based on the material studied, it is concluded that in folk medicine, it serves to heal wounds, bruises, irritations, tonics, purgatives and gastritis. In view of the several proven activities and few cases of contraindication, it is concluded that the use of the species corroborates the vast popular use.
The use of medicinal plants as an alternative treatment and cure is a practice used from older years to the most present days, marking the history and evolution of industrial medicine, contributing to the development and keeping alive the traditional medicinal culture. Still, in the development and evolution of the pharmaceutical industrial market, the high cost leads part of the population to make use of traditional medicine, emphasized and with greater force by the ethno-botanical knowledge of populations, and passed from generation to generation. The use of medicinal plants becomes feasible in populations that are distant from civilizations and do not have contact and access to basic care, both for treatment with industrialized drugs and the public policies of medicinal plants offered by the Unified Health System (SUS). With a look focused on the practice of the use of medicinal plants as an alternative treatment in still small towns and extending civilizations. Through a descriptive field research, establish what the links of knowledge exist between the population of the century and its origins.
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