Aloe vera: magic or medicine?

Atherton, Peter

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“…The therapeutically, it is used to prevent progressive dermal ischemia due to burns, frostbite, electrical injury and intra arterial drug abuse. In vivo analysis of these injuries demonstrates that this gel acts as an inhibitor of thromboxane A 2 , a mediator of progressive tissue damage [20].…”

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“…Structure of Anthraquinone and structure of glycosides The other potentially active ingredients include vitamins, enzymes, minerals, sugars, lignin, saponins, sali-cylic acids, and amino acids [18][19][20][21]. It has numerous monosaccharide's and polysaccharides; vitamins B 1 , B 2 , B 6 , and C; niacinamide and choline, several inorganic ingredients, enzymes (acid and alkaline phosphatase, amylase, lactate dehydrogenase, lipase) and organic compounds (aloin, barbaloin, and emodin) as described by [22].…”

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Therapeutic and Medicinal Uses of <i>Aloe vera</i>: A Review

Sahu¹,

Giri²,

Singh³

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The plant Aloe vera is used in Ayurvedic, Homoeopathic and Allopathic streams of medicine, and not only tribal community but also most of the people for food and medicine. The plant leaves contains numerous vitamins, minerals, enzymes, amino acids, natural sugars and other bioactive compounds with emollient, purgative, antimicrobial, anti inflammatory, anti-oxidant, aphrodisiac, anti-helmenthic, antifungal, antiseptic and cosmetic values for health care. This plant has potential to cure sunburns, burns and minor cuts, and even skin cancer. The external use in cosmetic primarily acts as skin healer and prevents injury of epithelial tissues, cures acne and gives a youthful glow to skin, also acts as extremely powerful laxative.

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Section: Inner Layers Of Leafmentioning

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Therapeutic and Medicinal Uses of <i>Aloe vera</i>: A Review

Sahu¹,

Giri²,

Singh³

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“…Also, in a study, it was postulated that the inclusion of amino acids in collagen-chitosan scaffolds, resulted in increased hydrophillicity of the scaffolds 28 . In the prepared gel, the addition of aloe gel containing amino acids 29 into the COL-CS composite may be responsible for the increased hydrophillicity of the gel. Therefore our prepared AV blended COL-CS gel has been reported to possess increased hydrophillicity.…”

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Photochemoprotection has nowadays become inevitable to combat aging. Exposure to Ultraviolet radiations accelerates skin aging which eventually culminates in wrinkles, laxity, dyspigmentation, roughness and dryness. Though many active synthetic topicals have been used since years, the present era of treating an aged skin has been diverted towards natural biomaterials as these synthetic topicals pose health and safety risk on human health. In an effort to produce a promising natural anti-aging agent in contemporary cosmetics, this study has been aimed to formulate an anti-aging gel by blending three biopolymers namely Collagen (COL) 3%w/v, Chitosan (CS) 1.5% w/v and Aloe vera (AV) gel 0.21% w/v. The AV blended COL-CS gel was characterized by spreadability and moisture uptake test, which indicated good spreadability and increased hydrophyllicity of the gel. Cell culture studies on NIH3T3 mouse fibroblasts cells were carried out using senescenceassociated-β-gal [SA-β-gal] as a biomarker. The fibroblasts cells on incubation with AV blended COL-CS gel showed increased proliferation rate and the absence of blue stain indicated that the process of senesce has been reversed. In conclusion, the prepared AV blended COL-CS gel helps in regeneration and rejuvenation of the skin and therefore can be used as a promising anti-aging gel.

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“…Components of aloe vera can be divided into the following groups: vitamins such as A,C, E and trace of B12; enzymes like bradykinase, lipases and proteases which break down food and aid digestion; minerals such as calcium, sodium, manganese and selenium. Sugars in the form of polysaccharides and glucomannans not broken down like other groups but appear in the blood stream and are able to exert their immune-regulating effect and form a barrier preventing absorption of unwanted materials; Anthraquinones, which are phenolic compounds found exclusively in the plant sap; to cite a few, these are the alopin and emodin which aid absorption from the gasto-intestinal tract and have microbial and painkilling effects; lignin and saponins also have antimicrobial, cleansing and antiseptic properties; fatty acids, salicylic acids are important antiinflammatory agents and amino acids, which aloe gel have as many as 20 important amino acids [4].…”

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Growth and sensory evaluation of broilers supplemented with Aloe Vera (Aloe barbadensis) extract in drinking water

Bejar¹

2018

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Abstract:The study was conducted using 90 heads of broiler chicken consisting of five treatments with 3 replications and arranged in complete randomized design (CRD). The final weight of the broilers was significantly affected by aloe vera extract supplementation. The result showed that adding 5-20 mL. Aloe vera extract in drinking water significantly improved the growth rate of broilers as compared to those given plain water. The average feed consumption data showed significant differences among treatments. Almost similar feed intake was shown by birds given 5-10 ml. supplements, which did not differ from the control (plain water). The highest feed consumption was exhibited by the birds given 15 ml. Aloe vera extract. No significant difference in the FCR among treatments. Higher water consumption was exhibited by the birds in T3 those with 15 ml Aloe extract. The panelists' rating on skin and flesh color indicated no significant differences among treatments based on Freidman's two-way analysis of variance by rank. For the general acceptability of the cooked samples, all treatments were rated by the panelist as "acceptable" having a range of 4.02 to 4.54, the highest score was obtained by the group with 15 mL aloe extract in drinking water. The result indicates that aloe vera extract can be used as growth enhancer to broilers without affecting its carcass quality.

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