The aloe vera miracle

Jillaroo while that is such a great story I am not too sure I`d like to try it.. I have a lot of questions regarding this and other
remedies like this .. because if it was so good, why aren`t the doctors using it to heal people ? why is there so many ill people..
and if its so why don`t they use it to cure cancer... I`d love to say its a great product and no doubt it is .. but I am a little
dubious.. I`d need more proof,. I know it really works on the skin and to ease burns ..
 

That looks pretty promising thanks Jilly for sharing I`ll look into that and read up about it.. all I know about aloe vera is that
it fixed my daughters burns on her fingers when she was a kid .. and the next day nothing showed she burnt her finger..
 
I grow Aloe Vera plants in my back yard .. There are several that have grown off of each other, so they continue to expand and I always have several. I take off the swelled ends for cuts when needed, and cuts/bruises heal quickly.
The plants themselves are just a pretty addition to the yard.
I drink aloe vera juice also, on occasion. .. I get Lily of the Desert Organic for drinking purposes. . Myself, I can't say that it has helped anything to drink it, but I do anyway. .. I get the glass bottles of the organic, only because that is what I was familiar with living in Arizona.
 
I have an aloe plant, and we use it for cuts or burns, and it is also great for drawing out a sliver that has embedded itself under your skin too deep to reach with tweezers.
I have also used the pure juice to drink, and for eye drops.
My belief is that there are a lot of natural medicines that we can use, and have been used in times past; but now we live in a very commercial world, where things have to be profitable to be widely used as medicine.
Tests have to be done before a product can be sold as medicinal for an ailment, and unless a company can then get a patent on that substance and make money from selling it, they are not going to spend money to do the testing.
So, we have only "word of mouth" testimony that a natural product works.
Personally, I would rather at least try to heal myself with a natural product if possible, but I think this is something that each person has to decide for themself.
 
I have a tiny aloe vera plant in the kitchen that I've used in the past for burns. It's expensive, but I like to buy a gallon of Lily of the Desert Aloe Vera Juice, either inner fillet or whole leaf, every now and then and drink a glass daily as a cleanse...also good to prevent heartburn. Whole leaf gives some people loose stools, but it's good if you're prone to constipation. I believe that brand is a very high quality, compared to some others.
 
The only miracle I've experienced from Aloe Vera is that it actually survives my gardening jinx.
Someone round the corner put out a wheelbarrow full of it on the footpath with a "Free" sign. I stuffed about half in the boot, gave most to a friend and of the rest about 6 or 7 survived in pots with my other sturdy and stoic heroes of the plant kingdom.

I don't think I'd have the heart to break bits off them.
 
Diwundrin said:
The only miracle I've experienced from Aloe Vera is that it actually survives my gardening jinx.
Someone round the corner put out a wheelbarrow full of it on the footpath with a "Free" sign. I stuffed about half in the boot, gave most to a friend and of the rest about 6 or 7 survived in pots with my other sturdy and stoic heroes of the plant kingdom.

I don't think I'd have the heart to break bits off them.
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An aloe plant can actually live for a long time, maybe a whole year, even if you threw it in the closet and forgot about it, so they will pretty much be a surviver, and a good plant for someone to have, even without a green thumb.
They store up water inside the leaves, and since they live in the desert they may have to survive for a long time before it rains again. (This is why they are bitter right under the skin, it is the plants self protection mechanism to keep from been eaten for the juice inside.)

If they don't have water, they take it from the outer leaves, and grow new ones from the inside to keep the plant growing.
Let it get dry, and then soak it good, and the leaves will plump up overnight.
When you need aloe, use the top from the lowest outside leaf, and the plant will heal itself up again right away, and it will not damage the plant. Use the same leaf until it is gone , and then start on the next lowest outside leaf, and thus, the inside of the plant can continue to flourish.

If you are going to eat it, be sure to filet the gel out from the skin, because of the bitter part right under the skin. It won't hurt you, but it tastes awful, and will give you " the runs".
 
Thanks Flowers, had no idea about what to do with it, no one in the family bothered with it. Bet I'll get a crash course from Jilly about it next time we 'lunch' though.

I knew they were tough, that's why I bothered to bring some of the freebies home. They have to be tough in my 'garden.'

That long term survival thing works with Monstera Deliciosa too. I've been carrying cuttings of a 'home' one whenever I've moved but it was forgotten and left in a garbage bag near the garage. For 2 years! When I was clearing up the debris I noticed it and put it aside to plant out. It lay there for another month or two until I noticed a little green leaf. I felt soooo bad about how I'd neglected the poor thing but it's got it's own pot now is outgrowing it fast.
 
Yes, we grew them in Sydney.
There's a trick to eating those fruit. Never,ever eat the part that the little green bits of skin haven't already peeled away from. The part that hasn't ripened yet is where the black stingy bits 'get' you. They aren't nearly as 'bitey' in the ripened part.

We'd just pull the ripe bits of fruit from the core and run them under a tap to wash the black flakes out of it. Let it dry a minute and it's blissfully and safely delicious. One fruit can only be eaten over about 3 to 4 days as they ripen slowly from the stem up.
They smell fantastic when they're ripening too. We used to harvest them by smell.

We used to get so many I sold them to the fruit shop for $5 each. That was big bikkies 15 years ago but he had a market for them and sold them for $8 each so everyone was happy.
 

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