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The Health and Beauty Benefits of Aloe Vera

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The Health and Beauty Benefits of Aloe Vera

~ by Matthew Gaffney

You don’t need to take Cleopatra’s or Hippocrates’ word for it, and you won’t have to read The Bible or Papyrus Ebers from 1500 B.C. Egypt to understand the health properties associated with one of Earth’s most beautifying and nourishing plant foods. And, thankfully, none of us have to fight like Alexander the Great to secure the prized Aloe Vera plant that was used to apply to the wounds of his soldiers! This common household plant is easy to find and one of the most powerful beauty boosters on the planet!

Using Aloe Vera for Skin Health

Aloe has been used for thousands of years for the treatment of many different skin care conditions:

Researchers at Malmo University Hospital in Sweden conducted a trial on 60 chronic psoriasis patients. Treatment with Aloe Vera cream resulted in remission in 83% of patients, vs the 6.6% remission rate of the placebo group.

It is commonly believed that the moisturizing emollient and healing properties are due to its polysaccharide complex and it is considered a divine mixture of:

  • antibiotic
  • astringent
  • and coagulating agents

…while also being a pain and scar inhibitor and growth stimulator. This makes aloe vera one of the very best things you can use on your skin! It’s totally amazing, easy to find and directly from the plant can make a shocking difference to your overall skin tone and youthful glow.

Aloe Vera to Improve Digestion

Aloe Vera with its complex nutrient make-up is considered by many as a readily-available digestion tonic. Author Max Skousen notes in his book that ‘digestive organs perk up‘. Author Emil Mondoa, M.D. writes that in human trials, Aloe improved digestion and absorption and enhanced good bacteria flora in the digestive tract by reducing yeast and pH levels.

David Wolfe writes that Aloe’s polysaccharides have lubricating effects on the joints, brain, nervous system and skin. Wolfe also writes that Aloe is known to:

  • dissolve mucous in the intestines
  • mitigate yeast
  • improve digestion
  • stimulate peristalsis
  • and reduce inflammation

When it comes to aloe vera’s place on the list of top beauty superfoods/plants, David Wolfe, had this to say;

David Wolfe on How to Use Fresh Aloe Vera as a Skin-Healing Superfood

“Stuff that is in bottles already is missing certain enzymes that have very powerful catalytic effects for healing, that make aloe vera, really, what it is. With the fresh stuff, you get it. You get all of it. In particular, there’s an active, very powerful anti-viral and anti-fungal compound that’s an enzyme, in aloe vera, that is destroyed no matter how it’s bottled. There isn’t one bottled product out there that really captures it, but the fresh stuff has it.

You fillet aloe vera, you get the gel out and then you blend it into stuff. Aloe vera has tremendous topical properties. When I am recommending that people use it topically, it’s obviously got to be fresh, filleted out so you get the gel out and then you put it on and you leave it on.

So, let’s say you have a problem area, like crow’s feet on the corner of your eye, or something like that. Take the slab of aloe and just leave it on there for five hours.

When you’re sleeping or whatever. Get it stuck on there, somehow, if you have a scar, or something like that. A few weeks of doing that, you’re in a whole different understanding of how to repair your skin. You just come to a whole different thing about it.

Wrapping fresh aloe into different wounds, I could tell you grizzly stories of things that have happened to me over the years. For example, this one woman had a crater very close to her elbow, a deep gouge, very bad infection, like unbelievable. We packed it with vitamin C and noni and MSM and all kinds of different cool things that we had at that moment. I think we used colloidal silver to disinfect it. Then, boom, aloe on top of the whole thing, wrapped that up, put a zapper next to it.

In 24 hours this thing was half the size. Half! Aloe vera is crazy when you really get into it. To me, it is the highest of all superfoods, it’s in that range. I mean, Cleopatra’s secret. It’s beauty food beyond the beyond. Inside and outside.”

How to Incorporate Aloe Vera Into Your Life

If you are fortunate, you will find whole aloe vera leaves in your local natural foods store or farmers market. Fillet the inner gel and blend it into your smoothies or skin creams. You can rub the inner leaf straight onto your skin and also soak the outer leaf in a glass of drinking water. Add a few goji berries to this and you are laughing. The next best options are to find cold pressed, stabilized, or righteously processed powdered forms. Aloe Vera gel and aloe vera juice are nourishing for the body, inside and out. If you don’t have one in your home yet, it’s probably one of the very best self-care acts you can do for yourself!

Go forth and consume aloe vera for radiant skin and optimum digestion!

Where To Learn More About Aloe Vera

I was inspired to try Aloe Vera after reading about its beautifying and nourishing properties outlined in books such as:

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