Aloe Vera: What is it?

Aloe vera's use can be traced back 6,000 years to early Egyptian civilization, where the plant was depicted on stone carvings. Known as the "plant of immortality," aloe was presented as a burial gift to deceased pharaohs.

Common names are aloe vera, aloe, burn plant, lily of the desert and elephant's gall.

What is Aloe Vera Used For?

Aloe Vera is one of the most famous and widely used herbs of all herbal remedies. Traditionally, aloe was used topically to heal wounds and for various skin conditions, and orally as a digestive aid. Today, in addition to traditional uses, people take aloe orally to treat a variety of conditions, including diabetes, asthma, epilepsy, and osteoarthritis.

Aloe Vera is also one of the oldest known herbs even being mentioned in the Bible: "As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river' side, as the trees of lign aloes which the LORD hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters..." Numbers 24:6 (KJV). In John 19:39 (KJV), the Bible tells of Nicodemus bringing Jesus a gift of myrrh and aloes.

Today, people use aloe topically for osteoarthritis, burns, and sunburns. In addition, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved aloe vera as a natural food flavoring. Aloe vera gel can be found in hundreds of skin products, including lotions and sunblocks.

How is Aloe Vera Used?

Aloe leaves contain a clear gel that is often used as a topical ointment. The green part of the leaf that surrounds the gel can be used to produce a juice or a dried substance (called latex) that is taken by mouth.

Aloeride® aloe vera is mostly taken by mouth but can also be applied to the skin. When taken by mouth, in the fluid environment of the stomach, the Aloeride® capsules dissolve within 1 or 2 minutes giving our powder plenty of time to mix with the ample water (your stomach’s mixing waves occur every 15-25 seconds) with which you swallowed the capsules. So you have now rehydrated your aloe vera powder. Only when you have lesions or inflammation in your mouth or oesophagus is there a need for opening the capsules and ingesting the powder with water. This is easy and it does not taste horrible.

Good aloe vera works. Quite beside that there is safety and validation in the numbers (millions of people) and in the length of time aloe vera has been used (centuries), there is a lot of good quality research on aloe vera as well as scientific knowledge about what its different type of molecules do. This said, how well an aloe vera product works depends entirely on its quantity of working molecules, the quality of them and purity of product. On all counts Aloeride® is an exemplary product that stands head and shoulders above its competitors.