{"id":340,"date":"2012-10-21T22:18:51","date_gmt":"2012-10-21T22:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/?p=340"},"modified":"2013-01-17T04:23:26","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T04:23:26","slug":"aloe-aloe-barbadensis-l","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/?p=340","title":{"rendered":"Aloe ~ Aloe barbadensis L."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Aloe<a href=\"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Aloe-barbadensis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1216\" title=\"Aloe barbadensis\" src=\"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Aloe-barbadensis-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Aloe-barbadensis-224x300.jpg 224w, http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Aloe-barbadensis.jpg 262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><em>Latin name<\/em>: Aloe barbadensis L., Aloe vera<\/p>\n<p><em>Family<\/em>: Liliaceae; Aloaceae<\/p>\n<p><em>Part used<\/em>: whole leaf, inner leaf<\/p>\n<p><em>Habitat<\/em>: West Indies, S. and E. Africa<\/p>\n<p><em>Main constituents<\/em>: anthraquinones (in latex); polysaccharide (inner leaf gel), emodin, aloctin A<\/p>\n<p><em>Energetics<\/em>: cooling, drying, stimulating<\/p>\n<p><em>Main herbal actions<\/em>: laxative (in latex), cholagogue, emollient, female tonic (Ayurveda)<\/p>\n<p><em>Minor herbal actions<\/em>: immunostimulating, antitumor, stomachic, choleretic; inner leaf gel is anti-inflammatory, antipruritic, vulnerary, and hypocholesterolemic<\/p>\n<p><em>Main medicinal uses<\/em>: chronic constipation with bowel atony<\/p>\n<p><em>Minor medicinal uses<\/em>: inner leaf gel is used topically on burns, wounds, aphthous ulcers and internally for gastric ulcers and diabetes<\/p>\n<p><em>Preparations<\/em>: Whole fresh aloe: small pieces of 1 cm<sup>2<\/sup>; powder: 300 mg; large doses are laxative; juice or gel: 30 ml<\/p>\n<p><em>Contraindications<\/em>: chronic ingestion of whole leaf may deplete electrolytes from stool looseness; potassium loss may potentiate cardiac glycoside toxicity; use no more than 8-10 consecutive days; ulcerative colitis, Crohn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s disease, inflamed hemorrhoids, children under 12<\/p>\n<p><em>Toxicity<\/em>: vomiting, bloody diarrhea, intestinal spasms, kidney inflammation<\/p>\n<p><em>Sources<\/em>: Sharol Tilgner, N.D.: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Herbal Medicine from the Heart of the Earth<\/span>; Wren, R.C. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Potter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aloe Latin name: Aloe barbadensis L., Aloe vera Family: Liliaceae; Aloaceae Part used: whole leaf, inner leaf Habitat: West Indies, S. and E. Africa Main constituents: anthraquinones (in latex); polysaccharide (inner leaf gel), emodin, aloctin A Energetics: cooling, drying, stimulating Main herbal actions: laxative (in latex), cholagogue, emollient, female tonic &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,40,37,38,48,36,47,49,45,46,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aryuvedic-herbs","category-cholagogue","category-cooling","category-drying","category-emollient","category-energetics-taste","category-female","category-laxative","category-stimulating","category-tonic","category-western-herbs","column","threecol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1215,"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/1215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}