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Suggested Use: Mix 1-2 teaspoons of our organic aloe vera powder with 8 ounces of water or to taste – or add to your favorite shake, tea or juice. The aloe vera powder at Florida Herb House consists of fully matured aloe vera leaves first harvested by hand and then carefully opened up for the inner gel in the leaf. The aloe vera gel is then gently air dehydrated under controlled conditions. The dehydrated aloe is then ground into a fine powder.

The true aloe vera plant powder found here at Florida Herb House is called Aloe barbadensis Miller, otherwise known as Curacao aloe, and is the most medicinally potent of the 300 or more varieties found around the world. Most people in the USA today know of aloe vera because of its inclusion in many popular cosmetic products. Although not medically recognized as a therapeutic preparation, there have been many reports of the healing power of aloe vera and, in recent years, clinical studies have been undertaken.

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The true aloe vera plant contains over 75 different ingredients including vitamins, minerals, enzymes, sugars, anthraquinones or phenolic compounds, lignin, saponins, sterols, amino acids and salicylic acid.

Vitamins
The plant contains many vitamins, excluding vitamin D but including the important antioxidant vitamins A, C and F. Vitamins B (thiamine), niacin, vitamin B2 (riboflavin), choline and folic acid are also present. Some authorities suggest that there is also a trace of vitamin B12 (Coats1979).

Enzymes
When taken orally, several of these biochemical catalysts, such as amylase and lipase, can aid digestion by breaking down fats and sugars. One important enzyme, a carboxy-peptidase, inactivates bradykinins and produces an anti-inflammatory effect.

Minerals
Sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, manganese, copper, zinc, chromium and iron are all found in the aloe plant. Magnesium lactate inhibits histidine decarboxylase and prevents the formation of histamine from the amino acid, histadine (Shelton 1991).

Anthraquinones
These phenolic compounds are found in the sap. The bitter aloes consist of free anthraquinones and their derivatives. In large amounts these compounds exert a powerful purgative effect, but when smaller they appear to aid absorption from the gut, are potent antimicrobial agents.

Saponins
These soapy substances form about 5% of the gel and are general cleansers, having antiseptic properties.

Plant Sterols
These include Campesterol, Sitosterol and Lupeol (Coats 1979).

Sallcylic acid
This is an aspirin-like compound possessing anti-inflammatory and antibacterial properties. Topically, it has a kerolytic effect which helps to debride a wound of necrotic tissue.

Amino acids
These are the building blocks of proteins. Aloe vera gel provides 20 of the 22 necessary amino acids required by the human body and seven of the eight essential amino acids which the body cannot synthesise. These must be ingested in food.

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