Aloe Vera Powder

Aloe Vera is a a coarse perennial with short stem and shallow root system: Its leaves are fleshy in rosettes, sessile, often crowded with homy pickles on the margins, convex below, 45-60cm long tapering to a blunt point, surface pale green with irregular white blotches, flowers yellow or orange in racemes. Aloe vera fruits are like loculicidal capsule.

Chemical Constituents
Aloe vera leaves contain barbaloin, chrysophanol glocoside and the aglycone, aloe-emodin. The mucilage of the leaves contains glucose, galactose, mannose and galacturonic acid in addition to an unidentified aldopentose and a protein with 18 amino acids. Aloe vera plant contains aloesone and aloesin. Chemical analysis has revealed that this clear aloe vera gel contains amino acids, minerals, vitamins, enzymes, proteins, polysaccharides and biological stimulators.

Medicinal Uses
The plant is bitter, sweet, cooling, anthelmintic, aperient, carminative, deobstruent, depurative, diuretic, stomachic, emmenagogue, ophthalmic and alexeteric. Aloe vera juice is used in dyspepsia, amenorrhoea, burns, colic, hyperadenosis, hepatopathy, splenopathy, skin diseases, constipation, spanomenorrhea, vitiated conditions of vata and pitta, abdominal tumours, dropsy, carbuncles, sciatica, lumbago and flatulence.

It also is used for helminthiasis in children and is a purgative, anthelmintic and emmenagogue. Aloe vera is used for local application in painful inflammations, chronic ulcers and catarrhal and purulent ophthalmia.

Main Function:

• Anti-tumor activity

• Aloe-emodin on the inhibition of P388 leukemia cells and prolong survival. One of the mechanisms is the inhibition of cancer cell DNA, RNA and protein biosynthesis.

• Antibacterial activity

• Immunosu ppression

• Aloe-emodin can inhibit the organisms immune response, inhibition of carbon clearance ability, to reduce the weight of immune organs, reduced white blood cell count, decreased macrophage function. 100μg/ml concentration in vitro [3H]-TDR and [3H] Urd into the cell parameters significantly inhibited.

• Purgative activity

• Aloe-emodin has a strong purgative activity of intestinal bacteria metabolism aloe emodin, rhein, rhein anthrone, which has a strong purgative effect.