Aloe Vera

marylee

Does any of you use aloe vera for health reasons? I am interested if you can share your experiences with me and whether the juice is any good. There are so many products on the market, that is difficult to know which one to buy. Will the tablets be as effective as the drinking the juice, does anyone know? Also the company which sells forever living products are the most expensive. How do they compare with the products Holland & Barrett sell? You can get two bts for the price of one at H&B, but are they as authentic? Thanks

catherineblack

Hi
My mum used to sell Forever Living products - but only to friends and family. They are expensive, but worth the extra money. I think by being a member it is much much cheaper than buying from an 'agent'. She now just buys for herself and some close friends and is under no pressure to sell. It means she can buy 'trade' price.
Holland and Barrett do sell aloe vera - but in comparison to Forever Living, it is really weak, watered down. Less quality and not good value. (though perhaps some other mse folk can advise on this??)
I have M.E and found it helped boost my immune system (not taking at the moment so it doesn't interfere with homoeopathic medicine). I found that the frequent chest infections and colds virtually disapeared. The juice is quite yucky tasting, but is worth the yuck factor. They now do various flavours too, so it's not so bad. Tablets in my opinion are not as effective - perhaps best taken when going on holiday and not able to take juice.
Also the other products sold by Forever living are really good quality. Their heat lotion is really effective and helps ease bad backs or sprains.
I don't want to 'sell' Forever Living to you - I am in no way involved (my mum doesn't want to sell to any new customers/friends) just had really good results from taking the juice. Hope this helps you a little - I'm sure other mse members will be able to share their experiences.
good luck
Catherine

John_Jackson_2

You don't say what you want Aloe Vera for...

Anyway, there's some clinical info here: Oxford university's Bandolier site.

It seems as if it may be useful for external use in some conditions; however, I'd read this report before ingesting it.

Becles

I get prickly heat rash and use an aloe vera gel on it. I keep it in the fridge so it feels lovely and cool when I need to use it.

Ted_Hutchinson

Medicinal uses of Aloe Vera Wiipaedia doesn't produce anything which convinces me that Aloe Vera is more than a quack marketing ploy with more hype than substance. Further searches of Pubmed where peer reviewed published research abstracts can be found also produces very few recent publications which would support it's use. Similar searches for "Green Tea" or "Omega 3" do produce reams of recent research demonstrating scientific benefits which can be proved to work. Considering the time that Forever living Products have been hypeing this stuff you would have though by now there would be some independent stuff supporting their claims. As there isn't anything I think it's unlikely to do any good at all.

Ellie2758

I used Aloe Vera juice for ibs and found it really helped. This was years back. I used stuff from the local health store and whatever was on offer.

Hope this helps

Ellie

frizz_head

As with Ellie, I take two Aloe Vera Capsules everyday to help with bloatedness - as I read that its a good colon cleanser. As soon as I stop - I notice a huge difference!

I get mine from Holland and Barratt.

Frizzle

dbs

I use to take Aloe vera for IBS but not any more visit https://www.helpforibs.com/news/newsletter/strawshort052604.html and scroll down the page.

Ted_Hutchinson

frizz_head wrote:

As with Ellie, I take two Aloe Vera Capsules everyday to help with bloatedness - as I read that its a good colon cleanser. As soon as I stop - I notice a huge difference!

There is a very marked Placebo Effect with IBS. For most IBS medications the placebo treatment works twice as well.

Pepermint oil is probably the most likely winner. I can find no published Scientific research supporting the use of Aloe Vera for IBS.

Peter_Griffin

My mums best friend used it for chrones disease and swears by it, says it saved her life.

frizz_head

Ted_Hutchinson wrote:

There is a very marked Placebo Effect with IBS. For most IBS medications the placebo treatment works twice as well.

Pepermint oil is probably the most likely winner. I can find no published Scientific research supporting the use of Aloe Vera for IBS.

I suffer from bloatedness not IBS Ted, and though there may be no Scientific evidence to back this up - it works for me! As soon as I stop taking them for a few days (usually when I have run out and cannot get to a Holland and Barratt) I struggle to do up my trousers!