Aloe Vera story
Can 8000 years of knowledge about aloe vera be wrong or the pharmaceutical and chemical industries have no interest in healing from the flower pot ..
Aloe Vera has always been known for its mysterious beauty, natural elegance and legendary healing properties. In some civilizations she was even worshiped like a god.
The aloe vera plant is described as the “queen of medicinal plants” and its history goes back 6000 years BC. BC back. It was then that the first records of the aloe vera plant were made in Egypt, in which the plant with its beneficial sap was described for immortality, beauty and for its healing properties. In ancient Egypt, the aloe was considered the plant whose "blood" gave beauty, health and immortality. The aloe vera was known as the “plant of immortality” and was used by the Egyptians to embalm their dead. Cleopatra and Nefertiti valued the juice of aloe vera for skin and beauty care and, according to tradition, used it daily. First records on clay tablets were made around 2200 BC. Made in Nippur, on which the aloe vera was used to cleanse the intestines. Illness was then associated with the invasion of human bodies by demons. These demons could only be driven away by something divine - the divine aloe vera.
For the emperor of ancient China, the medicinal horny edge spines of the aloe leaves symbolized the sacred nails of the deity. The aloe was one of the sacred plants of the Indians of the New World and was worshiped like a god there too. In Africa the nomads still call her the "goddess of the desert".
The plant was also very popular with great warlords like Alexander the Great, because it was used to care for injured warriors and thus probably carried along on every campaign. During the reign of Nero (around 50 AD) the doctor and natural scientist Dioscurides lived in the Orient. He traveled the country and wrote in his notes recipes for the treatment of various diseases. Even back then, the aloe vera plant was one of his most valuable medicinal plants and he recommended it for stomach and intestinal problems, hair loss, joint pain, for wound healing, for dandruff and many other ailments.
Later the plant was taken with them on their voyages by great sailors like Christopher Columbus or Marco Polo, and that's how it probably made it to Central and South America. The aloe vera was supposed to rid sailors of diseases and heal their wounds if they were injured. The Indians also came into contact with the juice of the aloe vera plant and the Mayan Indians gave the elixir the name “source of youth”. On the island of Sokrota (on the Cape of Africa), Spanish Jesuits discovered wild aloe in the 16th century and there are still large deposits there today. Since the long transport on the high seas impaired the freshness of the aloe vera, the leaves had to be boiled and thickened in order to then send the resulting granules. The heating changed the pharmaceutical substances and could only be used in medical products. Even a small dose of aloin, a bitter substance, could have toxic effects when cooked, which was not the case when fresh.
Then the aloe vera plant was quiet for many years, but at the beginning of the 20th century it was rediscovered for medicine and is now recommended by many doctors and naturopaths.
Pastor Kneipp was a great admirer and prescriber of aloe vera. He particularly appreciated their purifying and detoxifying effect on the digestive system - especially in connection with the Kneipp cures, the intestines and the intestinal-associated immune system played a major role. He also had very good experiences with the prescription of aloe for all kinds of eye problems - be it inflammatory or degenerative - he has often successfully used aloe here.
In the 1930s, with the use of X-rays in cancer therapy, aloe paste was rediscovered as a remedy for skin burns caused by high doses of radiation. Anyone who delves into the history of Aloe Vera cannot help but notice that behind its modest appearance, this plant hides healing powers of