Aloe Vera, The Drug of Enormous Therapeutic Potential

Aloe Vera a succulent cactus-like plant that lives in desert type climates is known for its majestically healing powers. This plant has hard spinney limbs with a gel-like substance that makes up its core. This gel substance is known to be used mainly as a topical herbal medicine. Aloe Vera is widely used for skin wounds. The properties of this gel exhibits an anti-inflammatory dynamic on these types of wounds. A study was done involving animals which has sustained the wounds like, partial thickness burns, frostbite, lacerations, electrical injury and intra-arterial drug abuse. In each experiment the use of Aloe against other pharmaceutical medications shows remarkable tissue healing. Aloe inhibits Thromboxane A2 (TxA2) a mediator of progressive tissue damage by way of a synthetase inhibitor. This inhibition prevents the TxA2 from being produced causing major vasoconstriction to the wound site.

Aloe penetrates injured tissue, relieves pain, it is anti-inflammatory and dilates capillaries and increases the blood supply to the injured area, by inhibiting TxA, and maintaining the ratio without causing a collapse of the injured blood vessels(1).


This study goes into great detail and is very interesting with their use of techniques on how they preformed the research tasks on various animal models in vivo. For more information please refer to the paper:


Beneficial Effects Of Aloe In Wound Healing
Heggers JP; Pelley RP; Robson MC
Department Of Surgery & Graduate School Of Biomedical Sciences, University Of Texas Medical Branch Phytotherapy Research (1993) Vol 7, No. Special issue, pp. S48-S52. 10 pl. (5 col. pl.). 17 ref.

1. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ptr.2650070715/pdf