The Benefits that Aloe Vera Brings to Your Health

Aloe Vera has its share of healthy benefits and indeed anyone can reap its many advantages.

One of Aloe Vera’s greatest benefits lies in the fact that it is made up of many natural ingredients that can help to balance the body. These include amino acids, vitamins and minerals. Taken together all of these elements make Aloe Vera beneficial in so many ways.

Aloe Vera consists of as many as 300 molecules and 75 natural enzymes. Due to the fact that Aloe Vera comes from a plant and is not synthetic or a type of chemical it can work very well as a form of natural and alternative medicine for a variety of health concerns. Aloe Vera has no known side effects and it works exceptionally well as a complement to traditional medicine.

What benefits come from the use and/or consumption of Aloe Vera?

Whether you choose to drink Aloe Vera juice, use the gel or take it in pill form there are many reasons why Aloe Vera is something to say yes to. Here are some of its greatest benefits for your health:

• Moisturizes and hydrates the skin
• Helps in the development of collagen (Collagen is instrumental in keeping skin supple and youthful looking.)
• Contains astringent pH properties that serve to balance and tighten the skin
• Anti-inflammatory in nature (which means it reduces incidences of pain, swelling and redness)
• Supports the skin in healing and repair following a burn, cut or any other type of minor injury
• Improves the tensile strength of the skin (increases the production of human fibroblast cells at a rate that is six to eight times faster than what the body can do on its own)
• Minimizes scarring (Some researchers theorize that it can even reverse the appearance of scars that have been around for five years or less.)
• Effective for soothing sunburned skin
• Provides the skin with more oxygen to make it healthier
• Improves many digestive tract and intestinal health conditions (including constipation, Crohn’s disease, acid reflux, diarrhea, candida, IBS and colitis)
• Antibacterial properties make it very good at warding off many different kinds of infections (as well as bacteria, fungus and the staph virus)
• Can improve the work of the liver and the reproductive system (especially in women)
• Encourages the body to heal in a general sense

Other Medicinal Benefits

Aloe Vera is still very much a form of alternative medicine but it shows tremendous promise in even more areas than described above. For example, Aloe Vera can help people recovering from surgery and it can prevent the development of premature wrinkles. If you get frostbitten in the wintertime, Aloe Vera can make sure that your blood circulation to the area in question is not cut off.

Further research and testing are required but Aloe Vera appears to show promise for cancer patients as it activates white blood cells and helps to grow new non-cancerous cells. Diabetics can be helped by this herb as it is capable of lowering blood sugar levels. Always check with your doctor first to be on the safe side.

Studies are ongoing but Aloe Vera is showing a positive effect for AIDS patients. Why is that? Studies have shown that it helps to stimulate the immune system which is not working as well as it should in those who have HIV.

Aloe Vera has so many different benefits that everyone’s health can show improvement from using it on a consistent basis. To learn more about the plant often referred to as a “miracle plant”, visit these sites:

http://nccam.nih.gov/health/aloevera/
http://www.naturalnews.com/021858.html
http://altmedicine.about.com/od/herbsupplementguide/a/Aloe.htm
http://www.aloe-vera.org/top_10_reasons_to_use_aloe_vera.htm

Samantha