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    Aloe Vera and Aloe Arborescens: How to Grow, Care for and Use your Medicinal Plants for Better Health!: Organic Gardening's, #4
    Aloe Vera and Aloe Arborescens: How to Grow, Care for and Use your Medicinal Plants for Better Health!: Organic Gardening's, #4
    Aloe Vera and Aloe Arborescens: How to Grow, Care for and Use your Medicinal Plants for Better Health!: Organic Gardening's, #4
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    Aloe Vera and Aloe Arborescens: How to Grow, Care for and Use your Medicinal Plants for Better Health!: Organic Gardening's, #4

    By Michael O'Halloron

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    Aloe Vera and Aloe Arborescens

    Most of us are familiar with the very popular plant known as Aloe Vera. Thanks to today’s world of advertising mediums, we are familiar with many of the products that contain or are based on Aloe vera. It seems that its many health benefits make it a must for everything from skin lotion to toothpaste and even latex gloves. We know it is used for conditions such as burns, skin rashes, cuts and bruises and other health related aides, but unfortunately it is seldom used to its full potential.
    Aloe is replete with vitamins, minerals, and essential amino acids. Its impressive nutrient profile has been shown to lead to the following health benefits:

    • Improved digestion
    • Aids in detoxification
    • Boosts the immune system
    • Anti-Inflammatory
    • Anti-Cancerous
    • Helps with diabetes
    • Great for your skin (when consumed internally and applied externally)
    • Improved cholesterol
    • Heart friendly

    For these reasons alone Aloe vera is considered to be a bonafide superfood and many people consume it on a daily basis to maintain good health. It is simply a must in every modern household.

    But let me ask you.

    Are you aware of Aloe Vera’s sister plant that is almost twice as powerful?

    Probably not!
    The rest of the world knows of and uses this plant, but it is little known in the U.S.

    This plant is credited with curing or repressing cancer and even HIV, as well as a host of other health problems from digestive disorders to a diabetes cure. Its biological name is Aloe Arborescens-but it is frequently called "The Miracle Plant!"

    If you or someone close to you is combating a terrible health problem and is undergoing the traditional treatments, you should grab this information, digest it, verify it and either use it yourself or pass it on to them. What will you have to lose? A buck or two? When it comes to your health, time and money should mean little.

    However, with the cost of healthcare ever on the rise, is it any wonder people are searching for alternative solutions to medical problems?

    Many solutions have been around for centuries but have been forgotten and are only recently being re-discovered. For instance, the Aloe vera plant is described in detail in the Greek Herbal of Dioscorides (ca 70 AD), and its use promoted for the treatment of wounds, hair loss, genital ulcers, and hemorrhoids. By 600 B.C., Aloe had been introduced into the Persian, Arab and Indian lifestyles. They used it for both internal and external purposes. It was commonly referred to as the "lily of the desert" by their warriors who dried their compound, ground it into a powder to be carried with them for use.
    In the Americas, the Mayan women used the plant to hydrate their skin and to wean babies. The Seminole Indians of the Florida region believed the Aloe was capable of rejuvenation and considered it the "fountain of youth."
    Become aware of the basis behind these beliefs. In this book will discover things like:

    • Learn about Aloe Vera and her sister’s potential as a medicinal aide.
    • Learn how Aloe is used as a potential cure for Diabetes and Cancer and long list of other health problems.
    • Learn the formula for this magical elixir.
    • Learn how Aloe Vera can help your pets.
    • Discover how to care for and grow these wonderful little plants.
    • Try some recipes for the many uses of the Aloe plant.
    • Learn to practice preventative care using Aloe.

    Re-discover Aloe Vera and Aloe Arborescens for your own health and welfare. “Healthy Living in a Leaf.”

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFive Fathom Publishing
    Release dateDec 1, 2015
    ISBN9781519937506
    Aloe Vera and Aloe Arborescens: How to Grow, Care for and Use your Medicinal Plants for Better Health!: Organic Gardening's, #4
    Author

    Michael O'Halloron

    "Proven Organic Gardening Techniques for a Happy and Healthy Lifestyle" Organic Gardening has followed the full circle rom old knowledge, to outdated practices, to new found and updated technology. An example of this is the development of the Bokashi technique from a Korean method practiced for hundreds of years. I grew up on a small farm in Iowa and acquired the art of organic farming and gardening as practiced by my father. When large-scale chemical fertilizer farming became vogue, dad refused to use them. His reasoning: "They smell like oil and oil isn't good to eat". With my knowledge grounded in experience, I continuously research and experiment to learn new workable and practical techniques. I believe that an advantage of "Farm Life" was being able to raid the huge family garden for snacks freshly plucked from the rich soil all summer long. This love of garden snacking has followed me all of my life and I feel that everyone should be able to enjoy it. It doesn't matter if you have a large garden, patio garden or containers. Now that I am retired, I enjoy writing books by using my step-by-step methods to help others enjoy a happy and healthy organic lifestyle. "Garden Snacking" aside, I enjoy the other pleasures in life that include family, back yard fence chatting with other gardeners, sailing, motorcycles, sports car racing and just plain inventing personally useful things. I hope you enjoy my books and find them useful in creating a better life. Mike

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      Aloe Vera and Aloe Arborescens - Michael O'Halloron

      Introduction

      Spending my formative years on an Iowa farm in mid twentieth century was an adventure any young lad with an imagination would love to have. My younger brother and I were both blessed with vivid imaginations-each trying to outdo the other. Things like an old unused, overturned outhouse became a stagecoach with a gull wing door. We traveled many a road as we fought off the bad guys with great fervor and success.

      Unfortunately, along with adventures come injuries, scrapes, cuts, bruises, burns and blisters, all of which our mother could cure with her magic medicine cabinet for adventurous little boys. Upon its shelves rested Iodine, Methylate, aspirin, and hydrogen peroxide and on the windowsill shelf sat two well-used Aloe vera plants.

      Armed with this healing assortment, and a few other medicinal herbs, our mother managed to safely herd us from toddlers to teens and, as anyone with a teen will tell you, all successful guidance ends there.

      In the summer of 1967, while I was in the submarine service, I was transferred to Hawaii from Connecticut. I located a house in Manoa Valley and rented it. In the backyard was an old galvanized washtub with a rusted out bottom. Resting in that old tub was one of the largest Aloe Vera plants I had ever seen.

      About six months later my sister, along with two of her girlfriends, arrived at the airport for a visit. When you live in Hawaii and friends and relatives come over to visit, they don’t actually come to visit you as was the case of my sister and her friends. I believe their whole purpose was to harass beach boys and chase innocent, frightened young sailors.

      Like most first-time visitors to the islands, my sister spent the first three hours of an afternoon lying on the beach in her bikini. She came home looking like a lobster, glowing bright red, in pain and with a craving for an O’Henry candy bar. Remembering our mother’s medicine cabinet, I cut off a large leaf of the Aloe vera plant, split it and began rubbing her down every few hours. After two days she turned a golden tan, no blisters, no pain and no craving for an O’Henry candy bar. (Under direct interrogation, she was unable to explain this craving.)

      Within the thick succulent leaves of the Aloe vera plant is one of Nature’s most perfect healing remedies. Simply cut off a leaf at its base and the plant quickly heals its own wound and seals in the vital juices in both the plant and the cut leaf. The cut leaf will retain its healing properties and remain green for several days. If wrapped in plastic wrap or placed in a zip-lock bag and placed in a refrigerator, it will last for two or three weeks.

      It is that magical, transparent pulp from a fresh-cut leaf that helps the work of healing cuts and burns. Today it is used in shampoos, sunburn lotions, and or burn ointments. It has also been used by the government, after a series of testing, at Los Alamos proving ground under the auspices of the US Atomic Energy Commission. This testing came about because of the need for treatment of radiation burns.

      If you have never heard of the first aid plant, ask your neighbors, friends or relatives and you should soon find someone who can relate their experiences with this miracle plant. They may even call it the burn plant or healing plant but the official name is Aloe Vera

      The Wonders of Nature

      Aloe vera is just one of the thousands of wondrous health and healing plants in nature’s big bag of goodies. With approximately 1 1/2 million species still waiting to divulge their countless secrets, naturalists, scientists and those who make it their life’s quest to learn nature’s secrets, have been combing valleys, jungles, mountainsides, coastlines, deserts and even frozen wastelands all over the world, noting the biology of flowers, herbs, trees and other plants. They also spend countless hours gleaning tidbits of information from superstitions, ancient writings and tribal folklore in an effort to rediscover knowledge of the healing power of nature that modern man has lost.

      Even with all of the loss of knowledge on the healing qualities of plants, approximately 1/4 of all prescriptions filled in the US contains botanical derivatives such as alkaloids glycosides, steroids and so forth. There is in fact hardly any food, beverage or cosmetic preparation that does not contain spices, essential oils, enzymes, vitamins or other botanical ingredients.

      Aloe vera, in contrast to many of the long forgotten medicinal plants, has retained a somewhat useful place in the medicine cabinet down through the ages. However, like many things from the past, its usefulness is only partially remembered. The loss of so much of this information may well have resulted in unnecessary suffering by injured human beings.

      The Colorful History of Aloe Vera

      Although, as most botanists agree, its roots stem from the hot and arid climates of Africa, Aloe vera, although no longer found in the wild, is not an uncommon plant to most of us. Today, thanks mostly to the power of Television and the Internet; it is very difficult to be unaware of the advertised powers of certain Aloe plants. It’s a common ingredient in multitudes of household products from dishwashing liquid to latex gloves and cosmetics. Many of us have in fact encountered the plant itself in gardening centers and we may even treasure one or two in our herbal collection of our home or garden.

      The Spread of Aloe Vera

      Even though historically the Aloe vera plant is believed to have originated in the warm, dry climates of the arid regions of northeastern and southern parts of Africa and Madagascar, it didn’t stay isolated for long. Thanks to its tremendous value as a healing plant, man has transported it with him on his journeys from place to place and it now can be found in many warm lands and has quickly spread throughout the world. Today, there is no naturally occurring populations, yet however, it is widely

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