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Article #1547Re: Aloe, Aloe...
From: Doug McDonald
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 1990 22:37
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 1990 22:37
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In article <00940C00.58B57F40@AIMB.ucsc.edu> wipke@AIMB.ucsc.edu (W. Todd Wipke) writes: >Aloe vera has been used to promote healing for over a thousand years. >My secretary was using it so I dug into some of the literature on it. >She grew the succulant and applied it directly. It worked for her very >well. The term folk medicine should not be taken to mean that there is >no medicinal effect, the number of drugs developed from folk medicines is >very convincing that one should keep an open mind. Is there any >medical study of Aloe that is statistically valid? At the risk of being very very wrong, I seem to remember that aloe vera juice contains quite a bit of salicylic acid. Doug McDonald
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!aries!mcdonald From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) Newsgroups: sci.bio Subject: Re: Aloe, Aloe... Message-ID: <1990Dec6.223737.20620@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 6 Dec 90 22:37:37 GMT References: <4198@kitty.UUCP> <59594@microsoft.UUCP> <00940C00.58B57F40@AIMB.ucsc.edu> Sender: news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: School of Chemical Sciences, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Lines: 13