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Article #1555Re: Aloe, Aloe...
From: Larry Lippman
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 1990 04:59
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 1990 04:59
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In article <1990Dec6.223737.20620@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) writes:
> >Aloe vera has been used to promote healing for over a thousand years.
>
> At the risk of being very very wrong, I seem to remember that aloe vera
> juice contains quite a bit of salicylic acid.
I would not call your answer "very very wrong", but instead would
call it "sort of close". :-)
Aloe vera contains significant amounts of cinnamic acid, with
other aloe varieties also containing p-coumaric acid.
The active ingredients for cathartic purposes are glucosides which
readily undergo hydrolysis to form anthraquinone derivatives, such as the
various barbaloins (a/k/a aloin).
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!know!news.cs.indiana.edu!rutgers!ub!kitty!larry From: larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) Newsgroups: sci.bio Subject: Re: Aloe, Aloe... Summary: Chemical constituents of aloe Message-ID: <4229@kitty.UUCP> Date: 8 Dec 90 04:59:52 GMT References: <4198@kitty.UUCP> <59594@microsoft.UUCP> <1990Dec6.223737.20620@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: Recognition Research Corp., Clarence, NY Lines: 19