Whole Leaf Aloe Vera
A Holistic Protocol
For The Immune System
Excerpts By Scott J. Gregory
O.M.D. Fifth Edition
Aloe VeraFor over five thousand years, folk medicine has celebrated the juice of
the Aloe vera plant for its unique healing properties. Only recently, however, has modern medicine begun to unlock
the deeper secrets of Aloe and to place the “miracle plant” under laboratory scrutiny. The Aloe plant is a
succulent, consisting of thick green leaves with a gelatinous substance inside. Aloe juice, properly processed,
contains a wide variety of healing constituents. The principal attributes are: antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, and
anti-viral.
Aloe Vera - AntisepticThe Aloe Vera plant produces six antiseptic agents:
Lupeol, a natural salicylic acid, urea nitrogen, cinnamic acid, phenol, and sulfur all demonstrate anti-microbial
effects. Lupeol and salicylic acid also have analgesic effects.
Aloe Vera - Anti-InflammatoryAloe contains three plant sterols, which are
important fatty acids-HCL cholesterol (which lowers fats in the blood), campesterol, and B-sitosterol. All are
helpful in reducing symptoms of allergies and acid indigestion. These compounds also aid in arthritis,
rheumatic fever, both internal and external ulcers, and inflammation of the digestive system. The stomach, small
intestine, liver, kidneys, and pancreas can all benefit from these anti-inflammatory effects.
Aloe Vera - Anti-Viral, Anti-BacterialRecent research has suggested some exciting
new possibilities. Aloe not only provides vigorous overall immune system support, but aids directly in the
destruction of intravascular bacteria. The reason is Aloe’s unique polysaccharide component. The body’s natural
“complement system” a critical defense system involving a series of proteins only needs to be activated in order to
attack bacteria. It is the polysaccharides that trigger these proteins in a sequence called the “cascade
phenomenon” to take on a doughnut shape and insert themselves into the surface membranes of bacteria. Through this
action they literally create holes in the bacteria, exposing the pathogens’ interior to surrounding fluids, causing
their death.
Aloe Vera - Effects in HIV and AIDS
In an article in the Medical World News, December 1987 issue, titled “Aloe Drug
May Mimic AZT without Toxicity,” Dr. H. Reginald McDaniel stated, “A substance in the Aloe plant shows preliminary
signs of boosting AIDS patients’ immune systems and blocking the human immune-deficiency virus’ spread without
toxic side effects.”
In the summer of 1989, internationally recognized AIDS expert Terry L. Pulse, M.D.,
conducted a systematic study of a unique nutritional regimen combining the use of an Aloe vera drink with a
supplementation powder and fatty acid capsules. The objective was to determine if this nutritional regimen would
help to restore the patients immune systems and increase their ability to fight current and future infections.
Twenty-eight patients remained with the study through its 180-day period. Whereas initial
rating showed 16 patients classified with full-blown AIDS, at 180 days all 16 had improved so dramatically that
none could any longer be placed in that category. Additionally, two were accorded a MWR (Modified Walter Reed
scale) classification of 0 - or HIV negative - at the end of the study. Subsequently, an additional five patients
achieved a 0 rating on the MWR scale.
Dr. Pulse’s and Dr. McDaniel’s studies, though preliminary, became the catalyst for
rapidly-expanding interest in the anti-viral and immune-enhancing potential of Aloe.
A unique feature of the polysaccharides or long-chain carbohydrates in Aloe is their
remarkable ability to pass through the stomach and digestive tract and into the circulatory system without being
broken down by stomach acid or digestive enzymes. By a process called endocytosis, they are taken up into the cells
of the intestinal lining intact and extruded into the circulatory system, where they are able to fulfill their
immune-supporting functions.
Whole-Leaf Aloe ConcentrateIn the past decade the marketplace has been flooded with
Aloe drinks, and almost all of these have been flooded with water. In fact, many are, so dilute as to be of almost
no benefit. Recent years, however, have seen the promising development of new technologies enabling the best
processors not only to produce stable concentrates of Aloe, but to utilize the whole leaf. It is now known that
the polysaccharides are concentrated close to the rind, where these sugars are produced, though these layers
were previously discarded due to the presence of undesirable Aloe resins, aloin or Aloe emodin. But now,
state-of-the-art filtering technologies permit the removal of these highly purgative components without
significantly reducing the healing agents of Aloe.
Within the rapidly-growing field of Aloe research, no one has done more than Dr. Ivan
Danhof, M.D., Ph.D. Recognized as one of the world’s top experts on Aloe, Dr. Danhof has helped to pioneer critical
work aimed at isolating Aloe’s healing agents and developing the most favorable processing and stabilizing
techniques. Importantly, these new techniques use only limited heat (called “cool processing”).
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