Healed by Aloe Vera
Several Times

My Dad's Story

Background story:

About four years, I could not find anything on the internet about eating your aloe vera plants. Now there are forums where people are asking, "Is it safe to eat your aloe vera plants?"

I can say a resounding, "Yes, you can eat it and be healed by aloe vera!"

My Dad was Healed of Ulcers

While I was the live-in caregiver for my Dad, I had from 50 to 75 pots full of aloe vera plants, and some of them were quite large. We often ate the gel from an aloe vera leaf. Dad ate them daily at times when he had a health problem. When he developed a bleeding stomach ulcer and the specialist wanted him to fill a prescription for a drug that would cost more than $50 every four weeks, he balked and said he could not afford that. That doctor gave him some sample packets.

I brought him home, and suggested he start eating the gel of a leaf, not just occasionally, when we remembered, but before every meal, three times a day. Dad was willing to try this.

Six weeks later he went back for an ultra-sound examination, and the specialist could NOT find that ulcer. Never mind that it had been nearly two inches across! Of course, Dad proudly told him he had eaten aloe vera every day - and it has cost him nothing.

Healed of Shingles

Another time Dad complained to his G.P. that his chest itched in a certain spot. Our family doctor took a look and said it was shingles. He apologized that the prescription for it would be costly and he could not guarntee it would heal.

My first thought was that when seniors get shingles, they are stuck with it for the rest of their lives. I asked the doctor whether it would be okay to try aloe vera.

He said, "It couldn't hurt. Go for it." So we didn't bother with the prescription. We just went home, and I served Dad a small medicine cup of aloe vera gel before each meal and he smeared some on his chest at bedtime. We did this for four days, and then got busy and plumb forgot. A couple of days later I asked Dad how his shingles were doing.

Dad opened his shirt to check, and could not find the spot or even remember on which side of his chest it had been! The shingles had cleared up.

He also had age-onset diabetes. Dad did take the prescribed pills, but basically we controlled it with controlling the foods we ate, and taking aloe vere internally whenever we remembered.

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Besides that, Dad had arthritis, but it is harder to measure how much it helped. He did take painkillers as well, and I am not able to tell how much credit to give to aloe vera for his ability to go out for long walks, putter in the garden, and in his workshop for long hours at a time.

He loved to tell visitors these stories, and I did think it would be smart to put this on a website, but I was busy with many things, and so it just didn't happen right away. Then, February 24, 2007, Dad died of a galloping lung cancer. I spent months on cleaning up the estate and finding myself a new home and getting it fixed up. Because it is a very small one, I had to sell or give away most of those aloe vera plants. My tiny home just doesn't have the room. I've saved a few but, oh, how nice it was to have a whole room full of big aloe vera plants.

I can grow more, but I do wish I would have taken more photos of them!

I am going to multiply the ones I have again, and will soon run out of spaces once more! But hey, you can hardly have too many aloe vera plants!

More & Deeper

ALVEDAMA - Aloe Vera da Medeira - how the Cowens grow and sell their aloe vera on the island of Madeira, just off the coast of Portugal.

Aloe Vera, the Burn Plant - and how I proved it for myself with a second degree burn on my left hand on Easter Sunday. (A photo story).

Aloe Vera Aids Burn Treatment, Wound Healing And Scars - a guest article to explain some of the technical aspects of how this happens.

Freezing Aloe Vera - I've tried freezing the aloe vera gel, hoping to use it later, but that seems to kill the good stuff in it, as I found it looked too yukky when I tried to defrost it to use, however I discuss the pros and cons on this page.

Eating My Aloe Vera - just now I'm eating a large plant that is falling over in a hurry, but also thinking about help for those can't get access to such plants easily.

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Key Aloe Product Sources:
Forever Living AoK Puritan's Pride AoK Organic Ease, Inc.