The Health and Medical Use of Aloe Vera

Why do we need another book on Aloe Vera ? Most people who have written books about Aloe are not scientists, and certainly are not senior scientists with forty or more years of experience of investigations to their credit in the borderlands between nutrition and medicine. Dr Lawrence Plaskett is such a senior scientist. These quotes are from his book. Why did he write this book? "At the very core of the raison d'etre for the book lies a determination to find out what science and scientific medicine really know about Aloe." Does Aloe Vera really work? "My key question was "how much evidence is there which arises from mainstream scientific research which proves or explains, or which tends to prove or explain, the beneficial properties of Aloe in medical situations and for the maintenance of health?" The answer was "a great deal". If that was the case then why, for heavens sake, had it not been brought forward for the serious attention of medical practitioners world-wide?" It excels some of the most potent drugs "Aloe has been shown to exert at least three key actions upon cells of the animal and human body which makes it a potent medicine that can vie with or excel some of the most potent drugs in the medical pharmacopoeia. Indeed, it combines its actions in such a way that no known drug can match. The combination of effects makes it unique. At the same time, in the forms commonly marketed, it is totally non-toxic and free from side effects. It leaves absolutely no poisonous residues within the body after its use. Moreover, it stimulates the body to cleanse itself in an active, positive way that no known drug can mimic. That is not what the scientific papers say. But it is what I, as a biomedical scientist of 40 odd years of experience derive from what the scientific papers say." Whether you are a medical doctor, complementary practitioner, nutritionist or simply looking for answers to a health problem, this book will astound and fascinate you. It will certainly change the way you think about Aloe Vera.