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From: wipke@AIMB.ucsc.edu (W. Todd Wipke)
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Subject: Re: Aloe, Aloe...
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Date: 6 Dec 90 05:26:58 GMT
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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?
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