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From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald)
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Subject: Re: Aloe, Aloe...
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Date: 6 Dec 90 22:37:37 GMT
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In article <00940C00.58B57F40@AIMB.ucsc.edu> wipke@AIMB.ucsc.edu (W. Todd Wipke) writes:
>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?

At the risk of being very very wrong, I seem to remember that aloe vera
juice contains quite a bit of salicylic acid.

Doug McDonald