Aloe Vera: Actually Two Very Different Herbs in One.

Environmental Nutrition | November 1, 1998 | Copyright

For many Americans, spreading gel from an aloe leaf on a burn is their first encounter with a medicinal herb, one that dates back to Mesopotamian times.

There are hundreds of species of aloe plants, but the most popular is Aloe vera, also taxonomically known as Aloe barbadensis, a relative of the lily. The aloe plant yields both aloe gel and aloe juice. This can be confusing, since the two terms are interchanged or misused in ads for aloe products. While they share certain chemical components, the gel and juice are distinctly different, with different properties and ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

Afghanistan Needs China and Russia.
Newspaper article from: Khaleej Times (Dubai, United Arab Emirates) ; ...insurgency. But achieving success in Afghanistan eI defined as achieving a sustainable...economic, and security improvements in Afghanistan without more effective international...identified narcotics trafficking from Afghanistan as a major regional insecurity. NATO...
EU-Afghanistan Troika: Commissioner Ferrero-Waldner Confirms Long Term Commitment to Afghanistan.
Business Wire ; ...Ferrero-Waldner will attend the EU-Afghanistan Ministerial Troika meeting in Ljubljana...will discuss the state of play of the Afghanistan Compact, the EU contribution to improving...made available 610 million euros for Afghanistan for 2007-2010. The package focuses...
AFGHANISTAN-REPORT: NATO IS WINNING BATTLES BUT LOSING WAR.
News Wire article from: Interpress Service ; ...no mistake, NATO is not winning in Afghanistan," begins a new issue brief from the...States. That brief, called "Saving Afghanistan: An Appeal and Plan for Urgent Action...energize their faltering effort" in Afghanistan. The speakers at the release of the...
AFGHANISTAN'S PRESIDENT NOTES PROGRESS, PROBLEMS
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News ; ...their efforts to derail that progress, Afghanistan's president told the United Nations...assembly, see a successful and prosperous Afghanistan as a knockout blow for their aims there...have occurred in some areas of southern Afghanistan, where terrorists are preventing children...
Afghanistan faces 'long struggle'.
News Wire article from: Aljazeera.net ; ...has said that restoring stability to Afghanistan will be a long-term challenge, during...the conditions a lot better today in Afghanistan than they were in 2001? Unquestionably...Continued assistance' Karzai said that Afghanistan was grateful for the American help...
Afghanistan 20 years after the Soviet withdrawal.
Newspaper article from: Cyprus Mail (Cyprus) ; ...withdrawal of the Soviet troops from Afghanistan. On that day, the last Soviet soldier...the commander of the Soviet forces in Afghanistan, walked across the eIuFriendship BridgeeIN...year Soviet military involvement in Afghanistan, which began in December 1979. The...
Afghanistan not new to invasions
News Wire article from: University Wire ; ...Soviet Union invaded the country of Afghanistan, starting a war that lasted 10 years...it "a bleeding wound." The reason Afghanistan was invaded was based on political fears...by the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan. While the Soviet Union was not involved...
Afghanistan's stability is an issue that cannot be ignored.
Newspaper article from: Cyprus Mail (Cyprus) ; Byline: Nicos Panayi AFGHANISTAN has always faced periods of intense...society structures. Pakistan and Afghanistan are now facing a commonality of...strategy to tackle the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan. A new element in...
Afghanistan Will Want American Commitment This Time
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune ; ...28-2001 The new interim leader of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, has praised the United...that its forces are welcome to stay in Afghanistan for as long as necessary to eliminate...United States as a strategic goal for Afghanistan. Mr. Karzai's call for such a relationship...
AFGHANISTAN'S SOLUTION PRIMARILY POLITICAL, NOT MILITARY, GENERAL SAYS
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News ; ...against radical Islamists operating in Afghanistan will be won, despite the challenges...that the insurgency will not win in Afghanistan," Army Gen. David D. McKiernan...conducting a governmentwide review of Afghanistan operations and strategy, as insurgents...

Find more facts and information related to the article "Aloe Vera: Actually Two Very Different Herbs in ..."