Aloe Vera

[Guest guest]

Back in 1999, I and my friend who was a physician had the privilege of spending

an afternoon with Dr. Ivan Danof, M.D., Ph.D. regarded by many as the leading

authority/investigator on the aloe vera plant. Dr. Danof was in his late 70s so

is probably retired now. He has impeccable credentials: BS in biology and

chemistry M.S. in Nutrition and Microbiology; Ph.D. in Physiology, and a medical

degree with specialties in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology. He has

written 80 research papers throughout his career. He served as a Fulbright

Scholar in Afghanistan years ago investigating botanical medicine.

At the time of our meeting, he was running studies in three countries (other

than the U.S.) using aloe vera intravenously for hepatitis C and he told us

China's Minister of Health was flying to Dallas to meet with him the next day to

discuss using the product for gastro-intestinal studies. They were going to

devote the entire gastrointestinal floor of the Beijing hospital to this study.

There has also been research using the IV aloe for cancer and AIDS. I first

heard of IV aloe vera from a physician who told me he used it successfully for

CHF, Crohns and Candida, but he didn't reveal his source. He was then using it

in a maintenance program.

Dr. Danof stressed that not all aloe vera on the market is equal. He said

scientific research has proven that while there are some 200 ingredients found

in aloe vera, it's the sole ingredient - mucilaginous polysaccharide that is

responsible for all the healing properties attributed to aloe, but there are

very few companies that have the technology to extract the stabilized

mucilaginous polysaccharides.

Dr. Danof said aloe vera mucilaginous polysaccharide is a long chain sugar

molecule

composed of individual mannose and glucose sugar molecules connected

together. The small molecules (50 to 600) reduce inflammation in such

diseases as ulcerative colitis, arthritis and gastric reflux. It also helps

with reduction of blood sugar with both type I and type II diabetes.

The medium size molecules (up to 1500) are very effective intracellular

antioxidants and free radical scavengers - very important in preventing and

treating arteriosclerosis, heart disease and Parkinson's disease.

(Vitamins and minerals only function outside the cells.) With the ever

increasing pollution of the planet and loss of nutrients in the soil, the

increase in free radicals and loss of cellular oxygen will only become worse

with time - making aloe vera mucilaginous polysaccharides even more

important than ever.

The larger molecules - up to 5,000, have a direct anti-bacterial and

anti-viral effect - very important with all the new infectious diseases

cropping up and the older ones becoming more virulent from long term use of

antibiotics.

The very large molecules - upto 9,000 - are immune modulating, which have a

powerful healing effect on AIDS, cancer and many different immune system

disorders. It is also this large molecule that causes the body to produce a

natural chemical, tumor necrosis factor, that functions to shut off the

blood supply to tumors.

To my knowledge, IV aloe vera is not available to the general public but there

are a few companies producing

an excellent aloe vera product - some of them quite expensive.

Digestinol - www.digestinol.com

MoloCure - http://ampfloracel.com/ http://www.ampmolo.com/index.htm

AloeMaster - best price I've found is at www.purityproducts.com

Coats International for the liquid. Dr. Danof use to do the quality testing of

the Coats product.

www.coatsaloe.com

Dream Valley's highly concentrated liquid aloe vera.- sold by Cosmetic Specialty

Labs

http://www.aloe-vera.com/products.php?section=3 & catid=20 & id=77

Allied Pharmacy - Arlington, TX - 1-800-428-6331 - capsules

Coats, Dream Valley and Allied all use organic aloe. I've heard Aloemaster does

too but I'm not sure about the first two listed.

Bottom line, if you are going to use aloe, for best results consider buying it

from one of these companies.

Ethel

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