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Post: # 101799Post Thomzo »

I accidentally burnt my wrist on the oven last week. Straight away I tore a leaf of the aloe vera plant that Mrs Flibble sent me a few months ago (thanks Mrs F). I rubbed the sap over the burn.

Since then it has healed perfectly and hasn't hurt at all. A little redness at first but that soon calmed down and now I just have a small scab which is coming off in its own time.

Thank goodness for the aloe. Without it, I would have a nasty wound and, no doubt, a horrid scar.

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Post: # 101802Post Milims »

:cheers: Yay for Vera! It's fantastic stuff - ours came from Mrs Fibble too! It sits on the kitchen windowsill for occasions just like the one you mentioned - and boy does it work a treat! It's a fab plant - and it's had babies - which we've passed on to other friends. Funnily enough We found this site looking for a friendship cake recipe but we seem to have ended up with a friendship aloe vera instead! :mrgreen:
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Post: # 101806Post Thomzo »

I've got babies too. Just starting to poke their noses through the soil so not yet ready to pass on. But fingers crossed.

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Post: # 101811Post Annpan »

Mine arrived with babies... but they are still quite small, the whole thing could do with being re-potted actually, it is a bit lopsided.

I recently had a bit of sun burn (I suffer really badley from sunburn) and I made up my own after sun cream with some aloe in it - just popped it in a garlic press to take the juice out :cheers: - my cream also has lavender and te-tree in it, very soothing :mrgreen:
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Post: # 101812Post Milims »

I recently found a rather wonderful book with lots of info about Aloe Vera in it along with recipes for making stuff with it. I must try some of them sometime!
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what is the book called?
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Post: # 101843Post snapdragon »

'ello Vera is wonderful stuff, my original fell out her pot she was so lop-sided but I got a baby from freecycle. The old one still seems ok but has no root :shock:

Can someone advise me of the best way to care for them please?
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Post: # 101993Post Thomzo »

I know that you can drink the juice but does anyone know how you get the juice out? Can you just shove it through the juicer?

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Post: # 102010Post Milims »

Aaghhhhhhhhhhhhh no - it is a powerful laxative - you'll poop for England and Scotland etc. I'll find the book in the morning and give the ISBN number and the we'll be safe!
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Post: # 102012Post Annpan »

I am pretty sure that I have heard about drinking it too :shock: :shock: :shock: thanks Helen
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Post: # 102033Post Enormous Sage »

I bought a bottle of Korean Aloe Vera drink on a whim, a couple of weeks back (and on the basis that I'd never seen it before and didn't even know it was edible!)
It was good - very sweet but then it had a lot of sugar in, no doubt.

I've no idea how it was prepared to make into a drink, though.

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Post: # 102039Post Milims »

eccentric_emma wrote:what is the book called?
It's called "Aloe Vera" - funnly that! :lol: THe natural Healing Choice, by Lee Faber ISBN 978-1-86147-237-3. I picked it up in one of those cheapy book outlets for abou £4
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Post: # 102069Post possum »

It was the first plant I bought in NZ, at the time we had only been in the country a couple of weeks and were living in a combination of a tent and a van, the prized plant lived in the van for a couple of weeks, since then I have given away several baby plants and it now needs repotting yet again and the babies separating off. I am tempted to see if I can grow it outside here.
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Post: # 102160Post Ellendra »

Thomzo wrote:I know that you can drink the juice but does anyone know how you get the juice out? Can you just shove it through the juicer?

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I know its supposed to be a laxative, but for those with severe digestive problems (IBS, Crohn's, etc) it does have a soothing effect on the digestive tract if taken in small amounts.

To get the juice, cut a leaf lengthwise and scrape the clear jelly out. A spoonful of that once a day ought to be enough.

Better yet, mix the jelly into a smoothie. Mmmm blackberries and yogurt . . .

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Post: # 102162Post Ellendra »

PS: Is it possible its just the green skin that's a powerfull laxative?

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