Adding To Our Medicine Chest: Aloe Vera
Megan Ryan’s Voice – What to do with aloe?? I’ve had some good fortune with aloe this year. I bought an organic plant from a local farmer, managed NOT to kill it (this time anyway), and it has done so well I now have it coming out of my ears. Wait, does that mean I need to clean my ears more often? I guess I should give myself some credit, but it’s a pretty hardy, leave it alone and it will grow kinda plant, so I won’t take too much credit. After all, I DID kill the first one I bought last year! So now I’m wondering what to do with it all. A friend of mine is newly into juicing veggies and stuff and her daughter is having some health issues so I’ll be giving her as much as she can carry home. Aloe is supposed to be very healing when eaten in addition to all its topical uses so Click Here to read all about it. As for whatever my friend doesn’t take, I think maybe I’ll look into harvesting the gel/juice and selling it on eBay, or maybe just sell the plants themselves… If you have any ideas we would love to hear about them in the comments section of this post!
Liam Marcus’ Voice – Just keep putting the new shoots in those little starter pots I have littering the garage and we could start our own nursery. I liked what you made for us to give my mom on Mothers Day this year. You filled a used glass honey jar with organic dirt, planted an aloe shoot in it, and then covered the top of the soil with colored bits of decorative glass.
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I have so many that they are growing wild… and big,
Unfortunately, the ones growing in the sun have sharp thorns. Those growing in shade have soft plyable thorns. All of them are huge plants.
“The Bible makes reference to aloes too. This may be from the wider genus family of plants, as some quote 200 and some up to 400 and 500 varieties of aloes. The context of the Bible verses mentioning aloes seems to imply they were used as spices. See Psalm 45:8, Proverbs 7:17, and Song of Solomon 4:14. The one verse from the New Testament that mentions aloes says it was used in embalming the body of Jesus. John 19:39 says that Nicodemus brought 75 lbs. of the stuff to help Joseph of Arimithea to embalm Jesus in the tomb after His cruxifixion.”
Read more: http://www.aloe-vera-and-handy-herbs.com/aloe-vera-uses-in-history.html#ixzz21DTTiL6U
Yeah, I saw.