It's always nice to have plants in your room, apartment, house, office, etc. It brightens the room and gives you something to take care of. I have about 7 houseplants of all varieties desperately clinging to life and I do my best to take care of them, but honestly they don't have a fighting chance! One plant that has done exceptionally well with my haphazard care taking is the amazing little plant called Aloe.
Aloe is a plant we all know from when we had sunburns growing up. My mom kept her bottle of it in the fridge and it was especially soothing on those sunburns.
When I was going through all those medical problems in 2006 and they had me on a million different miracle pills for the hole in my stomach lining that their other miracle pills caused that's when I discovered just how amazing this little plant is.
None of their pills or diets were helping me so I went to a health food store and they recommended that I drink some aloe juice. If you ever get the chance to taste it or see it you'll see why I couldn't be a trooper about it. If you can, kudos to you! I did however start taking pure aloe gel caps. It fixed my stomach in no time and I was in love.
Just the other day I met a doctor and she and I were discussing holistic medicine vs. pharmaceutical companies because I told her I was majoring in biotechnology. I personally hate most pharmaceutical anything and most of what we are doing in the biotech field. But I digress.
She told me a little secret.
She told me that girls should put pure aloe (a broken off piece of the plant or bottled pure aloe extract) all over their girly parts everyday. Allegedly it does wondrous things also say goodbye to razor burn in your bikini area too. Anyway I had never heard it before so I wanted to pass on the news.
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Surprisingly enough, I agree with you about pharmaceuticals, although a large part of the biotech field is doing interesting if not immediately commercially applicable things. The problem is that companies pay for research and expect to be able to parley the results into huge profits, which really isn't how science works. Anyway, the aloe vera plant has been revered for centuries and rightly so, although I didn't know about the last bit. How's it been working for you?
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