What Is Medicinal Aloe?

Aloe, Chinese medicine name. Aloe vera L., aloe vera L., Aloe vera L.var. Chinensis (Haw.) Berger., Aloe ferox Mill. Aloe vera is native to northern Africa and is currently widely cultivated in the West Indies in South America, but also in China. Aloe vera is cultivated in Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, and Yunnan. Cape Aloe is distributed in southern Africa. It has the functions of purging, clearing the liver and killing insects. Commonly used for hot knot constipation, liver and fire headache, red eyes and convulsions, abdominal pain caused by worms, mange, hemorrhoid fistula.