What are the benefits of Aloe Vera Juice?

For hundreds and probably thousands of years it has been used medicinally as a soothing balm for burns, cuts and scrapes. Native to Mediterranean region and grown widely in the tropics and as houseplants, it’s used for the same purposes today as it’s always been, but we’ve also found many more uses for this plant. I love Aloe Vera juice for sunburn treatment, and I also find it makes a great skin moisturizer to be used after shaving or on dry patches of skin

But check this out! Aloe Vera juice has more recently become very popular as a drink and for use internally. As I’ve always been kind of interested in the benefits of aloe Vera juice, I’ve been doing some of my own research about its use internally but unfortunately haven’t discovered anything very favorable. My initial searches online yielded a whole host of site with rather outrageous claims about aloe Vera juice drinks making you live long, preventing and even fighting cancers, kidney disease, heart disease, and much more. Type in aloe Vera juice in a search engine and you’ll quickly see what I mean.

I looked a little further however and eventually came to some trustworthy health sites with articles posted by doctors and other medical professionals about the aloe Vera juice. I couldn’t find anyone referring to any studies linking to any of the claims I saw in the torrent of ads I read through. Apparently, aloe Vera juice just hasn’t been tested that well for use internally.

While it's more or less non-toxic, meaning it won’t kill you to drink it, drinking too much can apparently induce nausea. The only proven medical use has been as a laxative, as it apparently is a pretty strong purgative. Strangely enough, I never once found it advertised as a laxative, but only as ways to live longer, boost your immune system, cure cancer, and all that other nonsense.

So while I continue to use aloe Vera juice daily externally, I’m not really sold on its use as a drink or an over the counter medicine for internal use. Not only does it taste pretty bad, but it just seems like a risk no worth taking. It could have all sorts of potential side effects I’m not aware of, which isn’t worth it when there isn’t any proven benefit except as a natural laxative . There are plenty of other laxatives out there that have been rigorously tested, and I’d feel much safer using one of those.