Aloe vera for the effects of cancer treatment

The beneficial properties of aloe vera are well known. He organic canary aloe vera proves effective for mitigate on the skin and mucous membranes the effects of surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, as corroborated by some of the main Spanish hospitals. Research has focused on the treatment of breast cancerhead, neck and lung.

He aloe vera contains vitamins, minerals, amino acids, enzymes, monosaccharides and polysaccharides. Its most important ingredient is alloverosa (acemannan), a complex sugar present in its leaves that is only produced in the species Aloe barbadensis Miller and that fixes the hydration in the skin and its regeneration.

The highest levels of alloverosa (>2000mg/l) are found in the 100% pure aloe vera. Mucous membranes and sensitive, damaged, radiated, burned or scarred skins are the ones that benefit the most from aloverose. Research on this sugar ensures that promotes the healing processstrengthens the immune system by stimulate white blood cells and regulates all damaged processes in the body.

The Canarian volcanic soil, rich in active principles and minerals, and the wind, give the aloe vera of the islands all these excellent properties.

Spanish hospitals confirm the effectiveness of pure aloe vera

This advantage of aloe vera, already known to the ancient Egyptians, has been tested in different hospitals in Spain to treat, cas an adjuvant, the breast cancer side effectshead, neck and lung generated by surgery, chemo and radiotherapy.

The studies, carried out with pure Canarian aloe vera products of the Atlantia brand, have been promoted by this firm and carried out in the Oncology and Radiology departments of the hospitals. October 12 ° and The miraculousas well as the Bellvitge Hospitalhe clinic and the Teknon Clinic from Barcelona,

These studies and clinical tests, which will be presented at the 4th Spanish Breast Congress (Madrid), demonstrate the efficacy of pure organic aloe vera to improve the quality of life of the patient and the success of the treatment.

They are not the only ones, but they are the first ones made with pure aloe vera and not with its extract.

For scars, aloe vera with rosehip

The incidence of breast cancer is very high in Spain, with more than 25,000 cases per year. For all women who have to undergo surgery, it is very important that the scar leaves the minimum trace, that its size and pigmentation are reduced, and that it does not remain sunken. Nourishing the skin with aloe vera before surgery regenerates better.

If the scars are massaged with the appropriate product –in a circular way and with small pinches to detach them– you can restore your collagen, because over the years the underlying tissue shrinks, explained gynecologist and surgeon Mercedes Herrera Conde, from HM Sanchinarro (Madrid) during a meeting with the press organized by the firm Atlantia. After surgery, Dr. Herrera recommends applying 100% aloe vera along with rosehip oilvery rich in vitamin E.

In radiotherapy aloe also regenerates the skin

Many patients with breast, head, neck or lung cancer receive chemotherapy and radiotherapy simultaneously, an association that enhances the skin toxicity. It occurs because radiotherapy breaks the balance between the lowest dermal layer, the basal layer, and the superficial layer, which must be regenerated by the cells of the first.

Skin toxicity usually occurs in 80% of patients and is only severe in 15-20% but redness, erythema, and scaling it causes can also reduce the quality of life and stop the patient’s treatment temporarily until it subsides, which compromises its success.

A study carried out at the Teknon Clinic in Barcelona with breast cancer patients confirmed the efficacy of pure aloe vera to moisturize and restore elasticity to the skinexplained the radiation oncologist Ignacio Tosca at the Atlantia information meeting.

Very antioxidant, improves radiation and X-ray damage

Another of the best-known uses of aloe vera is ingested in juice on an empty stomach. In the studies presented, 20 ml served to regenerate the mucous membranes of the esophagus and throat in patients undergoing radiotherapy.

The esophagitiswhich also affects lymphomas and supraclavicular lymph node irradiation in breast cancer, is very limiting because it prevents the patient from eating and in some cases leads to weight loss, forcing the patient to insert a nasogastric tube so as not to stop the treatment.

In these studies, patients were able to swallow and eat better and with less pain as they aloe veraabsorbs radicals caused by radiation. It is also anti-inflammatory and analgesic, and protects the dismutase enzyme and glutathione (immune system stimulant). It will also be studied in the mucous membranes of the vulva and vagina, affected in menopause and in patients with breast cancer who cannot use hormones.

Fresh plant or processed products?

Oncologists and Radiation Oncologists advise against applying and eating the fresh plantfor reasons of asepsis in cases as delicate as radiotherapy treatments and after surgeries. It is necessary that the dose provides a constant and high amount of its best compounds.

That is why it is important to distinguish between all the products on the market, which include aloe vera with different percentages ranging from 2% to more than 90%, and which may or may not be organic. Meanwhile he gelrich in properties, is made from the pulp of the crushed leaf and contains aloin (laxative), the juice it is recommended to ingest because it lacks it.

He concentrated It’s dehydrated gel. And the extract it is powder mixed with water, with less than 10% of the plant. Therefore its effect is less.