There is a substance in the leaf that is astringent and will induce diarrhea. It can be hard to stip out a leaf without this yellow substance contaminating your product if you do it at home. Not sure if this is what they are talking about?
Garnet On Sun, 2004-02-15 at 18:03, Gladys Williams wrote: > QUESTION: Someone told me there were impurities in the aloe plant and > it was better when it was processed and those impurities were filtered > out. Is that true? > > I grow aloe in my window sill with no chemical fertilizers, is it safe > to ingest, use, etc. ? > > Gladys > > On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 11:01:48 -0700 "Thora Rasmussen" > <mugg...@rockies.net> writes: > Aloe Very liquid is naturally thick, just break off a leaf and > squeeze the liquid out, it is fairly thick. > -----Original Message----- > From: Rowena Evans [mailto:rowenaev...@iprimus.com.au] > Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 9:04 PM > To: silver-list@eskimo.com > Subject: CS>CS: Gel ingredients? > > > Richard won't be the only one who can answer this, I'm > sure. > > When one buys a gel for topical application, what's in > it that forms the gel? > I only know of gelatine and carrageenan to make a gel, > and can't see that either of those would be used. > What then? > Two queries prompt me here. > > Firstly, I'm wondering how one could make a thicker > topical preparation for CS or CS+DMSO than liquid, > bearing in mind that the DMSO would carry any > ingredients in very efficiently. One might not wish > to use ready-made products with possibly unwanted > ingredients. > > Secondly, if one buys DMSO gel (thankfully I found the > liquid), what ingredients are in the gel that would > get carried into the body? > > Thanks > Rowena > -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
