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The best Aloe vera juice

If Aloe vera were a pop group, it would undoubtedly be The Beatles. It is probably the single most popular - and possibly the best known - alternative remedy around. Mirroring this is the fact that there are over 189,000 sites on the Web dedicated to this supposedly ‘wonder plant’, and at least a hundred aloe products available in shops in the UK alone.

Many people testify to its curative, almost miraculous, qualities, although some go too far, as did a Baltimore businessman jailed for four years last December for selling Aloe vera as an intravenous cure for cancer.

Aloe vera - a succulent plant belonging to the lily family chiefly from southern Africa - has been hailed as a miraculous healing agent for thousands of years. Legend has it that Aristotle urged his pupil Alexander the Great to invade the island of Socrota to collect its aloe plants so that the wounds of his soldiers could be treated. Cleopatra and Nefertiti are said to have incl...

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