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Iris Publishers- Open access Journal of Complementary & Alternative Medicine| Efficacy Aloe Vera in Treatment: A Literature Review



Authored by Moh Rozani*

Abstract

Introduction: Aloe vera is a medical which has many benefits that is used in medicine to several problems in the health of human body.
Aim: Conducting a literature review study related to efficacy of aloe vera which is used for treatment in healing with body health problems.
Methods: Article searching start on date 10 – 25 August 2018 via the CINAHL database, ResearchGate, Pubmed, and ScienceDirect which is used keyword effect AND aloe vera then, selection based on inclusion criteria in the article and after getting results inclusion criteria is done critical appraisal so that relevant articles number of 9 articles.
Results: Of the 9 articles, there were 8 researching articles indicate that using aloe vera has benefits in accelerating the process of wound healing and decrease pain intensity heal burns. There is one researching article indicate date aloe vera can also be used as therapy or treatment in melasma patients with fix function skin pigment. Conclusion: Utilization of treatment using aloe vera proven to accelerate the process of wound healing and decrease some health problems of pain intensity.
Keywords:Leaf aloe vera; Efficacy; Treatment

Introduction

Medical plants are the best source for getting treatment from various disease [1]. Using of natural substances with therapeutic properties has been used since ancient times (Das et al., 2011). At present, several prescribed drugs come from plants [2]. Aloe vera has been used for medical purpose in several cultures for a thousand of years Egypt, India, Mexico, Japan and China [3]. This plant has triangular leaves. Fleshy with jagged edges, yellow tubular flowers and fruits which contain a lot of seeds. Every leaf consults of 3 clear get which of containing 99% water and the other are made of glucomannan, amino acid, lipids, sterols, vitamins, and middle layers of latex which of bitter yellow sap and contains anthraquinone, glycosides, and thick out layer of is 15-20 cells referred to as peel that has a protective function, synthesize carbo hydrates and proteins. Inside the skin is a collection of blood vessels responsible to transport substances such as water (xylem) and starch (phloem) [3]. Various aloe vera extracts are mate to be easy is used in medicine to humans like gel, oil, juice, and tablets. In several researches in-vitro indicate that aloe vera leaves showed contain more than 75 nutrients and 200 active compounds, including 20 minerals, 18 amino acids and 12 vitamins. Also contain the most important components which is needed by the human body Mulu T et al. [4] Aloe vera has vitamins A, B1, B2, B6, B12, C and E. Aloe vera has a high enzyme content (for about 92 enzyme), which makes it a rare source and valuable because of enzyme help the body absorb basic nutrients at the same time purifying it and used as an antifungal, anti-inflammatory, anti-septic, can be used to accelerate the healing process of wounds [5-7]. By looking at kinds of treatment using aloe vera above, so that was done a deep literature to treatment using aloe vera in dealing with health problems.

Aim

Study researching literature that using aloe vera in treatment or therapy to overcome several health body problems.

Methods

Searching article begins of that 10-25 august 2018 by using a search strategy via the CINAHL database, Research gate, Pubmed, and ScienceDirect which is used keyword AND aloe vera and efficacy AND aloe vera and getting number of articles 4822 in all searching database. Then was checked based on the suitability of the title and abstract reading related to treatment using aloe vera and got as many as 1502 articles. Then continued the selection of articles based on inclusion criteria totaling 305 articles which can be seen in the table one. After the article was collected than a critical appraisal in using format Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) so that of 305 critical appraisal articles the result of all relevant articles was obtained 12 articles.

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