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Heart disease may benefit from Aloe vera use
Atherosclerosis, heart disease, and strokes are our major causes of death in the United States. Atherosclerosis is commonly known as hardening of the arteries. It is a gradual and progressive clogging of the arteries supplying oxygen and nutrients to all the organs of the body. Atherosclerosis is responsible for most heart attacks, angina pectoris, strokes, paralysis, senility, amputations, gangrene, kidney failure, impotence, and blindness. It is by far the leading cause of death in the U.S.
Atherosclerosis begins very early. Autopsies of accident victims in western countries have shown that it begins before age 20 and is widespread among all adults.
The location of the signs and symptoms of atherosclerosis determines the name of the vascular disease. When atherosclerosis is severe enough in the arteries of the heart to cause symptoms such as angina pectoris and heart attacks, it is called ischemic heart disease. When atherosclerosis is severe enough in the brain arteries to cause symptoms such as strokes, senility, paralysis, and blindness, it is called cerebrovascular disease. And when atherosclerosis is severe enough in the leg arteries to cause symptoms such as leg pain and gangrene, it is called peripheral arterial occlusive disease. In fact, atherosclerosis affects every artery to every organ in the bodies of all of us.
Aloe appears to reverse atherosclerosis and heart disease. In 1985, a very exciting study was reported in Angiology, The Journal of Vascular Diseases. Five thousand patients, aged 35-65, were selected to be in this five-year study.
To qualify, each person was required to have proven heart disease with angina pectoris, documented by EKG. Their symptoms were typical of angina pectoris –– intermittent, severe, crushing chest pain and shortness of breath that occurs with mild exercise such as a short walk or shaving.
EKG's are objective, graphical tracings of the heart's electrical impulses. The EKG's of all of these patients showed positive evidence of clogged arteries of the heart. They had severe atherosclerosis.
Aloe vera was the key to improvement and survival in the study presented in the Journal of Vascular Diseases by Dr. O.P. Agarwal. All patients were instructed to take 100 grams of fresh Aloe vera gel daily.
During the five years of the study, all five thousand patients were examined weekly, both clinically by doctors and by blood tests for blood sugar (fasting and after meals), total cholesterol, triglycerides, total lipids, HDL cholesterol, and LDL cholesterol.
More than 93% of the patients experienced subjective and objective improvement in symptoms, blood chemistries, and EKG's. As an additional benefit, patients with high blood pressure were able to cut their medications in half. Angiology, J Vascular Diseases 36(8); 485-492, 1985; O.P. Agarwal, MD.
Aloe reverses symptoms of angina pectoris. Most of the 5,000 angina patients noticed the effects of the Aloe vera within 30 days. They felt better. Their chest pain and shortness of breath disappeared.
Many EKG's began to return to normal. After taking Aloe vera for twelve months, the EKG's had improved markedly in all age groups of both diabetics and non-diabetics, even on a treadmill test! Damage to the arteries supplying the heart had returned to normal on the EKG's in 93% of the patients, strongly suggesting an unclogging of these arteries.
The statistics for Aloe vera in the Angiology study speak for themselves. Over the five years of the Angiology study, what percentage of the patients should have died? After all, every patient had severe heart disease at the beginning of the study. Over the five-year period the heart disease should have grown progressively worse.
Statistically, 30% of the patients in this study would have had heart attacks. Half of these would have died over the five-year period of the study. Instead, not one of the 5,000 patients died, and not one had a single heart attack!
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