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Item# 6113 Acidophilus & Aloe Capsules (60)
Milk Free / No Refrigeration Required Safe for children Lactobacillus
Acidophilus is a type of "friendly bacteria" that resides in
the healthy colon. These important resident bacteria should always be
present for optimal intestinal health and function. Antibiotics not only
destroy harmful bacteria; they also destroy friendly bacteria. When the
flora in the colon is out of balance, symptoms such as gas, bloating,
intestinal and systemic toxicity, constipation, and malabsorption of nutrients
can occur and is conducive to an overgrowth of candida.
Aloe Vera is known for its healing effect on the body. Taken internally
aloe is known to aid in the healing of stomach disorders, ulcers, hemorrhoids,
and all colon problems. In addition to its healing effect, aloe has been
known to restore balance to the colon, in that it will return the stools
to normal. It can also be helpful against problem conditions such as varicose
veins, skin and arthritis.
FEATURES OF OUR SUPPLEMENT
Our probiotic formula is unique in that it is stable at room temperature.
Typical Acidophilus products deteriorate very rapidly and must be stored
under refrigeration! Our formula is naturally microencapsulated, therefore
it Can be mixed with other nutrients in a formulation and can be combined
with antibiotics. A feature other acidophilus products do not have! Use
of our Acidophilus & Aloe supplement Maintains and returns the intestinal
flora to a healthier balance, thus keeping harmful bacteria in check.
Toxic wastes that have accumulated in the intestines are destroyed and
/ or eliminated from the body.
One Capsule provides:
• Lactobacillus Acidophilus 500 Million
• Aloe Vera Powder 200 mg
• FOS 25 mg
Acidophilus
Acidophilus is a nutritional supplement product, often added to milk
or sold as a capsule, which contains one or more of the following bacteria
which aid in digestion: -
Lactobacillus acidophilus (A)
Lactobacillus casei (C)
Lactobacillus bulgaricus
Bifidobacterium bifidum (B)
Streptococcus thermophilus
Acidophilus contains bacteria that have a symbiotic, or mutually beneficial,
relationship with the human stomach. It helps break down complex food
molecules and inhibits the growth of harmful bacteria. It is especially
useful for people with bacterial or yeast infections or digestive problems,
as well as people on antibiotics. Products of this type are generally
referred to as probiotics.
Eli Metchnikoff won a Nobel Prize in 1908 for demonstrating an apparent
link between Lactic Acid Bacteria (the ones included in Acidophilus) and
extended lifespan.
Aloe
Aloe is a genus of plants belonging to family Asphodelaceae, with about
400 species.
They grow in the drier parts of Africa, especially South Africa's Cape
Province, and in the mountains of tropical Africa.
They are succulent plants. Members of the closely allied genera Gasteria
and Haworthia, with a similar mode of growth, are also cultivated and
popularly known as aloes.
They are cultivated as ornamental plants, especially in public buildings
and gardens, for their stiff, rugged habit.
The plants are apparently stemless, bearing a rosette of large, thick,
fleshy leaves, or have a shorter or longer (sometimes branched) stem,
along which, or towards the end of which and its branches, the generally
fleshy leaves are borne.
The leaves are generally lance-shaped with a sharp apex and a spiny margin,
but vary in colour from grey to bright green and are sometimes striped
or mottled.
The rather small tubular yellow or red flowers are borne on simple or
branched leafless stems and are generally densely clustered.
The juice of the leaves of certain species yields aloes (see below).
In some cases, as in Aloe venenosa, the juice is poisonous. The plant
called American aloe, Agave americana, belongs to a different family,
Agavaceae.
Medicinal Uses
Aloes is a medicinal substance used as a purgative and produced from
various species of aloe, such as A. vera, vulgaris, socotrina, chinensis,
and perryi. Several kinds of aloes are distinguished in commerce--Barbadoes,
Socotrine, hepatic, Indian, and Cape aloes. The first two are those commonly
used for medicinal purposes. Aloes is the expressed juice of the leaves
of the plant. When the leaves are cut the juice flows out and is collected
and evaporated. After the juice has been obtained, the leaves are sometimes
boiled, to yield an inferior kind of aloes.
From these plants active principles termed aloins are extracted by water.
According to W. A. Shenstone, two classes are to be recognized: (1) nataloins,
which yield picric and oxalic acids with nitric acid, and do not give
a red coloration with nitric acid; and (2) barbaloins, which yield aloetic
acid (C7H2N3O5), chrysammic acid (C7H2N2O6), picric and oxalic acids with
nitric acid, being reddened by this reagent. This second group may be
divided into a-barbaloins, obtained from Barbadoes aloes, and reddened
in the cold, and b-barbaloins, obtained from Socotrine and Zanzibar aloes,
reddened by ordinary nitric acid only when warmed or by fuming acid in
the cold. Nataloin, 2C17H13O7·H2O, forms bright yellow scales,
melting at 212-222 ° barbaloin, C17H18O7, forms yellow prismatic crystals.
Aloes also contain a trace of volatile oil, to which its odour is due.
The dose is 2 to 5 grains, that of aloin being 1/2 to 2 grains. Aloes
can be absorbed from a broken surface and will then cause purging. When
given internally it increases the actual amount as well as the rate of
flow of the bile. It hardly affects the small intestine, but markedly
stimulates the muscular coat of the large intestine, causing purging in
about fifteen hours. There is hardly any increase in the intestinal secretion,
the drug being emphatically not a hydragogue cathartic. There is no doubt
that its habitual use may be a factor in the formation of haemorrhoids;
as in the case of all drugs that act powerfully on the lower part of the
intestine, without simultaneously lowering the venous pressure by causing
increase of secretion from the bowel. Aloes also tends to increase the
menstrual flow and therefore belongs to the group of emmenagogues. Aloin
is preferable to aloes for therapeutic purposes, as it causes less, if
any, pain. It is a valuable drug in many forms of constipation, as its
continual use does not, as a rule, lead to the necessity of enlarging
the dose. Its combined action on the bowel and the uterus is of especial
value in chlorosis, of which amenorrhoea is an almost constant symptom.
The drug is obviously contraindicated in pregnancy and when haemorrhoids
are already present. Many well-known patent medicines consist essentially
of aloes.
Drinks made from aloe pulp are popular in Asia, especially in Korea,
as commercial beverages, and as a tea additive.
The lign-aloes is quite different from the medicinal aloes. The word
is used in the Bible (Numbers 24:6), but as the trees usually supposed
to be meant by this word are not native in Syria, it has been suggested
that the Septuagint reading in which the word does not occur is to be
preferred. Lign-aloe is a corruption of the Latin lignum-aloe, a wood,
not a resin. Dioscorides refers to it as agallochon, a wood brought from
Arabia or India, which was odoriferous but with an astringent and bitter
taste. This may be Aquilaria agallochum, a native of East India and China,
which supplies the so-called eagle-wood or aloes-wood, which contains
much resin and oil.
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