Endurance aloe from antiquity to surprise and delight people. Plants even ascribed magical properties. It was believed, for example, that it contributes to a long and prosperous life for the inhabitants of the house. To this end over the entrance to the new house hung a branch aloe (this custom existed in Assyria and Babylon in 2000 BC). And how could one not believe in the special power plants if the plants hanging from the houses lived without water for several years and even bloomed! As a medicinal aloe has been used in ancient Egypt - as part of funds for embalming the dead. In Egypt, it was thought that the aloe keeps the beauty and youth, women, and the pharaohs believed that it is the elixir of longevity. Details about the medicinal use of Aloe can learn from the writings of ancient authors - Dioscorides and Pliny. Thus, the broad application of the juice plant Dioscorides wrote: "condenses and dries the wound, it excites a dream ... zarubtsovyvaet wounds of the body, mouth, genitals, stops hair fall on your head ... It cleans and removes bile jaundice, a good remedy for burns and tumors ...". Later on the diversity of medical use of aloe juice in their work reported a prominent Roman physician and naturalist Galen, which included aloe in the "elixir for long life." Very interesting description of the useful properties of aloe and the history of its therapeutic use and proliferation, has left us an Armenian scientist and physician of the XV century Amirdov-lat Amasiatsy in his book "Strike for the ignorant: Aloe is dark red, like the liver, and easily crumbles. Has desiccants properties. Helps with melancholy. If you smudge his head, then kill the lice. Do not give your hair fall out. Helps with ulcers in the nose. Sharpens vision and eliminates the itch. And if you lubricate the body, helps with asthma, asthma and stomach cramps. Clears the liver, opens blockages and helps with jaundice, and also dissolves the yellow bile and phlegm. Displays worms. Heals ulcers. If we accept with butter, then remove eczema and dryness. The plant itself looks like a lily, a flower is also similar to a lily flower and the leaves are thicker and larger than hers. They contain moisture, are flatter than a sheet of a lily, and lean back a little. Gegianos said that he dissolves the yellow bile. Dioskoritos said that helps the patient with jaundice. If mixed with pure honey and eat it, then dissolve the yellow bile and phlegm. It must be mixed with drugs, so little hurt or not hurt at all. He cures fresh and old wounds. Heals those ulcers that appear on the genitals of men and women. Useful for eye ulcers and eczema. If you rub with vinegar and rose oil and lubricate the head and forehead, then soothe headaches. And if you rub in the wine and lubricate the hair, do not give them drop out and strengthen. A Dioskoritos also said that he had heard from the ancient teachers of medicine and saw that it dissolves the black bile and helps with melancholy. Masurchue said that it strengthens the liver, warms and strengthens the stomach, strengthens the mind. Very useful for pain in bones and gout. And cleans the stomach from the yellow bile. Aloe is one of the best medicines for the stomach. And it happens that it is within one day soothes the pain, appetizing, and eliminates the weakness of the stomach. Note that the outstanding healing properties of aloe and said Abu Ali Ibn Sina. On the same therapeutic effect of aloe healer, wrote this: "... with honey is applied to the dent ... heals caries, and the wine is applied when hair loss, and this prevents its loss; removes excess bile ... helps with headaches , is useful in ulcers, melancholy, from pains in the stomach, opens the blockage in the liver and jaundice stops ... it is difficult to fit in healing ulcers, helps with pain in the joints, the solution is applied to the fault of the speakers pochechuynym bumps and cracks in the anus to stop flowing blood. Another medieval healer, Odo of Mena, in his book "On the properties of herbs" also focuses on the properties of aloe: Head he clears of reflux, stomach and members Gently through the stomach cleansing damaging moisture; It clears icteric, useful and liver mineral resources. Fresh wound from decay, entered into it, saves This herb powder, and it is drained, heals. Ways to get juice in different countries were different. The most ancient, for example, is as follows. The large leaves of the plant were cut, laid out on the edges of the prepared hole cut down and left. Within hours, the juice flowed spontaneously and accumulate in the pit, after which he left in the sun. After a long period of time the juice thickens greatly, but this mass is further evaporated to complete removal of water. This process was very lengthy and could take several months.