Aloe Vera juice...

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...is what was perscribed for me to help ease a...errr...digestive problem I have, all I can say is that it would have to be one of the worst things I have ever tasted, even when mixed with a huge glass of orange and mango juice you can still taste it...:shudder: Whats even scarier is that on the bottle, they've printed "New and improved flavour", I doubt it could be any worse :vomit:

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Aloe Vera has some wonderful properties and is used quite a lot nowadays and for different stuff not only digestive health.

Yes I know, it is an excellent moisturiser and it can be used to treat burns among many other things. It is truely a wonder plant...still taste crap though :-P

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Would you say it is like swigging a bottle of liquid earwax?

Having never tasted earwax, I wouldn't know, however, just to answer your question, I'll be sure to stick my finger in my ear and have a taste...


edit...nope, Aloe Vera juice tastes far worse :-P

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@all

I suffer from IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome), if I ingest somthing that irritates my bowel the muscles begin contracting as the food passes through, it is quite painful. Last week I must have really upset it, because I spent the whole week feeling rather unwell, since I've been downing the Aloe Vera juice, I've felt a whole heap better.

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I must try some of that, I have a mildish form of IBS.

Thats what catagory I normally fall under, I eat something my bowel doesn't like, my guts rumble, I feel a bit off colour and I get terrible flatulence (great for Dutch Ovens), then a few hours later its over. However, this bout was different, it just wouldn't break, even after a 24 hour fast.

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KennyR wrote:
*scratches head*

I don't have any digestive problems. I don't even get indigestion or heartburn. And that's not because I eat lots of roughage, or special fibre, or probiotic drinks, or aloe vera...because I don't.

But I eat meals that are so spicy that most of you wouldn't be able to take a spoonful without finding it hard to breathe (well, except Karlos ). Maybe that's the secret.

Sounds like your digestive system suffers a form of Shell Shock :lol:

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Cyberus wrote:
I went through a period of having dodgy guts, and having recently read an article about modern bread manufacture methods, and how they basically suck, I tried a week without bread, believe it or not (not easy to do actually) and I'm feeling a lot better for it and have been off bread ever since. Hard to believe but this faux diagnosis I applied has seemed to have worked.

Of course, I'm no health expert, but it may be worth trying to eliminate certain things from your diet. I have a friend who's a nutritionist, and he says that mild intolerances to, e.g. gluten, are quite common.

Was that refering only to mass produced bread, ie. SunnyCrust etc., or did it include bread from the local bakery?

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@Vincent

You may want to ask for a camera up the other end, a painless procedure (primarily because your asleep) that may find something not'quite'rite down there. The prep for the procedure isn't pleasent, but it is very reassuring. To be honest, the only thing I was worried about was the doctor deciding to take advantage of my exposed backside :-P

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Oh, heh, in answer to your question. No, locally baked, or supermarket baked bread is just the same (at least in the UK) since almost all places buy the dough or yeast all premixed, and as always seems to be the way, there's only three major bakeries that seem to make all of the bread.

Nope, the bakers downunder are still up at 3am baking away until the afternoon, and they make their own dough, my uncle has a bakery and I am friendly with the baker around the corner from where I work. Even supermarkets make their own dough, a few years back I used to work in the store room at a major supermarket and I remember having to move huge pallets of flour.

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Because they don't really know what's wrong with me we've all just called it IBS for lack of a better word. It's as close as they can diagnose it and I do have some of the symptoms.

In order for it to be IBS, the problem must be coming from your bowel, so a colonoscopy would be a good idea.

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Cyberus wrote:

Fair enough, I stand corrected. But the article I read in the newspapere seemed to suggest otherwise...

Not necessarily, if the bakers get their flour from the same place the major manufacturers get theirs, then the bakers bread is no better for you, thats what I understood from the link you post previously. However, from what I read in that link, the bread I get from the bakery does fit in with what they describe as healthy bread, ie. it doesn't last very long, its quite heavy, it isn't bright white and it tastes good.

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Karlos wrote:

Cyberus wrote:

By the by, I liked Manchester as a city, but it don't 'alf rain!!!

I don't know what you mean... ;-)

Colourblind paradise :lol: :lol: :lol:

Edit...anybody got the number for Coolio's agent :lol:

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@asian1

Thanks for those links, I might have to take a closer look at Aloe Vera capsules as a long term option :-)

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Sorry, but Aloe Vera seems to be nothing but quackery. Promoted mosty by the hippie greeny sorts. The type who also tell you that their herbal remedies cure AIDS and Cancer.

I wouldn't say that, as it seems to have helped me, besides it was my doctor who suggested it, and I wouldn't exactly catagorise him as one of the "hippie greeny sorts".

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On a side note, Tea Tree is also very good as an antiseptic. Nothing hippy or greeny there...

I used a Tea Tree Oil based ointment to treat pimples when I was a teenager, worked great. In fact, I still use a few natural remedies on a daily basis. I use Ginko for my circulation (the circulation to my feet sucks) and Glucosamine for my joints (I have terrible knee's from playing soccer for 10 years) and I'm certainly not a "hippy".