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Aloe vera · Ghritkumari

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Cut aloe vera leaf showing inner gel

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Aloe vera · Ghritkumari

Aloe vera

Ghritkumari is used in traditional digestive preparations, with the exact Aloe material determining its role.

Medicinal & Wellness Uses

  • Digestive tradition: Included in Ayurvedic oral recipes for digestive and bowel care.
  • Bowel-care tradition: Specified oral Aloe materials are used in traditional bowel-care preparations.

Standalone Use vs. Formulated Use

Using the Herb Alone

Skin gel, whole leaf, latex and concentrated extracts are not interchangeable. Do not substitute a household Aloe gel for a named oral ingredient.

How Our Formulation Combines Ingredients

The capsule and syrup recipes combine their specified Aloe materials with other oral ingredients. The label identifies the material and amount to use within the complete product.

Purpose in Our Products

Find in 3 preparationsDard Haran Capsule ↗

Each capsule containsIncluded for the oral recipe’s digestive dimension
Aloe vera accompanies Sonth, Haritaki and the other ingredients in the complete capsule.

Arshharan Syrup ↗

Each 10 ml contains extracts derived fromIncluded in the digestive and bowel-care recipe
Ghritkumari joins the syrup’s other botanicals. Its printed quantity refers to the material used to make the extract.

Arshharan Capsules ↗

Each 500 mg capsule contains, as printed on the supplied panel.Included for the oral bowel-care combination
The label lists Aloe extract as Kastha Satva. This specified material joins the other capsule ingredients and is not relabelled as skin gel.

Directions and care

Avoid oral Aloe supplements during pregnancy or breastfeeding. Seek professional advice with medicines or if cramps or diarrhoea develop. Do not replace the labelled product with raw latex or a homemade leaf preparation.

Inner-leaf gel is distinct from aloe latex and unspecified extracts.

Sources & photo creditNCCIH: Aloe vera — usefulness and safety ↗Traditional use ↗Source reference ↗

Rae Allen · CC BY 2.0

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Composition photo: Divya Chinnasamy · CC0 1.0

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