Aloe vera (filtered leaf/inner leaf juice)

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            | scent=Characteristic, not aromatic}}
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| description='''Plants:''' Perennials; stems 1.5 M. (5°) high, woody, rough from leaf-remnants; leaves glaucous-green, often with darker spots, thick, succulent, bayonet-shaped, margin with reddish spines or serratures; flowers racemose or spicate, tubular, yellowish, orange-red; stamens 6, unequal, 3 longer than corolla.
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'''Insippated Juice:''' [...] (''A. vera''): ''Curaçao'', blackish-brown, opaque masses, fracture uneven, waxy, resinous; 60 p.c. soluble in cold water (purplish-red); with nitric acid--deep red solution.
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| description=Powder [''A. vera''] reddish-brown, ... microscopically (in almond oil) ... reddish-brown irregular, angular more or less opaque fragments.
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Latest revision as of 17:17, 9 June 2015

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Contents

Nomenclature

Aloe vera (L.) Burm. f.   Liliaceae  
Standardized common name (English): aloe vera

Botanical Voucher Specimen

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Aloe vera Tropicos 100002694.jpg
Source: MOBOT, Tropicos.org[1]

Aloe vera Tropicos 18259.jpg
Source: MOBOT, Tropicos.org[2]

Organoleptic Characteristics

  

Scent Characteristic, not aromatic

Source: Culbreth, D. (1917) A Manual of Materia Media and Pharmacology, 6th ed. [3]

Macroscopic Characteristics

Plants: Perennials; stems 1.5 M. (5°) high, woody, rough from leaf-remnants; leaves glaucous-green, often with darker spots, thick, succulent, bayonet-shaped, margin with reddish spines or serratures; flowers racemose or spicate, tubular, yellowish, orange-red; stamens 6, unequal, 3 longer than corolla.

Insippated Juice: [...] (A. vera): Curaçao, blackish-brown, opaque masses, fracture uneven, waxy, resinous; 60 p.c. soluble in cold water (purplish-red); with nitric acid--deep red solution.

Source: Culbreth, D. (1917) A Manual of Materia Media and Pharmacology, 6th ed. [4]

Microscopic Characteristics

Powder [A. vera] reddish-brown, ... microscopically (in almond oil) ... reddish-brown irregular, angular more or less opaque fragments.

Source: Culbreth, D. (1917) A Manual of Materia Media and Pharmacology, 6th ed. [5]


High Performance Thin Layer Chromatographic Identification

Supplementary Information

Sources

  1. ↑ MOBOT, Tropicos.org http://www.tropicos.org/Image/100002694
  2. ↑ MOBOT, Tropicos.org http://www.tropicos.org/Image/18259
  3. ↑ Culbreth, D. (1917) A Manual of Materia Media and Pharmacology, 6th ed.
  4. ↑ Culbreth, D. (1917) A Manual of Materia Media and Pharmacology, 6th ed.
  5. ↑ Culbreth, D. (1917) A Manual of Materia Media and Pharmacology, 6th ed.
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