Herbal Therapy: Aloe Vera, The Whole Food Medicine Exhibited Anti Hypertensive Effects

By Kyle J. Norton

The use of plants for healing purposes has been predated long before the existence of  modern medicine. Herbal plants have formed a fundamental source for conventional medicine in discovery of single ingredient medication, including aspirin (from willow bark), quinine (from cinchona bark), and morphine (from the opium poppy)......

Good news to people with hypertension, Aloe Vera may be a potential and therapeutic agent for lowering high blood pressure a renowned University study suggested.

Aloe Vera is species of succulent plant in the genus Aloe, belonging to the Family Xanthorrhoeaceae, native to Sudan. It has become very popular for commercial cultivation due to enormous health benefits. Aloe vera has also been used in herbal medicine in treating many kinds of disease, including wound, burn healing, minor skin infections, sebaceous cysts, diabetes, anhe d elevated of cholesterol, etc.

Hypertension is a condition of abnormal high blood pressure, leading to symptoms of headaches, shortness of breath or nosebleeds......

According to the Hamdard University ,aloeemodin, aloin A, a chemical compound found in Aloe Vera showed to express hypotensive effects by lower mean arterial blood pressure by 26 %, 52 %, and 79 % in the corresponding doses of 0.5, 1, and 3 mg/kg in animal study.

Dr. Saleem R, the lead author of the study suggested that Aloeemodin has emerged as a potent hypotensive agent in current pharmacological investigation.

In a total of In a double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover study, healthy, Aloe-emodin, another major chemical compound\ inhibited vascular smooth muscle stiffness, a condition in the development of hypertensio, involved cell in support structural and biochemical and interior surface of blood vessels.

In hypertension, increased large-artery stiffness is partly due to intrinsic mechanical properties of vascular smooth muscle cells.

More importantly, a smooth muscle cells derived from hypertensive and control rats study, treatment of Aloe-emodin also significantly reduced hypertension by improving elastic value of vascular smooth muscle cell , through it effects on vascular smooth muscle cell cytoskeletal proteins in regulated function of cell division.

Other researchers suggested that the anti hypertensive properties of Aloe-emodin may be a result of inhibition of tonic tension and regulated apoptosis, pro- and anti-apoptotic activities on vascular smooth muscle cells.

With all the information collected,  Aloe Vera may have an anti hypertensive effect in regulated protein in cell production on vascular smooth muscle which is a main cause of high blood pressure,but more precised understanding may be necessary to reassess this pharmaceutical value.

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Kyle J. Norton, Master of Nutrients
Health article writer and researcher; Over 10.000 articles and research papers have been written and published on line, including world wide health, ezine articles, article base, healthblogs, selfgrowth, best before it's news, the karate GB daily, etc.,.
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Sources
(1) Hypotensive effect of chemical constituents from Aloe barbadensis by Saleem R1, Faizi S, Siddiqui BS, Ahmed M, Hussain SA, Qazi A, Dar A, Ahmad SI, Qazi MH, Akhtar S, Hasnain SN.(PubMed)
(2) Increased vascular smooth muscle cell stiffness: a novel mechanism for aortic stiffness in hypertension by Sehgel NL1, Zhu Y, Sun Z, Trzeciakowski JP, Hong Z, Hunter WC, Vatner DE, Meininger GA, Vatner SF.(PubMed)
(3) Emodin inhibits tonic tension through suppressing PKCδ-mediated inhibition of myosin phosphatase in rat isolated thoracic aorta by Lim KM1, Kwon JH, Kim K, Noh JY, Kang S, Park JM, Lee MY, Bae ON, Chung JH.(PubMed)