Origin

Jamaica

Folk medicinal uses

This species yields the Barbados or Curacao aloes of commerce. Despite, or perhaps on account of. Its unpleasant smell and bitter taste the plant is much esteemed in Jamaican peasant medicine. A small piece of the leaf is boiled to make tea for biliousness and colds. For colds the peeled leaf is cut up and steeped in proof rum, half a wineglassful being taken in the morning for several days and followed the next day with a dose of salts and senna. The split leaf is applied to wounds and tied on for headaches. As a purgative dose the slime may be scraped out and beaten up with an egg. Similar uses are made of aloe species by various African tribes.

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Origin

Jamaica

Folk medicinal uses

Uses of aloes already recorded for Jamaica are found in Cuba. Dominican Republic and among the

Mayas. It has also been found 01 value in the treatment of X-ray burns.

1) Asprey, G.F; Phylis Thornton/ Medicinal plants of Jamaica. Parts I & II. – p. 16.

2) Asprey, G.F; Phylis Thornton/ Medicinal plants of Jamaica. Parts III & IV. – p. 60.