Aloe is liliaceous perennial fleshy tropical herbaceous plant, and also can be called Longjiao, Luhui, Xiangdan, Youcong, Fanla, etc..There are at least more than 300 kinds of Aloe, but among them only 3 or 4 kinds have commercial value. At present, the kind of the most widely used in commercial way is American Aloe Barbadensis, Japanese Aloe Arborescence, Chinese Aloe Yuan-jiangensis, and Aloe Chinensis planted in seashore area of Southeast China.
Aloe is a worldwide popular natural plant, which has great potential in cosmetic, health care and medicine. It has been looked as the most hopeful health care food in the 21 century by FAO.

application of aloe in cosmetic
According to ancient record, two great Egyptian Empresses living in BC14th century and BC1st century, all have experience of using aloe to maintain their skin tone. It is said that Empress Yank Kwei Fei also used aloe to keep her beauty. So aloe have been a skin care article since the ancient time. In 1820 USA ranged it as skin care medicine. As aloe possesses varieties of efficacious elements which have the pharmaceutical efficacy and skin maintaining effect, so it has great function in softening skin, firming skin, inhibiting acne, age pigment, freckle, roughness, diminishing inflammation, stopping itch, haircare, skincare, etc.. That is why aloe is widely used in cosmetic. At present European cosmetic market, 80% of the medicine, healthcare food, cosmetic are made of aloe, and the main function of which those products make advantage are – (1)aloe includes varieties of carbohydrates such as amylase, amino acid, organic acid, and they are natural Moisturizing; (2)diminishing stomatitis often made in healthcare toothpaste and gargle water; (3)aloe includes varieties of nutrient ingredients, which is made into nutrient cream, latex, skincare liquor, etc.; (4)aloe has nutrient efficacy on haircare usully made into harecare products.

application on health care and food
aloe has a high healthy value in eating, having good effect on gastrointestinal care, antipyretic, detoxification, cell growth, and wound healing. Aloe is rich in amino acids, enzymes, active amyloses, and these nutrients is very good to human body. And aloe also has strong power in improving immune system, increasing IL-3, detoxification, removing toxic free radicals, relieving constipation, preventing colonitis, reducing serum lipids, blood sugar and blood pressure, improving circulation system, preventing digestion system disease, increasing appetite, enhancing sleeping quality, improving health, making people energetic. So there are many kinds of healthcare products, which mainly are, aloe beverage, aloe candy, aloe alcoholic drink, aloe cake, aloe dish, aloe dumpling etc.. Aloe acidophilus milk is very salable product at foreign market, and recently in China there are also many similar products pushed to the native market by many large-scale manufacturers. And meanwhile there are also some healthcare products made of aloe found to be sold in market. As deeply the knowledge of consumers to aloe, I believe our aloe industry will have a very good promise in future.

application of aloe in pharmacology
The traditional application of aloe in pharmacology is lapactic function, and this function can be also found in many countries’ pharmaceutical works.  Rhein is the cheaf ingredient in lapactic function.
Recently, the study on aloe’s ingredient and pharmacologic function has got a big breakthrough. According to Dr. W. Winters of Texas University, US. There are at least 140 different ingredients in aloe, ingredient of controlling cell growth and splitting, anti-infection, stimulant of leucocyte and immunocyte growth, enhancing wound healing, etc., so it is also recognized as “green medicine plant”. Japanese Dr. Suzuki has found Alomicin in aloe, which is effective in anti-carcinogenic and detoxification, antibacterial, anti-mold function, Locutin A which can be of good help to scald, bum, and ulcer, and Alocullcin which have not only inflammation but also enhance the ability of organic tissue regrowing and repairing. Why aloe’s pharmaceutical function is so wide is its richness in active substance.

According to the statement of all aloe’s pharmaceutical function by Ms. Dai Yueqin from are – (1)anti-carcinogenic (2)anti-radiation (3)protect liver from experimental lesions. (4)protect stomach from experimental ulcer (5)anti-bacterial, inflammation diminishing, and wound healing (6)enhancing immunity (7)anti-toxoid.

Aloe has a wide application in clinic use according to written by Ms Liu Li, it can cure acute/chronic gastritis, duodenal ulcer, gastric ulcer, liver disease, constipation, stopping diarrhea, hemorrhoids, cholecystitis, bronchia athma, acute/chronic bronchitis, rheum, hypertension, low blood pressure, cerebrovascular, coronary heart disease, diabetes, menopause syndrome, gastritis, cystitis, urethritis, menieres, rheumatoid arthritis, neuralgia, insomnia, burn, insect-sting, extremity ringworm, irritability rhinitis, extremity chap, kibe, stomatitis, tumour, excessive drinking, etc.

Hangzhou Pollen Youither Bioscience Co., Ltd. is the largest aloe-processing enterprise. Now we have completed the first stage improvement project which is able to dispose fresh aloe leaves more than 10,000 ton, and meanwhile possesses facilities for fresh leave disposing, extracting, low temperature condensing, spray drying, vacuum drying, freeze drying. We have nealy 1,000 acre non-polluting standard aloe planting base. Variety of goods and specialty for customer’s requirements has gained good evaluation from customers native and abroad.