Aloe vera gel fails wound-healing test - Postscripts…

Nutrition Health Review, Wntr, 1992

ALOE VERA GEL FAILS WOUND-HEALING TEST. Because aloe vera cream rates highly as a skin moisturizer and skin softener, advocates of the compound have been recommending its use in wound healing. A recent medical study found it to be ineffective compared to standard methods, according to a report in Obstetric and Gynecology (7/91).

Twenty-one women with wound complications that required healing by second intention after either cesarean delivery of laparotomy for gynecologic were included in the study.

The wounds in the patients recieving standard treatment without aloe vera gel healed in a period of 53 days, and the wounds of the patients who were treated with aloe vera gel healed in a mean of 83 days. The study was terminated early because aloe vera caused an obvious delay in wound healing.