Aloe Vera became part of my life over a decade ago when I actually bought the plant itself as an indoor plant not for decoration only, but as well for health purposes.
You see the moment I entered the age of puberty, and my feminity began to manifest itself monthly as my Heavenly had designed my womanhood to be; I was glowing month after month.
In the journey of glowing, I would be faced with a genuine cross; Dysmenorrhea.
See I was never the type who gets moody during my cycle. I don't become upset or cranky like some women do. However, in my case I could eat things that were too sweet, I would have severe cramps. I had a severe case of Dysmenorrhea. Now I say 'I had' because I was miraculously healed by the Eucharist years later while at Holy Mass. However, the journey from the carrying of my cross to the healing and after the development of a new regiment was very interesting. Fortunately or unfortunately for me, it was often when my cycle was near that I was tempted to have sweets, outside of Brown Sugar in my porridges or Honey that was a routine I had since childhood. It might be subtle, but when you pay close attention to my youtube videos on MEGALUNEI TV, you'll notice in my recipes that I often use these two in recipes. And ... when baking goodies like my Jewish Bread, the closest to white sugar is ... a sugar I discovered recently made of SUGARCANE... And anything sugarcane is my best friend, because I grew eating lots of sugarcane, cracking it in between my teeths. I could cover Sugarcane in an other blog, if it is of interest to anyone. Just let me know in the comment section.
With a severe case of Dismenorrhea,going to work at times with severe pain was awful.Worse, I was constantly at the pharmacy to buy some pain killers. When I realised that my body was literally saturated with these pain killers, and were not really responding anymore; you see with pain killers, or commonly known here as (Advil, Tylenol), there is only a certain number that you can take per day. Well, I began to think about other options, meanwhile praying whatever my lips, my mind, my body willed to lift to God in prayer. I must admit that these were days of constant offerings, as I had learned from some of the saints to offer my sufferings for my own salvation & that of souls. Lo behold, such acts of offerings in my case were often incredible spiritual pain killers... interestingly enough! So my grandmother was often coming to mind, and I decided I would research what plants were good fo my situation... I could not ask my maternal Granny since plants in my native land for such were not necessarily in Canada, but having instilled in me the love for natural remedies. I started to investigate, and ALOE VERA was the first of many to come into my life.
Although ALOE VERA is great at alleviating the pain, not alleviating the pain, but restoring your hormonal cycle by combating the pains as some write, don't do what I did... I was taking it (the gel) raw when chopping it bit by bit from the plant, and extracting the gel from within the skin. It is very bitter, but it works, and whenever I took that I didn't have to take any pharmaceutical product.
Now, the proper way others recommend to take handle Aloe Vera in Phytotherapy is to mix the gel extract with something like juice or a drink of some sort. There are many reasons; among them is the risk of being subject to some of the plants' side effects , because the measurement of each intake is not clearly defined.
You see, for me in those days, when I was comparing the pharmaceutical products to the portions I was taking, I knew that whatever the side effect may be ... it could definitely not be worse than these chronic pains... Well, eventually, I got my own warning from the plant. The side effect I faced was ear ringing... Since I knew about it, the moment it started I modified my intake appr😉ach slowly but surely...
Years have past since my healing, but ALOE VERA has not passed, and Ive tried different methods. I have taken it as juices...
These days when I go to the grocery store or to the dollar store, I get it as a drink; Aloe WATER (something a sister in Christ introduces me too, when I shared how much I love Aloe Vera...)
Now as much as ALOE VER does wonders within the body, it is also often usen for skincare and haircare... At times, we get ALOE VERA gifts when our family does grocery online, or as gifts from neighbors such as this fine... Irish Spring ALOE VERA SOAP...
I am always surprised whenever such gifts arrive. In my Black Natural Hair community, many of the women have showed their tesimonials of ALOE VERA's wonders on their hair, and their daughters' hair.... from the making to the application... Here is an example of a little girl & her mother on using ALOE VERA...
I myself haven't embark on using it for my beautiful black natural hair yet... When it comes to pass, it will definitely be on MEGALUNEI TV, however, I have purchased Shampoo / Conditioner's brands (such as TRES EMME, my current shampoo) that have ALOE VERA in it...
Now it is not just not just African Women or Women of African Descent who use it, there are many other women in my Women Outreach Ministries group who have used Aloe Vera, but not as many who trends toward my youtube channel as my African Sisters...
Thank you for your time... Pax Christi!
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