unscientific clinical trials
What are the chances that Aloe Vera is a natural pain reliever? Lol I know that sounds like an obvious statement to anybody who's used it for treatment of burns... but that's for skin, right?
As a tall, active 26-year-old guy, my body has its small share of joint problems--mainly chronic neck tension (from posture and sleeping position problems having to do with being tall), and mild pain in my right wrist (from past injuries--although I was miraculously healed from the worst of it; I'm more than willing to share that story). Recently on a random hunch I decided to try rubbing Aloe Vera on my neck to see if it would feel better, and while I was doing that I got some on my wrist too, and it felt good. I can't explain it very well--but somehow I feel like it alleviated a lot of the tension in my neck, and initiated some sort of healing feeling in my wrist (whether the healing feeling is associated with actual repairing of irritated tissues will remain to be seen). It sounds a bit crazy to me, and there's a better than average chance that it's some sort of placebo effect where positive thinking in my unconscious mind has an effect, or maybe just the act of rubbing some sort of evaporating gel does the trick (a form of massage?) and it doesn't matter what's in the gel? But there's also a chance that some chemical in the aloe gel (it also has chamomile and comfrey in it, for whatever that's worth, plus a few other unpronounceables, but it's 98% aloe) actually seeps in through the skin and acts as a topical medicine of some kind. I'm giving it a try. I'd be curious what anybody else thinks.
As a tall, active 26-year-old guy, my body has its small share of joint problems--mainly chronic neck tension (from posture and sleeping position problems having to do with being tall), and mild pain in my right wrist (from past injuries--although I was miraculously healed from the worst of it; I'm more than willing to share that story). Recently on a random hunch I decided to try rubbing Aloe Vera on my neck to see if it would feel better, and while I was doing that I got some on my wrist too, and it felt good. I can't explain it very well--but somehow I feel like it alleviated a lot of the tension in my neck, and initiated some sort of healing feeling in my wrist (whether the healing feeling is associated with actual repairing of irritated tissues will remain to be seen). It sounds a bit crazy to me, and there's a better than average chance that it's some sort of placebo effect where positive thinking in my unconscious mind has an effect, or maybe just the act of rubbing some sort of evaporating gel does the trick (a form of massage?) and it doesn't matter what's in the gel? But there's also a chance that some chemical in the aloe gel (it also has chamomile and comfrey in it, for whatever that's worth, plus a few other unpronounceables, but it's 98% aloe) actually seeps in through the skin and acts as a topical medicine of some kind. I'm giving it a try. I'd be curious what anybody else thinks.