Unremarkable in appearance, aloe, or agave, has many healing properties. The plant allows you to provide first aid in many situations. Juice also has useful properties. With proper storage, the concentration of valuable substances increases. How to save aloe juice at home, you can learn from the article.
Benefit
Considering the topic of how to save aloe juice at home, you should familiarize yourself with its useful properties:
- Anti-inflammatory, wound healing and bactericidal effect.
- Used for inflammatory processes of the skin: purulent wounds, burns, trophic ulcers.
- Improves appetite and improves digestion.
- Helps with gastritis, colitis, stomach ulcers.
- A mixture of juice with honey and lard is effective in treating tuberculosis.
- Constipation treatment.
Fresh and condensed juice, as well as leaves have medicinal properties. But the value of the plant is manifested only from the age of 3. Fortreatments apply a he althy plant that is free of diseases and insects.
In the viscous juice, which is in the leaves of aloe, there are many vitamins and trace elements. It contains vitamins B and E, provitamin A. The juice is also rich in vitamin C, amino acids, phytoncides, polysaccharides, salicylic acid, magnesium, zinc, manganese, selenium, and iron. It is this composition that provides the beneficial effect of the juice.
You should not harvest raw materials from the agave, which was treated with chemicals. Aloe that grew in an environmentally negative area does not have the same medicinal properties as a he althy plant. Leaves and juice are used externally and internally. Harvesting is allowed for the future, and for this you should know how to save freshly squeezed aloe juice.
Which plant is suitable
In nature, aloe grows in Africa, on the Arabian Peninsula. In Russia, it is known as a houseplant. Usually it is aloe arborescens, aloe true or aloe vera. The first and third types are just suitable for obtaining juice. Three-year-old leaves can be used in the treatment, but the concentration of valuable components there will be less.
Sheet selection
Not all trees and leaves have useful properties. To obtain juice, it is better to take a plant aged 2-4 years. We need bottom, fleshy sheets that are at least 15 cm long.
Before you learn how to save aloe juice at home, you need to cut it correctly. Then the tool will have a high value. The cut is made according tothe following rules:
- watering is stopped in 2 weeks so that the leaves have a high concentration of nutrients;
- 3 days before the procedure, the shrub must be installed in a dark place;
- leaves are cut with a sharp knife at the base of the trunk;
- raw materials for juice are wrapped in dark thick paper and kept in the refrigerator for at least 2 days, preferably 2 weeks.
Dry, damaged leaves are removed to keep the plant he althy. Only if these rules are followed will a useful remedy be obtained.
Creating juice
How to store aloe juice at home so that it retains the maximum amount of valuable components? To get the plant elixir, it is important to go through the following steps:
- After keeping the raw material in the refrigerator, it is crushed with a knife or a blender.
- The mass is poured with cold boiled water in the amount of 1 part of aloe to 3 parts of water.
- Cover with a lid and leave for 2-3 hours in a dark place.
- It is necessary to squeeze the mass through gauze, and the resulting product is poured into a glass container.
Juice should not be diluted before use, it can be used. To get a concentrated product, the dilution step is skipped.
How to keep aloe juice for a long time? Fresh product cannot be stored for a long time. It is poured into a dark glass bottle, stored in the refrigerator for no more than 3 days. Is it possible and how to save aloe juice in other ways? Preservation with the use of alcohol, vegetableoils, honey.
Preservation
How to keep aloe juice at home in this way? For long-term storage, conservation is required, which is done by hand. You will need medical alcohol and fresh juice (1: 1). Filtered juice or pulp is poured into a sterilized container (made of dark glass) with sterile lids. The lids are closed and the container is placed in the refrigerator.
If the extract is purchased from a pharmacy. It is stored in a dark, cool place. After opening the product is placed in the refrigerator. Do not allow exposure to air, as oxidation destroys the bactericidal effect of the extract.
With honey
There is another option for preservation without alcohol - sweet. Aloe juice and liquid honey are mixed in equal amounts. Products are placed in a dark glass container and put in the refrigerator. You can use after 4 days.
Condensed - boiled and evaporated aloe juice - sabur - another method of preserving healing properties. Bars or powder are placed in dark glass jars, sealed in an airtight way. A tincture is made from raw materials.
With butter
How to save aloe juice for future use in another way? The procedure is as follows:
- Leaves should be refrigerated for 12 days.
- Then they make juice.
- It is mixed with castor oil in equal amounts.
- Storage is allowed in the refrigerator in an airtight container made of opaque glass.
This ointment is used externally to treatskin inflammatory processes. Although the remedy has a positive effect, it is better to consult a doctor before using it.
When storing aloe juice in a warm room and exposed to light, it loses its valuable properties. This product should not be used. Leaves lose their value a month after they are separated from the plant.
Pharmacy
In pharmacies you can find a ready-made alcohol solution, which is sold in 50 and 100 ml. This tool also has a regenerative, adaptogenic, general tonic effect. You can buy it without a doctor's prescription.
Vials should be stored below 15 degrees. The shelf life of aloe juice purchased from a pharmacy is 2 years from the date of production.
Application
Aloe juice is used for various medicinal purposes. But it is most effective when:
- moisturizing facial skin and treating acne;
- treatment of a cold - by instillation into the nose and gargling;
- performing compresses from bruises, wounds, sore joints;
- alkalization of the body and strengthening of immunity (internal use);
- treatment and hair restoration (rinsing);
- ingestion for treatment;
- treatment of gastrointestinal diseases.
Only some people may have an intolerance to aloe. This usually appears as:
- red spots, rashes on the skin;
- severe itching;
- strong nasal discharge;
- sneeze;
- intestinal problems.
Whenthese symptoms, you should urgently stop using aloe-based remedies, and also consult a doctor. But most people have a positive reaction to the juice from this plant.
How leaves are stored
You can harvest not only juice, but also leaves. Since the beneficial properties are destroyed by light, storage is allowed only in a dark place. To increase the shelf life of the product, a tightly closed container is required.
Leaves can be dried, and then the term of application increases to 2 years. Storage of this product is allowed at 18 degrees, but before that it is wrapped in cloth or paper bags.
Thus, aloe juice is a remedy that is used for external and internal use. It is important to learn how to prepare it. And thanks to proper storage, it will be possible to preserve valuable properties.
