The mysteries of the awesome active ingredient in Aloe vera has been on the agenda for quite some time. Isolating this mystery has been quite a long time coming. In "The Miracle in Aloe Vera", Dr. Neecie Moore gives an interesting account.
'In the late 1930's, the first serious, scientific attempt to identify the active ingredient in Aloe vera was published (Rose & Parks, 1939). This study, and many that followed, failed to isolate the specific active ingredient(s) responsible for the plant's medicinal benefits. This failure followed the Aloe plant for another 50 years. However, like many mytsteries of life and medicine, clues as to the location of the right path began to surface.........
Research conducted in the 1950's set the stage. Ikawa and Niemann (1951) began isolating compounds in Aloe. They determined that the Aloe gel consisted of mucopolysaccharides (glucose, mannose, uronic acid, and rhamnose). The Niemann work was basic research, intended to simply discover what was present. Although analytical chemistry is not of particular interest to a layman, the major contribution of this work was that there active ingredients in Aloe, and that further study was definitely needed.
The first sign, "This Is the way!" had been tacked to a tree on the right path.'
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