Int J Tissue React. 1998 ; 20(4): 115-8.

The therapeutic potential of Aloe Vera in tumor-bearing rats.

Corsi MM, Bertelli AA, Gaja G, Fulgenzi A, Ferrero ME.

Institute of General Pathology, Medical Faculty, University of Milan, Italy.

Aloe Vera has been claimed to contain several important therapeutic properties, including anticancer effects. The effect of Aloe Vera administration was studied on a pleural tumor in rat. Growth of Yoshida AH-130 ascite hepatoma cells injected (2 x 10(5) in 0.1 ml) into pleura of male inbred Fisher rats was evaluated at different times (7th and 14th days). Data show that the use of Aloe Vera proved a therapeutic method, and that the present experimental model could be useful in the study of other therapeutics treatments in vivo.