A Study By Dr. Terry Pulse, M.D. Of 29 AIDS Patients
Journal of Advancement in Medicine Winter 1990, Volume 3, No. 4

Patients took 1200 mg of the active ingredient in Aloe vera juice daily as well as nutrient supplements. We quote directly from Dr. Pulse’s report of the results, which are fantastic: “No adverse effects attributable to the essential fatty acid capsules were observed nor any side effects of the nutritional supplementation powder nor of the Aloe vera juice. Most patients who were symptomatic reported that within three to five days their energy levels improved, fever disappeared, night sweats stopped, cough decreased or stopped altogether, shortness of breath decreased, lymph nodes decreased in size, diarrhea stopped, strength improved and the only measurable side effect of this particular study was weight gain, which is a desirable effect. There were no biochemical abnormalities noted on MAC in this particular study. AZT induced anemia improved on this particular regimen. Chest x-rays remained normal throughout the study. No changes in EKG from baseline were observed. There was great improvement in all patients to hypersensitivity skin testing at the end of 90 days... Not only did the patients improve clinically and functionally, but their Karnofsky scores improved in 93.1% of the patients at 90 days and in 100% at 180 days. 51.7% of the patient’s T4 helper lymphocytes increased at 90 days and 32.2% at 180 days, with 25% reactive HIV P24 core antigen converted to negative at 90 days and 180 days.”

Purification Of Active Substances Of Aloe Arborescens Miller & Their Biological & Pharmacological Activity
Saito, Hiroko
Dep. Pharm., Aichi Cancer Center
Phytother Res. (1993) 7 (Spec. Issue, Proceedings of the International Congress of Phytotherapy, 1991), S14-S19

The authors purified Aloctin A from Aloe arborescens Miller and defined its chem., biol. and pharmacol. activities. Aloctin A consists of two discrete bands, a and b with a combined S-S bond. Its mol. wt. for a is 7500 and the mol. wt. for b is 10,500. Aloctin A has many biol. and pharmacol. activities as follows: 1. hemagglutinating activity; 2. cytoagglutinating activity; 3. mitogenic activity of lymphocytes; 4. ppt. - forming reactivity with a2-macroglobulin; 5. complement C3 activating activity; 6. inhibition of heat-induced hemolysis of rat erythrocytes; 7. anti-tumor effect; 8. anti-inflammatory effect; 9. inhibition of gastric secretion and gastric lesions.