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JENGIMIEL is a nice syrup with an exotic flavor, and it is comprised by two unsurpassable natural products which are: THE GINGER, THE HONEY and Aloe:

Is a zingiberaceae which rhizome has an aromatic smell with spicy, citric, camphor, hot and dry character. It is believed that it comes from India, and that it was introduced to China a long time ago. Both cultures have used it as a spice and as a medicine from far-off times. The Ginger has been used during thousand of years, particularly in India, China and Japan, for its important medicine properties regarding pharmaceutical preparations. There are many evidences of its use in Sanskrit literature in Chinese medicine treaties. In the Chinese literature it is considered a Yan (Hot Herb). Its original name is in Sanskrit language “Zingebera”: Said name originated the Greek name “Zingiberi” and thereafter in Latin language “Zingiberis Officinalis” and was brought by the Spanish after the Discovery of America.

GALENO, a well-known Greek physician used it as a medicine for correcting the mood, defects of the body and for treating the paralysis caused by and excess of phlegm. AVICENA, a Greek physician recommended it as aphrodisiac since it is highly beneficial in the sexual weakness treatment.
THERAPEUTIC USES: It stimulates the blood circulation, it relaxes the peripheral blood vessels, it contributes to sweating, expectoration, it is anti-emetic, antispasmodic, carminative, antiseptic, analgesic and aphrodisiac.

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It contains all that the human being needs for a healthy living. It is difficult to admit that bees are wise producers of this substance and that the man in this special era is not able to create such kind of substance. Studies have discovered that Royal Jelly, is a segregation of the salivary glands of bees, better known for some people as the “Loved Milk for Live”, it is a complex, nutritive and rich substance for the longevity. That explains why the Queen bee by eating this substance survives for an approximately term of five years, which is twenty times the live term of a worker bee. This is why the males have considered this substance as “The precious medication for longevity”. It actives the sexual appetite, provides a real energy stream and improves the life span of old people.
The HONEY contains potassium and phosphorus in high proportions, this is important for the metabolism of carbohydrates. Potassium is the number one enemy of bacteria. Thereby, honey helps to destroy bacteria diseases. In Honey, there is a ratio of 0.4 to 1.4% of some nitrogen components among which it is important to mention certain proteins and up to 17 amino acids. Cholinergic action of the honey was established on 1948, thanks to the analysis and experimental studies developed by Baumgarten and Koch, and Goldschmidt and other researchers confirmed it some years later. At the same time there was evidence.
The presence of acetylcholine, which is responsible for the above mentioned cholinergic action also known as parasympathomimetic or vagotonia. It is responsible, upon the administration of honey, for increasing the amount and quantity of the gastric juice secreted by the stomach, as well as for its peristaltic movements. This explains the laxative action of the honey, which constitutes an important lipotropic factor and therefore it works favorably in hepatic conditions or a fatty liver.

The presence of enzymes such as diastases, overtaxes, maltases, hydrogenases, etc. has been confirmed in honey. From the medicine point of view, the most important ferments are the diastases and the invertases, which contribute to or increase the digestion process, and particularly in those patients with gastrointestinal disorders due to the lack of fermenters or to the secretion of gastric juice (hiccups or achlorhydria). INHIBINS are substances that were isolated from honey and from which there was experimentally evidenced that they have an antibiotic action (prevents the growth and development of bacteria). Topically, honey is a good healer. Inhibins, monosaccharides and the cholinergic factor (acetylcholine), are the responsible for the healer action of the honey on wounds. Monosaccharides and inhibins act and prevent the bacteria development, while the acetylcholine contributes to the blood circulation and the heal processes of the damaged tissues. In the other hand it is known in medicine that one of the functions of the gastric juice is to prevent the development and entrance of bacteria which are harmful to the digestive tube, since when it is absent or it is secreted in insufficient amounts, food is not completely digested (gastric dyspepsia), dangerous bacteria may be developed in the digestive traet. Honey acts producing an increase of secretion of gastric juice and by the other hand, through the inhibins action it prevents the bacteria.

In experimental studies performed with dogs and rats, Baumgarten. Koch and Kramer evidenced that the administration of honey (once without its micromolecules) via endovenous to said animals, increases the use of the sugars (monosaccharides) by their body, which was called insulin action, because through this (normally it is absent in determined types of diabetics), it contributes to the entering and use of the glucose inside the body cells. Said invigorating action, particularly at the heart and body muscles level, is evidenced when they are weak. Being studied likewise, said action did not appear when in the same experimental studies there was used sugar instead of honey. These results left perfectly clear that honey is more than sugar or than a sweet food.

The principal vitamins contained by the honey are: A, B, C 1, B5, B6, C, D, E, K and PP. These vitamin constitute a catalyst element which activates the organic functions, prevents diseases and consolidates the physical strength, while keeping the appropriate functioning of the organs, contributes to the metabolism, it is a natural antioxidant, it lays the foundations of the osseous structure, it protects the skin, maintain a healthy hair, gives freshness, and as a consequence of all the above it improves and extends life span.

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What is Aloe Vera?
The plant.-
Aloe Vera is one of the more than 250 known species of aloes. It is a succulent, belonging to the liliaceae family.
Scientific names: Aloe Vera (Lineo), Aloe Barbadensis (Miller).
Common names: Aloe, Aloe Vera, Barbados Aloe, Sabila, Pita Sabila, etc...
It inhabits desert or semi-desert areas, although its preferred environment is a temperate climate with low rainfall, such as the climate of the Canary Islands.
Its fleshy leaves are capable of accumulating a large amount of water, and are able to increase in size to a length of more than 50 centimetres and a considerable thickness. To avoid evaporation during sunshine hours, the plant closes its pores or stomas. These reserves are stored and slowly consumed when rainfall is scarce, and the leaves may then decrease in size and consistency and some leaves may even be sacrificed in order to enable the rest of the plant to survive. Aloe Vera is a real survivor, prepared for the most difficult conditions…… almost.

CLIMATE IMPEDIMENT
Desert/Polar Extreme temperatures. Not resistant to frost
Tropical Sudden excess of water (flooding)
Mediterranean Temperature < 15º C in Winter and > 30ºC in Summer
Monsoon Excess of water in the rainy months. Absence of water in the dry season
Aloe Vera does not resist these environmental conditions either permanently or periodically, which means that large crops imported and maintained artificially for some time (even years) have succumbed to a single storm, blizzard, frost, torrential rainstorm etc.
In any case, in its natural habitat (the Canary Islands) it is almost indestructible: obviously its small spines are inadequate defence against predators, but what is infallible is the yellow liquid or sap that is secreted as soon as the skin of the plant is penetrated. This sticky liquid with a very bitter flavour, as well as intimidating any aggressor, has a rapid scar forming action so that when a leaf suffers a cut or tear, a short time after the yellow sap is secreted the rind of the leaf becomes perfectly sealed, preventing its gelatinous interior from being exposed and defenceless. It is no wonder that it was originally thought that the curative properties of the plant were found in this substance.
The leaf.-
The plant consists basically of a variable group of leaves that emerge from a stem which serves as both a central root and as the point from which, two or three times a year, on a sporadic basis, a long stalk emerges, with several extensions from which yellow flowers droop.
From the central root other small but strong roots branch out, which do not take great depth in the soil in order to take advantage of all the water that is deposited on the soil.
The structure of the leaf is a gelatinous, transparent nucleus (pulp) enveloped in a fine layer of a yellow liquid or sap, all of which is protected by the fine but resistant external green rind.



leaf section
What does it contains?
A great deal of research has been done on the composition of Aloe Vera in search of an active ingredient responsible for its therapeutic action, but modern analytical methods can only confirm the presence of previously chosen elements. In this way, when it was thought that the vitamin contents could be the cause of its effects, it was noted that Aloe Vera contains around a dozen vitamins, but not in quantities that distinguish it to any extent from other known products. This meant that research continued on a variety of elements, with several of each type being found in reasonable amounts, although none of these was in itself particularly outstanding. The amount and variety of the components found in Aloe Vera have not been found in the most complex vegetable species studied, and today studies of its molecular composition still continue, providing new results.
This fact leads to the conclusion that it is a synergy of all the components of the plant that produces the effects unsurpassed by any other known product, with Nature making of this plant the best 100% natural and 100% vegetable cosmetic.
Following is an outline of the elements found in significant quantities: :

VITAMINS
Beta-carotene Vitamin B1 Vitamin B2
Folic acid Vitamin C Vitamin B3
Vitamin B6 Vitamin E Choline

MINERALS
Calcium Magnesium Sodium Copper Iron
Manganese Potassium Zinc Chromium Chlorine

AMINO ACIDS
* essential
* Lysine * Threonine * Valine * Methionine
* Leucine * Isoleucine * Phenylaianine * Tryptophane
Histidine Arginine Hydroxy Proline Aspartic acid
Serine Glutamic acid Proline Glycerine
Alanine Cystine Tyrosine

ANTHRAQUINONES
Aloin Isobarbaloin Barbaloin
Cinnamic acid Emodin Aloe Emodin
Ester of Cinnamic acid Anthracene Antranol
Aloetic acid Ethereal oils Resistannols
Crysophanic acid

MONO AND POLYSACCHARIDES
Cellulose Glucose Mannose Galactose Aldonentose
L-rhamnose Uronic acid Xylose Glucuronic acid Arabinose

ENZYMES
Oxidase Amylase Catalase Lipase Alinase
What is it used for?
Since ancient times it has been used for a multitude of applications and this is due to the great variety of nutritive elements that it provides to tissues.
Aloe Vera is basically a cellular regenerator and therefore acts, with very positive results in many conditions:
External: dry and cracked skin, burns (accidental, chemical, electrical, solar, friction), blisters, insect bites, allergic reactions, skin eruptions and acne, rashes and irritations, ulcers, sores, eczema, some herpes, marks on the skin, urticaria and psoriasis, athlete’s foot, fungi, vaginal infections, seborrhoea, conjunctivitis and sties.
Internal: problems in the mouth, gums and throat, stomach disorders, acidity, indigestion, gastritis and ulcers, colitis and haemorrhoids, cirrhosis, hepatitis and diabetes. It also regulates blood pressure, and acts in rheumatism, arthritis, and infections of the kidney, the urinary tract and the prostate.
Aloe Vera stimulates the synthesis of elastin and collagen in the organism, compensating the ageing produced by the reduction of these with age and making the artificial application of elastin and collagen unnecessary.
In addition, it is not only useful for human beings: its veterinary uses are the same or even greater. Furthermore, it also has textile applications in the treatment of organic tissues.
How is it processed?
After a great deal of research we know that the properties of this plant are in the concentration of all the elements it contains and that no particular extract or part of its components stands out individually in the health benefits of Aloe Vera.
For this reason, Aloe Vera gel Aloveria® is just the juice of the plant, cold processed with a minimum of authorised additives for its stabilisation (0.3%).
At each stage of the process strict Quality Controls are carried out in order to guarantee the condition of the materials used and of the final product.
(see Pejoseca, s.l. Phamaceutical Laboratories

throughout History

In more remote times the virtues of Aloe Vera were known in the East and in the Mediterranean. The beauty of Cleopatra is attributed to the use of Aloe Gel and it is also said that Aristotle advised Alexander the Great to conquer the island of Socrotora before embarking on his eastern campaign, in order to stock up on Aloe with which to cure the combat wounds of his troops. The most ancient description known is found in the Egyptian papyrus from Ebers, from the year 1500 BC, in which more than 12 remedies with a base of Aloe Vera are detailed. In the first century AD, Dioscorides described Aloe Vera and its medicinal and cosmetic qualities in great detail in his Greek herbarium.
The Arabs, great users of Aloe, took it with them on their campaigns and at the end of the Reconquest left extensive plantations from which attempts were later made to introduce the plant to Northern Europe but where it did not resist the winter cold. The difficulty in conserving the plant meant that its virtues were forgotten and, replaced by other remedies, the plant itself was forgotten.
In the Middle Ages the use of Aloe was restricted to the dried yellow sap with a high Aloin content which gave it scar forming and bactericide properties.
In the XX century there was a return to the ancient crop, with its effectiveness being proven in burns produced by X-rays, although it was not until the nineteen fifties that the juice or gel was able to be stabilised.
In the Canary Islands Aloe Vera L. (Aloe Barbadensis Miller) is a plant that grows indigenously, where its wide medicinal application has been used in a traditional manner since time immemorial. Christopher Columbus stocked up on Canary Islands Aloe on his voyages to the New World in order to combat epidemics on board, and the chronicles of the conquest of the Canary Islands cite the use of this plant made by the natives.
The Canary Islands aloes are of excellent quality. The humid and almost constant temperature, the natural light and the low rainfall combine to make a plant with higher than average concentrations of active ingredients.

Aloe Vera
What is Aloin?
According to the international Pharmacopoeia, Aloe Vera must contain Aloin in order to be considered as such. Because of this, products commercialised as Aloe Vera that do not contain Aloin are not aloes in terms of the Pharmacopoeia.
At present, 95% of the aloes that are on the market do not contain this element because the manufacturers do not know the stabilisation technique.
Over a period of five years, the pharmaceutical company Laboratorios Pejoseca researched and developed the machinery for the processing of the whole leaf and the subsequent stabilisation of the pure gel without separating any of its natural components.
Aloveria® contains the same amount of Aloin, Barbaloin, anthraquinones, and anthracene derivatives as the recently cut leaf (see the HPLC results).
From among the more than 200 elements that Aloe Vera contains, we selected a certain number in order to test their presence in the fresh plant and in processed products. We know that the fresh, whole leaf of the mature Aloe Vera is the most effective form to apply, and that in treatments, the open leaf, without separating the gelatine from the shell or parenchyma, works better than applying the gelatine by itself. The majority of authors agree on the great results of Aloe Vera on the organism due to the synergetic effect that the totality of its components exerts.
For many centuries Aloe was known only in reference to the powder proceeding from the drying of the yellow sap with a high Aloin content, and all the medicinal qualities of the plant were attributed to this substance. In fact, in the Lower Middle Ages, it was one of the most precious cargoes that the Radamite Jews traded between East and West. This dried sap was called Aloe and even today Aloe Barbadensis, Aloe Capensis and Aloes extractum siccum normatum are described in the European and American Pharmacopoeia as concentrated, dried sap.
• Aloe sap has a high Aloin content (>28%) which at the same time is determined by the Barbaloin or Aloin B. These elements are anthraquinones that have a wide range of functions. They are powerful antibiotics with bactericide and antiviral properties which at the same time have an analgesic effect. Pure Aloin, when taken internally, is a powerful laxative, although mixed with the rest of the plant it simply acts as a digestive tonic. It is an antifungal and an anaesthetic.
• Barbaloin, Isobarbaloin, Anthracene, Antranol and Aloetic Acid are resins with bactericide properties.
• Emodin and Aloe Emodin are effective against certain infections.
• Ethereal oil possesses all the anaesthetic and analgesic qualities of ether, but not its toxicity.
• Crysophanic Acid, derived from Aloe Emodin, is used with success in the treatment of psoriasis and in certain cutaneous fungi.
• Cinnamic Acid: fungicide and detergent.
• Ester of Cinnamic Acid: decomposes necrotic tissues and is a form of pain relief.
• Resistannols are alcohols derived from cinnamic acid, with bactericide properties.

The antibacterial effect of Aloe sap has been demonstrated with bacillus subtilis, staphylococcus auresu and s. viridans, corynebacterium xeros and salmonella paratyphi, and the antiviral activity has been demonstrated in types I and II of herpes simplex. In hepatitis B, in seropositive patients with a reaction to the surface antigen, the glutamic-pyruvic transaminases have been reduced by 85%.

ALOIN CONTENTS IN ALOE VERA
Results obtained in HPLC

The study undertaken by the pharmaceutical company Laboratorios Pejoseca in conjunction with The University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria aimed to identify the Barbaloin present in Aloe Barbadensis which, according to the international Pharmacopoeia, is the determining element that must be present in Aloe. The method used consists of the use of two basic tools: in the first place, a liquid/liquid extraction, whose purpose consists of separating substances whose polarity differs notably from the substance under study (TLC). The second phase uses High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) coupled with a UV-Vis detector to separate the components with polarity similar to Barbaloin, including Barbaloin itself.
The comparative “blind” was carried out among the pattern of Barbaloin (2 samples), 15 market products (among them 2 samples of Aloveria® pure gel and 1 of pure juice) and a sample of juice from the fresh plant.
The result of this study proves that the 2 samples of Aloveria® gel analysed contain an amount equal to the juice of the plant, while in the remaining 14 products analysed there are no traces of Barbaloin, with the exception of a 200:1 concentration used as a raw material by cosmetic industries in which, despite being, in theory, concentrated, there are only small traces.

• The results of this study are held by the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and the R+D department of Laboratorios Pejoseca.

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