Aloes
A burn is damage to your body's tissues caused by heat, chemicals, electricity, sunlight, or radiation. Scalds from hot liquids and steam, building fires and flammable liquids and gases are the most common causes of burns. Another kind is an inhalation injury, caused by breathing smoke.
There are three types of burns:
- First-degree burns damage only the outer layer of skin
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- Third-degree burns damage or destroy the deepest layer of skin and tissues underneath
Burns can cause swelling, blistering, scarring and, in serious cases, shock, and even death. They also can lead to infections because they damage your skin's protective barrier. Treatment for burns depends on the cause of the burn, how deep it is, and how much of the body it covers. Antibiotic creams can prevent or treat infections. For more serious burns, treatment may be needed to clean the wound, replace the skin, and make sure the patient has enough fluids and nutrition.
NIH: National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Physician's Materia Medica on Aloes
The inspissated juice of leaves of different species of ALOE. Laxa tive or cathartic according to the dose. It acts especially on the lower bowel, and is particularly serviceable in chronic constipation. Dose as a laxative 0.06 to 0.3 Grm. (1 to 5 grs.).1
The active principle of Aloes, preferable to the crude drug be cause nearly free from odor and much less disagreeable in taste. Dose as a laxative, 0.015 to 0.03 Grm. (% to % .gr.); as a cathartic, 0.06 to 0.13 Grm. (1 to 2 grs.).1
A concrete resinous exudate from PISTACIA LENTISCUS, Lin. Terebinthinate. Combined with Aloes, retards its solution, securing more efficient action on the lower bowel. Dose, nominal.1
Gum-resin obtained from COMMIPHORA MYRRHA, (Nees) Engler. Stimulating tonic, expectorant, emmenagogue; frequently combined with Aloes and Iron in amenorrhea; topically applied in dilute solu tion to spongy gums, aphthous ulcerations of the mouth, etc.1
The petals of the flowers of ROSA CENTIFOLIA, Lin. (Pale Rose) and of R GALLICA, Lin. (Red Rose). The latter especially is as tringent, but is little used except as an adjuvant. [Confection Rose enters into the formulas of several oficial pills, such as Pills Aloes and Iron, U. S. P.].1
A combination remarkable for its diaphoretic action. which surpasses that of any single drug, Pilocarpus only excepted. Made in accordance with the National Formulary, each fluidounce represents; Rhubarb, 3 1/2 grs.; Angelica seed, 3 1/2 grs-; Elecampane. 1 3/4 grs.; Saffron, 1 3/4 grs.; Fennel, 1 3/4 grs.; Gentian, 7/8 gr.; Zedoary root, 7/8 gr.; Cubeb, 7/8 gr.; Myrrh, 7/8 gr.; White Agaric. 7/8 gr.; Camphor, 7/8 gr.; Quinine Sulphate, 10 grs.; Extract Aloes, 8 grs. The Tincture is often speci1