35. Aloe (Aloe vera)

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🟨 Egyptian queens used aloe as part of their daily beauty routine. It is possible that after aloe is absorbed, it stimulates fibroblast cells and causes them to regenerate faster.

🟨 Ancient Egyptian stone carvings of aloe refer to it as the "plant of immortality".

🟨 Legend claims that Alexander the Great conquered Socotra, an island in the Indian Ocean, to secure the aloe growing there to treat the wounds of his soldiers.

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