Aloes, Barba′does

Syn. Aloes in Gourds ; Al′oë Barbaden′sis , L., Ph. L. & E. Imported from Barb a does and Jamaica, usually in gourds; sometimes in boxes. The best is the inspi ated juice of the cut leaf of aloë vulga′′ris ; an inferior quality is prepared from the decoction.— Char., . Opaque, lustrele , of a liver colour, a little tending to black, with a bitter nauseous taste, and a very disagreeable odour, especially when breathed on; powder a dull olive-yellow. It is the ‘hepatic’ aloes of most continental writers, and said to be the Αλοη of Dioscorides. It is more active than the other varieties of aloes; but is also more apt to occasion hæmorrhoids, and to gripe, than any of them.