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-====== ALOE SOCOTRINA ======
-^ Standard name | Aloe socotrina |
-^ Other names | |
-^ Standard abbr. | Aloe |
-^ Other abbr. | |
-^ Scientific name | //Aloe perryi// Baker |
-^ Other scientific names |  |
-^ Common names | Socotrine Aloes; Turkish Aloes; Indian Aloes |
-^ Substance description | |
-^ Distinctness | GROUP |
-^ Classification | Plantae -- Magnoliophyta -- Liliopsida -- Asparagales -- Xanthorrhoeaceae -- Aloe |
-===== Provings =====
-===== Materia medica =====
-===== Notes =====
-There is a lot of confusion regarding the identification of Aloe socotrina in (not only) homeopathic literature. Most authors are content with a name //Aloe socotrina// (which is not a recognized scientific name, hence close to useless), some that do provide a scientific name, mostly provide an incorrect one (Aloe vera, Aloe barbadensis or Aloe spicata). Only Vermeulen seems to have identified the correct name of the source plant //Aloe perryi//.
-In Hering's Amerikanische Arzneiprufungen, Proving of Aloes (translated by T.F. Allen) we find:
-"For my own experiments I succeeded in obtaining the really genuine Aloes from the Island of Socotra. When the United States Government dispatched a man-of-war to the Sultan of Muscat, on behalf of commercial interests, the ship's surgeon had an interview with the private physician of the Sultan, and received from him a piece of the genuine pure Aloes, such as had been prepared in Socotra for the Sultan. This rarity was transferred to the collection of the Pharmacological Institute of this place (Philadelphia), and a trustworthy friend succeeded in breaking therefrom a good piece, which he brought to me in triumph. This Aloes has on its fractured surface a fiery red golden glitter, and its bitterness is rather more aromatic."
-Dunham: The Aloe spicata, the inspissated juice of the leaves of which is the part used in medicine.
-It has various names denoting the origin of the specimen.
-. Socotrina, the finest kind, called also Turkish or Indian Aloes, of a garnet red color with a golden or yellow red when powdered.
-. Hepatic, similar but less brilliant.
-. Cape Aloes, the most abundant, derived from the Cape of Good Hope, greenish and dull.
-. Barbadoes Aloes, strong, dark brown, used for horses.
-According to botanical.com
-Socotrine Aloes is prepared to a certain extent on the island of Socotra, but probably more largely on the African and possibly also on the Arabian mainland, from the leaves of A. perryi (Baker). It is usually imported in kegs in a pasty condition and subsequent drying is necessary. It may be distinguished principally from Curacoa Aloes by its different odour. Much of the dry drug is characterized by the presence of small cavities in the fractured surface, but the variety of Socotrine Aloes distinguished as Zanzibar Aloes often very closely resembles Curacoa in appearance and is usually imported in liver-brown masses which break with a dull, waxy fracture, differing from that of Socotrine Aloes in being nearly smooth and even. When it is prepared, it is commonly poured into goat skins, which are then packed into cases.
-All standard homeopathic remedy names are listed in the [[en:rem:start|Official Remedy Name List]].
-[[en:rem:extended|Extended Remedy Name List]] includes all known naming variations (homeopathic names only).
-The [[en:rem:complete|Complete Remedy Name List]] includes all homeopathic names and all common names. This page is a part of ongoing [[en:homeorem|Project Remedies]].

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