My mother suffers from IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) and has tried everything under the sun to alleviate her pain and discomfort. From eating the most normal of foods, she will experience her stomach bloating out beyond her pants’ capacity, and she will have to go home and change into ones with a stretchy, elastic waistband. But that is the least of her worries. The pain and discomfort associated with IBS can be excruciating and at times unbearable.

At times she feels as if someone has taken a knife to her insides, or other times she will be so inconsistent with her bowel movements that she never knows when she’ll have to stay home for a day. Due to IBS, her intestinal walls are severely irritated and damaged. This has led her on a search for various treatments and medications, but what really saved her, in the end, was aloe vera juice. This juice from the aloe vera plant not only soothed her irritated bowels, but also healed them, thus they weren’t just a band-aid for the problem.

Aloe juice, taken orally, can be found at even such places as your local grocer sometimes. Most often it is found at a natural foods store or some other variant establishment for herbal healing. It can come in different flavors and can even come in tablet form, but tablets don’t work as well as liquid form, especially long term.