vi-ta-min [vi'te-min]
Noun
Any of various relatively complex organic substances that occur naturally in plant and animal tissue and are exxential in small amounts for the control of metabolic processes.
Etymology: German Vitamine.
Ref: American Heritage Dictionary
Questions concerning the healing capabilities of vitamins tend to prompt a level of debate as broad in range as the category itself. Each vitamin has its proponents and detractors. Their minimum effective dosages have been fairly well established; maximum levels have not been. There are fairly well established beliefs tht vitamins A and K in too high a level can create certain detrimental effects such as certain circulatory clogging and perhaps brain damage. It is also believed by some professional antagonists that excessive amounts of vitamins C, E, and the B-complex can cause the human body to build an immunity to those vitamins and subsequently reduce their effectiveness. And in recent months, Vitamin B 6 especially has become a center of a controversy as being debilitative to the human system if taken in too great a quantity. "The Great Vitamin Devate" could merit a point-counterpoint series of arguments that would make a book on its own. Some have been written on the subject, and still there is much to be written. But frankly, even in the temples of the learned, not enough is known about nutrition or the true role vitamins play in the systemic body.
Still there is no question from any sector that vitamins are essential to nutrition and vital to the survival of the body in question. The word, vitamin, literally means agent of life. Particularly when the human system becomes disesed or damaged (or falls out of a healthy chemical balance), vitamins are quickly depleted from it and are among the first elements that need replacing if the body is to recover in a normal healthy fashion.
Although we're not saying Aloe Vera contains vitamins sufficient to replace all the nutrition lost during illness, we are saying they are present in the leaf-gel, and in Coats Aloe Vera stabilization formula. The extent to which they are naturally present has yet to be measured, but we must remember they are also catalyzing agents. They interact with other elements in the body, relate directly to the proteolytic enzymatic activity, and are often agent to it. A brief individual study of the essential vitamins present in Aloe Vera will help make the fact more evident.
ref: Silent Healer (pg. 53) by Bill Coats, R.PH., with Robert Ahola