Is Aloe Vera a progesterone blocker?
According to one website that promotes progesterone oil: “Aloe Vera is commonly used in lotions and even bioidentical progesterone creams. However, the ancients used aloe to create miscarriages. Aloe taken in sufficient quantity will create a miscarriage during the first trimester. Aloe contains a chemical that is a progesterone blocker. An alcohol extract of aloe may be used to prevent implantation.” The facts: “Some herbalists maintain Aloe Vera should not be taken during pregnancy. This belief is based on two “assumptions”: a strong purgative will cause abortion, as it tends to cause everything in the body to be expelled, including the fetus; and second, Aloe is an emmenagogue (an agent promoting menstruation) and will therefore tend to promote the aborting of the fetus from the uterus. Research to support the connection between purgation and abortion is lacking. Research to support the emmenagogue property of the herb is scanty and contradictory.” (from a web site that gives inform
