"datsy" wrote in message
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Datsy, let's do a little sum:
Give or take a factor of ten, the amount of Oxygen released in 24
hours will be comparable with the mass of plant material produced
in
24 hours.
Your aloe would grow less than 1 gm of dry plant matter in a day,
so
it
might be expected to produce less than 1 gm of Oxygen per day.
The
density of Oxygen is around 1 gm per litre. So your plant will
produce something less than 1 litre of Oxygen overnight. That
is
about one lungful. (All give or take a factor of 10, as I said).
You
would
get much more than 1,000 times as much Oxygen into your room by
the
simple expedient of sleeping with an open window.


Many thanks! Maths never was my strong point! I had to smile at this
one -
from a previous posting you made, it sounded as though it was only a
minute
amount - a lungful is actually quite a lot ;-)) ! Now, yes, I did
put the
aloe in the bedroom because of the oxygen properties - but even I
know it's
not going to give me enough oxygen for the night ;-)) . My main
purpose for
buying the plant was its use in skin care. Having used commercial
aloe vera
gel for many years for things like sunburn, insect bites, eczema,
etc., it
seemed a good idea to be able to use it fresh. Even if my plant
turns out
not to be a true aloe vera, its gel still seems to have the same
cooling
effect. A friend of mine has just been through radiotherapy and she
bought a
plant to help with skin care after the treatment. In the US some
radiotherapy units have aloe vera plants so that patients can use
them
immediately after treatment. This is to get the record straight as
to why I
have an aloe vera (or whatever it is - or more to the point,
whatever they
are, since they're multiplying so rapidly)!

Why don't you get a medicament for your condition, prepared to a known
concentration, with a determined dosage rate, on prescription from
your doctor? All this messing about with raw plant material is either
pointless or dangerous.

Franz