Are you Bound Up, Wound
Up? Unwind with Wordplay Wednesday™ June 24, 2015
Sometimes your stress
level by Wednesday causes your body to bind up and refuse to cooperate. Do you
turn to a “natural” laxative to relieve your tension?ALOIN – n. a bitter, crystalline cathartic [laxative] prepared from the aloe.
Ah,
drag your minds outta the gutter ladies and gents. It is not something to rub on one side of your loins … pronounced AL-O-IN, it’s a chameleon of the
medicinal plant world. At once, beneficial but quite possibly deadly.
And you might have
recognized the first three letters as part of “aloe,” a soothing, medicinal plant
that protects and heals. Well, ALOIN is
prepared from the aloe rind, however, beware
… its properties are vastly different from the gel we know and love, and can be toxic. What's the difference ... ?
