Aloe

It purgeth the belly, and is withal a wholesome and convenient medicine for the stomach, if any at all be wholesome....

It bringeth forth choler, but especially it purgeth such excrements as be in the stomach, the first veins, and in the nearest passages.... Furthermore, Aloës is an enemy to all kinds of putrefactions; and defendeth the body from all manner of corruption. It also preserveth dead carcasses from putrifying; it killeth and purgeth away all manner of worms of the belly.  It is good against a stinking breath proceeding from the imperfection of the stomach; it openeth the piles or hemorrhoids of the fundament....

It healeth up green wounds and deep sores, cleanseth ulcers, and cureth such sores as are hardly to be helped, especially in the fundament and secret parts....

Dioscorides ... also teacheth, that mixed with honey it taketh away black and blue spots, which come of stripes: that it helps the inward ruggedness of the eye-lids, and itching in the corners of the eyes: it remedieth the head-ache, if the temples and forehead be anointed therewith, being mixed with vinegar and oil of Roses: being tempered with wine, it stayeth the falling off of the hair, if the head be washed therewith....

... This Aloës I say, taken in a small quantity after supper (or rather before) in a stewed prune ... is a most sovereign medicine to comfort the stomach.... Some use to mix the same with Cinnamon, Ginger, and Mace, for the purpose abovesaid; and for the Jaundice, spitting of blood, and all extraordinary issues of blood.

Gerard, p. 508.

Blackwell,  A curious herbal, p. 333. Courtesy of the Missouri Botanical Garden.