"Four vegetables are indispensable for the well-being of man:
Wheat, the Grape, the Olive and the Aloe.
The first nourishes him, the second raises his spirit,
the third brings him harmony and the fourth cures him."

Christopher Columbus (1451-1506)

You ask me what were the secret forces which sustained
me during my long fasts. Well, it was my unshakeable faith in God,
my simple and frugal lifestyle and the Aloe whose benefits I discovered
upon my arrival in South Africa at the end of the nineteenth century

Mahatma Ghandi (1869-1948