plantAloeNatureAloe as a plant people have named and used. Gel mend, desert store, cool leaf — one living kind, not a single symbol.Aloe is used in Medicine.Dioscorides’ De Materia Medica lists aloe among bitter purgative and wound-closing drugs. A named aloe in that handbook, not a modern gel-cosmetic dump and not agave as a New-World lookalike.from Pedanius Dioscorides · De Materia Medica, 1st century CEused in · sourced · documentedsourcesDe Materia Medica · Pedanius DioscoridesDioscorides, De Materia Medica.