AVELOZ EXTRACT

a tenacious esharotic (tissue tearing) plant from South America. Aveloz is a spurge shrub native to tropical South America. Called Aveloz in Brazil and Alvelos in Spanish speaking countries, it is known as mataverruga (meaning kill-wart) by the local natives. The milky sap of the Aveloz shrub is a tissue tearing escharotic with heat exuding properties. Rich Folklore History Aveloz is an important folk medicine item of the Amazon Indians, who have been using the substance through time immemorial and told it secrets to the many colonists who settled in northeastern Brazil. Dr. Pamifilio, who practiced medicine in Pernambucco, Brazil into the 1880's and 1890's is given credit for introducing the old Indian remedy into the white man’s pharmacopoeias. His reports on Aveloz sap were taken back to Europe by Juan Gomez Pamo, who had been a professor of medicine in Havana before being appointed as the Queen of Spain’s public health counselor. Aveloz remained relatively obscure