Abstract

PLANT-BASED WOUND HEALING- A REVIEW

Somnath Kundu* and Swarnali Brahma

ABSTRACT

Plants have been traditionally been used as a potent source of medicine in India by indigenous people inhabiting various locations for the control of various ailments affecting human and their domestic animals. Medicinal plant based research has now been increased all over the world as the potential source of medication. Wound healing can simply be described as a physiological response to the tissue injury that results in the replacement of destroyed tissue by living tissue and thus restoration of tissue integrity. The basic mechanism of wound repair includes inflammation, wound contraction, epithelialization and granulation tissue formation. Several active phytocomponents obtained from different plants have been shown to have potent wound healing activity. These phytochemicals has their own mechanism of action in healing wound. Thus novel plant derived component in curing wounds would be an important aspects of research in the near future.

Keywords: wound healing, phytoconstituents, pharmacological activities.