Abstract

TRIDAX PROCUMBENS: AN UPDATED REVIEW ON ITS WOUND HEALING ACTIVITY

Sheetal C. Dabre* and Abhijeet Darwade

ABSTRACT

Wounds are physical injuries that lead to openness or cracking of the skin. Proper healing of wounds is essential to restoring the disrupted anatomical continuity and functional disruption of several cell types in injury. Reconstructive wounds repair is accompanied by a systematic and unexplained sequence of biological events that begin with wound closure and proceed to repair and repair of damaged tissue. The main focus on the benefits and why it is necessary to continue researching plants that are known to be used in traditional medicine that could lead to the discovery and development of new common medicines. Tridax procumbens has a long history of traditional use but the isolation and testing of each phytochemical has not been properly associated with its medicinal properties and may indicate difficulty in reproduction afterseparation and testing. The Tridax procumbens plant also stimulates the development of novel therapeutic agents from a variety of compounds with different pharmacological properties. Therefore, there is a great deal of research focused on other activities of herbal medicine. The present study seems to support the claim by traditional medicine practitioners about the usefulness of Tridax procumbens for the treatment of the wound healing. From the overall studies the Tridax procumbens plants containing the chemical constituents like alkaloids, carotenoids, flavonoids, saponine and tannins but beta-sitosterol, carotenoids, luteolin and linolenic acid shows the wound healing activity. Therefore, Tridax procumbens has the potential to be developed as anatural therapeutic agent for the wound healing activity.

Keywords: Tridax procumbens, haemostasis, Tridax L-Tridax, wound healing.