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Potentials of Medicinal Plants as Wound Healers: A Review


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Medicinal plants play a significant role in the field of treatment and cure of diseases. Over the years, scientific research has extended our information of the chemical effects and composition of the active constituents, which conclude the medicinal properties of plants. Several drugs obtained from plant sources are known to amplify the healing of different type of wounds. Though some of these drugs have been screened scientifically for evaluation of their wound healing activity in different pharmacological models. These review summaries the scientific evidenced of those medicinal plants which were assessed by various researchers for the exploration of these plants as wound healers.

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Healing, Medicinal Plants.
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Authors

Yogesh Shivhare
Department of Pharmacognosy, RKDF College of Pharmacy, Bhopal (M.P.), India
Prashant Soni
Department of Pharmacognosy, RKDF College of Pharmacy, Bhopal (M.P.), India
Smita Shukla
Department of Pharmacognosy, RKDF College of Pharmacy, Bhopal (M.P.), India
J. R. Patel
Department of Pharmacognosy, RKDF College of Pharmacy, Bhopal (M.P.), India

Abstract


Medicinal plants play a significant role in the field of treatment and cure of diseases. Over the years, scientific research has extended our information of the chemical effects and composition of the active constituents, which conclude the medicinal properties of plants. Several drugs obtained from plant sources are known to amplify the healing of different type of wounds. Though some of these drugs have been screened scientifically for evaluation of their wound healing activity in different pharmacological models. These review summaries the scientific evidenced of those medicinal plants which were assessed by various researchers for the exploration of these plants as wound healers.

Keywords


Healing, Medicinal Plants.

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