Native Medicinal Plants: An Alternate Choice for Wound Healing

Introduction

A Wound is a split in the epithelial integrity of the skin including deeper punctures with disruption ending to the dermis, subcutaneous fat, fascia, muscle or even bone (Enoch and Price, 2004). Wound healing involves a series of cellular and biochemical events in a coordinated manner in order to restore the function of epidermis and dermis (Stadelmann et al., 1998) and occurs in 3 phases Viz: Inflammation, proliferation and remodeling (Iba et al., 2004). Synthetic drugs like antibiotics, antiseptics, de-sloughing agents are generally used to treat the wounds which have the limitation of side effects and residues in tissues which is of public health concern in case of animals raised for its meat.