Open AccessChallenges, Advances and Opportunities of Herbal Medicines in Wound Healing: A Review
Author(s) -
Balap A.R,
Gaikwad A.A
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of pharmaceutical sciences review and research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0976-044X
DOI - 10.47583/ijpsrr.2021.v71i01.015
Subject(s) - medicine , wound healing , traditional medicine , population , medicinal plants , debridement (dental) , intensive care medicine , surgery , environmental health
A large portion of the world's population relies on herbs for medical purposes today. About 25-30% of modern drugs are chemicalintermediates derived from plant constituents. Traditional medicinal plant preparations are frequently utilised for wound healing,encompassing a wide range of skin-related disorders. In wound management, herbal medicine entails cleaning, debridement, and thecreation of an environment that promotes natural healing. This review discusses wound, healing of the wound, allopathic treatmentin wound healing, types of herbal medicines used in the treatment of wound healing and common excipients used in topical herbalformulations. In this article, we look at 15 plants that have been utilised as wound healers in traditional medicine around the world.This study is an attempt to search the difficulties and challenges of herbal formulations need for novel drug delivery systemnanocarriers for herbal remedies with other nanotechnology strategies and techniques as a new drug delivery system and its futureprospective. The purpose of this review is to examine the most common excipients used in herbal formulations, as well as variousmedicinal plants traditionally used in wound healing, wound healing difficulties and challenges, the use of nanotechnology in herbalformulation, the future scope of herbal medicines in wound healing, and a comparison of allopathy and herbal formulations.