The important herbal plants of Iranian flora on burn healing

• Main Authors: M Afshar, S Vafaei-Nezhad, M Shadi, R Ghaderi
• Format: Article
• Language: fas
• Published: Golestan University of Medical Sciences 2017-08-01
• Series: مجله دانشگاه علوم پزشکی گرگان
• Subjects: Medicinal herbs; Burns; Healing; Iran
• Online Access: http://goums.ac.ir/journal/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1-1002&slc_lang=en&sid=1

Burn is one of the major causes of death and disability in the world. It can cause by heat, chemicals, electricity, sunlight or radiation. More burns caused by fires in buildings, contact with boiling water, steam, liquids and flammable gases. Accelerating the process of healing has always been of interest to practitioners because these injuries are usually takes long time to be healed. Therefore, proper treatment and care of this type of wound required to accelerate healing, prevent infection and chronicity. In traditional medicine, due to the high vegetation diversity and breadth of our country, the use of herbs for burns healing and lesions of various etiologies, has been intesified. Various studies on burn wound healing properties of medicinal plants have been performed. In this article, we refered to reliable sites for evaluating of 10 plants including Amebia euchroma, Green Tea, Hypericum perforatum, Centella asiatica, Scrophularia striata, Aloe vera, Cydonia Oblongae seeed, Malva sylvestris, Calendula officinalis and Myrtus to compare the restorative properties of a number of important medicinal plant flora of Iran on accelerating the process of wounds healing of burn in order to provide effective medicinal plant sources are addressed.