DEVELOPMENT AND PRECLINICAL EVALUATION OF A HERBAL FORMULATION FOR WOUND HEALING PROPERTY

Abstract

Herbal medicines provide an efficient local aid to healthcare and disease free life It has been confirmed by WHO that traditional medicine based largely on different species of plants and animals serve the health needs for a large number of people Many drugs we use today are based on the folk remedies and ethno pharmacological studies There are more than 100 drugs of known structure that are extracted from higher plants and are used in allopathic medicine Different pharmaceutical dosage forms or preparations were originally designed to extract and concentrate the active principles like alkaloids glycosides and volatile oils primarily from plants and used for therapy these purified and highly concentrated chemically synthesized medicines has shown pronounced effects because of their increased potency but in most of the cases when used for long duration and in certain cases when used for acute clinical medications showed drastic side effects which sometimes could be lethal Crude therapeutic products are less toxic than their synthetic counterparts because they contain the total family of medicinal compounds and hence they offer lesser risk of side effects