Bryophyllum calycinum Salisb (Crassulaceae) a shrub mainly found in the tropical parts of Bengal and in southern African and American continents. It is locally known as Patharkuchiì and for long has been used in ayurvedic medicine. It has been reported for its hepatoprotective, neuropharmacological, antimutagenic, antihistaminic, antibacterial, antinociceptive, antidiabetic and antiinflammatory...

Death of tissue and/or deep infection leading to amputation is not an uncommon course of events after massive crush injuries of the central part of the hand. Management of this injury faces the dual problem of having to carry out debridement in the central part of the hand which is radical enough to remove all dead tissue but which, in itself, creates a huge dead space in the depths of the woun...

Subcutaneous stitches are placed in an effort to close dead space and aid in tissue edge approximation when repairing a surgical defect, but overcoming tension to approximate wound edges in surgical defects may be particularly difficult to accomplish in situations such as extreme defect width, location of the defect over a convex surface, inelasticity or rigidity of tissue, and excessive recoil...

Effect of two calcium channel blockers (CCBs) nifedipine and amlodipine, was studied on normal and steroid depressed wound healing in albino rats, using the dead space wound model. The drugs enhanced normal healing as evidenced by increase in tensile strength of 10 days old granulation tissue. There was neither a significant change in the hydroxyproline level (or collagen) nor a change in the g...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the wound-healing properties of crude bark extract of Jatropha curcas Linn in Wistar albino rats. METHODS This work was carried out in the Department of Biochemistry, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India, in the year 2005. We divided the animals into 3 groups of 12 each. Group I was saline control without wound, grou...

OBJECTIVE To define the role of suture closure of the subcutaneous dead space in preventing wound complications after cesarean delivery. DATA SOURCES We searched MEDLINE, the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, and the bibliographies of major texts and review articles. METHODS OF STUDY SELECTION Only studies in which patients undergoing cesarean delivery were randomly assigned to closu...

The present study was aimed to evaluate the wound healing potential of aqueous extract of leaves of Ocimum kilimandscharicum. It is a well-known plant in Indian traditional medicine. On the basis of traditional use and literature references, this plant was selected for evaluation of wound healing potential. An aqueous extract of leaves was examined for wound healing activity at two different do...

Objective: Martynia annua L. (M. annua), (Martyniaccae) has been traditionally used in the treatment of epilepsy, sore throat and inflammatory disorders. The leaf paste is used topically on Tuberculosis of the lymphatic glands and wounds of domestic animals. Tephrosia purpurea (T. purpurea), (Fabaceae) has been used traditionally as a remedy for asthma, gonorrhea, rheumatism and ulcers. This st...