Hemorrhoid is one of the most common gastrointestinal disorders seen by the general practitioners. Hemorrhoids have several treatment modalities and diagnosis. In initial stages conservative treatments can be applied, but over a period when the hemorrhoids get worst, the disease should be treated by several non-operative treatments like, Sclerotherapy, rubber bend ligation, infrared photocoagul...

The search for herbal innovations with medicinal properties has intensified. As this matter, the extracts of Piptadenia gonoacantha, present antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory and antinociceptive action, as well absence proven toxicity. objective was to evaluate antibacterial action formulations containing gonoacantha. extract prepared characterized by liquid chromatography coupled mass spectrome...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the healing effect an orabase ointment based on Libidibia ferrea L. induced mouth ulcers in rats. This is experimental "in vivo", descriptive, quantitative using model animals were divided into 3 groups: Group I (test), II (negative control) and III (positive control), evaluated periods 1, 5 10 days after ulcerative induction. Regarding diameter ulcers, pos...

Developing products derived from medicinal herbs with wound-healing effects has been a current trend. This study was set up to observe the wound healing efficiency of herbal preparations formulated M. citrifolia leaf extract on mice. The activity cream, ointment, and powder containing Noni 1% 5% (w/w) investigated excision model. potential preparation continuously evaluated for rabbit skin irri...

We intended to develop a desired ointment base suitable for treatment of bedsores including the proliferation of granulation and epidermis. The main bedsore bacteria detected in our hospital were S. aureus in gram-positive coccus and P. aeruginosa in gram-negative bacillus. As the macrogol ointment (MO) was found to have bactericidal effects on these bacteria, MO was adopted as the base for the...

The wound healing activity of ethanol extract of Terminalia bellirica Roxb. fruit was evaluated on excision and incision wound model, in albino rats, in the form of an ointment with two concentrations (2 and 4% w/w ointment) of fruit extract in simple ointment base. Both concentrations of the ethanol extract showed significant response in both the wound types tested when compared with the contr...

Phytomedicine for wound healing are not only cheap and affordable but are also purportedly to be safe as hypersensitive reactions are rarely encountered with the use of these agents. Passiflora foetida is reported to possess anti-inflammatory, anti-ulcer, anti-oxidant activities. It is reported that traditionally its leaves used in the wound healing treatment. Thus, the study was carried out to...

Spider web is being used in India and other countries to promote wound healing. Its ointment at 2.5 and 5% w/w concentrations was tested for wound healing activity in excision and incision wound models in rats. A significant reduction in the area of excision wound was observed for both the treatments when compared to normal healing and control ointment treatments. The period of epithelization f...

The Indian subcontinent is enriched by a variety of flora-both aromatic and medicinal plants. Herbal drugs constitute a major part in all the traditional systems of medicine. There are approximately 1250 Indian medicinal plants, which are used in formulating therapeutic preparation according to Ayurveda and other traditional system of medicine. This work has been an approach to formulate a mode...

Adult and pediatric patients (n = 347) with atopic dermatitis enrolled in three multicenter, randomized, 6-week studies who had previously used steroids were analyzed to examine the null hypothesis that improvement in atopic dermatitis initiated after prior treatment with steroids eliminates any subsequent treatment differences between tacrolimus ointment and pimecrolimus cream. Of these patien...