Emprego da Fitoterapia na Cicatrização de Feridas

Abstract

It is considered phytoterapy the treatment by the use of plants. The utilization of determinate plants how a topical substance to improve the healing process has been very studied, since so much time ago. The ancient people from Babylonia, Egypt, and other places, had used minerals and medical plants in wounds to accelerate the cure. This review aimed to study the use of this kind of therapy in the wound healing, being based in the Pharmacopoeia of the real pharmacologic action of the plant most used to this objective. The Aloe vera Linné (“babosa”) is a plant with healing, antioxidant and antiinflammatory action, and it is suggested that it has more than two thousands of biological active molecules that acts by synergy on the fibroblasts during the formation of a new epithelium. The Stryphtnodendron barbatiman (“barbatimão”) has as the main active compound the tannin witch has an excellent role in healing process, precipitating the proteins of the tissue forming a protector revetment supporting its reparation. The Calendula officinalis (“calêndula”) has been so used due its healing, analgesic, antiinflammatory, antiseptic, and tonic action in the skin, being its major use to cure exposed and lacerated wounds. About Symphytum officinale (“confrei”) it is a plant witch presents in its composition the allantoin, responsible for the healing action, stimulating the granulation tissue and the mucilage to produce the emollient effect. It can be concluded that phytoterapy is an alternative treatment so efficient to many diseases in animals and the effects of the studied plants in this review were scientifically proofed, through the realization of researches, by this way it is possible to indicate their use with security as healing stimulant in many kinds of wounds.