Uso de plantas medicinais no tratamento de feridas: uma revisão.

Abstract

Several plants have been used for generations by traditional medicines for the treatment of wounds, modern medicine can, from this knowledge, validate these uses and develop herbal medicines to assist in healing. Thus, this work aimed to investigate the potential use of medicinal plants in the treatment of wounds, observing the exchange of information between traditional medicine and scientific study and how this benefits or transforms the treatment of wounds. For this, a qualitative-quantitative research was carried out to search for articles, using the databases: Capes Periodicals, Google Scholar, Scielo, ScienceDirect, PubMed. With the keywords and delimiters: Medicinal Plants, Healing, Wounds and their combinations, in Portuguese and English, from 2011 to 2021. 10 articles were selected for the construction of this literature review, of the descriptive type with a qualitative and /or quantitative. Among the plants discussed in the selected articles, sunflower oil, Helianthus annuus L.; babosa, Aloe vera; barbatimão, Stryphnodendron adstringens; copaíba oil, Copaifera spp.; calêndula, Calendula officinalis Linn.; in addition to other species mentioned in popular and traditional use by herbalists, such as Urtiga Branca (Lamium Album), Babosa (Aloe barbadensis), Açafrão (Curcuma longa), Cana-do-brejo (Costus spicatus), Camomila (Matricaria recutita) and Teiú (Casearia sylvestris), among others. Therefore, it was observed that the use of medicinal plants for the treatment of wounds can bring physical, emotional and financial relief to patients.