Healing with herbs: an alliance with ‘nano’ for wound management

Introduction: Wound healing is an intricate and continual process influenced by numerous factors that necessitate suitable environments to attain healing. The natural ability of wound healing often gets altered by several external and intrinsic factors, leading to chronic wound occurrence. Numerous...

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Published in:Expert Opinion on Drug Delivery
Main Author: Vinchhi P.; Wui W.T.; Patel M.M.
Format: Review
Language:English
Published: Taylor and Francis Ltd. 2024
Online Access:https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85201291977&doi=10.1080%2f17425247.2024.2388214&partnerID=40&md5=6d450303ca1d636c853d04836d6789b3
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Summary:Introduction: Wound healing is an intricate and continual process influenced by numerous factors that necessitate suitable environments to attain healing. The natural ability of wound healing often gets altered by several external and intrinsic factors, leading to chronic wound occurrence. Numerous wound dressings have been developed; however, the currently available alternatives fail to coalesce in all conditions obligatory for rapid skin regeneration. Area covered: An extensive review of articles on herbal nano-composite wound dressings was conducted using PubMed, Scopus, and Google Scholar databases, from 2006 to 2024. This review entails the pathophysiology and factors leading to non-healing wounds, wound dressing types, the role of herbal bio-actives for wound healing, and the advantages of employing nanotechnology to deliver herbal actives. Numerous nano-composite wound dressings incorporated with phytoconstituents, herbal extracts, and essential oils are discussed. Expert opinion: There is a strong substantiation that several herbal bio-actives possess anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, antioxidant, analgesic, and angiogenesis promoter activities that accelerate the wound healing process. Nanotechnology is a promising strategy to deliver herbal bio-actives as it ascertains their controlled release, enhances bioavailability, improves permeability to underlying skin layers, and promotes wound healing. A combination of herbal actives and nano-based dressings offers a novel arena for wound management. © 2024 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
ISSN:17425247
DOI:10.1080/17425247.2024.2388214