Plantas medicinais no processo de cicatrização de feridas: revisão de literatura

Abstract

Since ancient times medicinal plants and plant extracts have been used in the healing process of wounds in the form of poultice in order to cease hemorrhages and favor the regeneration of tissues. The plants are indicated and used after a cutaneous injury because they are assigned therapeutic properties. The present study aimed to identify plants used in the healing process. A bibliographic, exploratory and descriptive research method was used. A search of scientific articles in the databases Science Direct, Google academic, ScieLo, LILACS, VHL, using the descriptors previously consulted in DECs in Portuguese: medicinal plants, wound healing and phytotherapy was carried out. Established as inclusion criteria, complete productions in Portuguese that approached the proposed subject between the years of 2013 to 2018. As criteria of exclusion, articles that presented duplicity. Thirty-one studies were found, of which 22 were out of inclusion criteria. Thus, of the 31 publications listed only 2 (22.2%) are published in English. When analyzing the type of publication, it was verified that 4 (44.44%) are experimental research. The studied plants were Calendula, Barbatimão, Babosa and Copaíba, well known as healing and tissue reepitelising, presented as a suggestion in the treatment of dermal conditions contributing significantly to the improvement and evolution of the lesions. It is highlighted the need for new researches with medicinal plants to prove the action in the process of tissue regeneration.