What is it about?
This work summarizes the medicinal plants used in Mediterranean countries, particularly Italy and Greece, for wound healing, reporting mechanisms of action, clinical efficacy and peculiar characteristics.
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Why is it important?
These data provide the rationale for using different natural remedies on different types of wounds, showing that local health seeking strategies can help in resolving wound healing problems.
Perspectives
This study represents the first step of a larger project aimed to examine more sample areas and to create a list of Mediterranean species potentially useful in wound healing and in the treatment of other skin problems.
Mr Paolo Governa
Universita degli Studi di Siena
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This page is a summary of: Skin Wound Healing: From Mediterranean Ethnobotany to Evidence based Phytotherapy, Athens Journal of Sciences, August 2017, Athens Institute for Education and Research ATINER,
DOI: 10.30958/ajs.4-3-2.
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