Wound Healing Potentials of Phytochemicals from Commonly Used Indo-Africa Vegetables, Fruits & Spices: A Guide to Common Man

Abstract

A wound is an injured tissue in any part of the body that may be due to accidental cuts, can be in the form of nicks,
grazes, punctures, scratches, broken knobs, shatter-bruised areas, or essentially any area where there is a break in the skin,
etc, that everyone has to meet in everyone’s daily life. The main problem with any type of wound is pain and sepsis, to
manage these wounds, the allopathy system prescribes multi-combination of antibiotics, which are the main culprits of
microbial resistance, side-effects and inadequate management. Hence this chapter focuses on the wound management
phytochemicals reported from the common vegetable fruits& spices that every individual uses in daily life like pepper
(Piper nigrum ), pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo), garlic (Alium sativum), Onions ( Alium cepa), Bael fruit (Aegle marmelos),
Banana(Musa paradisiaca), Mustard ( Brassica nigra), pepper ( Piper nigrum), Tamarind (Tamarindus indica), Coffee
(Coffea arabica) and Green tea (Camellia sinensis). The chapter also explains the importance of these herbs in sense of
their phytochemicals and how to use them in wound management.