Compress (Kattu) of Wound Healing Herbs in Siddha System of Medicine- A Review
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In the Siddha system of medicine, Kattu(Compress) is one of the 32 external therapies and one of the topical applications on the skin. It is the application of medicine made of herbs, inorganic substances (pashanam), etc. to the affected area and bandaging it. Many literature evidence are found on a compress for wound healing. In this paper, wound healing herbs Caesalpinia pulcherrima (Mayilkondrai), Aleo barbadensis(Katrazhai), Jasminum sambac(malligai) are indicated for wound compress in text Theraiyar vaidhiyam 1000 is justified.
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