Background:
Burn injury is still the leading cause of mortality and morbidity in burn patients. We comapred healing effect of
Hypericum perforatum
, silver sulfadiazine and alpha ointments on burn injuries in rat model.
Methods:
Sixty female Sprague-Dawley rats in an animal experimental study were randomly divided to 5 equal groups as
H. perforatum
, silver sulfadiazine and (SSD), alpha, gel base and the burn injury left untreated. Wounds were assessed macroscopically and histologic after burn injury and on days 7
th
, 14
th
and 21
st
after treatments.
Results:
Burn wounds decreased in size on day 7
th
in
H. perforatum
group (
P
<0.01). Regarding scoring the inflammation, re-epithelialization, angiogenesis, formation of granulation tissue and number of macrophage, the best scores were visible in
H. perforatum
group, and the worst in the gel base and the burn injury left untreated (
P
<0.01).
Conclusions:
H. perforatum
was shown to significantly induce re-epithelialization, angiogenesis and granulation tissue and decrease the inflammation resulting into a healing process in burn wounds. As
H. perforatum
is inexpensive and an easily available herbal medicine, it can be considered as a therapeutic of choice to ameliorate burn injuries.