PHARMACOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF MORINDA TINCTORA AND BOMBAX CEIBA FOR WOUND HEALING ACTIVITY

Abstract: Medicinal plants or traditional remedies have been used for infection,disease, and injury over millennia. Humans have learned to identify and transform thebotanical resources from the immediate environment, and with the development of trade,as food and medicine from prehistory. A great many of these “ancient” and traditionalmedical plants have been validated to confer therapeutic benefits, albeit not always incontrolled clinical trials. Morinda tinctoria Roxb. (Family: Rubiaceae) is is very wellknown for its therapeutic benefit in Indian systems of medicine including Ayurveda andSiddha and in other forms of traditional Medicine worldwide for the treatment of severalailments. Ayurveda, that Bombax ceiba possesses proven medicinal properties and is theingredient of many products. Approximately each part of this plant is used as drug, andits ancestry and flowers are used for therapeutic the highest number of illnesses.