Document Type : Hypothesis

Authors

• Debasmita Dubey ¹
• Shakti Rath ²
• Rajesh Kumar Meher ³
• Siba Prasad Dalai ⁴
• Jayant Kumar Dash ⁴
• Santosh Kumar Swain ⁵

¹ Medical Research Laboratory IMS and SUM Hospital Siksha O Anusandhan Deemed to be University K8 Kalinga Nagar

² Central Research Laboratory, Institute of Dental Sciences, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan Deemed to be University, K8, Kalinga Nagar, Bhubaneswar-751003, Odisha, INDIA

³ Advanced Center for Treatment, Research & Education in Cancer, Tata Memorial Center, Mumbai, India

⁴ Department of plastic, reconstructive and cosmetic surgery, IMS and SUM Hospital, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan Deemed to be University, K8, Kalinga Nagar, Bhubaneswar-751003, Odisha, India

⁵ Department of Otorhinolaryngology, IMS and SUM Hospital, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan Deemed to be University, K8, Kalinga Nagar, Bhubaneswar-751003, Odisha, INDIA

Abstract

Diabetic Foot Ulcers (DFUs) are a common complication of poorly controlled diabetes and often become infected, termed diabetic foot infection. Despite using several multidisciplinary techniques, no significant cure is still achievable. So, it needs an alternative therapeutic approach to treat diabetic foot ulcers. So it needs to search for alternative highly effective nontoxic drugs or polyherbal formulations from plants to treat DFUs. In this study, we reviewed possible plants and research pathways that can be used to formulate an effective and safe herbal formulation to treat DFUs.

Keywords

• Diabetic foot ulcers
• alternative therapeutics
• polyherbal formulations

Main Subjects

• Biological sciences