REVIEW ARTICLE: GARLIC: NATURE’S PROTECTION AGAINST WOUNDS
Wounds can occur due to any injury, disease state or insect bite or abrasions. Wound healing is a complex process that includes many phases and involves a number of inflammatory mediators wound can be classified as acute and chronic. Other than this wound can also be classified on the basis of layer of skin that gets damaged: Superficial wound, Partial thickness wound and Full thickness wound. Garlic (Allium sativum) has been used as food and also used for the treatment of many diseases, for healing of wounds etc. Garlic is perennial liliaceous herb with a bulb having organosulphur compounds like Diallyl disulphide, diallyl sulphide, diallyl trisulphide and sulphur dioxide others are allin, allicin, etc. Garlic having major properties includes anti-cancer, against cardiovascular disease, antioxidant,anti-microbial, in wound healing etc