ASH AS A HEALING MEDIATOR

BACKGROUND: Rabbit skin wound model was used for the assessment of the ash as a natural healer of the wounds in this research. METHODS: The production of the ash is made through dried buffalo dung, charcoal and wood and analysis of their contents was made through an atomic absorbed spectrophotometry. We used every type of ash in the wound of rabbit skin as an ointment and assessed the healing process in thirteen days. RESULTS: Our research observed a consistent healing process in experimental wounds more rapid than the sites of control wound. On the eleventh day the healing was complete (charcoal ash) and thirteenth day (wood and dung cake ash). CONCLUSION: A unique property of the ashes is their influence on the sepsis-free and safe healing of the wound in the used model of rabbit skin in this research. Keywords: Ash, Skin Fibroblasts, Rabbit, Anti-bacterial and Ointment.