Effects of Green Tea on Wound Healing

The wound healing is a complicated overlapping process such as hemostasis/inflammatory, proliferative and remodeling phase. Delay in wound healing leads to infection. Wound infection is one of the common infective diseases in the world. One way to heal infectious wounds is reduction of bacteria on wound site. There are different plants that help wound healing such as green tea. So in this study we focus on Green tea’s medicine effects. Green Tea (Camellia sinensis) has several compounds that include catechins, polyphenolic, flavonoids, amino acids, caffeine and vitamins. Green Tea (GT) can operate as an anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-aging and also it can improve wound healing. Polyphenols contain anti-cancer, anti-viral, anti-inflammatory and also potent anti-bacterial properties. Catechin increases volume of collagen therefore, it decreases in wound area. Study of the Young Park et al, 2014, showed that GT and Hyaluronic acid microneedles were improved treatment of skin’s infected wounds. Flavonoids have anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial operation. As a result, GT can help to accelerate wound healing, prevents scar tissue formation and also decreases the inflammation process time so that GT’s components reduce considerable wound healing period.

کلیدواژه ها:

Wound Healing ، Green Tea ، Catechins ، Polyphenol