CAM

Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) refers to a wide range of clinical therapies outside of conventional medicine the term “complementary “ refers to  the therapy that are used in conjunction with conventional medicine where as alternative medicine includes therapy that are used in place of conventional medicine. The term “integrative medicine that has been advocated by some CAM providers More than one-third of patients with diabetes in the united state use some type of complementary and alternative medicine herbs, dietary   supplements and mind body medicine are the most commonly used studies and CAM modalities to treat diabetes including proposed mechanisms a summary of evidence and adverse effect. It also offers recommendation for counseling patient regarding CAM use. The use of CAM for patients with diabetes was reported to be common in almost all parts of the world However, different definitions were used for CAM, which was one of the reasons for a wide range of prevalence of CAM use ranging from 17% to 73% CAM use prevalence in the USA ranged from 31% to 57% among diabetes patients , 63% in Bahrain 62% in Mexico 7% in UK  and 25% in Canada  China had a long tradition of use of herbal medicine for diabetes The findings of a systematic review reported that Chinese herbal medicines were reported to be more effective for diabetes compared with lifestyle modification alone  In China, traditional medicines accounts for 40% of all healthcare.

Wounds are the result of injuries to the skin that disrupt the other soft tissue. Healing of a wound is a complex and protracted process of tissue repair and remodeling in response to injury. Various plant products have been used in treatment of wounds over the years. Wound healing herbal extracts promote blood clotting, fight infection, and accelerate the healing of wounds. Phytoconstituents derived from plants and identified and screened for antimicrobial activity, and the ratio was selected for the preparation of ointment. The in vitro assays are useful, quick, and relatively inexpensive. The wound healing efficacies of various herbal extracts have been evaluated in CAM assay in in-vitro model. CAM  was used to assess the angiogenic activity of polyherbal formulation. Angiogenesis plays an important role in wound healing and newly formed blood vessels comprise 60% of the repair tissue. Neovascularization helps hypoxic wounds to attain the normoxic conditions.  The CAM assay was done in prepared Polyherbal formulation , control and standard. As shown in the figure below the Prepared polyherbal formulation possess the good growth of blood vessels as compared to control and standard. This observation indicates that the developed veterinary polyherbal formulation has good angiogenic property. Improved angiogenesis, therefore, would be contributing significantly to wound healing activity of polyherbal formulation.