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<p>Create canonical category-page article (history-first)</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>A &#039;&#039;&#039;vulnerary&#039;&#039;&#039; (Latin &#039;&#039;vulnerarius&#039;&#039;, wound-healer) is a herbal medicine applied to wounds, bruises, sprains, ulcers, and other tissue injury to support healing. The Western clinical-herbalist tradition has used the vulnerary category for several centuries and the action overlaps with topical anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial effects; the contemporary mechanistic understanding involves angiogenic stimulation, fibroblast and keratinocyte proliferation, modulation of inflammatory mediators, and direct antimicrobial activity in the wound bed.<br /> <br /> The foundational vulneraries of Western use are &#039;&#039;&#039;calendula&#039;&#039;&#039; (&#039;&#039;Calendula officinalis&#039;&#039;; the European pot marigold, with substantial controlled-trial evidence for radiation-dermatitis prevention and accelerated wound healing); &#039;&#039;&#039;comfrey&#039;&#039;&#039; (&#039;&#039;Symphytum officinale&#039;&#039;; the &quot;knit-bone&quot; of medieval folk-herbalism, with documented topical wound-healing through allantoin-mediated cell proliferation and rosmarinic-acid anti-inflammatory effect; pyrrolizidine-alkaloid hepatotoxicity restricts use to topical-only application); &#039;&#039;&#039;plantain&#039;&#039;&#039; (&#039;&#039;Plantago major&#039;&#039; and &#039;&#039;P. lanceolata&#039;&#039;; the universal Eurasian wound-and-bite herb); &#039;&#039;&#039;yarrow&#039;&#039;&#039; (&#039;&#039;Achillea millefolium&#039;&#039;; the Native American and European wound-styptic, the source of the historical name &quot;soldier&#039;s woundwort&quot;); &#039;&#039;&#039;St John&#039;s wort&#039;&#039;&#039; (&#039;&#039;Hypericum perforatum&#039;&#039;; oil-infusion for nerve-pain wounds, bruising, and minor burns); &#039;&#039;&#039;self-heal&#039;&#039;&#039; (&#039;&#039;Prunella vulgaris&#039;&#039;; widely-distributed Northern Hemisphere wound herb); and the Australian &#039;&#039;&#039;tea tree oil&#039;&#039;&#039; (&#039;&#039;Melaleuca alternifolia&#039;&#039;) for antimicrobial wound action.<br /> <br /> The TCM and Ayurvedic vulnerary traditions contribute &#039;&#039;&#039;San qi&#039;&#039;&#039; (&#039;&#039;Panax notoginseng&#039;&#039;; the Yunnan haemostatic-and-tissue-healing medicine, used in the proprietary &quot;Yunnan Baiyao&quot; wound powder), &#039;&#039;&#039;Centella asiatica&#039;&#039;&#039; (gotu kola; particularly for scar prevention and selected wound indications), &#039;&#039;&#039;aloe vera&#039;&#039;&#039; (cross-listed; for burns), and &#039;&#039;&#039;neem&#039;&#039;&#039; (&#039;&#039;Azadirachta indica&#039;&#039;; for tropical wound infection).<br /> <br /> == Members indexed ==<br /> <br /> Calendula (&#039;&#039;Calendula officinalis&#039;&#039;), comfrey (&#039;&#039;Symphytum officinale&#039;&#039;; topical only), plantain (&#039;&#039;Plantago major&#039;&#039;), yarrow (&#039;&#039;Achillea millefolium&#039;&#039;), St John&#039;s wort (&#039;&#039;Hypericum perforatum&#039;&#039;), self-heal (&#039;&#039;Prunella vulgaris&#039;&#039;), tea tree oil (&#039;&#039;Melaleuca alternifolia&#039;&#039;), centella (&#039;&#039;Centella asiatica&#039;&#039;), aloe vera (cross-listed), San qi (&#039;&#039;Panax notoginseng&#039;&#039;), goldenseal (&#039;&#039;Hydrastis canadensis&#039;&#039;), echinacea (cross-listed), arnica (&#039;&#039;Arnica montana&#039;&#039;; topical only for bruises and sprains, contraindicated on broken skin), and the historical herbal-wound preparations of the European folk tradition (woundwort &#039;&#039;Stachys officinalis&#039;&#039;, knapweed, the &quot;all-heal&quot; plants of various species).<br /> <br /> == Notes on scope ==<br /> <br /> The boundary of this category is &quot;herb applied topically to wounds or to similar tissue injury to support healing.&quot; The systemic vulnerary action of selected herbs (the wound-healing-supportive effect of zinc-containing preparations, of vitamin C, of arginine and glutamine) is mineral and biochemical rather than herbal and is listed elsewhere. The pharmaceutical wound-healing medicines (topical antibiotics, the recombinant PDGF gel becaplermin, the modern wound-care dressings) are listed under their primary classes. Several vulneraries are cross-listed under [[:Category:Dermatologic_herbs|dermatologic herbs]] for the broader skin-and-mucous-membrane application.<br /> <br /> == About these pages ==<br /> <br /> This category page is an encyclopedia article about its subject. The actual index of herbs belonging to the category is generated automatically by the wiki engine, from category-membership declarations on the individual herb pages, and appears at the foot of the page below the references.<br /> <br /> == References ==<br /> <br /> &lt;references/&gt;<br /> <br /> [[Category:Plants]]<br /> [[Category:Herbal_medicines]]<br /> [[Category:CuratedCategoryPage]]</div>

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