Wound Healing With Herbal Excipients: Navigating Regulatory and Ethical Landscapes

Vivek Pazhamalai Department of Bioengineering, Vels Institute of Science, Technology, and Advanced Studies, India https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2088-7545 M. Suriya Department of Bioengineering, Vels Institute of Science, Technology, and Advanced Studies, India https://orcid.org/0009-0008-5398-0221 V. Aarthi Department of Bioengineering, Vels Institute of Science, Technology, and Advanced Studies, India https://orcid.org/0009-0004-0177-7716 S. Ivo Romauld Department of Bioengineering, Vels Institute of Science, Technology, and Advanced Studies, India https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0610-0646 S. S. Meenambiga Department of Bioengineering, Vels Institute of Science, Technology, and Advanced Studies, India https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5445-525X R. Chandrasekaran Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vels Institute of Science, Technology, and Advanced Studies, India Anbarasu Mariyappillai Department of Agronomy, School of Agriculture, Vels Institute of Science, Technology, and Advanced Studies, India https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7970-4454 Wound Healing With Herbal Excipients Navigating Regulatory and Ethical Landscapes

The combination of herbal excipients and polymers, as alternatives to conventional medicines, offers the potential for a novel and effective wound healing therapeutic approach with biocompatibility, sustainability, and improved outcomes for patients. The use of herbal components derived from medicinal plants, which have anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, and regenerative properties, combined with polymers, both natural and synthetic, as they can also affect the encapsulation of various types of therapies and create a controlled drug release system while mimicking the extra cellular matrix /wound site, heralds a new era of Herbo-polymeric technologies in wound care. Although the advancements in wound care technologies are substantial, the adoption of Herbo-polymeric technologies is hindered by a fragmented regulatory space, inconsistency in standards, and complicated ethical issues. The chapter outlines an integrated approach to explore the interdisciplinary science, formulation, as well as an analysis of the regulatory and ethical category associated with herbal and polymeric systems.
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