Natural healing

Natural Healing Track

Natural wound healing and bioactive natural products

A wound is a disruption of the normal anatomical structure and function of a tissue. Wounds cure in an orderly and timely repair process which is characterized by three dynamic and interactive phases: inflammation, proliferation and the remodeling. The present review was designed to elaborate the cellular and molecular targets for plant secondary metabolites that target the various aspects of w...

28A. Natural Healing and Cooking

In this experiential Natural Healing and Cooking workshop, attendees will get a " taste " of how to use food as medicine. This session introduces attendees to a proven, practical, and delicious way to fight and protect against obesity, diabetes, heart disease, autoimmune disorders, and cancer—through the power of the plate. The founders of the UCSD Natural Healing and Cooking program encapsulat...

Cosmeceuticals and natural products: wound healing.

Despite several technologic and strategic advances in the field, wound care has returned to the roots of medicine and embraced some of the remedies used millennia ago. Some of the many potentially beneficial natural products include the beta-glucans, honey, aloe, cocoa, and oak bark extracts. There has recently been a surge of interest for their possible roles in wound healing.

Wound healing in the wild: stress, sociality and energetic costs affect wound healing in natural populations.

Ecoimmunologists strive to understand how ecology and evolution shape immunity in natural populations. To date, ecoimmunologists have sometimes struggled to find measures of immunity that can be easily performed in nonmodel systems. One exception is variation in rates of cutaneous wound healing, which is a functionally important, integrative measure of immunity that combines cell-mediated, infl...