Use of amylum for healing chronic weeping wounds, especially leg ulcers

摘要

Chronic weeping wounds are healed by the topical application of powdered amylum (plant starch). The amylum is obtained from wheat, maize, rye, barley or sorghum seeds, fruit, e.g. acorns, chestnuts, peas, beans, other shelled fruit and bananas, tubers, e.g. potatoes, maranta, manioc and batata, or tree medulla, e.g. sago palm. Chronic weeping wounds are healed by the topical application of powdered amylum (plant starch). The amylum is obtained from wheat, maize, rye, barley or sorghum seeds, fruit, e.g. acorns, chestnuts, peas, beans, other shelled fruit and bananas, tubers, e.g. potatoes, maranta, manioc and batata, or tree medulla, e.g. sago palm. It is thermally treated to remove germs and packaged sterile in individual doses.