Symptom → Plant Sources
Bay Leaf (Laurus nobilis) as a tool for helping with Wounds
inferred from antimicrobial action
5 sources supporting Bay Leaf for Wounds. Includes scientific publications, books, monographs and traditional-use references.
Mechanistic basis
This use is associated with the plant's antimicrobial, vulnerary (wound healing) actions. Further evidence for that pharmacology:
The leaf essential oil of Laurus nobilis from southern Italy, dominated by 1,8-cineole, sabinene and linalool, was characterised by GC-MS and showed antimicrobial and antioxidant activities, supporting the medicinal use of bay laurel.
Activity-guided fractionation of Laurus nobilis leaves yielded the sesquiterpene lactones dehydrocostus lactone and zaluzanin D and a new p-menthane hydroperoxide with trypanocidal activity against Trypanosoma cruzi, identifying antimicrobial/antiparasitic constituents of bay laurel.
In experimentally induced open wounds in rabbits, topical Laurus nobilis leaf extract accelerated wound contraction and epithelialisation compared with controls, demonstrating a vulnerary wound-healing effect of bay laurel.