King Alferd’s Mushroom (Daldinia concentrica) - An Investigation on its Cutaneous Wound Healing Activity from the Indigenous Knowledge of Tribes of Sirumalai Hills, Tamilnadu, India | Chapter 5 | Current Overview on Pharmaceutical Science Vol. 6

 The current study is an attempt to conduct an ethnomycological grow quickly survey among the paliyar tribals of five conclusions in the Sirumalai hills. Daldinia concentrica, a grow quickly used by tribals for wound restorative, was tested in vivo in a informer model. Wild mushroom likely to grow on areas accompanying high dampness and rainfall.  The survey revealed that 92% of the accused consume sprout as food and four mushrooms are secondhand in ethnomedicine in the study area that is to say, Daldinia concentrica, Calvatia gigantean, Termitomyces microcarpus and Podaxis pistillaris. Daldinia concentrica for wound healing, is the first ethnomycological report, so the further study on Daldinia  found that the mushroom sample resides of alkaloid 0.97±0.07mg/kg, flavanoid 2.97±0.12mg/kg, phenol 0.32±0.01mg/kg, tannin 0.17±0.02mg/kg, terpenoid 0.07±0.01mg/kg and saponin 0.09±0.02mg/kg; and it’s in vivo wound healing activity was raise to be superior around 75 – 87% distinguished to that of the commercial balm neosporin. The activity maybe attributed to the cooperative effect of phytochemicals found in bureaucracy. Our findings clear up the traditional use of mushrooms in a assortment of treatments.

Author(s) Details:

Sumathy Raj,
School of Biotechnology, Dr. G.R. Damodaran College of Science, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.

Rajeshwaran Thangaraj,
Department of Biology, The Gandhigram Rural Institute – Deemed University, Gandhigram, Dindigul, Tamilnadu, India.

Kumuthakalavalli Renganathan,
Department of Biology, The Gandhigram Rural Institute – Deemed University, Gandhigram, Dindigul, Tamilnadu, India.

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