Therapeutic Effects of Sansevieria Trifasciata Ointment in Callosities of Toes

Abstract

<p>Currently study was a double-blind clinical trial in terms of ointments with different contents and the variables such as sex, drug charges, occupation, age, number of lesions, patients, lesions location, time of manifestation, lesion size and methods of treatment and recovery time. In addition, total patients under studied were 100 people in dermatology clinic of Farshchian hospital of Hamadan in Iran that they were divided into two groups. The first group (A) contained of 68 individual who were divided into three groups which used <em>sanseveria</em> extract with different percentage of containing 5, 10, and 20%. Further, the second group (B) included 32 patients who used from other methods of treatment were divided into three groups. In one group12 patients have been treated by using salicylic acid, in the other groups 12 individuals used from electro cautery and 8 patients were used of the corn plasters method. In addition, 116 patients in this study were in the range of 7 to 57 years of age. In fact 100 of them have used the drug correctly while 16 patients were excluded due to wrong usage. Also the plant (<em>Sansevieria Trifasciata</em>) was prepared in Hamedan Research Center from plant by dried extracts method. Finally, the results were analyzed statistically using SPSS software. In conclusion, based on the results of significant impact on the treatment of corns, all patients (100%) in the first group have been treated, additionally all participants in the study were improved within 4 weeks such that the recovery time for the 5% ointment was 25 days, while for 10% and 20% ointment was 15 and 10 days respectively. </p>