01456nas a2200193   4500000000100000008004100001100001000042700001100052700001100063700001200074700001000086700000900096700001100105245010900116856005100225300001500276490000700291520096400298       2019                            d1 aHsu W1 aTsai W1 aHung S1 aCheng H1 aHsu C1 aHo T1 aChen H00aTreatment of leprosy wounds with “Jinchuang ointment”, a traditional Chinese herbal medicine complex  uhttps://leprosyreview.org/article/90/4/19-0068  a460– 4680 v903 aSummary Non-healing ulcers are frequently seen in leprosy, which become one of the major causes of disability. For more than a decade, Jinchuang ointment, a
traditional Chinese herbal medicine has been successfully used to treat non-healing wounds and pressure sores of diabetics in several hospitals in Taiwan. The recipe of this herbal medicine was first published in 1732. The object of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of this herbal medicine for the treatment of chronic non-healing ulcers of leprosy patients, present for up to ten years. They were already given up by other physicians to treat their wounds. Four patients with an average age of 86 were treated in this study. Our results show that Jinchuang ointment provides a feasible, safe, simple and low-cost method to treat leprosy ulcers. Due to its low cost, this traditional Chinese medicine might play an important role in treating leprosy ulcers in low income countries in the future.