Burn injury in Mottahari Burn Center in Tehran, Iran

Burn is one of the devastating conditions in emergency medicine resulting into physical and psychological disabilities.1 During pregnancy, it has an increasing trend for mortality and morbidity of both mother and infant.2 So practical activities to decrease its physical and emotional complications seem mandatory.2 For survivors, the most persisting problem is scarring while healing is a complex process including inflammation, granulation, and remodeling of the tissue.3 Silver sulfadiazine was reported as the gold standard in topical burn therapy with antibacterial properties.4 There may be the resistance of several bacteria to silver sulfadiazine. So, there is a need for new agents for treatment of burn wounds with less adverse effects and more efficacy.4 The medicinal herbals were extensively used in wound healing of burn injuries.