TEPEZCOHUITE
Tepezcohuite®

From Mimosa tenuiflora (Willd.) Poir tree.

In Brazil it is found in the  of the Bahia and Pernambuco States, where it is known by the popular names - calumbi, jurema or jurema-black color.

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By Luiz Claudio Candido, MD

The tepezcohuite is used in the dust form (Figure 1), being able to be used  manipulated, industrialized product or in natura.

They have bacteriostatic, bactericidal and antiinflammatory properties.

It is indicated in the treatment of clean cutaneous wound and little exsudative, for example, superficial traumatic wound and second degree burn.

The dressing originates superficial and protetive crust, that keeps the stream bed of the humid wound, prevents the heat loss and facilitates the granulation tissue formation.

The cutaneous epithelization provokes the spontaneous degloving dressing.