Patent ID: 8349356

Claim:
A wound dressing comprising a composition comprising an extract of chamomile flowers and dioecious nettle leaves, and a biocompatible polymer; wherein the extract is produced from chamomile flowers and dioecious nettle leaves (1) that are present in a ratio of about 2.7:1 by weight of chamomile flowers to dioecious nettle leaves, and (2) wherein the chamomile components and the dioecious nettle components in the extract together are present in an amount of 0.33-0.92% by weight of the biocompatible polymer; and wherein the biocompatible polymer is selected from one or more of agarose, agar, carrageen, alginic acid, alginate or other alginic acid derivative, a hyaluronate derivative, a polyanionic polysaccharide, chitin, chitosan, fibrin, a polyglycolide, a polylactide, a polycaprolactone, a dextran or copolymer thereof, polyvinyl pyrrolidone, a polyacrylate, a wax, a polyethylene-polyoxypropylene-block polymer, wool fat, poly(L-lactic acid), poly(DL-Lactic acid) copoly(lactic/glycolic acid), cellulose, a cellulose derivative, a glycol, polylactide-polyglycolide, polymethyldisiloxane, polycaprolactone, polylactic acid, and ethylene vinyl acetate.