The treatment is a type of biotherapy and involves applying live, disinfected maggots on soft tissue wounds. The maggots then eat the dead tissue in the wound and disinfect it. The more common method of cleaning dead tissue in a wound is surgical debridement.
Maggot therapy is mentioned in the Charaka Samhita, an ancient Sanskrit text that is one the foundational texts for the Indian holistic healing system, Ayurveda.
