Table 2.

Effect of Pongamia pinnata on wound contraction by excision wound model (N = 6).

Post wounding (days)	Wound area (mm2) (mean ± S.E.) and percentage of wound contraction
	Control	Leaf extract	Standard
1	525 ± 2.1	522 ± 3.8	515 ± 2.5
4	439 ± 2.2 (16.01%)	408 ± 2.2 (21.53%)	415 ± 14.1 (18.94%)
7	317 ± 4.2 (35.2%)	247 ± 2.8 (52.9%)	270 ± 2.8 (48.29%)
10	306 ± 3.9 (41.49%)	117 ± 5.2 (77.50%)	189 ± 1.6 (63.08%)
13	266 ± 2.7 (49.5%)	65 ± 1.8 (87.30%)	108 ± 2.2 (78.90%)
16	200 ± 2.4 (61.75%)	30 ± 2.2b (93.16%)	73 ± 1.8 (85.96%)
19	35 ± 2.2b (93.16%)	00 ± 2.1 (100%)	8 ± 0.2 (98.43%)
21	00 ± 00b (100%)	00 ± 00b (100%)	00 ± 00 (100%)

p < 0.05. Statistically significant difference in comparison with control group.