Table 4.

Anti-inflammatory potentials of S. edelbergii extracts.

		Paw Volume Changes (Mean ± SEM)
Treatment	Dose (mg/kg)	1 h	2 h	3 h	Average Reading	% Inhibition
Carrageenan	1 mL	1.07 ± 0.03	1.31 ± 0.01	1.63 ± 0.02	1.33 ± 0.02
Diclofenac	50	0.51 ± 0.02	0.35 ± 0.05	0.19 ± 0.03	0.35 ± 0.05	74
SECR	50	0.91 ± 0.07	0.82 ± 0.01	0.69 ± 0.05	0.80 ± 0.04 *	39
	100	0.79 ± 0.04	0.66 ± 0.02	0.53 ± 0.06	0.66 ± 0.04 *	50
SEEA	50	0.82 ± 0.06	0.73 ± 0.03	0.60 ± 0.01	0.71 ± 0.03 *	47
	100	0.74 ± 0.03	0.61 ± 0.02	0.49 ± 0.03	0.61 ± 0.02 *	54
SECH	50	0.88 ± 0.05	0.79 ± 0.02	0.65 ± 0.04	0.77 ± 0.03 *	42
	100	0.79 ± 0.02	0.68 ± 0.04	0.56 ± 0.01	0.67 ± 0.02 *	50
SENB	50	0.89 ± 0.03	0.78 ± 0.05	0.70 ± 0.02	0.79 ± 0.03 *	41
	100	0.81 ± 0.04	0.70 ± 0.02	0.62 ± 0.01	0.71 ± 0.02 *	47
SENH	50	0.93 ± 0.01	0.83 ± 0.06	0.74 ± 0.03	0.83 ± 0.03 *	38
	100	0.86 ± 0.03	0.77 ± 0.03	0.68 ± 0.02	0.77 ± 0.03 *	42
SEAQ	50	0.95 ± 0.02	0.87 ± 0.02	0.79 ± 0.03	0.87 ± 0.02 *	35
	100	0.88 ± 0.03	0.81 ± 0.02	0.75 ± 0.01	0.81 ± 0.02 *	39

SE, S. edelbergii; NH, n-hexane; AQ, aqueous; CH, chloroform; NB, n-BuOH; EA, EtOAc; CR, crude. Diclofenac sodium is the positive control. n = 3 with p ≤ 0.05 *; data were taken as mean ± SEM.