The collected samples were dried in shade,pulverized by a
mechanical grinder and passed through 40-mesh sieve,to get the
fine powder.The dried powder (1.5kg) was defatted with petroleum ether (60–80 1C) and extracted with sterile distilledwater (24 l) and or methanol (34 l) at ambient temperature, filtered and either lyophilized or evaporated to
dryness under reduced pressure in an Eyela Rotary Evaporator (Japan) at 40–45 1C.
The % yield (w/w)of the aqueous (10.170.51) and methanol (8.8870.44) extract was determined by the formula: % yield
(w/w) ¼ fixed weights of the extract weight 100 (Chattopadhyayet al.,2012). Both the extracts were aliquoted in amber coloured.The part of the extracts was studied for wound healing activity,and further fractionations were
carried out with the bioactive extracts.