The main saponin constituent of C. asiatica that has been shown to improve wound healing including increasing collagen synthesis and elevating antioxidant levels in various normal and diabetic wound models.

Asiaticoside is a triterpene found in Centella that exhibits anti-inflammatory, neuroprotective, cognition enhancing, antipyretic, antioxidative, pro-angiogenic, anticancer chemotherapeutic, and chemopreventive activities. Asiaticoside inhibits melanogenesis by decreasing DNA binding by MITF; as a…