10.22376/ijpbs.2019.10.1.p1-12 Volume 4 Issue 1 2013 (January - March) The present study was carried out with the bark of lessThan i greaterThan Pongamia pinnata lessThan /i greaterThan Linn, belonging to the family lessThan i greaterThan Fabaceae lessThan /i greaterThan . It is one of the fast growing, glabrous, deciduous tree and has recently gained importance as a commercial source of furanoflavones like kaempferol, karanjin. Methanolic extract of lessThan i greaterThan Pongamia pinnata lessThan /i greaterThan was subjected to phytochemical screening. Gut motility activity was produced by oral administration of castor oil. Various models used are gut motility in isolated rat intestine, propulsive gut motility in mice and laxative activity in rats. In pharmacological screening, the effect of methanolic extract of bark of lessThan i greaterThan Pongamia pinnata lessThan /i greaterThan Linn was evaluated in Wistar Albino Rats of either sex (150-200g) for Gut motility activity at a dose of 200 mg/kg and 400 mg/kg (p.o). The extract reduced the laxative activity as well as distance travelled by the charcoal meal. The presence of anthraquinone glycosides in the plant extract is responsible for the gut motility effect. Thus from the study and literature, it can be concluded that lessThan i greaterThan Pongamia pinnata1 lessThan /i greaterThan Linn have potent gut motility activity. KHUMANTHEM DEEPAK SINGH AND D. CHETIA Pongamia pinnata, Screening methods, Castor oil, Anthraquinone glycosides. 63-69