Hexaminolevulinate hydrochloride has approved for cystoscopic detection of papillary bladder cancer and it also is a fluorescent agent.

Bufotenine may have hallucinogenic potential, the presence and levels of bufotenine might be useful and important markers of some psychiatric disorders. Bufotenine is able to block rabies virus infection in BHK-21 cells.

Sauchinone is a useful adjunctive treatment for bacterial infection. Sauchinone, an active lignan found in Saururus chinensis, to regulate the activation of HSCs, to prevent liver fibrosis, and to inhibit oxidative stress in vivo and in vitro.