Lactupicrin is a characteristic bitter sesquiterpene lactone that can relieve pain. Lactupicrin exhibits atheroprotective effect.

Sieboldin is a dihydrochalcone, which inhibits the production of advanced glycation end products (AGE) produced by bovine serum albumins (BSA), has free radical scavenging activity and cytotoxicity in cancer cell lines, and is also used to capture of methylglyoxal (MGO) from Malus baccata.

Epimagnolin A is a lignan obtained from the flower buds of Magnolia fargesii, which is traditionally used in Asian medicine for treating headache and nasal congestion.?A herbal compound fargesin obtained from M. fargesii, has exerted anti-inflammatory effects in human monocytic THP-1 cells in the previous study.?it was demonstrated that epimagnolin A reduced phorbol-12-myristate-13-acetate (PMA)-induced IL-6 promoter activity and IL-6 production in human monocytic THP-1 cells.?