Senkyunolide A is a useful standard compound for the quality evaluation and chemical differentiation between Rhizoma chuanxiong and Angelica sinensis, and suitable for the analysis of a large number of samples.

Sabeluzole (R-58735) has antiepileptic and cognitive enhancing effects, inhibits neurotoxin-induced tau expression and cell death.

Evonimine (Euonine) is an alkaloid isolated from Tripterygium wilfordii Hook. Evonimine exhibits significant inhibition of humoral-mediated immunity using the haemolytic response as an indicator, and shows good anti-feeding activity against the lepidopteran Spodoptera littoralis.