Lasiocarpine N-oxide is a natural compound found to be higher in many tea bags, herbal drugs and honey by mass spectrometry.

Sanggenol L shows higher cytotoxicity against human oral tumor cell lines (HSC-2 and HSG) than against normal human gingival fibroblasts (HGF), it induces apoptosis via caspase activation and inhibition of NF-κB/IκBα± phosphorylation as a potent chemotherapeutic agent for ovarian cancers.

Isorhapontin inhibits the activity of Trichoderma cellobiohydrolase I (Ki = 57.2 μM) and Trichoderma endoglucanase I. Isorhapontin shows antifungal activity.