Ciwujianoside B can relieve fatigue, enhance memory, and improve human cognition, it may enhance reuse of choline to accelerate the synthesis of acetylcholine in hippocampal neurons by activation of cholinesterase. Ciwujianoside B has inhibitory effects on apoptosis induced by MIRI and cardiomyocytes apoptosis induced by H 2 O 2 in rats; it also shows radioprotective effects on the hematopoietic system in mice, which is associated with changes in the cell cycle, a reduction in DNA damage, and down-regulation of the ratio of Bax/Bcl-2 in bone marrow cells exposed to radiation.

4'-demethylpodophyllotoxin is an organic heterotetracyclic compound that is podophyllotoxin in which the methyl ether group at position 4 of the trimethoxyphenyl group has been cleaved to afford the corresponding phenol. It has a role as a metabolite. It is a member of phenols, an organic heterotetracyclic compound and a furonaphthodioxole.