Hamamelitannin has cytotoxic, and antibiofilm activities. It increases the susceptibility of S. aureus to antibiotic treatment in in vivo Caenorhabditis elegans and mouse mammary gland infection models. It also has a high protective activity on cell damage induced by peroxides.

Schisandrone has strong activities of anti-oxidation, effectively scavenges hydroxyl radical and superoxide anion, and has protective effects on cells under active oxygen stress state. Schisandrone can significantly decrease phosphorylation levels of Tau protein at 396, 262 sites, and relieve neuronal injury, but the phosphorylation level does not reach a negative cell level; it can suppress the Aβ-induced oxidative stress and inflammatory reaction through influencing NF-κB signaling pathway, exerting its protective effect on Alzheimer disease.

Isoforsythiaside has antioxidant, and antibacterial activities.

Isobavachromene is an inhibitor of NADH-Ubiquinone oxidoreductase and ornithine decarboxylase. Isobavachromene has antifungal activity.

Multicaulisin is a natural product from Morus multicaulis.

Asperosaponin VI has antioxidant activity, it shows protective effect against hypoxia-induced cardiomyocytes apoptosis probably by activating the PI3K/Akt and CREB pathways, it also plays protective roles on acute myocardial infarction in rats. Asperosaponin VI may induce osteoblast maturation and differentiation, and then increase bone formation via increasing BMP-2 synthesis, and activating p38 and ERK1/2. Akebia saponin D is a triterpenoid saponin that is hederagenin attached to a alpha-L-arabinopyranosyl residue at position 3 via a glycosidic linkage and a 6-O-beta-D-glucopyranosyl-beta-D-glucopyranosyl residue at position 28 via an ester linkage. It is the active ingredient found in the traditional Chinese herb Radix Dipsaci.

Polygalasaponin possesses evident anxiolytic and sedative-hypnotic activities and has a relatively safe dose range, which supports the use of Polygala tenuifolia root as an anxiolytic and sedative-hypnotic drug in folk medicine.

Physcion shows cytotoxic effect on human cervical carcinoma HeLa cells and its apoptosis induction in HeLa cells was investigated by the expressions of p53, p21, Bax, Bcl-2, caspase-9, and caspase-3 proteins. Physcion controls powdery mildew mainly through changing the expression of defence-related genes, and especially enhancing expression of leaf-specific thionin in barley leaves.