Crebanine has antiarrhythmic, anticancer, anti-inflammatory, and analgesic properties; it can significantly improve the cognitive deficits induced by scopolamine, via the alpha-7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor, crebanine or its scaffold can be used as the starting point to develop a drug for Alzheimer's disease.Crebanine can reduce TNF-α-induced cancer cell proliferation, invasion, and survival by suppressing NF-κB activity and expression profile of its downstream genes.