Cholestyramine, a bile acid-binding resin, inhibits intestinal bile acid absorption which results in the increasing bile acid synthesis from cholesterol.

Cheilanthifoline has anti-osteoclastogenic property, it gives significant inhibitions on receptor activator of nuclear factor-κB ligand-induced differentiation of mouse bone marrow-derived macrophages into multinucleated osteoclasts.

Xanthohumol has anti-hepatitis C virus, anti-carcinogenic, free radical-scavenging, and anti-inflammatory activities, it can inhibit HIV-1 induced cytopathic effects, the production of viral p24 antigen and reverse transcriptase in C8166 lymphocytes at non-cytotoxic concentration.