Lappaol A has antioxidant and antiaging properties, it may promote the C. elegans longevity and stress resistance through a JNK-1-DAF-16 cascade. Lappaol A also has potential chemosensitizing activity, it may be candidates for developing novel adjuvant anticancer agents.

Combretol has leishmanicidal activity, it showed moderate activity (growth inhibition 87.3 and 73.0 %, respectively, at 50 μM) against a multidrug-resistant L. tropica line. Combretol also shows weakly active cytotoxic activity.

(1R)-(?)-Myrtenal 通过 Akt 增强糖尿病大鼠骨骼肌和肝脏中的 GLUT2，从而改善高血糖。