Alpinumisoflavone has atheroprotective effects, may result from their ability to upregulate mechanisms promoting HDL-cholesterol and bile acid formation, it is endowed with estrogenic properties accounting, at least in part, for E. lysistemon effects.

aromatase (CYP19) inhibitor.

Methyl nomilinate from citrus can modulate cell cycle regulators to induce cytotoxicity in human colon cancer (SW480) cells in vitro.