Botanical Source

Linarin is a flavone glycoside in the plants Flos chrysanthemi indici, Buddleja officinalis, Cirsium setosum, Mentha arvensis and Buddleja davidii, possesses analgesic, antipyretic, anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective activities.

Sinapine thiocyanate has antioxidant activities and is hepatoprotective in a dose-dependent manner, implies that Brassica rapa seeds could be developed as a functional food for hepatoprotection.

Chlorogenic acid has antioxidative activity, superoxide anion radicals, and radical scavenging activity.

Genkwanin has antitumor, and anti-inflammatory activities, it enhances host immunity, decreases the inflammatory cytokine levels, and regulates the miR-101/MKP-1/MAPK pathway.Genkwanin may have anti-skin ageing activity, it can up-regulate the transcriptional activation of human type vii collagen gene promoter, stimulating the formation of anchoring fibrils at the basement membrane zone in skin contributed to preventing skin ageing; it also induces a decrease of melanin synthesis by inhibiting tyrosinase activity, it could as skin whitening agent in cosmetic preparations.