For centuries, people use the plant as active ingredients in traditional medicine.
In the past twenty years, a novel class of natural products has provided for more attention: the polyprenylated, polycyclic Acylphloroglucine, PPAP shortly. They have been proven to make including the microbes finish off or stop the uncontrolled proliferation of cancer cells.
In an advance online publication of the journal Nature Chemistry, 16 October 2011 [see below] reported the group led by Prof. Bernd Plietker by the Institute of Organic Chemistry at the University of Stuttgart, that it had managed, in just seven consecutive reactions diverse representatives of this class of natural compounds selectively produce in larger quantities.