Homomangiferin has important medicinal properties and is widely used to relieve many symptoms, for example coughing and asthma.Homomangiferin shows antitumoural effects against MDA-MB-231 cells.
1,5,6-Trihydroxy-3-methoxyxanthone exhibits scavenging activity at 10 μM and significantly reduces the viability of HL-60 cells with an IC50 value of 28.9 μM.