d-Sophoridine是苦参中分离出的右旋喹喔啉生物碱，能够诱导细胞凋亡，表现出潜在的抗癌活性，尤其在胰腺癌的研究中展示了良好的选择性和耐受性。

Sophocarpine, a natural product isolated and purified from the herb of Sophora alopecuroidos L., with anti-viral, anti-cachectic and anti-inflammatory effects, can alleviate liver fibrosis mainly by inhibiting the TLR4 pathway, it may be a potential chemotherapeutic agent for chronic liver diseases, ameliorate the ischemic injury induced by transient focal cerebral ischemia in rats and that this neuroprotective effect may be related to the anti-ASIC1 channel and anti-apoptotic action of sophocarpine, and also alleviate hepatocyte steatosis and the potential mechanism may be the activated signaling pathway of AMPK.

Oxysophocarpine, a natural product isolated and purified from the root of Styphnolobium japonicum (L.) Schott., can decrease the level of serum transaminase, improve lipid metabolism, reduce synthesis of inflammatory cytokines TNF-α, TGF-β1 and IL-6, activate protective adipocytokine adiponectin, and may be a drug for colonic inflammation and NASH.