Petasites japonicus have been used since a long time in folk medicine to treat diseases including plague, pestilential fever, allergy, and inflammation in East Asia and European countries. Bioactive compounds that may prevent and treat infectious diseases are identified based on their ability
Two migrated ursane skeleton triterpenoids, one is D:B-friedoursane-3alpha,16alpha-dihydroxy-7alpha,8alpha-epoxy-5(10)-ene, named petatrichol A (1) and the other one represents a novel triterpenoid carbon framework, named petatrichol B (2), along with 10 known compounds were isolated from the
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