Keywords: (20S,22S)-dammar-22,25-epoxy-3E,12E,20-triol, acid hydrolysate, ginsenoside.Ginsenosides are considered to be the main bioactive constituents of Panax ginseng, which has a range of biological activities including anticancer [1-3], angiogenesis [4][5][6], and neuroprotective effects [7]. As a part of our continuing studies, a bioassay-guided isolation of the degradation products of ginsenosides was performed, and six ginsenosides (1-6) were obtained from the fraction. Compound 1, a new aglycone with an oxacyclopentane ring at the C-17 side chain, was isolated, which differed from the ocotillol type ginsengenin and has never been reported before in approximately over 200 saponins that have been isolated from ginseng plants [8]. Herein, we describe the isolation and structural elucidation of compound 1 and the other five known ginsenosides, as well as the inhibitory activities of isolated ginsenosides against human cancer cell lines.The crude ginsenosides were refluxed in 50% EtOH with 5, 10, and 15% hydrochloric acid and extracted with an equal volume of CHCl 3 three times, and the organic layer was evaporated to yield the ginsenoside hydrolysate. The IC 50 of the three hydrolysates were 47.8, 29.6, and 39.5 Pg/mL, respectively, and that of the crude ginsenosides was 127.2 Pg/mL against SW1116 cell lines. The 10% hydrolysate was the most active with respect to the value of IC 50 (the lower the value, the stronger the activity), so this hydrolysate was subject to normal-phase and reversed-phase silica gel column chromatography and repeated HPLC to afford compound 1 and five known ginsenosides that were confirmed as 20R,24R-dammar-20(24)-epoxy-3E,12E,25-triol (2) [9], 20R-panaxdiol (3) [10], dammar-(E)-20(22)-ene-3E,12E,25-triol (4, NPD) [11], 20R-protopanaxadiol (5) [12], and 20R-dammar-25-ethoxy-3E,12E,20-triol (6) [13, 14] by comparing their NMR spectroscopic data with the literature values.