“…has been used by the Chinese people for the treatment of hypertension, headache and fever [2], and by the Red-headed Yao people in Jinping of Yunnan Province of China to treat fear, neurotic disorders, high blood pressure, giddiness, bellyache, hysteritis, rheumatoid arthritis, arthritis, hemiplegia, sciatica, injuries from falls, and ulcers [3]. Aside from alkaloids and flavonoids, species of the genus Uncaria also contain a variety of pentacyclic triterpenoids, typically derived from ursolic, oleanolic, or quinovic acid [4,5]. In U. sessilifructus, a total of fifteen pentacyclic or tetracyclic oxindole alkaloids were identified prior to Philipson's 1978 review of Uncaria alkaloids [6].…”