“…Plants with diverse medicinal properties especially those rich in anti-oxidant, anticarcinogenic and probably anti-inflammatory effects have come under much research activities and Andrographis paniculata (AP) is one of such [11,12]. AP has been reported to have a broad range of pharmacological effects including antioxidant [13,14], hepatoprotective [15], anticancer [16,17] anti-inflammatory [18], cardioprotective [19], antidiarrheal [20], antihyperglycemic [21], antihepatitis [22], anti-HIV [23], antimicrobial, antimalarial [24], cytotoxic [23] and immunostimulatory [25]. Several phytochemicals including 55 ent-labdane diterpenoids, 30 flavonoids, 8 quinic acids, 4 xanthones, andrographidoids A, B, C, D, and E as well as reported 3 new ent-labdane diterpenoids, namely, 19norandrographolides A, B, and C have been reported in the plant [26][27][28].…”