“…Hispolon (6-(3,4-dihydroxy-phenyl)-4-hydroxy-hexa-3,5-dien-2-one; C 12 H 12 O 4 ), a yellow pigment and a natural polyphenol, isolated from the Phellinus igniarius and Phellinus linteus, is structurally similar to curcumin, but lacks one aryl moiety (Balaji et al, 2015;Hyang et al, 2015;Toopmuang et al, 2014;Wu et al, 2014). It exhibits protective effect against acute liver damage (Huang et al, 2012), in ammation (Chang et al, 2011), metastasis (Huang et al, 2010), proliferation of cancer cells (Huang et al, 2011), generation of ROS (Ali et al, 1996), estrogenesis in breast cancer (Hyang et al, 2015), (Wang et al, 2014).…”