“…Phytochemical studies show that abundant compounds exist in P. asiatica , such as phenylethanoid glycosides (Miyase et al, ), phenolics (Ravn, Nishibe, Sasahara, & Xuebo, ) and various polysaccharides (Yin et al, ), among which phenylethanoid glycosides are the main components of this herb (Li, Liu, Liu, Tsao, & Liu, ; Li, Liu, Liu, & Wang, ). Phenylethanoid glycosides are widely distributed in the plant kingdom, and have been reported to possess various biological activities including antibacterial, cytotoxic, antioxidant, hepaprotective and immunomodulatory properties (Ma et al, ; Nazemiyeh et al, ).…”