Effusanin E shows antibacterial and anti-cancer activities, it significantly inhibits cell proliferation and induces apoptosis in NPC cells by suppressing p50 p65 proteins to down-regulate COX-2 expression .
Effusanin B shows antibacterial activity. It exhibits DNA-damaging activity in assay which employes DNA-repair deficient (RAD 52Y) and repair proficient (RAD +) yeast strains.