“…Plants of this family have been traditionally used for their anti-inflammatory, anti-tumours (Chopra et al 1956;Ahmad, Usmaghani, et al 1983, 1988Ahmad, Noorwala, et al 1993;Masoodi et al 2008;Mahmood et al 2010), immunostimulant (Pan et al 2003(Pan et al , 2013, antidiabetic (Noor et al 2013), anti-oxidant, antimicrobial, anti-complementary, antiepileptic and antineoplastic activities (Piacente et al 1998;Sethi et al 2008Sethi et al , 2012Sethi et al , 2013MacLeod et al 1997). In the search of these novel compounds, various species of the genus Hoya have been examined chemically and a number of biologically active steroids and their glycosides have been isolated (Mahmood et al 2012;Dembitsky et al 2004).…”