“…(Chinese name, Tianjihuang) has been used as a Chinese medicinal herb for the treatment of infectious hepatitis, bacterial diseases and tumors for many years (Hu et al, 1996;Ishiguro et al, 1986;Wu et al, 1998;Li et al, 1993). Previous phytochemical studies of Tianjihuang have demonstrated that it mainly contains flavonoids (Wu et al, 1998;Ishiguro et al, 1991bIshiguro et al, , 1993, phloroglucinol derivatives (Hu et al, 2000), xanthonoids (Ishiguro et al, 1997), chromone glycosides (Wu et al, 1998;Ishiguro et al, 1990) and peptides (Ishiguro et al, 1991a). The isolated compounds were tested for their coagulant activity in in vitro systems.…”