“…Repeated column chromatography of soluble fractions obtained fifteen compounds (1-15) including 1-2 from hexane-soluble fraction, 3-13 from EtOAc-soluble fraction and 14-15 from BuOHsoluble fraction. On the basis of their physicochemical data, and by comparing with those published in the literature, isolated compounds (1-15) were identified as chyrsophanol (1) (Sang et al, 2005), physcion (2) (Carmo et al, 1981), desoxyrhaponticin (3) (Kashiwada et al, 1984), rhapontincin (4) (Yoshiki et al, 1984), resveratrol (5) (Jin et al, 2002), desoxyrhapontigenin (6) (Kashiwada et al, 1984), emodin (7) (Choi et al, 2005), rhapontigenin (8) (Kashiwada et al, 1984), chrysophanol-8-O-E-D-glucopyranoside (9) (Kashiwada et al, 1984), piracetannol-3'-E-D-glucopyranoside (10) (Kashiwada et al, 1984), piceid (11) (Kashiwada et al, 1984), H-viniferin (12) (Ito et al, 1999;Kim et al, 1999), isorhapontin (14) (Artemnika et al, 2004), and emodin-8-O-E-glucopyranoside (15) (Zhang et al, 2005).…”