“…Aconitum plants chemically comprise alkaloids, flavonoids, steroids, and glycosides, and the main efficacy components as well as the toxic components are diterpenoid alkaloids [21,22,23], which are reportedly some of the most promising, naturally abundant compounds for treating cancer [24]. Diterpenoid alkaloids have been studied since the 1940s, and based on structural differences such as the number of carbon atoms on the mother nucleus, diterpenoid alkaloids are generally divided into four categories: C 18 -, C 19 -, C 20 -, and bis-diterpenoid alkaloids [25,26,27,28,29].…”