“…Commonly, the aglycon of cycloartane-type saponins such as 1 – 62 possess an acyclic side chain at the 17-position. For the 17-acyclic side chain substituted cycloartane-type saponins, obtained from the Astragalus genus, the 24-position is often replaced by oxygen containing groups, and there are two kinds of steric configuration constituents with 24 S ( 1 – 28 ) [6,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22] or 24 R ( 29 – 48 ) [7,14,15,16,17,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34].…”