“…The main chemical constituents of P. cocos are polysaccharides, triterpenoids, egosterol and proteins (Tai, Akahori, & Shingu, 1992;Tai, Shingu, Kikuchi, Tezuka, & Akahori, 1995a;Tai, Shingu, Kikuchi, Tezuka, & Akahori, 1995b;Wang & Wan, 1998;Yang & Bao, 2005), in which triterpenoids are found to possess interesting pharmacological actions such as cytotoxic and anti-oxidant (Zhou et al, 2008), anti-cancer (Gapter, Wang, Glinski, & Ng, 2005), anti-inflammatory (Yasukawa et al, 1998), inhibition of free radical-induced lysis of red blood cells (Sekiya, Goto, Shimada, & Terasawa, 1998) and inhibition of calf DNA polymerase a and rat DNA polymerase b (Akihisa et al, 2004;Kaminaga et al, 1996). Up to now, more than 80 triterpenoid compounds were isolated and identified from P. cocos with the above-mentioned bioactivities.…”