However its low solubility and blood lytic activity on erythrocytes might make it a poor pharmaceutical candidate.
[1] Kaurenoic acid also has uterine relaxant activity via calcium blockade and opening ATP-sensitive potassium channels.
Kaurenoic acid is found in several plants such as Copaifera.
[2] Kaurenoic acid has been studied for its medicinal properties and seems to have anti-inflammatory, antiulcerogenic, antitumor, antinociceptive, antimelanoma, antitilipoperoxidation, antioxidant and antimicrobial properties.
It seems to inhibit histamine and serotonin pathways, in addition to antiprotozoal activities against Trypanosoma cruzi[4][5] and Leishmania amazonensis.