This extract has been shown in mice to reduce immunologic attenuation due to stress.

[3] Leaf blade elliptic or ovate-lanceolate, 6–17 × 2–6 cm, leathery, margin sharply coarsely-serrate.

[4] The plant is distributed in Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Cambodia, Malaysia, India, Japan, Korea, the Philippines and, in China (Jiangxi, Anhui, Fujian, Guizhou, Guangxi, Hong Kong, Hunan, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guangdong, Zhejiang and other places), growing at an altitude of 420 meters to 1,500 meters, often growing on wet slopes and in shaded valleys.

The plant is used during Japanese New Year for chabana decoration, normally along winter jasmine.

[5][6] Others plants used instead of Sarcandra glabra because of its similarity to it are coralberry trees and Ardisia japonica.