When cocaine eventually fell from grace as a beverage ingredient, kola-extract colas became popular.

The results showed that both the cell-free extract and culture supernate from mouse SRS-82 cell line were leukemogenic.

Four compounds, namely 10 nonacosane, 24 methylenecycloartanol, stigmasterol and dacosterol have been isolated from the precipitate of the plant's methanol extract.