The extracts of the plant and its constituents decreased mucus hyper-secretion and goblet cell hyperplasia, inhibited the cyclooxygenase and lipoxygenase pathways, as well as suppressed nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κβ) signaling and nitric oxide (NO) generation in a mouse model of asthma induced by OVA. The gene discussed is NFKB1; the disease is asthma.