This invention relates to the use of kauranes compounds having the structure of formula (I) in the manufacture of a medicament for treating and preventing the diseases such as coronary heart disease, cerebral apoplexy, cerebral ischemia and rhythm disturbance etc. The present compounds also have obvious protective effect against cerebral infarction and cerebral injure from ischemia, in which: R1 is H, hydroxy or alkoxy; R2 is carboxy, carboxylate group, acyl halide, aldehyde group, hydroxymethyl, ester group which can be hydrolyzed to carboxy, amide, acyl or ether group; R3, R4, R5, R6, R8 each independently are H, hydroxy, hydroxymethyl, ester group which can be hydrolyzed to hydroxymethyl, or alkoxymethyl; R7 is methyl, hydroxymethyl, ester group which can be hydrolyzed to hydroxymethyl, or alkoxymethyl; R9 is methylene or oxygen atom.