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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
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Boswellia sacra (Burseraceae)

Common Names
Olibanum; Frankincense; Olibanum Tree; Weihrauchbaum (Ger.); Weihrauchpflanze (Ger.); arbol del incensio (Sp.); Oliban (Sp.)
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe

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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
ISOINCENSOLE-OXIDE 0 Essential Oil Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980.
ISOINCENSOLE-OXIDE 0 Resin, Exudate, Sap Forcellese, M. L., Nicoletti, R., Petrossi, U. 1972. The Structure of Isoincensole-Oxide. Tetrahedron 28: 325-.
L-ALPHA-PINENE 0 Essential Oil Guenther, E., The Essential Oils, 6 volumes, D. van Nostrand, New York, 1948-1952.
LIMONENE 60 Essential Oil 128000.0 0.00 *
LIMONENE 60 Resin Essent. Oil 1.7 Abdel Wahab, S. M., Aboutabl, E. A., El-Zalabani, S. M., Fouad, H. A., De Pooter, H. L., El-Fallaha, B. 1987. The Essential Oil of Olibanum. Plant Med. 53 (4): 382-384.
LIMONENE 60 Resin, Exudate, Sap 78200.0 Chiavari, G., Gtalletti, G. C., Piccaglia, R., Mohamud, M. A. 1991. Differentiation Between Resins Boswellia carterii and Boswellia frereana (Frankincense) of Somali Origin. J. Essent. Oil Res. 3 (3):185-186.
LINALOOL 53 Resin Essent. Oil 20000.0 Abdel Wahab, S. M., Aboutabl, E. A., El-Zalabani, S. M., Fouad, H. A., De Pooter, H. L., El-Fallaha, B. 1987. The Essential Oil of Olibanum. Plant Med. 53 (4): 382-384.
MUCILAGE 3 Latex Exudate 120000.0 *
MUCILAGE 3 Resin, Exudate, Sap 120000.0 200000.0 *
MYRCENE 22 Essential Oil 36000.0 0.03 *
MYRCENE 22 Resin Essent. Oil 2000.0 Abdel Wahab, S. M., Aboutabl, E. A., El-Zalabani, S. M., Fouad, H. A., De Pooter, H. L., El-Fallaha, B. 1987. The Essential Oil of Olibanum. Plant Med. 53 (4): 382-384.
NEROL-ACETATE 0 Resin Essent. Oil Abdel Wahab, S. M., Aboutabl, E. A., El-Zalabani, S. M., Fouad, H. A., De Pooter, H. L., El-Fallaha, B. 1987. The Essential Oil of Olibanum. Plant Med. 53 (4): 382-384.
O-ACETYL-BETA-BOSWELLIC-ACID 0 Resin, Exudate, Sap Hairfield, E. M., Hairfield Jr., H. H., McNair, H. M. 1989. GC, GC/MS, and TLC of Beta-Boswellic Acid and O-Acetyl-Beta-Boswellic Acid from B. serrarta, B. carteii, and B. papyrifera. J. Chromatogr. Sci. 27 3: 127-133.
O-METHYL-ANISOLE 0 Resin Essent. Oil Abdel Wahab, S. M., Aboutabl, E. A., El-Zalabani, S. M., Fouad, H. A., De Pooter, H. L., El-Fallaha, B. 1987. The Essential Oil of Olibanum. Plant Med. 53 (4): 382-384.
OCTAN-1-OL 0 Resin Essent. Oil 127000.0 Abdel Wahab, S. M., Aboutabl, E. A., El-Zalabani, S. M., Fouad, H. A., De Pooter, H. L., El-Fallaha, B. 1987. The Essential Oil of Olibanum. Plant Med. 53 (4): 382-384.
OCTAN-1-OL-ACETATE 0 Resin Essent. Oil 600000.0 Abdel Wahab, S. M., Aboutabl, E. A., El-Zalabani, S. M., Fouad, H. A., De Pooter, H. L., El-Fallaha, B. 1987. The Essential Oil of Olibanum. Plant Med. 53 (4): 382-384.
OCTANOL 0 Essential Oil Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980.
OCTYL-ACETATE 0 Essential Oil Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980.
P-CYMENE 16 Essential Oil 3925.0 87000.0 0.08 *
P-CYMENE 16 Resin Essent. Oil 0.5 Abdel Wahab, S. M., Aboutabl, E. A., El-Zalabani, S. M., Fouad, H. A., De Pooter, H. L., El-Fallaha, B. 1987. The Essential Oil of Olibanum. Plant Med. 53 (4): 382-384.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antionychyotic 1 Taylor, Leslie. 2005. The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs. SquareOne Publisher, Garden City Park, NY. 519 pp.
Antiotitic 1 *
Antioxidant 6 Jim Duke's personal files.
Antiplasmodial 3 Rukunga, G. and Simons, A. J. 2006. The Potential of Plants as a Source of Antimalarial Agents - A Review. Africa Herbal Antimalaria Meeting. PlantaPhile Publications, Berlin. 72 pp.
Antipneumonic 1 *
Antiproliferant 3 *
Antiproliferative 1 *
Antipyretic 1 *
Antirheumatalgic 1 Martindale's 28th
Antisalmonella 1 *
Antiseptic 9 Wagner & Wolff, eds. 1977. New Natural Products (RS164. I56. 176)
Antishock 1 Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Antispasmodic 10 Fitoterapia No.59-1984.
Antistaphylococcic 4 *
Antistreptococcic 2 *
Antitumor 4 Zheng, G-Q., Kenney, P.M., and Lam, L.K.T. Sesquiterpenes From Clove (Eugenia caryophyllata) As Potential Anticarcinogenic Agents. Journal of Natural Products 55(7): 999-1003, 1992.
Antitumor (Breast) 1 *
Antitumor (Cervix) 1 Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of the Tropics. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., ed. Pudoc, Wageningen. 1987.
Antitumor (Colon) 1 *
Antitumor (Pancreas) 1 *