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Plant Boswellia serrata (Burseraceae)

Common Names
Salaki; Salai Guggal; Kundur Luban; Salai; Indian Olibanum-Tree; Indian Frankincense
How this plant is used
Medicinal

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
IDOSE 0 Resin, Exudate, Sap not available not available not available Sabinsa: A series of well documented proprietary PR booklets,
e.g.Sabinsa Corps. 1998. Bronchial Asthma - Its etiology and control with traditional herbal extracts. Sabinsa Corporation. Piscataway, NJ. 49 pp.
L-SORBOSE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
LAURIC-ACID 7 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
LIMONENE 60 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
LINALOOL 53 Essential Oil not available 15000.0 -0.52 Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-CHAVICOL 6 Resin, Exudate, Sap not available not available not available Sabinsa: A series of well documented proprietary PR booklets,
e.g.Sabinsa Corps. 1998. Bronchial Asthma - Its etiology and control with traditional herbal extracts. Sabinsa Corporation. Piscataway, NJ. 49 pp.
MYRCENE 22 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
MYRTENIC-ACID 0 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
O-ACETYL-BETA-BOSWELLIC-ACID 0 Resin, Exudate, Sap not available not available not available 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.
P-CYMENE 16 Essential Oil not available 140000.0 0.52 Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMENE 16 Resin, Exudate, Sap not available 22400.0 -1.00 Sabinsa: A series of well documented proprietary PR booklets,
e.g.Sabinsa Corps. 1998. Bronchial Asthma - Its etiology and control with traditional herbal extracts. Sabinsa Corporation. Piscataway, NJ. 49 pp.
PALMITIC-ACID 13 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
RAFFINOSE 1 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
RHAMNOSE 0 Resin, Exudate, Sap not available not available not available Sabinsa: A series of well documented proprietary PR booklets,
e.g.Sabinsa Corps. 1998. Bronchial Asthma - Its etiology and control with traditional herbal extracts. Sabinsa Corporation. Piscataway, NJ. 49 pp.
SERRATOL 0 Resin, Exudate, Sap not available not available not available Sabinsa: A series of well documented proprietary PR booklets,
e.g.Sabinsa Corps. 1998. Bronchial Asthma - Its etiology and control with traditional herbal extracts. Sabinsa Corporation. Piscataway, NJ. 49 pp.
TERPINEN-4-OL 23 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
TERPINEOL 18 Essential Oil not available 10000.0 1.00 Duke, 1992 *
TERPINEOL 18 Resin, Exudate, Sap not available not available not available Sabinsa: A series of well documented proprietary PR booklets,
e.g.Sabinsa Corps. 1998. Bronchial Asthma - Its etiology and control with traditional herbal extracts. Sabinsa Corporation. Piscataway, NJ. 49 pp.
TERPINEOL-ACETATE 2 Essential Oil not available 35000.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-10-THUJANIC-ACID 0 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity Chemical Count Reference
Photosensitizer 1 Rinzler, C. A. 1990. The Complete Book of Herbs, Spices and Condiments. Facts on File, New York. 199 pp.
Prooxidant 1 Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
Propecic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Renoirritant 1 Newall, C. A., Anderson, L. A. and Phillipson, J. D. 1996. Herbal Medicine - A Guide for Health-care Professionals. The Pharmaceutical Press, London. 296pp.
Sedative 7 Wagner & Wolff, eds. 1977. New Natural Products (RS164. I56. 176)
Soap 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Spasmogenic 4 Fitoterapia No.59-1984.
Spermicide 2 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Sweetener 2 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Termitifuge 1 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Topoisomerase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Tranquilizer 1 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Jun-90.
Transdermal 3 Duke, 1992 *
Trichomonicide 3 Duke, 1992 *
Tumor-Promoter 1 Duke, 1992 *
Ubiquiot 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Ulcerogenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
VEGF-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Vulnerary 1 Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Jan-91.