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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
ALPHA-TERPINENE 13 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-THUJENE 0 Essential Oil not available 500000.0 2.83 Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-THUJENE 0 Resin, Exudate, Sap not available 80000.0 -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.
ARABINOSE 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.
BASSORIN 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.
BETA-AMYRIN 9 Resin, Exudate, Sap not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BETA-BOSWELLIC-ACID 9 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BETA-BOSWELLIC-ACID 9 Resin, Exudate, Sap not available 63386.0 1.00 Duke, 1992 *
BETA-PHELLANDRENE 3 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BETA-PINENE 13 Essential Oil not available 62000.0 0.65 Duke, 1992 *
BETA-PINENE 13 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.
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Bark 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.
BORNEOL-ACETATE 0 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BOSWELLIA-4-O-METHYL-GLUCURONOARABINOGALACTAN 0 Inflorescence not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
BOSWELLIC-ACID 30 Resin, Exudate, Sap not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CADINENE 4 Essential Oil not available 40000.0 1.40 Duke, 1992 *
CADINENE 4 Resin, Exudate, Sap not available 6400.0 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.
CAMPHENE 9 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
CIS-10-THUJANIC-ACID 0 Essential Oil not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
D-FRUCTOSE 0 Plant not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
Antihyperlipoproteinaemic 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiinflammatory 13 Duke, 1992 *
Antiketotic 2 Merck 11th Edition
Antileukemic 4 Duke, 1992 *
Antileukotriene 5 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.
Antilithic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antilithic? 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antilymphomic 3 Duke, 1992 *
Antimange 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antimelanomic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antimeningiomic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antimetastatic (Stomach) 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antimite 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antimutagenic 4 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 235.
Antinauseant 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antinitrosaminic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Antinociceptive 3 Rao, V.S.N., Menezes, A.M.S., Viana, G.S.B. 1990. Effect of myrcene on nociception in mice. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 877-878, 1990.
Antiobesity 1 Duke, 1992 *
Antiophidic 1 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 363.
Antioxidant 8 Jim Duke's personal files.