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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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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.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
ALPHA-TERPINENE 13 Essential Oil *
ALPHA-THUJENE 0 Essential Oil 500000.0 2.83 *
ALPHA-THUJENE 0 Resin, Exudate, Sap 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 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 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 *
BETA-BOSWELLIC-ACID 9 Essential Oil *
BETA-BOSWELLIC-ACID 9 Resin, Exudate, Sap 63386.0 1.00 *
BETA-PHELLANDRENE 3 Essential Oil *
BETA-PINENE 13 Essential Oil 62000.0 0.65 *
BETA-PINENE 13 Resin, Exudate, Sap 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 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 *
BOSWELLIA-4-O-METHYL-GLUCURONOARABINOGALACTAN 0 Inflorescence *
BOSWELLIC-ACID 30 Resin, Exudate, Sap *
CADINENE 4 Essential Oil 40000.0 1.40 *
CADINENE 4 Resin, Exudate, Sap 6400.0 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 *
CIS-10-THUJANIC-ACID 0 Essential Oil *
D-FRUCTOSE 0 Plant *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Candidicide 4 Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
Candidistat 2 *
Carcinogenic 1 *
Carminative 1 *
Caspase-8-Inducer 1 *
Chemopreventive 3 *
Cholagogue 1 *
Cholesterolytic 1 *
CNS-Depressant 1 *
CNS-Stimulant 1 List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
Coleoptophile 1 *
COX-1-Inhibitor 1 *
COX-2-Inhibitor 3 *
Culicide 2 *
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor 1 *
Cytotoxic 2 *
Dermal 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Detoxicant 2 Merck 11th Edition
Differentiator 3 *
Diuretic 1 *