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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
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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 *
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
Herbicide 6 Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Histaminic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Hyaluronidase-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Hypercholesterolemic 2 Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
Hyperglycemic 1 Merck 11th Edition
Hypnotic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Hypocholesterolemic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Hypocholesterolemic? 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Hypoglycemic 1 Ivorra, M.D., Paya, M., and Villar, A. 1989. A Review of Natural Products and Plants as Potential Antidiabetic Drugs. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 27: 243-275, 1989.
Hypolipidemic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Hypothermic 4 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Immunomodulator 1 Duke, 1992 *
Insecticide 8 Duke, 1992 *
Insectifuge 15 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Insectiphile 3 Pakistan Encyclopedia Planta Medica. 1986.
Interleukin-6-Inhibitor 1 Duke, 1992 *
Irritant 9 Duke, 1992 *
Larvicide 3 Duke, 1992 *
Laxative 3 Duke, 1992 *
Lipolytic 1 Duke, 1992 *