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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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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
IDOSE 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.
L-SORBOSE 0 Plant *
LAURIC-ACID 7 Essential Oil *
LIMONENE 60 Essential Oil *
LINALOOL 53 Essential Oil 15000.0 -0.52 *
METHYL-CHAVICOL 6 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.
MYRCENE 22 Essential Oil *
MYRTENIC-ACID 0 Essential Oil *
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.
P-CYMENE 16 Essential Oil 140000.0 0.52 *
P-CYMENE 16 Resin, Exudate, Sap 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 *
RAFFINOSE 1 Plant *
RHAMNOSE 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.
SERRATOL 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.
TERPINEN-4-OL 23 Essential Oil *
TERPINEOL 18 Essential Oil 10000.0 1.00 *
TERPINEOL 18 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.
TERPINEOL-ACETATE 2 Essential Oil 35000.0 *
TRANS-10-THUJANIC-ACID 0 Essential Oil *
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Litholytic 1 Martindale's 28th
Lubricant 1 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Memory-Enhancer 1 Science News, 138: 189, 1990.
Mosquitocide 1 *
Mosquitofuge 1 *
Motor-Depressant 1 Buchbauer et al, e.g.Buchbauer et al,1993.Therapeutic properties of essential oils and fragrances. Chap.12 in Teranishi,R, Buttery,R.G and Sugisawa,H. Eds. Bioactive Volatile Compounds from Plants. ACS Symposium Series 525. Amer. Chem. Soc., Washington DC
Mutagenic 1 *
Mycobactericide 1 *
Myorelaxant 2 *
Nematicide 5 Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Neoplastic 1 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
Nephrotoxic 1 *
NO-Genic 1 *
Ornithine-Decarboxylase-Inhibitor 1 *
Ozone-Scavenger 1 *
P450-2B1-Inhibitor 4 *
P450-Inducer 1 *
Perfumery 11 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Peristaltic 1 *
Pesticide 19 *