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Boswellia frereana

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 6 constituent measurements for Boswellia frereana. This page reports what those source records contain and how to reach them. It carries no effect estimate, no dose and no recommendation.

Accepted name in source: Boswellia frereana Birdw.

6Constituent measurements

0Safety records

4Cited sources

37Licensed products (Canada)

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 37 licensed products naming Boswellia frereana as a medicinal ingredient, matched on the exact Latin binomial. A licence records that a product met the regulator's requirements for sale in Canada. It is not evidence that the product works.

Extract types on licence

Source material stated

Frankincense, resin
Stem resin

What the records describe

Constituents measured

Plant parts

Preparations

Recorded constituents

What analytical work has found in this species, at which plant part and preparation. A measured constituent is a fact about material, not about effect.

Substance	Plant part	Preparation	Concentration	Analytical method	Source
1,8-cineole	Aerial part of plants	Resin	1.7 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
1,8-cineole	Aerial part of plants	Resin	1.18 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
1,8-cineole	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	1.9 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Beta-thujone	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	1.5 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Verbenone	Aerial part of plants	Resin	3.1 Percent	GC-MS	Resolve DOI
Myrcene	Aerial part of plants	Essential oil	2.1 Percent	GC-MS	No resolvable identifier

Cited sources

The literature the compendium cites for this species. Metatron Health has no relationship with these authors or journals and earns nothing from citing them.

Hamm, S., Bleton, J., Connan, J., Tchapla, A. A chemical investigation by headspace SPME and GC-MS of volatile and semi-volatile terpenes in various olibanum samples . Phytochemistry, 2005, vol. 66, no. 12, p. 1499-1514. DOI
Chiavari, G., Galletti, G.C., Piccaglia, R., Mohamud, M.A. Differentiation between resins Boswellia carterii and Boswellia frereana (Frankincense) of Somali origin. Journal of essential oil research, 1991, vol. 3, no. 3, p. 185-186. DOI
Van Vuuren, S. F., Kamatou, G. P. P., Viljoen, A. M. Volatile composition and antimicrobial activity of twenty commercial frankincense essential oil samples. South african journal of botany, 2010, vol. 76, no. 4, p. 686-691.
Niebler, J., Buettner, A. Frankincense Revisited, Part I: Comparative Analysis of Volatiles in Commercially Relevant Boswellia Species. Chemistry and biodiversity, 2016, vol. 13, no. 5, p. 613-629. DOI

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A constituent measurement is a fact about material at a stated preparation, not a statement about what that material does in a person. An adverse-effect or genotoxicity record is an observation reported in a source, most often in an animal or laboratory model. Neither is a Metatron Health conclusion about causality, human risk or benefit, and the absence of a record is not proof that a preparation is safe. Nothing here is diagnosis, prescribing or individual medical care.

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