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Boswellia sacra

The EFSA Compendium of Botanicals holds 6 constituent measurements for Boswellia sacra. 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 sacra Flueck.

6Constituent measurements

0Safety records

2Cited sources

332Licensed products (Canada)

Also recorded as

Boswellia carteri Birdw.

Synonyms are carried from the source compendium. A species may be traded and studied under more than one name, which is exactly how a safety record gets lost.

Regulatory presence

Health Canada's Licensed Natural Health Products Database holds 332 licensed products naming Boswellia sacra 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

Dry
Extract Type TBA
decoction
solid

Source material stated

Aged bark
Balsam
Bark
Bark resin (vinegar-prepared)
Boswellia sacra - stem bark resin
Dried sap or gum
Flower bud resin
Gum

What the records describe

Constituents measured

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	—	Resin	1 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	Resolve DOI
Carvone	—	Resin	≥ 0.3 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	Resolve DOI
Carvone	—	Resin	≤ 0.7 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	Resolve DOI
Myrcene	—	Resin	≥ 2.8 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	Resolve DOI
Myrcene	—	Resin	≤ 8 Percent	Gaschromatography (GC)	Resolve DOI
Berberine	—	—	—	High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)/Liquid Chromatography (LC)	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.

Niebler, Johannes., Buettner, Andrea. Identification of odorants in frankincense (Boswellia sacra Flueck.) by aroma extract dilution analysis and two-dimensional gas chromatography-mass spectrometry/olfactometry. PHYTOCHEMISTRY, 2015, vol. 109, p. 66-75. DOI
Chen, Hui-juan., Fu, Chao-mei., Li, Jian-li., Zhao, Bin. Identification of Lianhuangzhichuang suppository by TLC and determination of berberine hydrochloride by HPLC. Huaxi yaoxue zazhi, 2008, p. 348-350.

Boundary

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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