Kundur (Boswellia Serrata): Medicinal Importance in Perspective of Unani Medicine and Pharmacological Studies
Journal Title: International Journal Of Ayurvedic And Herbal Medicine - Year 2024, Vol 14, Issue 06
Abstract
Kundur, the Indian olibanum tree, is a member of the Burseraceae family and grows best in the dry mountainous regions of the Middle East, Northern Africa, and India. This tree has small to huge branches. The tree's oleo-gum resin is removed and stored from the incision created in its trunk. Resin makes roughly 30–60% of oleo-gum resin, with organic solvent-soluble essential oils making up the remaining 5–10%. Gum-resin extracts from Boswellia serrata have long been used in traditional medicine to treat a variety of chronic inflammatory diseases. Four primary pentacyclic triterpenic acids found in the resinous component of Boswellia serrata are β-boswellic acid, acetyl-β-boswellic acid, 11-keto-β-boswellic acid, and acetyl-11-keto-β-boswellic acid. This oleo-gum resin is quite popular among traditional practitioners of traditional Chinese and Indian Systems of medicine because of its wide range of useful biological properties such as anti-inflammatory, anti-arthritic, anti-rheumatic, anti-diarrheal, anti-hyperlipidemic, anti-asthmatic, anti-cancer, anti-microbial, anti-fungal, anti-complementary, and analgesic activity etc.
Authors and Affiliations
Huziafa Ashfaq Salati, Mohd. Afsahul Kalam, Tooba Bilal Wani, Urzeeba Zahoor, Uzma Jan, Ajaz Ahmad Bhat
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- DOI 10.47191/ijahm/v14i6.07
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