Boswellia Resin
Boswellia Serrata
Boswellia Serrata is a tree found in India, North Africa, and the Middle East. Strips of bark are peeled away, yielding a gummy oleo-resin that contains oils, terpenoids, and gum. The gum resin from Boswellia has been used extensively in traditional and Ayurvedic medicine to treat a variety of conditions. Among these conditions are: chronic ulcers, pain, inflammation, diseased bones, rheumatic and nervous diseases, urinary tract disorders, skin diseases, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhoea, sore nipples, ringworm, jaundice, diarrhoea, dysentery, dyspepsia and haemorrhoids.
- ANTI-ARTHRITIC - In studies, compared with a placebo, treatment with Boswellia resin resulted in a significant reduction in pain, time duration of morning stiffness and 'joint and disability score' among patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Other research has shown treatment with an extract of the gum resin of Boswellia, reduced joint swelling, pain, stiffness and the need to use NSAIDs in 260 patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Similar beneficial results have been found in oste