Boswellia serrata
Boswellia serrata
Author : Roxb. ex Coleb.
Family : Burseraceae
Habit: Medium tree
Sanskrit: Sallaki, Kunduruskah
English: Indian Olibanum tree, Indian Frankincense tree
Description
A medium sized, deciduous, balsamiferous tree up to 20 m tall, with yellow or reddish-grey, smooth bark, exfoliating in thin, papery flakes, resinous inside, imparipinnate leaves, 8-20, ovate or ovate-lanceolate leaflets, small, fragrant, whitish-pink flowers in axillary racemes or panicles and trigonous white drupes, scarlet-red when young containing compressed, hard and winged pyrenes.
Useful part

Bark, gum-resin
Medicinal Uses

asthma, dysentery, ulcers, skin diseases, fevers, convulsions, dysentery, nervous disorders, bronchitis, asthma, cough, syphilitic diseases, sores, cystic breast, piles, jaundice, arthritis
Major chemical constituents

Serratol, α-boswellic acid, β-boswellic acid, 3α-, 3β-hydroxytirucall-8, 24-dien-21-oic acid, 3α-acetoxytirucall-8, 24-dien-21-oic acid, 3-ketotirucall-8, 24-dien-21-oic acid, digitoxose, camphene, myrcene, β-phellandrene, α-terpenene, p-cymene, bornylacetate, α-terpeneol, α-pinene, β-pinene, a-phellandrene, limonene α-thujene, halocellulose, p-linalool, α-terpinolene, terpineol, methyl chavicol, α-amyrin, β-amyrin, acetyl-b-boswellic acid, acetyl-11-keto-β-boswellic acid, 11-keto-β-boswellic acid, 2α-, 3α-dihydroxyurs-12-ene-24-oic acid and urs-12-ene-3α, 24-diol, terpinylacetate, cadinene, geraniol, elemol, lignin