author(s) : Abdel-Fattah M. Rizk, Mohamed A. Selim and Husseiny A. H. Elgendy
description
The family Burseraceae includes 17 genera and 540 species (Boulos, 2000). Species belonging to the family Burseraceae, e.g. Bursera and Protium, are well known for producing fragrant oleoresins.
Frankincense or olibanum, an oleo-gum-resin, is produced by trees of several Bowsellia species, which is characterized by resin bearing ducts in the cortex of the stems and throughout the leaves.
Genera Count
represented in egypt with 1 Genera
Species
represented in egypt with 2 Species
- Proximate and Nutritional Composition
- Carbohydrates and Amino Acids
- Lipids and Related Comounds
- Essential Oils
- Sesquiterpenes
- Diterpenes
- Triterpenes and Sterols
- Flavonoids
- Lignans
- Coumarins, and Other Phenolic Compounds
- Other Constituents
The trees from the family Burseraceae exude a resin widely used for both cosmetics and perfumes and in folk medicine, for the treatment of many diseases (Rüdiger et al., 2009).
The oldest written document, which mentions frankincense as drug is the papyrus Ebers.
Oleogum resins from Boswellia species are used in traditional medicine in India and African countries for the treatment of a variety of diseases.
Animal experiments showed anti-inflammatory activity of the extract.
The mechanism of this action is due to some boswellic acids.
It is different from that of non-steroidal antiinflammatory drugs and is related to components of the immune system. Clinical studies, so far with pilot character, suggest efficacy in some autoimmune diseases including rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis and bronchial asthma.
Side effects are not severe when compared to modern drugs used for the treatment of these diseases (Ammon, 2006). Zhang et al. (2013) reviewed the pharmacological details mainly on anti-inflammatory, anti-carcinogenic, anti-bacterial and apoptosis-regulating activities of individual triterpenoids isolated from Boswellia species….
- commiphora
location
egypt