Boswellia Extract
Also Knows as: India Frankincense, Salai guggul
Extroil Naturals is regarded as one of India’s fastest-growing Boswellia Serrata Extract Manufacturers.
Boswellia, also known as Indian frankincense is a herbal extract derived from the Boswellia serrata tree. People with specific medical issues may benefit from it and it may help reduce inflammation. Chemicals found in boswellia serrata may enhance the body’s immunological response and reduce edema. For medicinal reasons, extracts of the bark, sap, and other plant components of Boswellia serrata have been used orally. Boswellia serrata is used to treat osteoarthritis.
Many other conditions are treated with it, including as diabetes, stroke, and asthma, however these additional applications lack strong scientific backing. Furthermore, there is insufficient proof to back up the use of Boswellia serrata for COVID-19.
Boswellia serrata sap is occasionally used to manufacture Frankincense. Typically, frankincense is used as an aromatherapy oil and applied topically. See Frankincense for more on such applications.
Asian and African traditional medicine has long employed resin derived from boswellia extract. It is thought to treat a variety of different medical disorders in addition to chronic inflammatory diseases. You can buy boswellia as a cream, tablet or resin.
Benefits & Uses
Osteoarthritis: Taking extracts of boswellia can reduce pain by up to 65% and improve mobility in people with osteoarthritis in joints.
Aging skin: Applying boswellia cream to the face reduces fine surface lines, roughness, and sun damage in women with sun-damaged skin.
Asthma: Boswellia extract helps improving breathing, reduce sudden attacks, and decrease some symptoms in people with asthma.
Ulcerative colitis: It may be a sort of inflammatory bowel disease. Consuming boswellia improves symptoms of colitis in
some people. Boswellia may additionally improve symptoms in people with colitis who are already arrested .
Brain tumor: Boswellia extract might reduce brain swelling in adults with brain tumors.
Diabetes
Cluster headache
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
Cancer
Dysmenorrhea (Menstrual cramps)
Boswellia Serrata Extract
Specification
Product Name | Boswellia Serrata Extract | ||
Botanical Name | Boswellia serrata | ||
Part Used | Gum Resin | ||
Active Ingredient | Boswellic Acid, AKBA (acetyl-11-keto-B-boswellic acid) | ||
PARAMETER | Specification | Method | |
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Assay | 20% – 85% | HPLC/Titration | |
Appearance | Powder | Organoleptic | |
Colour | Off White to Creamish Yellow | Organoleptic | |
Bulk density | 0.4 – 0.7 g/ml | USP <616> | |
OTHERS | |||
Total Heavy metals | NMT 10 ppm | USP<231> | |
Arsenic | NMT 1 ppm | USP<231> | |
Cadmium | NMT 1 ppm | USP<231> | |
Lead | NMT 3 ppm | USP<231> | |
Mercury | NMT 0.1 ppm | USP<231> | |
MICROBIOLOGICAL AND PATHOGEN ANALYSIS | |||
Standard Plate Count | NMT 5000 cfu/gm | USP<61> | |
Yeast & Moulds | NMT 100 cfu/gm | USP<61> | |
Coliforms | NMT 10 cfu/gm | USP<61> | |
E. coli | Absent | USP<61> | |
Salmonella | Absent | USP<61> | |
Pseudomonas aeruginosa | Absent | USP<61> | |
Staphylococcus aureus | Absent | USP<61> |