The oil is extracted from the sap of the Boswelia tree when the bark is cut open. The resin is left to harden and then is scraped off the tree. Although it can be used dry.

Antiseptic, antidiarrheal, antimycotic, antimicrobial, antiinflammatory, antioxidant, and anticarcinogenic

Resin from Boswellia carterii.

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Boswellia carterii.

Oleoresins were dominated by α-pinene (21.7–76.6%), followed by α-thujene (2.0–17.6%), myrcene (up to 35.2%), -cymene (0.3–15.6%), and limonene (1.1–32.9%). The levorotatory enantiomers predominated for the monoterpenes with 98.1 ± 1.5% (−)-α-thujene, 99.2 ± 0.5% (−)-α-pinene, and 96.8 ± 1.4% (−)-β-pinene. Limonene showed the largest variation in enantiomeric distribution [67.3 ± 12.1% (−)-limonene]. The cluster analysis revealed two major.

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