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Does Boswellia Help with Interstitial Cystitis?

Does Boswellia Help with Interstitial Cystitis?

In this month’s blog post I want to talk about Boswellia serrata, also known as Indian frankincense.  There are several types of Boswellia, including sacra, papyrifera and dioscoridis, but in this post we will only concern ourselves with Boswellia serrata.  Throughout this post you should therefore take all references to Boswellia to mean Boswellia serrata.  For ease of both writing and reading, I will dispense with the italicised styling normally used for Latin plant names unless I am directly quoting other material.  I am sorry if this offends any botanists! When Boswellia serrata is used in medicine or food supplements, it is normally in the form of a gum-resin extract taken from the bark of the tree.  This extract consists of several types of terpenes, but the most important active constituents are the four main boswellic acids:  β-boswellic acid, acetyl-β-boswellic acid, 11-keto-β-boswellic acid and acetyl-11-keto-β-boswellic acid 1.  If I refer to…

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