Frankincense: Festive pharmacognosy

Pharmaceutical Journal

Volumn 271, Issue 7280, 2003, Pages 862-864

  Marshall, Sarah ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARACHIDONATE 5 LIPOXYGENASE; BOSWELLIA EXTRACT; COSMETIC; DNA TOPOISOMERASE; LEUKOTRIENE; PAINT; PERFUME; PLANT EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ASTHMA; BLEEDING; BOSWELLIA; BRONCHITIS; CHINESE MEDICINE; COMMON COLD; COUGHING; DEPRESSION; DIURESIS; DRUG MECHANISM; ECZEMA; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; ENZYME INHIBITION; ESTHETICS; EYE DISEASE; GOUT; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; LARYNGITIS; LONGEVITY; MASTITIS; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL DISEASE; NOTE; OMAN; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PHARMACOGNOSY; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; POSTHUMOUS CARE; PREGNANCY; PSORIASIS; RELIGION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SPLINT; TOOTH DISEASE; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; TRANQUILIZING ACTIVITY; TREE GROWTH; ULCER; WRINKLE;

EID: 0348226688     PISSN: 00316873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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