01 Identity and provenance
- Accepted binomial
- Boswellia sacra
- Common names
- Frankincense
- Family (APG IV)
- Burseraceae
- Part used
- Gum resin
- Verification tier
- Tier 1 · chemistry only Taxonomy, plant part and marker chemistry are populated and stable. The clinical columns are deliberately empty because no primary source has been retrieved for them yet. Interactions shown below are rule predictions from the constituent chemistry, not clinical findings.
- Reviewer note (2026 audit)
- TIER 1 populated (name, family, part, constituent class, marker) - stable taxonomic/phytochemical facts. TIER 2 columns (analogue, application, brand, interactions, side effects) left blank BY DESIGN - populate only from retrieved primary literature. Do not use clinically until Tier 2 is filled and a reference is recorded.
02 Constituent chemistry
| Chemical class | Marker compound | Synthetic analogue in use |
|---|---|---|
| Terpenoids | Boswellic acids
Gum resin
|
Diclofenac |
The analogue column is what makes the interaction reasoning tractable: where a constituent has a marketed structural counterpart, the counterpart's interaction profile is the starting hypothesis for the plant.
03 Stated application
Left empty by design — this is a Tier 1 entry, and the clinical columns are only populated once a primary source has been retrieved for them.
04 Interaction matrix
No interaction edges recorded, and the constituent chemistry did not trigger any rule. That is an absence of data, not evidence of safety.
05 Hazard register
The audit recorded no hazard beyond the interaction profile. The controlled-vocabulary field reads not assessed, which means the assessment has not been done rather than that it came back clear.
06 Confusable material
These entries could be mistaken for this one in trade, in the herbarium, or in a prescription. Powdered material is often indistinguishable, so the check is macroscopic, microscopic and chromatographic rather than nominal.
| Boswellia serrata
Boswellia |
Burseraceae | Same genus (Boswellia) |
| Boswellia serrata
Salai Guggul |
Burseraceae | Same genus (Boswellia) |
07 Mechanism map
Chemistry sorts to the left, pharmacology to the right. Dashed edges are predicted. Drag nodes, scroll to zoom, export at 3× for a figure.
08 Open literature
Abstract-scoped query built from this binomial, its common names and its marker compounds, run live against Europe PMC, PubMed and OpenAlex, then ranked locally against an evidence hierarchy.
09 Isomechanistic neighbours
No overlapping interaction profile in the corpus.
10 References and notes
No citation is on record for this entry. That is itself the finding: the audit flagged it, and it is why the entry does not carry an A evidence grade.
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