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Most people's first encounter with frankincense oil would be in the popular Bible story which tells us tells us that the three wise men gave the infant King of Israel gifts of gold to honor his royalty, frankincense as a perfume and myrrh for anointing oil.
The oil is obtained from trees of the genus Boswellia in the family Burseraceae.
For over 5,000 years, frankincense has had many vital uses like being used to support the immune system, fight infection and cure disease, even as a potential natural treatment for cancer.
Due to its anti-inflammatory properties, frankincense, also known as Boswellia Serrata, has been a favorite folk medicine for several health concerns, including asthma, gastroenteritis and skin conditions.
A relatively new research, like the University of Leicester study, has recently suggested that frankincense’s disease-targeting power may be even more encompassing than previously suspected. Successfully linking AKBA as a potential treatment for brain, breast, colon, pancreatic, prostate and stomach cancers, research trials are filling medical journals like Carcinogenesis and PLoS One about boswellia serrata’s cancer-targeting prowess.
According to researchers out of Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, the potential cancer-killing properties of frankincense are due in part to it regulating cellular epigenetic machinery, which highlights its ability to influence genes to promote healing.
Baylor cancer scientists emphasize that this potency makes Boswellia a viable candidate for both cancer prevention and treatment.
For many cancer patients, there’s a time when the treatment becomes worse than the cancer itself. It is as this point that quality of life and symptom suppression is the focal point for many diagnosed with this deadly disease. Often the cancer treatment side effects can make having cancer absolutely miserable.
Take, for instance, brain cancer patients who experience cerebral edema (swelling in the head) after having their tumors irradiated. Typically, these people are treated with dexamethasone and other corticosteroids to control the swelling, but this is done at a great cost because the deadly complications of steroids are limitless.
These people suffer toxic overload from the drugs that are supposed to help them in the first place and get headaches, migraines, and may even deal with blurred vision because of the steroid treatments.
Thankfully, frankincense offers a natural, viable solution to this horrible issue. Back in 2011, the journal Cancer published the results of a 44 person clinical trial evaluating how brain swelling was effected by frankincense.
Specifically, Indian Frankincense (Boswellia serrata) has been shown clinically to being a vital treatment for:
Brain cancer
Breast cancer
Colon cancer
Pancreatic cancer
Prostate cancer
Stomach cancer
How it works
Rub frankincense essential oil on your neck three times daily. Also, drink three drops in 8 ounces of water three times daily.
Other sources
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21287538
http://bmccomplementalternmed.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1472-6882-11-129
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22983985
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3204996/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23500016
Nice informative post about various therapeutic use of frankincense essential oil which is called king of essential oils for its beneficial usage.It will be useful to add more information about this like its use as crude drug or medicine drag.Thanks
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