| Disease | A STUDY OF THE GUM RESIN OF BOSWELLIA SERRATA FOR THE TREATMENT OF COLITIS. THIRTY PATIENTS,17 MALES AND 13 FEMALES IN THE AGE RANGE OF 18 TO 48 YEARS WITHCHRONIC COLITIS WERE INCLUDED IN THIS STUDY. TWENTY PATIENTS WERE GIVEN A PREPARATION
OF THE GUM RESIN OF BOSWELLIA SERRATA (900 MG DAILY DIVIDED IN THREE DOSES FOR 6 WEEKS) AND TEN PATIENTS WERE GIVEN SULFASALAZINE (3 GM DAILY DIVIDED IN THREE DOSES FOR 6 WEEKS) AND SERVED AS CONTROLS. OUT OF 20 PATIENTS TREATED WITH BOSWELLIA
GUM RESIN 18 PATIENTS SHOWED AN IMPROVEMENT IN ONE OR MORE OF THE PARAMETERS; INCLUDING STOOL PROPERTIES, HISTOPATHOLOGY AS WELL AS SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY, BESIDES HAEMOGLOBIN, SERUM IRON, CALCIUM, PHOSPHORUS, PROTEINS, TOTAL LEUKOCYTES
AND EOSINOPHILS. IN THE CONTROL GROUP 6 OUT OF 10 PATIENTS SHOWED SIMILAR RESULTS WITH THE SAME PARAMETERS. OUT OF 20 PATIENTS TREATED WITH BOSWELLIA GUM RESIN 14 WENT INTO REMISSION WHILE IN CASE OF SULFASALAZINE REMISSION RATE WAS 4 OUT OF 10,
IN CONCLUSION, THIS STUDY SHOWS THAT A GUM RESIN PREPARATION FROM BOSWELLIA SERRATA COULD BE EFFECTIVE IN THE TREATMENT OF CHRONIC COLITIS WITH MINIMAL SIDE EFFECTS. |