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DOI: 10.1055/s-2001-18346
© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York
A Reversed Phase High Performance Liquid Chromatography Method for the Analysis of Boswellic Acids in Boswellia serrata
Publication History
November 3, 2000
January 21, 2001
Publication Date:
09 November 2001 (online)
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Abstract
An HPLC method for the separation of boswellic acids, the active constituents in Boswellia serrata resin has been developed. The first accurate determination of 6 individual acids was possible in the resin as well as in multi-component preparations. By using an acidic mobile phase, raised temperature and a 4 μm Synergi MAX-RP 80 Å column the acids could be detected at levels as low as 0.9 μg/ml. The study of market products revealed significant variations in the content of these pharmacologically active compounds in commercial samples.
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