Boswellia serrata སྤོས་དཀར་

English name: Frankincense

Tibetan name: Po-kar (སྤོས་དཀར་)

Part used: resin (ཚི་བ་)

Taste and potency: astringent and bitter taste (རོ་ཁ་ལ་བསྐ་བ་); bitter post-digestive taste (ཞུ་རྗེས་ཁ་བ་); cooling and blunt potency (ནུས་པ་བསིལ་ལ་རྟུལ་བའོ་)

Profound value of Boswellia serrata in Tibetan Medicine:

• Musculoskeletal disorders (གྲུམ་བུ་): in Tibetan Medicine Frankincense is used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, gout, arthralgia and backache. Pain of uncertain location. Osteochondrosis of the cervicothoracic region. Pain in the hip joints, pelvic girdle pain. Leg cramps, stiffness and muscular pain. Various skin disorders ( པགས་ནད་). 
• Lymph disorders ( ཆུ་སེར་ནད་): Frankincense is used to treat increased amount of lymph (lymphostasis), swelling of the joints and limbs. It cleanses and dries up "bad" lymph. Cures all types of disorders that are accompanied with itching (ཟ་འཕྲུག་གི་རིགས་). Also treats testicular swellings (རླིག་རླུགས་ཀྱི་ནད་). 
• Wind ( རླུང་ནད་) - has a calming effect on the central nervous system. Helps to get rid of insomnia, depression, apathy, tinnitus. 

According to the Second Tibetan Medicine Tantra (བཤད་པའི་རྒྱུད།):