A review of the effect of Boswellia species on metabolic syndrome. - GreenMedInfo Summary
Effect ofspecies on the metabolic syndrome: A review.
Iran J Basic Med Sci. 2020 Nov ;23(11):1374-1381. PMID: 33235693
Davood Mahdian
The metabolic syndrome, a cluster of metabolic disorders, includes abdominal obesity, hypertension, dyslipidemia, and hyperglycemia leading to insulin resistance, development of diabetes mellitus, and cardiovascular diseases. For the treatment of metabolic syndrome, traditional herbal medicines such as frankincense orspecies have been used due to their anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant, anti-obesity, antidiabetic, antihypertensive, and hypolipidemic properties. Based on the literature, published evidence up to 2020 about the therapeutic effects ofspecies on the metabolic disorder among Medline, Scopus, and Google Scholar were precisely evaluated by keywords such as obesity, diabetes, hyperglycemia, hypertension, blood pressure, dyslipidemia, metabolic syndrome, frankincense, and Boswellia. According to the results,species have beneficial effects to control metabolic syndrome and its related disorders such as hyperglycemia, dyslipidemia, hypertension, obesity, diabetes, and its complications.species by reducing the resistance to insulin and restoring pancreatic beta cells decrease blood glucose. Also,species has antithrombotic and anticoagulant properties that regulate blood pressure. The anti-oxidant properties ofspecies modulate the blood lipid profile via reducing TNF-α, IL-1β levels, and increasing the adiponectin level. The therapeutic and protective effects ofspecies on metabolic disorders were remarkably confirmed regarding decreasing hyperglycemia, hyperlipidemia, hypertension, and obesity.