The precious, fragrant resin is the scent of the festive season and rising in popularity in the wellness industry – but its ...

Frankincense sounds ancient—and that’s exactly why it’s trending again. Once reserved for religious rituals and traditional ...

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Annals of Botany, Vol. 111, No. 1 (January 2013), pp. 61-68 (8 pages) • Background and Aims Frankincense, a gum-resin, has been tapped from Boswellia papyrifera trees for centuries. Despite the ...

Mention frankincense, and it’s hard not to instantaneously think of Christmas. Cited in the story of the birth of Christ in the Bible’s Book of Matthew, it was one of the precious gifts (alongside ...

HUMBANG HASUNDUTAN, Indonesia, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- In the forested highlands of Indonesia's North Sumatra province, communities in Humbang Hasundutan regency have long depended on frankincense trees, ...

Pope Francis burns incense as he celebrates Mass marking the feast of Corpus Christi in Ostia, a suburb of Rome, in this June 3, 2018, file photo. Conflict, climate change and poverty are driving the ...

As with the study of bladder cancer cells, 3 a similar study using cultured human breast cancer cells was conducted to evaluate cell death and cell cycle progression in cells treated with frankincense ...

Why would someone, presumably quite wise, feel the need to bring the tree resins frankincense and myrrh to a woman who had recently given birth? If the time is about two millennia ago and the location ...