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Boswellia for arthritis--anyone familiar with it?

  • karenr
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  • Diagnosed in 2000, at 59, after being on moderately high doses of NSAIDs for arthritis. Splenectomy and rituxan both failed (2004). Did well on prednisone till summer 2018--then terrible reactions. Promacta since 11-19.
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15 years 1 month ago #13983 by karenr
Boswellia for arthritis--anyone familiar with it? was created by karenr
Although Boswellia is an "ayurvedic" substance, considered a "natural arthritis remedy," it isn't suggested as a treatment for ITP, so I am not posting this question in the "Natural Treatments" section.

I have a friend who says Boswellia helps his arthritis, but I've not been able to find anything online from standard research sources. I'm hesitant to try natural remedies because they aren't regulated, but it would be really wonderful to find something that did ease my osteoarthritis. The only thing relevant in the listing of side-effects that I could find was that there was no information on how Boswellia affected clotting.

Has anyone in the discussion groups tried Boswellia for arthritic pain? Or does anyone know anything about this "remedy"?

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15 years 1 month ago #14009 by eklein
Replied by eklein on topic Re: Boswellia for arthritis--anyone familiar with it?
This looks like some good information with lots of citations to pharm. type journals:
www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/69149.cfm

No personal info sorry, thought I'd google it a bit and take a look.
Erica
And she was!
Diagnosed May 2005, lowest count 8K.
4/22/08: 43K (2nd Rituxan)
10/01/09: 246K, 1/8/10: 111K, 5/21/10: 233K
Latest count: 7/27/2015: 194K

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