Just another reason to love and burn frankincense resin:
Religious leaders have contended for millennia that burning incense is good for the soul. Now, biologists have learned that it is good for our brains too. An international team of scientists, including researchers from Johns Hopkins University and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, describe how burning frankincense (resin from the Boswellia plant) activates poorly understood ion channels in the brain to alleviate anxiety or depression.
(Of course this means more new anti-depressant drugs. isolate the active constituents, replicate them, make sure the rats like it, then turn it into pills and market it to Pfizer.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080520110415.htm
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