Chromatographic methods used for characterization of boswellic acids

Utilization of natural herbs and their drug products have been extensively increases worldwide because of lesser side effects of natural origin-based products in contrast with synthetic products.Gum resin of plant Boswellia serrata constitutes the major constituents Boswellic acids which are pentacyclic triterpenoids belonging to ursane group.Herbal medicines composed of various constituents and suffer from constraints of variability in their compositions.In order to make availability of herbal drugs, various chemical and instrumental methods have been used at regular intervals for the standardization and characterization of herbal drugs.Chromatography is very popular and mostly employed analytical technique for standardization and the separation of mixture of constituent's in herbal drug products.Current manuscript provides concise overview and trends of separation, identification and quantification of boswellic acids by modern chromatographic techniques including HPLC, HPTLC and LC/MS with significant research studies.