PT Journal AU Hanus, L Rezanka, T Dembitsky, V Moussaieff, A TI Myrrh - Commiphora chemistry SO Biomedical papers PY 2005 BP 3 EP 28 VL 149 IS 1 DI 10.5507/bp.2005.001 DE Myrrh/Commiphora AB Myrrh and opopanax has been used throughout history in incense and as a perfume. Since Bible times it has been used for the treatment of wounds. The first attempts to identify content compounds were almost 100 years ago. In this review we discuss the present state of knowledge in the chemistry of substances of Commiphora spp. ER