Where can I buy Jerusalem Balsam?

I am looking for a place to buy Jerusalem Balsam for my father who is terminally ill with cancer.

Where can I buy Jerusalem Balsam?
Perhaps you can contact the people who conducted the following study, which you can read at the National Library of Medicine:





http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query... (type if Jerusalem Balsam)








1: J Ethnopharmacol. 2005 Oct 3;101(1-3):16-26. Links


The Jerusalem Balsam: from the Franciscan Monastery in the old city of Jerusalem to Martindale 33.Moussaieff A, Fride E, Amar Z, Lev E, Steinberg D, Gallily R, Mechoulam R.


Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Products, School of Pharmacy, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91120, Israel.





The Jerusalem Balsam, a remedy based on an ethanolic extract of a herbal mixture, was formulated in 1719 in the pharmacy of the Saint Savior monastery in the old city of Jerusalem. Having gained fame, the Jerusalem Balsam was replicated and prepared in Europe. One can still find variations of the formula in current pharmacopoeias (B.P., 1998. The Stationary Office, London, p. 1510; Sweetman, S.C., Blake, P.S., McGlashan, J.M., Parsons, A.V., 2002. Martindale: The Extra Pharmacopeia, 33rd ed. Pharmaceutical Press, London, p. 1101). We report here, five different formulas, all referred to as "The Jerusalem Balsam". Three of those formulas were translated and two of these translations are presented in the text. A third one is available as Supplementary data online. As the formulas originate from different historical periods, the Jerusalem Balsam may be a good case study of the development of pharmaceutical formulations over a 250 years period. One of the formulas, found in a manuscript form in the archive of the monastery, contains four plants: olibanum (Boswellia spp.), myrrh (Commiphora spp.), aloe (Aloe sp.) and mastic (Pistacia lentiscus L.). We conducted pharmacological assays on this four-plant formula. It showed anti-inflammatory, as well as anti-oxidative, and anti-septic properties.





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