Plant Oenothera biennis (Onagraceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

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Evening-Primrose

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
MYRISTIC-ACID	6	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEO-CHLOROGENIC-ACID	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
O-COUMARIC-ACID	4	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
O-VANILLIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OBTUSIFOLIOL	0	Seed	26.0	56.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OENOTHEIN-A	1	Leaf	not available	1250.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OENOTHERIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed	15000.0	50000.0	-0.57	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	120000.0	-0.71	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed Oil	22000.0	119000.0	-1.06	Duke, 1992 *
P-COUMARIC-ACID	25	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-HYDROXY-BENZOIC-ACID	13	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
P-HYDROXYPHENYLACETIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Seed	7500.0	31590.0	-0.05	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Seed Oil	17000.0	86000.0	-0.64	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITOLEIC-ACID	2	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHENYLALANINE	7	Seed	6900.0	7364.0	-0.50	Duke, 1992 *
PHLOBAPHENE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Plant	1700.0	3700.0	0.05	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Seed	4100.0	7257.0	0.50	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antiprostatadenomic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Antiprostatitic	8	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiprostatotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiproteolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antipruritic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Antipsoriac	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antipsychotic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antipyretic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiradicular	10	Ohnishi, M., Morishita, H., Iwahashi, H., Toda, S., Shirataki, Y., Kimura, M., and Kido, R. 1993. Inhibitory Effects of Chlorogenic Acids on Linoleic Acid Peroxidation and Haemolysis. Phytochemistry. 36(3): 579-583. 1994.
AntiRaynaud's	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antirenitic	1	Uchida, U., Ohta, H., Niwa, M., Mori, A., Nonaka, G-i., Nishioka, I., and Zaki, M. 1989. Prolongation of Life Span of Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHRSP) Ingesting Persimmon Tannin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(4): 1049-1052, 1990.
Antiretardation	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antiretinopathic	1	Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000. Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95
Antiretinotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antirheumatic	8	Duke, 1992 *
Antiscoliotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiseborrheic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiseptic	8	Duke, 1992 *
Antiserotonin	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antisickling	3	Ekeke, G.I. and Shode, F.O. 1988. Phenylalanine is the Predominant Antisickling Agent in Cajanus cajan Seed Extract. Planta Medica 56(1): 41, 1990.