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Common Names
Evening-Primrose
How this plant is used
Food
| Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DIHOMO-LINOLENIC-ACID | 0 | Seed Oil | 1000.0 | 3000.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ELLAGIC-ACID | 51 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| ERUCIC-ACID | 2 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| FAT | 0 | Plant | 23000.0 | 43000.0 | -0.13 | Duke, 1992 * |
| FAT | 0 | Seed | 140000.0 | 320000.0 | 0.29 | Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp. |
| FATTY-ACIDS | 0 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| FERULIC-ACID | 61 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| FIBER | 15 | Plant | 156000.0 | 234000.0 | 0.08 | Duke, 1992 * |
| FIBER | 15 | Seed | not available | 429000.0 | 2.32 | Duke, 1992 * |
| FIXED-OIL | 0 | Seed | not available | 140000.0 | -0.81 | Duke, 1992 * |
| GALLIC-ACID | 62 | Leaf | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| GALLIC-ACID | 62 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| GAMMA-LINOLENIC-ACID | 20 | Seed | 4860.0 | 48600.0 | 0.01 | Duke, 1992 * |
| GAMMA-LINOLENIC-ACID | 20 | Seed Essent. Oil | not available | 80000.0 | -1.39 | Duke, 1992 * |
| GAMMA-LINOLENIC-ACID | 20 | Seed Oil | 19000.0 | 403000.0 | 1.00 | Duke, 1992 * |
| GAMMA-RESORCYLIC-ACID | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| GAMMA-TOCOPHEROL | 14 | Seed | 28.0 | 200.0 | -0.57 | Duke, 1992 * |
| GENTISIC-ACID | 8 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
| GLUTAMIC-ACID | 8 | Seed | 26300.0 | 28068.0 | -0.58 | Duke, 1992 * |
| GLYCINE | 12 | Seed | 10500.0 | 11206.0 | 0.04 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| DNA-Protective | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Emetic | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Emollient | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Ergogenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Essential | 8 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| Estrogenic | 5 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Febrifuge | 1 | Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp. |
| FLavor | 5 | Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry |
| Floral-Inhibitor | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
| FPTase-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Fungicide | 8 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Fungistat | 1 | Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp. |
| Gastroprotective | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Glutathione-Depleting | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Glutathionigenic | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
| Gonadotrophic | 1 | Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990. |
| Gram(+)icide | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Gram(-)icide | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
| Hemolytic | 1 | Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp. |