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

Common Names

Evening-Primrose

How this plant is used

Food

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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
Antianaphylactic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antiandrogenic	4	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antianemic	3	Martindale's 29th
Antianginal	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiangiogenic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antianorectic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antianorexic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antianxiety	3	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiarrhythmic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarteriosclerotic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiarthritic	10	Duke, 1992 *
Antiasphyctic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiasthmatic	5	Watt, J.M., and Breyer-Brandwijk, M.G. The Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of Southern and Eastern Africa. 1962.
Antiatherogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiatherosclerotic	6	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antibacterial	16	Recently became Internat. J. Crude Drug Res. 28(1,2,3,4):1990, page 155.
AntiBPH	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antibronchitic	1	Dorsch, W., Wagner, H. New Antiasthmatic Drugs from Traditional Medicine? Int Arch Allergy Appl Immunol 94: 262-265, 1991.
Anticancer	7	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Breast)	1	Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.