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
SYRINGIC-ACID	6	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	Herb	not available	110000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TARAXASTEROL	2	Inflorescence	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TARAXASTEROL	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THREONINE	4	Seed	3500.0	4600.0	-0.79	Duke, 1992 *
TRYPTOPHAN	29	Seed	2400.0	16000.0	4.32	Duke, 1992 *
TYROSINE	8	Seed	3400.0	3629.0	-0.95	Duke, 1992 *
VALINE	3	Seed	5200.0	8645.0	-0.41	Duke, 1992 *
WATER	0	Seed	63000.0	83000.0	-0.55	Duke, 1992 *
ZINC	77	Seed	70.0	90.0	1.27	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.