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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Oenothera biennis (Onagraceae)

Common Names
Evening-Primrose
How this plant is used
Food
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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
SYRINGIC-ACID 6 Plant *
TANNIN 35 Herb 110000.0 *
TARAXASTEROL 2 Inflorescence *
TARAXASTEROL 2 Leaf *
THREONINE 4 Seed 3500.0 4600.0 -0.79 *
TRYPTOPHAN 29 Seed 2400.0 16000.0 4.32 *
TYROSINE 8 Seed 3400.0 3629.0 -0.95 *
VALINE 3 Seed 5200.0 8645.0 -0.41 *
WATER 0 Seed 63000.0 83000.0 -0.55 *
ZINC 77 Seed 70.0 90.0 1.27 *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Antiestrogenic 3 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifatigue 3 Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antifeedant 3 Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Antifertility 3 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifibrinolytic 3 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53.
Antifibromyalgic 1 *
Antifibrosarcomic 1 *
Antifibrotic 1 *
Antiflu 4 Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 207.
Antifuruncular 1 Martindale's 28th
Antigastric 1 Rastitel'nye Resursy, 21: 85.
Antigastritic 1 Martindale's 29th
Antigastrotic 1 *
Antigingivitic 2 *
Antiglaucomic 1 *
Antigonadotrophic 1 Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antigonadotropic 2 Jim Duke's personal files.
Antigranular 1 *
AntiGTF 2 *
Antihangover 1 *