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
BORON	4	Seed	38.0	41.0	0.80	Duke, 1992 *
CAFFEIC-ACID	102	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Plant	12100.0	23400.0	1.05	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Seed	12700.0	18000.0	2.54	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPESTEROL	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPESTEROL	2	Inflorescence	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CAMPESTEROL	2	Seed	103.0	220.0	-0.17	Duke, 1992 *
CARBOHYDRATES	0	Plant	460000.0	671000.0	-0.01	Duke, 1992 *
CELLULOSE	1	Seed	not available	270000.0	1.65	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-6,9,12-OCTADECATRIENOIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
CIS-GAMMA-LINOLEIC-ACID	0	Seed	9800.0	14000.0	not available	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
CIS-GAMMA-LINOLENIC-ACID	0	Oil	not available	90000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-LINOLEIC-ACID	0	Oil	not available	700000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CIS-LINOLEIC-ACID	0	Seed	70000.0	98000.0	not available	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
CITROSTADIENIOL	0	Seed	115.0	246.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COPPER	12	Seed	11.0	13.0	-0.16	Duke, 1992 *
CYCLOARTENOL	7	Seed	62.0	133.0	1.00	Duke, 1992 *
CYSTINE	2	Seed	3400.0	3629.0	0.33	Duke, 1992 *
DELPHINIDIN	9	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIGALLIC-ACID	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	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
Antilymphomic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antimaculitic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antimalarial	3	Khalid, S.A., Farouk, A., Geary*, T.G., and Jensen, J.B. 1985. Potential Antimalarial Candidates From African Plants: An In Vitro Approach Using Plasmodium falciparum. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 15: 201-209, 1986.
Antimanic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimastalgic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimelanogenic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antimelanomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antimenopausal	3	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antimenorrhagic	4	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antimetastatic	3	Cunane, S. and Thompson, L. U., eds. 1995. Flaxseed in Human Nutrition. AOCS Press, Champaign IL. 384 pp.
Antimigraine	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antimitotic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antimitral-valve-prolapse	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antimorphinic	1	Martindale's 28th
AntiMRSA	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiMS	3	Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
Antimutagenic	11	Duke, 1992 *
Antimyocarditic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 199.
Antineoplastic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antinephritic	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.