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

Common Names

Evening-Primrose

How this plant is used

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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
GRAMISTEROL	0	Seed	36.0	77.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
HISTIDINE	7	Seed	3700.0	3949.0	-0.58	Duke, 1992 *
IRON	6	Seed	94.0	390.0	1.11	Duke, 1992 *
ISOLEUCINE	3	Seed	4100.0	5870.0	-0.59	Duke, 1992 *
KAEMPFEROL	75	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LEUCINE	2	Seed	8700.0	10780.0	-0.60	Duke, 1992 *
LIGNIN	13	Seed	not available	160000.0	2.04	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Seed	121500.0	227798.0	1.03	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Seed Essent. Oil	not available	710000.0	1.37	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Seed Oil	177000.0	747000.0	1.40	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLENIC-ACID	0	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUPEOL	21	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LUPEOL	21	Inflorescence	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LYSINE	4	Seed	3100.0	3842.0	-1.12	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Herb	2700.0	3900.0	-0.73	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Seed	4300.0	5300.0	0.93	Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE	14	Seed	5.0	168.0	1.43	Duke, 1992 *
METHIONINE	15	Seed	5400.0	5763.0	0.37	Duke, 1992 *
METHYLENE-CYCLOARTENOL	0	Seed	20.0	42.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MUCILAGE	3	Plant	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.