Evening primrose (as plant) // Oenothera biennis L.

Family:
Onagraceae
Approval state:
Approved
Number of articles retrieved:
911
Number of processed references:
3
Compositions
#1: Ellagitannins
Endpoint Studies
#1: Venous thrombosis, impaired concentration, and other symptoms #2: inhibition of alpha-glucosidase
Genotoxicity
Composition #1: Karonen, Maarit., Parker, John., Agrawal, Anurag., Salminen, Juha-Pekka. First evidence of hexameric and heptameric ellagitannins in plants detected by liquid chromatography/electrospray ionisation mass spectrometry. RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY, 2010, vol. 24, no. 21, p. 3151–3156. DOI: 10.1002/rcm.4756. [DOI link]
Endpoint study #1: Jacobsson, Ingela., Joensson, Anna K., Gerden, Barbro., Haegg, Staffan. Spontaneously reported adverse reactions in association with complementary and alternative medicine substances in Sweden. pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety, 2009, p. 1039–1047. .
Endpoint study #2: Aitani, M., Kimura, H., Abiru, Y., Soyama, H., Murakami, H., Zhang, HL., Sugishita, T., Konishi, Y. Effect of an extract from evening-primrose seeds on postprandial blood glucose level and its active components . journal of the japanese society for food science and technology-nippon shokuhin kagaku kogaku kaishi, 2003, vol. 50, no. 4, p. 180–187. .