Evening Primrose Oil

Botanical Name of Evening Primrose:  Oenothera

Synonyms: Common Evening Primrose, Fever plant, Great Evening-Primrose, King's-cure-all, Night willow-herb, Scabish, Scurvish, Tree primrose

About Evening Primrose: Primrose is a flowering plant which is native to North American region. There are more than 125 known species of this plant and their height ranges from 10 cms to 3 meters. The peculiarity of this plant is that its flowers may open just for few minutes in the evening time; hence it has been named as Evening Primrose. The logic behind this restricted opening time of flowers is that around evening most of the others flowers are not active and hence bees get attracted to oenothera and facilitates its pollination. The colour of its flowers also differs according to its species and constitutes of white, purple, pink and red colours.

History of Evening Primrose: According to the old historical information available it is believed that genus oenothera may have originated in Mexico and Central America and then moved upwards to the north of the region. Evening Primrose has a long history of being eaten and was considered as staple food of Native American in ancient times. Today world has discovered its therapeutic properties and its being used in many different applications world over.

Properties of Evening Primrose Oil: Evening primrose essential oil is a fine textured oil and rich source of fatty acids. The major chemical constituents of this essential oil include: Palmitic acid, Stearic acid, Oleic acid, Linoleic acid, Gamma Linoleic, Alpha Linoleic, icosanoic, icosenoic, etc.

Health Benefits and Applications Evening Primrose Oil:

Evening Primrose Oil is known to have number of benefits, some of the important ones include:

Skin care: Evening Primrose has wonderful moisturizing properties which are very good for our skin and it can also control many skin related infections.  Eczema is known to effectively treating using this oil.

Pre menstrual Syndrome (PMS): There have been tests various test conducted worldwide which have proved effectiveness of evening primrose essential oil in treating PMS related problems including: irritability, depression, bloating, breast pain etc.

Arthritis and Osteoporosis: The conditions involving arthritis and osteoporosis are known to be treated using evening primrose.  

Healthy heart: This essential oil is also known to keep our heath healthy and fit by lowering the cholesterol levels.

Other therapeutic properties of Evening Primrose Oil make it useful for; – diabetes, hangovers, Bronchitis, diabetes neuropathy, etc.

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