Evening Primrose Oil Use

Native Americans acclimated evening primrose oil seeds, leaves and roots for food. They aswell fabricated poultices from the accomplished bulb to alleviate bruises, and decoctions of the roots to amusement hemorrhoids. The leaves were active to amusement accessory wounds, gastrointestinal complaints, and abscessed throats.

It wasn’t until the 1930s that evening primrose oil allowances were apparent for acclamation abounding altered bloom problems including breakable nails and hair, eczema, premenstrual affection (PMS), rheumatoid arthritis, Raynaud’s phenomenon, assorted sclerosis, Sjogren’s syndrome, diabetic borderline neuropathy, breast pain, menopausal symptoms, and others. Evening primrose oil has aswell been acclimated in abundance for preventing top claret pressure, abridgement labor, starting labor, and preventing backward deliveries.

After reviewing the accurate evidence, the Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database, assured that evening primrose oil is “possibly effective” for analysis of breast affliction (but may not be able for severe, abiding pain) and for analysis of osteoporosis if acclimated in aggregate with calcium and angle oils. The analysis aswell begin evening primrose oil “possibly ineffective” for alleviative PMS, ADHD, eczema, and hot flashes and night sweats due to menopause. The analysis begin bereft affirmation to amount capability of evening primrose oil for alleviative abiding fatigue syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, complications of pregnancy, Sjogren’s affection and assured that added affirmation is bare to appraise the accessible account of EPO for the analysis of cancer, acne, assorted sclerosis, affection disease, top cholesterol, and Alzheimer’s disease.