evening primrose

Advantages: great for PMT
Disadvantages: none that i know of

...EVENING PRIMROSE Oenothera Biennis Evening primrose has a variety of names, such as, night willow herb, scabish, scurvish, king?s cureall, and fever plant. I have found this to be particularly helpful. And take evening primrose oil capsules on a regular basis. About the flower itself: Evening Primrose is a North American native biennial plant. The plants are very tall, often 4 to 5 feet or more in height. The stem is erect, stout, soft-hairy, reddish and branching forming a shrub. Leaves are alternate, rough-hairy, lanceolate, about 3 to 6 inches long and lemon-scented. The taproot is elongated, fibrous, yellow on the outside and whitish within. The flower spikes grow on auxiliary branches all along the stalk. They are about 2-1/2 inched in diameter, bright yellow and have four petals, a cross shaped stigma and a refluxed...

stezatois1 16.07.2007 · Read review
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Evening Primrose Oil - magic

Advantages: Postitive results for certain minor ailments
Disadvantages: None

...I came across Evening Primrose Oil many years ago when I suffered with very tender breasts just before my period. All you men out there, don't snigger! After countless visits to my Doctor, who told me there was nothing he could give me to relieve it, plus using - would you believe, but I was desperate - Deep Heat over the said area, with no success, someone happened to mention to me that Evening Primrose Oil could be beneficial. Around this time, I also went down with M.E. This was confirmed after many blood tests and trips to Addenbrookes and Papworth hospitals. Of course I searched all I could to find out more about this illness and one of the things recommended was taking Evening Primrose Oil. So I thought I would kill two birds with one stone, so to speak. When I first started taking it, I took around 8 capsules a day as...

backstreetwoman 19.03.2002 · Read review
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Evening primrose oil a wonderful supplement

Advantages: helps with many medical problems
Disadvantages: size of capsule

...Evening primrose oil (EPO) has been used for many years to treat and aid numerous health problems. It is a tall plant 4-5 ft and has yellow flowers with four petals, it is native to North America but is also grown in Europe. The oil is extracted by pressing the tiny seeds. It is used to help treat: heart diease, cancer, cirrhosis of the liver, multiple sclerosis and rheumetoid arthritis. It has a positive effect on sex hormones. It is also beneficial if you suffer from eczema, high blood pressure, high cholesteral, pms, menopausal symptoms and breast pain. It is an anti inflammatory and helps relieve pain. It is sometimes used during pregnancy to shorten the duration of labour but check with your doctor before first. It can also help reduce the craving for alcohol which is good if you are trying to cut down. In some people...

avd2007 26.03.2008 · Read review
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Evening Primrose Eye Cream

Advantages: Nice texture,easily absorbed,SPF
Disadvantages: Price,effect not immediate

...About the product This is another product from the greek Korres beauty company.This product is meant to 'banish dark circles and fine lines around the fragile eye area with this velvety, creamy remedy that nourishes and illuminates, diffusing a light, whitening concealer-like effect'.The packaging (tube) is very minimalistic with greek and english writing. Price and Availability The product comes in a 30 ml tube.Average price is around £22 .I believe the Korres range might still be available in some larger Boots stores (although I have checked their online shop and they don't sell it online). Ingredients Evening primrose,Vitamin C,Vitamin K1 My comments I don't have any dark cirles under my eyes but I have some fine lines which I wanted to get rid off.I don't believe that any eye cream out there can actually banish these...

catalunya 10.04.2007 · Read review
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A Firm Favourite with Primrose

Advantages: Clean refreshed skin
Disadvantages: Nne that I can think of

...A few Saturdays ago I was lucky enough to be given a £20 Body Shop Voucher which arrived in the post and within an hour of it's arrival, I had hotfooted it into town and into the shop. As the store has developed over 1,000 products in the last 25 years, I knew there would be plenty to chose from. Their policy of no animal testing, their community trade and donations to various charities encourages you to visit them rather than Boots or Superdrug. I was confronted by a choice of 5 pots of various masks. The choice being Basil Purifying Mask Blackcurrent Reviving Mask Evening Primrose Firming Mask Blue Corn 3 in One Deep Cleansing Mask Honey & Oat 3 in 1 Scrub Mask Having already tested the Blackcurrent Reviving Mask in an earlier review, I plumped for the Evening Primrose Firming Mask. £6.50 buys you a 100ml pot. It...

Rosieoli 09.06.2004 (08.07.2004) · Read review
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PMT,Periods,even Eczema

Advantages: Helps more than other tried remedies
Disadvantages: It is rumoured there can be slight weight gain

...Ever since my cycles began I have been very irregular, in lots of really strong pain, and have felt generally resentful in these respects for having to be a woman! Since I was about seven I also have suffered from eczema. I tried numerous creams which seemed to initially work, but then their potential to heal faded. Recently it flared up again to being almost gone to quite sore again, just over ten years later. It has not been until recently I have read about using evening primrose for these types of problems, and now I wish I had known a lot earlier, because it is making a satisfactory difference. Evening primrose is said to help relieve symptoms of eczema as well as women's problems.It does. It has improved my skin, reduced ill feelings associated with PMT, and although I am a sufferer of endometriosis, I believe...

rtox 11.03.2001 · Read review
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One of the most useful plant ever

Advantages: Even today its being found to have new healing properties
Disadvantages: Classed as a weed in America

...I was asked to do a review on the Evening Primrose by Linz AKA "gizmogizmo" ***The Plant*** Evening Primrose - Oenthera - Hardy biennial Certain species do not have any medicinal properties at all; Oenthera speciosa is one of them. The Evening Primrose goes by quite a few other name is also known as Evening Star, Fever Plant, Field Primrose, King's Cure All, Scabish, Moth's Moonflower and many others. The plant is native to North America and was introduced to Europe in 1614. The plant was brought back by botanists as a curiosity, in fact the plant is classes as a weed in North America but everywhere else is a lovely garden plant. According to ancient herbalists the plant is said to get rid of the effects of wine, the plant has medicinal and culinary uses. The potential of the plant is massive as the whole plant is...

the_enlightened_one 02.02.2007 (10.02.2007) · Read review
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Martha Hill's Evening Primrose Moisturiser

Advantages: Lightly scented, great for sensitive skin
Disadvantages: Have only been able to buy through post - can't afford to run out!

...Just by chance I recently was given a pot of Martha Hill's Evening Primrose moisturiser cream. It looked fairly plain, white pot with small gold writing on it, but hey it was for free and I seem to have tried everything else just recently - unfortunately my skin seems to be dry and ultra-sensitive and I needed something that wasn't going to make it flare up again. The cream is light, and only lightly scented with the evening primrose which is great - it doesn't mingle with anything else you might try to wear in the perfume line. As it felt so light I wondered if it would help with the dry skin and I am delighted to say that its seems to balance my skin perfectly. Took a little while but at last I seem to have found something that works. Even better that I am not paying a fortune for fancy packaging and sales assistants. I am...

julst 08.09.2002 · Read review
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Fat Converter amongst Other Things

Advantages: Great for treatment of many ailments, especially skin problems and hormonal inbalances.
Disadvantages: Please note, Evening Primrose oil must not be used by suffers of temporal-lobe epilepsy or by those suffering with manic depression.

...Evening Primrose The Evening Primrose plant bears delicate paper thin, yellow flowers which open in the afternoon. It is native to North America and came to Europe via Italy. It grows in sandy soil and enjoys full sun - it can be found growing in sand dunes, along the roadside, on railway banks and in waste places. Native Americans were the first to recognise the potential of evening primrose oil as a healer, and they boiled the seeds to make a liquid for healing wounds. Evening Primrose oil is a rich source of gamma-linoleic acid, which is better known as GLA. The body makes its own gamma-linoleic acid from essential fatty aids (EFAs). Essential fatty acids have numerous functions in the body, one of which is to manufacture hormone-like substances called “prostaglandins,” which have very important effects on the body...

Shekera 03.02.2002 · Read review
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A great alternative medicine for women!

Advantages: definitely has helped my cycle
Disadvantages: expense

...This little bottle contains 120 capsules which you take twice a day with the aim to help keep y our natural menstrual cycle regular with the added benefits of helping to improve the appearance and health of skin and also helps to keep your joints flexible. There are loads of different alternative medicines on the market that claim to do allsorts and this is the only one which I have used which I have actually found works and therefore worth the price! Ingredients Within Evening primrose there is one key ingredient, this being: gamma linolenic acid (GMA)which is an essential fatty acid which is from the primrose plant itself and helps the body to keep the natural hormone balance in tact. There are no artificial flavourings or ingredients or additives unlike with a lot of products with medicinal value. The plants used are all...

lorriellah 14.07.2009 · Read review
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