Can you eat evening primrose during your period? These types of people should not eat it
Evening primrose is the most important nutritional medicine discovered this century. Also known as evening star, sundrops, mountain sesame, wild sesame, etc., it is a herbaceous plant of the genus Oenothera in the family Onagraceae. It can treat a variety of diseases and can regulate lipid substances in the blood. It has significant therapeutic effects on coronary artery infarction, atherosclerosis and cerebral thrombosis caused by high cholesterol and high blood lipids. Let us take a look below at who should not eat evening primrose!
Who should not eat evening primrose?
1. Minors: The main reason minors should not eat evening primrose is that evening primrose oil contains γ-linolenic acid, a component that can be converted into hormones in the human body. Minors themselves have vigorous hormone secretion, and if they intake hormones it may affect normal menstruation or normal growth and development.
2. Women during menstruation: Evening primrose is also called evening star, mainly because it opens small yellow flowers in the evening. Generally speaking, eating evening primrose has a menstruation-regulating effect, but women during menstruation should not eat it, because during menstruation the progesterone hormone secreted in the female body is at its lowest level, and if evening primrose, which can synthesize hormones in the human body, is ingested at this time, it will disrupt hormone secretion.
3. Pregnant women: Because pregnant women are a special group, if pregnant women eat evening primrose it may cause hormonal changes in the pregnant woman's body and affect the health of mother and baby.
Efficacy and effects of evening primrose
[Nature and flavor] Sweet and bitter in taste, warm in nature.
[Meridian tropism] Liver, spleen and heart meridians.
[Efficacy] Dispels wind-dampness and strengthens tendons and bones; mainly treats wind-cold-dampness impediment and soreness and weakness of tendons and bones.
1. Evening primrose flower: Evening primrose flower contains an aromatic oil that can purify the air and kill viruses and bacteria. After the smell of the aromatic oil contacts the olfactory cells in the human nasal cavity, it is transmitted to the cerebral cortex through the olfactory nerve, producing a refreshing feeling. Over time it harmonizes the blood vessels and makes qi flow smoothly and the mind feel at ease, achieving relative physiological and psychological stability.
2. Evening primrose root: Evening primrose root has the functions of dispelling wind and removing dampness, strengthening tendons and bones, nourishing blood and soothing the liver. It is suitable for rheumatic pain, general body aches, and tendon and bone pain and waist and knee soreness and weakness caused by deficiency of liver and kidney, and is also suitable for dysmenorrhea or irregular menstruation caused by liver qi stagnation.
3. Evening primrose seed: Evening primrose seed is the seed of Oenothera rosea, a plant of the family Onagraceae. “Guizhou Herbal Medicine” says it “strengthens tendons and bones”, and “Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicine” says it “dispels wind and removes dampness”. The seed extract evening primrose oil soft capsules are taken orally 2 capsules each time, 2 times a day, and have the effect of lowering blood lipids.
4. Evening primrose oil: Evening primrose oil is extracted from the seeds of the evening primrose plant. Its main effects are preventing cardiovascular disease, preventing thrombosis and lowering serum cholesterol concentration, treating allergic diseases such as allergic dermatitis, multiple sclerosis and antigen diseases, and assisting in the treatment of diabetic complications, premenstrual tension syndrome and alcoholism, etc.
Pharmacological effects of evening primrose
1. Blood lipid-lowering and anti-atherosclerosis effects: Intragastric administration of evening primrose oil at 5 mg/kg can reduce the increases in serum total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and very-low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels in rats induced by high-fat feed, and can significantly increase high-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels.
2. Weight-reducing effect: Intragastric administration of evening primrose oil at 0.3-1 mg/kg for 8 consecutive weeks can prevent hypothalamic obesity in rats caused by subcutaneous injection of large doses of monosodium glutamate, reduce blood triglycerides in animals, increase high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and can inhibit the enlargement of fat cells and thickening of intestinal villi in monosodium glutamate-treated rats, thereby adjusting gastrointestinal absorption function and reducing body fat accumulation.
3. Anti-fatty liver effect: For ethionine-induced fatty liver in rats, intragastric administration of 0.3 mg/kg, and 2 mg/kg of its 5% sodium salt and 6 mg/kg of its 5% sodium salt, both evening primrose oil and its sodium salt have good anti-fatty liver effects. They significantly reduce the triglyceride content in fatty liver and inhibit the occurrence of fatty liver.
4. Anti-arrhythmic effect: Evening primrose oil and its sodium salt have significant preventive and therapeutic effects on aconitine-induced arrhythmia in rats, strophanthin G-induced arrhythmia in guinea pigs and barium chloride-induced arrhythmia in rabbits, with the effect on barium chloride-induced arrhythmia being the most prominent.
5. Anti-inflammatory effect: Evening primrose oil significantly inhibits inflammation caused by a variety of inflammatory agents. Intragastric administration at 2-4 mg/kg has obvious inhibitory effects on xylene-induced ear swelling in mice, and on carrageenan-induced, histamine-induced, prostaglandin E2-induced, heat-scald-induced, formaldehyde-induced and nystatin-induced paw swelling in normal rats and adrenalectomized rats. Its anti-inflammatory effect is not through excitation of the pituitary-adrenal cortex system, but may be through inhibiting mediator release in the inflammatory process and links such as inflammation induction, exudation, leukocyte chemotaxis and connective tissue proliferation.
6. Other effects: Evening primrose oil can resist platelet aggregation and prevent thrombosis. Evening primrose oil at 0.8 g/kg, intragastric administration once a day for 90 consecutive days, can reduce the urine protein amount in rats with chronic renal failure, improve urine protein selectivity, slow the rise in blood creatinine level, and result in milder pathological changes.