Evening Primrose

Evening Primrose
Every part of the plant is edible: the nutty roots are boiled and eaten as vegetables; the leaves are eaten as greens; while the seeds were traditionally dried and chewed by Native Americans. Evening primrose oil is a rich source of gamma-linolenic acid, and essential fatty acid that can’t be made in the body but which is essential for growth and bone health and to regulate metabolism.
Evening primrose is often recommended for the symptoms of PMS (sore breasts, irritability and bloating) and menopause. It has been shown to help with the itchiness, scaling and inflammation of eczema, to lower blood pressure slightly and to soothe ulcerative colitis.