The Evening Primrose Varieties of de Vries

Evening Primrose Oil/CD

In a double-blind trial patients with atopic eczema received either oral evening primrose oil (EPO) (n = 14) or placebo (n = 11) for 12 weeks. In the EPO group a statistically significant improvement was observed in the overall severity and grade of inflammation and in the percentage of the body surface involved by eczema as well as in dryness and itch. Patients in the placebo group showed a si...

A review of the clinical efficacy of evening primrose.

The oil obtained from the evening primrose (Oenothera biennis) plant is usually taken orally in a gel cap form. This herbal supplement is most commonly used for the treatment of mastalgia and atopic dermatitis. While recommending this supplement to patients for many years for the treatment of mastalgia, this author was interested in researching the plant and the evidence supporting its use for ...

Effect of Evening Primrose on Cervical Ripening: A Systematic Review Study

 Background and purpose: Cervical ripening is of great importance in gynecology. Evening primrose is one of the medicinal plants used for cervical ripening and softening before midwifery and labor interventions. The present study aimed to review the clinical trials on the effect of evening primrose on cervical ripening and labor. Materials and methods: In this narrative review, search was done...

Hugo De Vries

Modal De Vries Algebras

We introduce modal de Vries algebras and develop a duality between the category of modal de Vries algebras and the category of coalgebras for the Vietoris functor on compact Hausdorff spaces. This duality serves as a common generalization of de Vries duality between de Vries algebras and compact Hausdorff spaces, and the duality between modal algebras and modal spaces.