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- $Title{What Can "Evening Primrose Oil" be Used For?}
- $Subject{evening primrose oil fda ill defined symptoms symptom medicine
- arthritis generally recognized as safe gras premenstrual breast tenderness
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- What Can "Evening Primrose Oil" be Used For?
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- QUESTION: Can you please tell me what "evening primrose oil" can be used for,
- as a medicine? My girl friend, who has arthritis, swears by it, but I can't
- seem to find much information about it in the books I have searched through.
- I hope you will be able to help me out.
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- ANSWER: Not much of anything, as far as I can determine. And the Food and
- Drug Administration (FDA) seems to have the same opinion. In fact the agency
- has issued an "import alert" which empowers its agents to confiscate any
- shipments of the product where the label claims medical effectiveness. In
- addition, the FDA does not regard evening primrose oil to be "generally
- recognized as safe" (GRAS), because manufacturers have failed to provide the
- agency with any safety information. Although promoted as useful in a number
- of conditions, arthritis, premenstrual breast tenderness, asthma, multiple
- sclerosis, reports in the medical literature of investigations fail to provide
- conclusive evidence of any benefits. These expensive tablets (about $12 for
- 50 tabs) still get into the country and on to the shelves, as the manufactures
- no longer place any claims on the labels.
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- The material contained here is "FOR INFORMATION ONLY" and should not replace
- the counsel and advice of your personal physician. Promptly consulting your
- doctor is the best path to a quick and successful resolution of any medical
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