Evening Primrose
Oenothera biennis
Onagraceae (Evening Primrose Family)
Medicinal Minute with Ginger Webb
A note from Ginger:
Evening Primrose, particularly the pink species that grows in the central Texas, is a plentiful wildflower that can easily be cultivated for its leaves and flowers. I love making a tea with evening primrose. It is relaxing and calming for those of us who rely on adrenaline to get things done and occasionally overdo it. It has an immediate relaxing effect. It's acrid feel in the mouth is one of the clues that I use as an herbalist to help understand its relaxing effect on my muscles and mood.
Ginger Webb, Community Herbalist, Botanist, Teacher & Mentor
Ginger Webb has been practicing herbalism for nearly 30 years, as a community herbalist, clinical herbalist, herbal medicine maker, wild plant lover, botanist, and teacher. She has trained scores of people to be herbalists through her programs at Sacred Journey School of Herbalism.
Her mission is to keep alive the craft of herbalism through modeling the age-old wisdom of being in right relationship with the plants, and she teaches her students to be stewards of the Earth and the plants first, and to make medicine only when the plants wholeheartedly provide consent.
