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KMID : 0382619870070020945
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Hanyang Journal of Medicine
1987 Volume.7 No. 2 p.945 ~ p.952
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Analysis of Valuable Components in Primrose Seed Oil
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Abstract
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Many medicinal products have been obtained in natural source. Recently, Primrose seed oil is suggested to the richest natural source of valuable biologically active polyun saturates, especially gamma-linolenic acid (GLA), which is concerned to the treatment of various uncontrolled disease related to the disorders of fatty acid metabolism.
Thus this study was investigated firstly to confirm the presence of GLA and its content in Primrose seed oil in Korea, and the following results were obtained.
1. 0.16 gm of seed oil were extracted from 1.0 gm of its seed.
2. In the compositions of seed oil tested cis-linoleic acid (66.0%) and GLA (12.3%) were main components.
3. Minute contents of metals identified in seed oil tested were hot exceed its limited value.
It can concluded that Primrose seed oil in Korea are abundant in cis-linoleic acid especially GLA in regard to other vegetable oil, thus it is valuable for control of variable disease related to the fatty acids.
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