How much evening primrose is safe?

Question

I bought evening primrose oil it's 1000mg per capsule. I take two every morning with my prenatal. I know vit c isn't toxic and you can take a bunch of that until your body tells you one way or another it's had enough. But what about this how much is too much?

Answer

My OB said 500mg two vaginally twice daily.

When I told her I couldn't find any data on it, she told me that's because there isn't any, it's purely anecdotal.

So I highly doubt there's a real correct dose, since there's no data to determine what might be a good dose, and certainly no data to show that it accomplishes anything. I'm not saying that it doesn't work, I'm saying that nobody really knows. The trouble with things like this is that when women who are close to labor take it, of course some of them are going to go into labor shortly afterwards, but you don't know if they were going to do that anyway or if the Primrose oil had anything to do with it.

Answer

I'm interested to find out too.

How much evening primrose is safe?

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