Medical Research
Seeds of the E. plantagineum plant were found in a study funded by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (part of the National Institutes of Health) to lower triglycerides. Researchers at Wake Forest University and the Harvard Center for Botanical Lipids fed mice a diet supplemented with echium oil and found that it had benefit similar to fish oil in lowering triglyceride levels in blood plasma and the liver.
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