Commercial name | Milk Thistle Seed/Silymarin |
Botanical name | Silybum marianum |
Botanical family | Asteraceae |
CAS # | 84604-20-6 |
Plant part | Seed |
Origin | China or Eastern Europe |
Manufacturing place | China |
Milk Thistle Oil
The silymarin is substance in the seeds. It protects the liver against the action usually very harmful for certain products. Clinical trials have demonstrated that one could prevent severe liver poisoning due to the ingestion of carbon tetrachloride or poisonous mushrooms, taking the sylimarme just before or within 48 hours. In Germany, silymarin is used successfully to treat hepatitis and liver cirrhosis.
- Protects the liver
- Stimulates bile secretion
- Stimulates lactation
- Antidepressant
- Stimulates cell renewal
- Treatment of hepatitis
- Treating all kinds of liver disease (infection, alcohol abuse, etc.)
- Silybine
- Isosilybine
- Silycristine
- Silydianine
- Medicinal
- Pharmaeutical
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