Plant Silybum marianum (Asteraceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Milk Thistle; Lady's Thistle

How this plant is used

Generally Recognized as Safe

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PEROXIDASE-ISOENZYMES	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PEROXIDASE-ISOENZYMES	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PEROXIDASE-ISOENZYMES	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PEROXIDASE-ISOENZYMES	0	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Leaf	1553.0	7060.0	0.38	Duke, 1992 *
PHOSPHORUS	4	Plant	not available	7060.0	1.67	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
POTASSIUM	14	Leaf	1833.0	8330.0	-0.97	Duke, 1992 *
POTASSIUM	14	Plant	not available	8330.0	-0.94	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
PROLINE	0	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Leaf	31460.0	143000.0	-0.69	Duke, 1992 *
PROTEIN	0	Plant	not available	143000.0	-0.25	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
PROTEIN	0	Seed	186000.0	280000.0	0.41	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN	176	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN	176	Seed	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
RIBOFLAVIN	15	Leaf	0.4	2.0	-0.17	Duke, 1992 *
SELENIUM	60	Leaf	2.0	7.1	0.16	Duke, 1992 *
SELENIUM	60	Plant	not available	7.1	-0.11	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
SILANDRIN	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
11B-HSD-Inhibitor	4	Duke, 1992 *
5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor	4	Duke, 1992 *
5-Lipoxygenase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Abortifacient	1	Duke, 1992 *
ACE-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Acetylcholinergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Acidulant	2	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Adrenergic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Aldehyde-Oxidase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Aldose-Reductase-Inhibitor	9	Shimizu, M., Ito, T., Terashima, S., Hayashi, T., Arisawa, M., Morita, N., Kurokawa, S., Ito, K., and Hashimoto, Y. 1984. Inhibition of Lens Aldose Reductase by Flavonoids. Phytochemistry, 23: 1885-1888.
Allelochemic	1	Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.
Allergenic	5	Duke, 1992 *
Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Amphiglycemic?	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Analeptic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Analgesic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Androgenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Androgenic?	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anemiagenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anesthetic	1	Martindale's 28th