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
SILANDRIN	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILANDRIN	1	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILANDRIN-3-DESOXY-ISOSILYBIN	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILICON	4	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILICON	4	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
SILYBIN	4	Fruit	500.0	30000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILYBIN	4	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILYBIN	4	Seed	5000.0	17600.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILYBIN-A	0	Fruit	not available	86400.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILYBIN-B	0	Fruit	not available	86400.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILYBININ	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILYBINOME	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
SILYBONOL	0	Seed	not available	10200.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILYBUM-MARIANUM-POLYACETYLENE-IX	0	Root	not available	100.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILYBUM-MARIANUM-POLYACETYLENE-IX	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILYBUM-MARIANUM-POLYACETYLENE-VII	0	Root	not available	15.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILYBUM-MARIANUM-POLYACETYLENE-VIII	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILYBUM-MARIANUM-POLYACETYLENE-X	0	Root	not available	10.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILYBUM-MARIANUM-POLYACETYLENE-XI	0	Root	not available	10.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILYBUM-MARIANUM-POLYACETYLENE-XII	0	Root	not available	10.0	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
Aphidifuge	3	Duke, 1992 *
Apoptotic	7	Duke, 1992 *
Aromatase-Inhibitor	4	Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 235.1999.
Artemicide	1	Jung, J.H., Pummangura, S., Chaichantipyuth, c., Patarapanich, C., and McLaughlin, J.L. 1989. Bioactive Constituents of Melodorum fruticosum. Phytochemistry. 29(5): 1667-1670. 1990.
Asthma-preventive	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Astringent	1	Martindale's 28th
ATPase-Inhibitor	1	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Bacteristat	1	Duke, 1992 *
Beta-Adrenergic Receptor Blocker	1	Duke, 1992 *
Beta-Blocker	1	Duke, 1992 *
Beta-Glucuronidase-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *
Bradycardiac	1	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Bronchoconstrictor	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Bronchostimulant	1	Martindale's 28th
Bruchiphobe	1	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Calcium-Antagonist	3	Duke, 1992 *
Calcium-Antagonist?	1	Biochimica & Biophysica Acta, 1115: 69, 1991.
Calcium-Channel-Blocker	1	Duke, 1992 *
Calmodulin-Antagonist	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
cAMP-Phosphodiesterase-Inhibitor	3	Duke, 1992 *