Common Names
Milk Thistle; Lady's Thistle
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe
Chemical Name | Activity Count | Plant Part | Low Parts Per Million | High Parts Per Million | Standard Deviation | Reference |
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CHRYSOERIOL | 7 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
CNICIN | 10 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
COBALT | 2 | Leaf | 1.0 | 4.1 | -0.27 | Duke, 1992 * |
COBALT | 2 | Plant | not available | 4.1 | -0.34 | Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp. |
COSMOSIIN | 4 | Flower | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
CYSTEINE | 13 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
DEHYDROCONIFERYL-ALCOHOL | 0 | 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. |
DEHYDRODICONIFERYL-ALCOHOL | 0 | Seed | not available | 800.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
DEHYDROSILYBIN | 0 | Fruit | not available | 100.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
DEHYDROSILYBIN | 0 | Seed | not available | 0.6 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
DIHYDROSILYBIN | 0 | Plant | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
DIHYDROSILYBIN | 0 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
DODECA-1-11-DIENE-3-5-7-9-TETRAYNE | 0 | Essential Oil | not available | 10000.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
EO | 0 | Seed | not available | 1000.0 | -0.54 | List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979. |
ERIODICTYOL | 10 | Fruit | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
ERIODICTYOL | 10 | Seed | not available | not available | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
ETHYLENE | 1 | Leaf | not available | 800.0 | not available | Duke, 1992 * |
FAT | 0 | Leaf | 12760.0 | 58000.0 | 0.03 | Duke, 1992 * |
FAT | 0 | Plant | not available | 58000.0 | 0.09 | Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp. |
FAT | 0 | Seed | 160000.0 | 450000.0 | 0.97 | Duke, 1992 * |
Activity | Chemical Count | Reference |
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Copper-Antagonist | 1 | Challem, J., Berkson, Burt, and Smith, Melissa Dianne. 2000. Syndrome X - The complete nutritional program to prevent and reservse insulin resistance. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 272 pp. $24.95 |
Copper-Chelator | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
Cosmetic | 3 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
COX-1-Inhibitor | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
COX-2-Inhibitor | 4 | Duke, 1992 * |
Cyclooxygenase-Inhibitor | 3 | Duke, 1992 * |
Cytochrome-P450-1A1-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Cytochrome-P450-1A2-Inhibitor | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Cytochrome-P450-Inhibitor | 1 | Pizzorno, J. 1998. Total Wellness. Prima Health, a division of Prima. |
Cytoprotective | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Cytotoxic | 5 | Planta Medica, 57: A113, 1991. |
Decarboxylase-Inhibitor | 1 | Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp. |
Deiodinase-Inhibitor | 3 | Jim Duke's personal files. |
Demulcent | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Deodorant | 1 | Martindale's 29th |
Depressant | 1 | Cooper-Driver, G. A., Chemical substances in plants toxic to animals, pp. 213-47 in Rechcigl, M., Jr., ed. CRC Handbook of Naturally Occurring Food Toxicants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1983, 339 pp. |
Dermatitigenic | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Detoxicant | 2 | Duke, 1992 * |
Detoxicant (Alcohol) | 1 | Duke, 1992 * |
Diaphoretic? | 2 | Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Dec-90. |