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
LUTEOLIN-7-GLUCOSIDE	7	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Leaf	887.0	4030.0	-0.04	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Plant	not available	4030.0	-0.01	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
MANGANESE	14	Leaf	3.2	14.7	-0.44	Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE	14	Plant	not available	14.7	-0.59	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
MUCILAGE	3	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRISTIC-ACID	6	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NARINGENIN	56	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NARINGENIN	56	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEOSILYHERMIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEOSILYHERMIN	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN	39	Leaf	2.2	10.0	-1.06	Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN	39	Plant	not available	10.0	-0.93	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
NITRATES	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCTADECADIENOIC-ACID	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCTADECATRIENOIC-ACID	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCTADECENOIC-ACID	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OLEIC-ACID	18	Seed Oil	180000.0	250000.0	-0.37	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Plant	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
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.