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
APIGENIN-7-O-BETA-GALACTOSIDE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
APIGENIN-7-O-GLUCOSIDE	2	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
APIGENIN-7-O-GLUCURONIDE	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ARACHIDIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
ARACHIDIC-ACID	0	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
AROMADENDRIN	3	Fruit	not available	150.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ASCORBIC-ACID	112	Leaf	26.0	120.0	-0.43	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Leaf	13860.0	63000.0	-0.98	Duke, 1992 *
ASH	0	Plant	not available	63000.0	-1.05	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
BEHENIC-ACID	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
BEHENIC-ACID	1	Seed Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Leaf	7.0	31.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
BETA-CAROTENE	53	Plant	not available	31.0	-0.56	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
BETA-SITOSTEROL	47	Seed	not available	100.0	-0.59	Duke, 1992 *
BETAINE	14	Seed	not available	80.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Leaf	1421.0	6460.0	-0.82	Duke, 1992 *
CALCIUM	28	Plant	not available	6460.0	-0.76	Duke, 1992 *
CHROMIUM	24	Leaf	0.5	2.2	-0.46	Duke, 1992 *
CHROMIUM	24	Plant	not available	2.2	-0.66	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
CHRYSOERIOL	7	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
Differentiator	3	Duke, 1992 *
Diuretic	9	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
DNA-Protective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Embryotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Emetic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Emmenagogue	1	Wealth of India.
Encephalopathic	1	Martindale's 29th
Energizer	1	Duke, 1992 *
Ergogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Erythrocytogenic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Essential	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Estrogenic	6	Duke, 1992 *
Ethanolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Expectorant	2	Lawrence Review of Natural Products, Mar-91.
Febrifuge	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Fibrinolytic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Fistula-Preventive	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
FLavor	4	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Fungicide	5	Duke, 1992 *
Fungistat	1	Weidenborner, M., Hindorf, H., Jha, H.C., and Tsotsonos, P. 1989. Antifungal Activity of Flavonoids Against Storage Fungi of the Genus Aspergillus. Phytochemistry. 29(4): 1103-1105.