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Plant Silybum marianum (Asteraceae)

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.