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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
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
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.