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 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 * |
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. |