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
SILANDRIN	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILANDRIN	1	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILANDRIN-3-DESOXY-ISOSILYBIN	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILICON	4	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILICON	4	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
SILYBIN	4	Fruit	500.0	30000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILYBIN	4	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILYBIN	4	Seed	5000.0	17600.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILYBIN-A	0	Fruit	not available	86400.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILYBIN-B	0	Fruit	not available	86400.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILYBININ	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILYBINOME	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
SILYBONOL	0	Seed	not available	10200.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILYBUM-MARIANUM-POLYACETYLENE-IX	0	Root	not available	100.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILYBUM-MARIANUM-POLYACETYLENE-IX	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILYBUM-MARIANUM-POLYACETYLENE-VII	0	Root	not available	15.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILYBUM-MARIANUM-POLYACETYLENE-VIII	0	Shoot	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILYBUM-MARIANUM-POLYACETYLENE-X	0	Root	not available	10.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILYBUM-MARIANUM-POLYACETYLENE-XI	0	Root	not available	10.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILYBUM-MARIANUM-POLYACETYLENE-XII	0	Root	not available	10.0	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
Gastroprotective	1	Duke, 1992 *
Gastrostimulant	1	Martindale's 28th
Glucosyl-Transferase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Glutathionergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Glutathionigenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Gonadotrophic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Hemolytic	1	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Hemostat	1	Huang, K. C. 1993. The Pharmacology of Chinese Herbs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 388 pp.
Hepatomagenic	1	Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health. Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention. Huang, M.T., Ho, C.T. and Lee, C.Y. eds. 1992. ACS Symposium Series 507.ACS, Washington 402 pp.
Hepatoprotective	13	Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Herbicide	2	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
HIF-1alpha-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Histaminic	1	Martindale's 29th
HIV-RT-Inhibitor	2	Garcia, J., Morin,* C., Nyasse, B., Sondengam, B-L., Tchouankeu, J-C., and Tsamo, E. Complete Structural Assignments Of An Ergosterol Derivative From Entandrophragma utile. Journal of Natural Products, 54(1): 136-142, 1991.
Hyaluronidase-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Hypercholesterolemic	2	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
Hyperglycemic	1	Merck 11th Edition
Hypertensive	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Hypocholesterolemic	11	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.