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
P21-Inducer	1	Duke, 1992 *
P450-Inducer	1	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
P450-Inhibitor	2	Father Nature's Farmacy: The aggregate of all these three-letter citations.
PAF-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Percutaneostimulant	1	Seki, T., Toeda, C., Kawaguchi, T., Juni, K., Sugibayashi, K., and Morimoto, Y. 1990. Enhanced Transdermal Delivery of Zidovudine in Rats and Human Skin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(11): 3086-3089, 1990.
Perfumery	2	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Pesticide	21	Duke, 1992 *
PGE2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Phagocytotic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Phospholipase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
PKC-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Plasmodicide	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Polyamine-Synthesis-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Progestational	1	Duke, 1992 *
Proliferant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Prooxidant	2	Duke, 1992 *
Propecic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Prostaglandin-Sparer	1	Fujita, T., Nakatani, E., Funaishi, N., Sakuma, S., Fujimoto, Y. Potent inhibition of prostaglandin inactivation in rabbit gastric antral mucosal slices by selenium ions in-vitro. J. Pharm. Pharmacol. 42: 655-657, 1990.
Prostaglandin-Synthesis-Inhibitor	1	Ibewuike, J. C., Ogungbamila, F. O., Ogundaini, A. O., Okeke, I. N., Bohlin, L. 1997. Antiinflammatory and Antibacterial Activities of C-methylflavonol from Piliostigma thonningii. Phytotherapy Research, 11(4): 281-284.
Prostaglandin-Synthetase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *