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
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 *