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
SILYBUM-MARIANUM-POLYACETYLENE-XIII	0	Root	not available	12.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILYCHRISTIN	1	Fruit	7000.0	147500.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILYCHRISTIN	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILYCHRISTIN	1	Seed	not available	1000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILYDIANIN	1	Fruit	100.0	21300.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILYDIANIN	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILYDIANIN	1	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILYHERMIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILYHERMIN	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILYMARIN	16	Fruit	7000.0	45000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILYMARIN	16	Seed	7000.0	60000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILYMONIN	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SILYMONIN	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SODIUM	1	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
SODIUM	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
STEARIC-ACID	8	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID	8	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
STEARIC-ACID	8	Seed Oil	not available	178000.0	0.52	Duke, 1992 *
TAXIFOLIN	17	Fruit	100.0	8000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TAXIFOLIN	17	Seed	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
Vasoconstrictor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Vasodilator	10	Duke, 1992 *
Vasopressor	1	Duke, 1992 *
VEGF-Inhibitor	4	Duke, 1992 *
Vulnerary	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor	3	Chem. & Pharm. Bull. 38: 1772.