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
CHRYSOERIOL	7	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CNICIN	10	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
COBALT	2	Leaf	1.0	4.1	-0.27	Duke, 1992 *
COBALT	2	Plant	not available	4.1	-0.34	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
COSMOSIIN	4	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
CYSTEINE	13	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DEHYDROCONIFERYL-ALCOHOL	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
DEHYDRODICONIFERYL-ALCOHOL	0	Seed	not available	800.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DEHYDROSILYBIN	0	Fruit	not available	100.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DEHYDROSILYBIN	0	Seed	not available	0.6	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIHYDROSILYBIN	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIHYDROSILYBIN	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DODECA-1-11-DIENE-3-5-7-9-TETRAYNE	0	Essential Oil	not available	10000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EO	0	Seed	not available	1000.0	-0.54	List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
ERIODICTYOL	10	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ERIODICTYOL	10	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ETHYLENE	1	Leaf	not available	800.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Leaf	12760.0	58000.0	0.03	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Plant	not available	58000.0	0.09	Pedersen, M. 1987. Nutritional Herbology. Pederson Publishing. Bountiful, Utah. 377 pp.
FAT	0	Seed	160000.0	450000.0	0.97	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
Antibacterial	13	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antibiotic	2	Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
AntiBPH	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer	3	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Breast)	1	Madhavi, D. L., Bomser, J., Smith, M., Singletary, K. 1998. Isolation of Bioactive Constituents from Vaccinium myrtillus (Bilberry) Fruits and Cell Cultures. Plant Sci., 131(1): 95-103.
Anticancer (Cervix)	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticancer (Lung)	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticanker	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticarcinogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticarcinomic	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticarcinomic (Breast)	1	Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Anticariogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticarpal-Tunnel	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticataract	8	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Anticephalagic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Anticerebrotic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Anticervicaldysplasic	3	Duke, 1992 *
AntiCFS	3	Duke, 1992 *
Anticheilitic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antichilblain	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.