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
Antichoreic	1	Martindale's 29th
Anticirrhotic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anticlimacteric	4	Duke, 1992 *
Anticoeliac	1	Martindale's 28th
Anticold	2	Duke, 1992 *
Anticolitic	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Anticomplementary	6	Duke, 1992 *
Anticonvulsant	3	Borchard, R. E., Barnes, C. D., and Eltherton, L. G. 1991. Drug Dosage in Laboratory Animals: A Handbook. (3rd Ed.) The Telford Press, Inc., P. O. Box 287, Caldwell NJ 07006.
Anticorneotic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Anticoronary	5	Duke, 1992 *
AntiCrohn's	3	Martindale's 29th
AntiCTS	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticystitic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Anticytotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antidandruff	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antidecubitic	2	Martindale's 28th
Antidementia	3	Duke, 1992 *
Antidepressant	6	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antidermatic	2	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Antidermatitic	4	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.