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
Antierythemic	1	Jim Duke's personal files.
Antiescherichic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiestrogenic	5	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antifatigue	4	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antifeedant	6	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Antifertility	2	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antifibrinolytic	2	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53.
Antifibromyalgic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrosarcomic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrotic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antiflu	1	Vlietinck, A.J. and Dommisse, R.A. eds. 1985. Advances in Medicinal Plant Research. Wiss. Verlag. Stuttgart.
Antifuruncular	1	Martindale's 28th
Antigallstone	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigastric	1	Rastitel'nye Resursy, 21: 85.
Antigastritic	3	Martindale's 29th
Antigastrotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigingivitic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiglaucomic	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiglossitic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiglycosuric	1	Duke, 1992 *