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
Antigonadotrophic	1	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antigonadotropic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antigout	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigranular	1	Duke, 1992 *
AntiGTF	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihangover	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antihemorrhagic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihepatitic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihepatocarcinogenic	1	Akao, M. and Kuroda, K. 1990. Inhibitory Effect of Fumaric Acid on Hepatocarcinogenesis by Thioacetamide in Mice. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(7): 2012-2014, 1990.
Antihepatotic	1	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.
Antihepatotoxic	8	Advance in Chinese Medicinal Materials Research. 1985. Eds. H. M. Chang, H. W. Yeung, W. -W. Tso and A. Koo. World Scientific Publishing Co., Philadelphia Pa., page 253.
Antiherpetic	8	Duke, 1992 *
Antiherpetic?	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihistaminic	7	Duke, 1992 *
AntiHIV	6	Duke, 1992 *
Antihomocystinuric	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihydrophobic	1	Vlietinck, A.J. and Dommisse, R.A. eds. 1985. Advances in Medicinal Plant Research. Wiss. Verlag. Stuttgart.
Antihyperactivity	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antihyperammonemic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antihyperkeratotic	1	Duke, 1992 *