Milk Thistle Extract - 40-100 Cm Tall, Red-purple Flowering Herb | Liver Health Support, Antioxidant, Hepatoprotective Properties, Effective Against Liver Diseases

We are engaged in offering excellent quality Milk Thistle Extract to our valuable clients. It grows 40 to 100 cm tall. The stem is grooved and more or less cottony.The leaves are oblong to lanceolate. They are either wavy loved or pinnated, have spiny edges. They are hairless, shiny green, with milk white veins.The flower heads are 4 to 5 cm long and wide, of red-purple colour. They flower from June to August.The bracts are hairless, with triangular, spine-edged appendages, tipped with a stout yellow spine.The achenes are black, with simple long white pappus, surrounded by a yellow basal ring.

Medicinal Uses:-
In herbalism, it is used in cases of liver diseases (cirrhosis, jaundice and hepatitis), gallbladder disease, and is claimed to protect the liver against poisons. Silibinin (syn. silybin, sylimarin I) is a hepatoprotective (antihepatotoxic), antioxidant (radical-scavenging agent), thus stabilizing and protecting the membrane lipids of the hepatocytes (liver cells). Silicristin inhibits the enzymes peroxidase and lipoxygenase. Silidianin is a plant growth regulator. A 2000 study of such claims by the AHRQ concluded that "clinical efficacy of milk thistle is not clearly established". However a more recent study did show activity against liver cancers. A 2005 Cochrane Review considered thirteen randomised clinical trials which assessed milk thistle in 915 patients with alcoholic and/or hepatitis B or C virus liver diseases.