Silymarin Extract/Milk Thistle Extract

Milk thistle extract is a type of flavonoid lignan compound extracted from the seed coats of the medicinal plant Silybum marianum. It is yellow or brown in color, and bitter in taste.

It is soluble in acetone, ethyl acetate, ethanol, and methanol, but hardly soluble in chloroform, and insoluble in water. The main active ingredients in milk thistle are silybin, isosilybin, silydianin, and silychristin.

Milk thistle is an annual or biennial herb that originated in southern Europe and North Africa. It has been cultivated and used in Europe and Africa for thousands of years, which is a folk medicinal plant. Silymarin is widely used in the treatment of liver diseases and cardiovascular diseases.

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Milk thistle is a plant named for the white veins on its large prickly leaves. One of the active ingredients in milk thistle called silymarin is extracted from the plant’s seeds. Silymarin is believed to have antioxidant properties. Milk thistle is sold as an oral capsule, tablet and liquid extract.

Silymarin is a flavonolignans extracted from the milk thistle Silybum marianum (L.) gaernt. Silymarin has been shown to possess various pharmacological properties like hepatoprotective, antioxidant, antiinflammatory, anticancer, and cardioprotective activities.