Milk Thistle Seed

Milk Thistle Seed - SILYBUM MARIANUM (Whole) (Organically Grown) COMMON NAME Standardized: milk thistleOther: Mary's thistle  BOTANICAL NAME Silybum marianum (L.) Gaertn.Plant Family: Asteraceae OVERVIEW Milk thistle has been revered for thousands of years as an effective healing herb. However, early on all parts of the plant were used for a variety of purposes. The leaves were extensively utilized and often eaten as a vegetable.   HERBAL ACTIONS cholagogic and choleretic, tonic, galactogogue, hepatoprotective, alterative USES AND PREPARATIONS Dried seed (technically the fruit) eaten, as a tincture or tea, or powdered and encapsulated. CONSTITUENTS The seed contains flavone lignans (which comprise silymarin and contains silybin, silychristin, and silidianin), fixed oil (mostly linoleic acid, but also has oleic and palmitic acid) protein, tocopherol, sterols such as cholesterol, campesterol, stigmasterol, and sitosterol, and some mucilage.2 HERBAL MISCELLANY Each flower ca