Milk Thistle

Milk Thistle is a unique herb which contains a natural compound called silymarin. Silymarin nourishes the liver like no other nutrient currently known. The liver acts as the body's filter constantly cleansing to protect you from toxins. Over time, these toxins can accumulate in the liver. Milk Thistle's potent antioxidant properties and rejuvenating actions help keep the liver strong & healthy.

Milk Thistle seeds help stimulate protein synthesis in the liver. They even can help reverse the damage done from eating poisonous mushrooms such as Death Cap (Amanita phalloides) or from carbon tetrachloride, which destroy liver cells and usually cause death. When Milk Thistle seeds are used within 48 hours, the survival rate is almost 100%. When fed to animals that had partial hepatectomies, their livers grew back more quickly. Milk Thistle is a good supplement to use to protect the liver when needing to take pharmaceutical drugs. Primary chemical constituents of Milk Thistle include flavolignans (silymarin), tyramine, histamine, gamma linoleic acid, essential oil, mucilage, and bitter principle. Milk Thistle is also an antioxidant that is more potent than vitamins C and E.

Function

Milk Thistle is a kind of flavonoid substance.

1.Protecting liver, preventing acute or chronic hepatitis, with the function of treating atherosclerosis;  

2.Anticancer, eliminating free radicals and preventing cardiovascular diseases;

3.Improving the antioxidation ability, it has significant protective effect on brain ischemic injury.

Application

Silymarin, a kind of multi-functional antioxidants, it has the effect of anti- free radicals and anti-liver fibrosis,it can protect liver cell membrane. Thus to improve liver’s ability to detoxify. Because of its advantages, it is made into suppository, lotion, injection, tablet, capsule, and widely used in the fields of health product and medicine in Liver protection ;Improved function of liver'Liver cell regeneration;Anti-atherosclerotic .