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Milk Thistle

Known as: Spotted Thistle, marianums, Silybum, holy thistle 
The plant Silybum marianum in the family ASTERACEAE containing the bioflavonoid complex SILYMARIN. For centuries this has been used traditionally to… 
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Review
2017
Review
2017
Milk thistle (Silybum marianum) is a medicinal plant that has been used for thousands of years as a remedy for a variety of… 
Highly Cited
2015
Review
2009
Review
2009
OBJECTIVE This review focuses on the medicinal plants growing and having history of folk medicine in Iran and found effective as… 
Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
  • 2007
  • Corpus ID: 28412598
Milk thistle is a well known and commonly used herb, used particularly in hepatic diseases. It has very potent antioxidant, anti… 
Review
2005
Review
2005
This article aims to review critically literature published mainly within this millennium on the new and emerging applications of… 
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
A reactive oxygen species has been implicated in a range of human pathological diseases such as atherosclerosis and certain… 
Review
1995
Review
1995
S. marianum is a medicinal plant which has been widely used in traditional European medicine. Nowadays silymarin, the purified…