Milk thistle extract ingredients, functions & applications

Milk thistle extract product introduction

This product is the fruit of silybum marianum(L) Gaentm, an asteraceae plant. The main ingredients are silibinin, ISilibinin, silifenin and so on. Light yellow or brown obtained by scientific extraction.

Yellow powder, or crystalline powder. Tasteless, odorless, easily soluble in acetone, ethyl acetate, ethanol and methanol, insoluble in chloroform. Insoluble in water, the main chemical composition is Silybin C25H22O10 and foreign bodies and other flavonoids.

Silymarin efficacy function

As a plant, is milk thistle really favored solely for its "beautiful" appearance? In addition to good-looking, milk thistle has what characteristics? Today, let's take a look at the "charm" of milk thistle.

Milk thistle is distributed in Europe, the Mediterranean region, North Africa and central Asia, and is cultivated in parks, botanical gardens or gardens all over China. Due TO the high value of milk thistle research, scientists have carried out many experiments on milk THistle, and in the 1960s, German scientists found a natural flavonoid lignan compound called silymarin from milk thistle.

Scientists have found that milk thistle extract can reduce oxidative stress and its resulting cytotoxicity, thereby protecting intact or damaged but reversible liver cells.

Many people have a drinking habit, according to research, long-term heavy drinking will lead to alcoholic liver disease (ALD) such as alcoholic fatty liver disease, alcoholic hepatitis and cirrhosis. Scientists have confirmed in clinical trials that silymarin, the active substance in milk thistle, can improve liver function in ALD patients.

In addition, relevant personnel also found that silymarin combined with pueraria has an auxiliary protective effect in improving chemical liver injury (such as alcohol-induced liver injury).

So for people who don't drink, is the liver absolutely healthy? In modern times, people often due to nutritional excess weight growth too fast, and obesity, diabetes, hyperlipidemia and other related questions of the metabolic syndrome, which also led to an increased risk of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, and even some overweight obesity also will appear the symptom of nonalcoholic fatty liver, greatly affected the health of human body. For this group of people, milk thistle extract can also improve their liver function, play the role of liver protection.

Silymarin extract extract the source

Milk thistle is an annual or biennial herb, originally born in southern Europe and North Africa and other places, in Europe and Africa has thousands of years of cultivation and use history, for folk medicinal plants. Milk thistle is widely used as a treatment for liver disease and cardiovascular disease.

Herb pharm milk thistle active ingredient

The whole grass contains flavonoids and fumaric acid; Seeds containing silybin (silybin), iso-silybin, dehydrosilybin, silydianin, silychristin, silybin polymer and cinnamic acid, myristic acid, palmitoleic acid, arachic acid.

Applications of milk thistle extract

Milk thistle extract is widely used internationally as a preparation for the treatment of various liver diseases. Milk thistle extract is also widely used as hepatoprotective and gallbladder medicine in China.