DESCRIPTION
Milk thistle is a plant known as milk thistle (Silybum marianum of the Asteraceae family), a medicinal thistle used in traditional preparations. It has a history of use in the Middle East and Europe for many years. Milk thistle is used to treat many liver diseases, including gallbladder disease, hepatitis, cirrhosis, and jaundice. Ground thistle is also used to protect the liver from poisoning by chemical and environmental toxins, including snake bites, insect bites, fungus, and alcohol poisoning. The main phytochemicals that can be considered valuable and especially valued in milk thistle are silymarin, quercetin, apigenin, triterpenes and compounds formed under the influence of alcohol maceration.
Properties of the ingredients contained in milk thistle
- Support proper liver function
- It may have a beneficial effect on the gastric mucosa
- Demonstrate support in the functioning of detoxification processes
- May protect liver cells (hepatocytes)
- Contain antioxidant substances
- It can lower low-density lipoprotein, or LDL
- Support the body's detoxification