Silybum marianum, Milk Thistle

Silybum marianum, Milk Thistle

Silybum marianum          

Milk Thistle
drug

fruit (Cardui mariae fructus)

most important active substances

silymarin (flavonol lignan mixture 1,5 – 3 %), silybin A, silybin B, silychristin, silydianin and other.; flavonoids, fatty oil about 20-30%

most important usages

used for dyspeptic symptoms, in preparations for toxic liver diseases, as an adjuvant treatment for chronic inflammatory liver disease, cirrhosis of the liver and as an antidote for poisoning with death’s mushroom

Recommendations for cultivation

Weight per thousand seed grains: 25,0 g

Seed demand for drilling: march/april 8 – 10 kg /ha

Distance between the rows: 50 cm

harvest: when the flowers started to colouring white on the top (pappus)