Milk-thistle Synonyms

Any of several Old World coarse prickly-leaved shrubs and subshrubs having milky juice and yellow flowers; widely naturalized; often noxious weeds in cultivated soil
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. sow-thistle
Tall Old World biennial thistle with large clasping white-blotched leaves and purple flower heads; naturalized in California and South America
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. lady's thistle
  2. Our Lady's mild thistle
  3. holy thistle
  4. blessed thistle
  5. Silybum marianum

Milk-thistle Sentence Examples

  • This same formula also contains milk thistle which is a liver support herb.

  • Furthermore, there are promising preliminary lab results that indicate milk thistle may be able to play a role in inhibiting the growth of certain types of cancer cells.

  • The active ingredient in milk thistle is called silymarin, which is a flavonoid complex that is extracted from the seeds of the herb.

  • Sometimes the terms silymarin and milk thistle are used interchangeably and products that are titled after both names are currently popular in the United States and Europe.

  • In addition, milk thistle is the only known antidote for a certain type of poisoning that destroys the liver caused by the ingestion of amanita mushrooms.

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