Milk Thistle Extract

Milk thistle extract is an extract made from the dried fruit of Silybum marianum G. Commercial extracts are usually standardized to contain 80% total silymarin.

Active ingredients：

The whole plant contains flavonoids and fumaric acid; the seeds contain silybin, isosilybin, dehydrosilybin, silydianin, silychristin, silybin polymers and cinnamic acid, myristic acid, palmitoleic acid, arachidic acid, etc.

Pharmacological Action：

1. Liver protection effect
Silymarin is the main active ingredient for liver protection. It has a regenerative effect, can stimulate the formation of new liver cells, and improve liver function. It also has a liver cell membrane protective effect, prevents cytotoxins from infiltrating liver cells, and improves the ability to recover from membrane structure defects.

2. Antioxidant
The phenolic hydroxyl groups of silymarin provide hydrogen atoms and have a strong antioxidant effect. They have free radical scavenging properties and anti-lipid peroxidation activity.

3. Lowering blood lipids
Silybin can inhibit Ca2+ channels in the plasma membrane of adult rat myocardial cells, inhibit food-induced hypercholesterolemia, reduce very low-density lipoprotein (VLDL) and low-density lipoprotein (LDL), and increase high-density lipoprotein (HDL), and can be used to treat cardiovascular diseases.