Article: Milk thistle beneficial for liver


New Straits Times
04-03-2001
Milk thistle beneficial for liver
Edition: The City Advertiser; 2*
Section: Health

MILK thistle, or St Mary's Thistle, is one of the most oldest herbal medicines. Originally a native of central and southern Europe, milk thistle was once considered by farmers as weed and a threat to farmlands. It was later thought that milk thistle probably found its way to Britain through the Romans, where it gained a reputation as a gentle and healing plant.

Growing as an erect, branching annual or biennial, reaching 2m- 2.5m in height, it has thistlelike violet-purple flower heads at the end of the main stem. The leaves are large, oblong, glossy and scalloped with distinctive ...

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