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Article: Desirable weed for liver health
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- New Straits Times
- Article date:
- April 27, 2004
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Yam Cher Seng
New Straits Times
04-27-2004
Desirable weed for liver health
Byline: Yam Cher Seng
Edition: The City Advertiser; 2*
Section: Health
WEEDS, needless, to say are utter nuisance to crop growers and gardeners. Diligent gardeners believe that the only way of getting rid them is by pulling them out with their roots intact. Others would just spray on weedkiller. It would indeed be bleak for civilisation if man had his way with weeds. Once an unwanted weed, milk thistle is now commercially grown for its liver health properties and is widely prescribed by herbalists.
Milk thistle (Silybum marianum), with its needle-shaped, spiny leaves at the base of its bright purple flowers, can reach ...
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