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Article: Milk thistle
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- Better Nutrition
- Article date:
- February 1, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright Argus Business, a Division of Argus Inc. Feb 1996. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Milk thistle is "one of the most ancient known herbal medicines," Daniel B. Mowrey, Ph.D., remarks in his 1993 work, Herbal Tonic Therapies.
Called Silybum marianum in Latin, this plant is an annual, or biennial, thistle which flowers from June through September, according to A Field Guide to Medicinal Plants: Eastern and Central North America (1990) by Steven Foster and James A. Duke, Ph.D.
Native to Europe, it today grows in Europe, Africa, Asia, parts of the United States (such as California) and in Mediterranean countries.
"It is an ancient plant about which many authors have written," Frank Murray pointed out in "Milk Thistle: Ancient Herb, Modern Uses" (Better Nutrition 50:18-19, ...