Hina Deepak Mehta
Dadasaheb Balpande College of Pharmacy, India
Title: Milk thistle’s : A boon for multiple therapy
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Abstract
This article reviews on published reports pertaining to milk thistle’s (Sylibum marianum) benefits in the treatment of various diseases. This plant used from ancient times as a hepatoprotective drug. Along the hepatoprotective action of Silymarin, a flavonolignan from‘milk thistle’ was also effective in gastrointestinal disorders and its antitumoral activities, antioxidant, antiinflamatory agent, nephroprotector, radiation and skin protector. silymarin owns also other actions as an, anti-lipid peroxidative, antifibrotic,, immunomodulatory, liver regenerating, etc. It was also studied its neuro-psihiatric and cardiac action. A systematic review of this evidence to clarify what is known and identify gaps in knowledge would be important to guide design of future studies of the mechanisms of milk thistle and clinical trials.
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