Milk Thistle Silybum marianum by Steven Foster
Milk thistle (Silyburn marianurn (L.) Gaertner), a member of the
Aster family (Asteraceae or Compositae), is a widespread wayside herb
of uncultivated ground and waste places throughout much of Europe.
The plant, carried to North America by European colonists at an early
date (Pickering, 1879), is naturalized in the Eastern United States,
California, and South America. In the last 30 years milk thistle seed
extracts have been intensively researched, confirming its 2,000 year
old therapeutic use in liver disease.
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