Silybum marianum, Milk Thistle organic
Silybum marianum
Milk Thistle
sorts and variety
‚Sylbina’
protected variety; high yields (>13 dt/ha); high contents of active substances :silymarin (SM %) 3,95 ; silybin A+B (SB) % 2,40; silydianin (SD) % 0,04; silychristin (SC) % 1,08;
drug
fruit (Cardui mariae fructus)
most important active substances
silymarin (flavonol lignan mixture 1,5 – 3 %), silybin A, silybin B, silychristin, silydianin and other.; flavonoids, fatty oil about 20-30%
most important usages
used for dyspeptic symptoms, in preparations for toxic liver diseases, as an adjuvant treatment for chronic inflammatory liver disease, cirrhosis of the liver and as an antidote for poisoning with death’s mushroom
Recommendations for cultivation
Weight per thousand seed grains: 25,0 g
Seed demand for drilling: march/april 8 – 10 kg /ha
Distance between the rows: 50 cm
harvest: when the flowers started to colouring white on the top (pappus)