What is Silymarin?

Silymarin is a natural remedy that relieves the symptoms of liver failure (1).

Silymarin is used as a supplementary therapy of inflammatory chronic diseases of the liver, cirrhosis, liver toxicity and liver damage (2).

Silymarin is available from milk thistle seeds.

(1) & (2) Saller R, et al, ‘The use of silymarin in the treatment of liver diseases’, 2001. US National Library of Medicine. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11735632.