Dietary Supplements
Milk thistle is native mainly to the Mediterranean basin, while it is cultivated in the rest of Europe and South America. The first references to the plant were made by Theophrastus in the 4th century. BC where it is mentioned under the name Pternix. Dioscorides then recommends the Mega Centaurion, or Silivon, for healing wounds. It is mentioned by Pliny the Elder, while during the Middle Ages many botanists recommended the plant for various uses. The English herbalist Nicholas Culperer recommends it as an excellent remedy for the bile and spleen, while at the beginning of the 20th century a school of herbal healers, called the Eclecticists, used milk thistle extract for Liver congestion. Finally, after 1960, the use of the plant spread widely, starting from Germany, where simultaneously with the use, its research study began.
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