The Most Active Components of Milk Thistle

- Silymarin protects the Liver from damage due to toxins or disease, and

- Silymarin can actually boost regeneration of Liver tissue where there has been damage.

These remarkable properties indicate why Milk Thistle helps so much with detox. Combined with the fact that Milk Thistle is very safe, this is a valuable herb indeed.

This combined reasons explain why Milk Thistle has been extremely popular to take alongside medical drugs. For example, some sources recommend taking this herb where chemotherapy is being used for all the reasons given above.

As for Milk Thistle promoting repair of damaged Liver tissue following alcohol abuse, anecdotal evidence (reports from users who are not in a scientific study) certainly supports this.

Milk Thistle is also recommended to assist detox and recovery after hepatitis, which can cause damage to the Liver.

Milk Thistle  has been shown in laboratory experiments to protect the Liver against attack by carbon tetrachloride - a strong poison found in some household cleaners; and against Death Cap mushroom - which can be fatal if eaten.

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