NOUN
- any of several Old World coarse prickly-leaved shrubs and subshrubs having milky juice and yellow flowers; widely naturalized; often noxious weeds in cultivated soil
- tall Old World biennial thistle with large clasping white-blotched leaves and purple flower heads; naturalized in California and South America
How To Use milk thistle In A Sentence
- Containing dandelion, burdock, sarsparilla, milk thistle, liquorice, yellow dock, turmeric and red clover, a bottle provides about 30 servings as you dilute it with either still or sparkling water.
- Milk thistle has been used to treat hepatitis and alcoholic liver disease, both serious conditions way beyond drinking a bit too much. Times, Sunday Times
- Like hundreds of others, I have found that taking milk thistle seems to have an almost magical effect on digestion. Times, Sunday Times
- At present, I am sipping a Dr Stuart's detox tea which has lots of herbals such as dandelion, milk thistle and burdock to help cleanse the liver.
- I prescribed herbs for her - milk thistle and dandelion - and the levels of toxins in her liver came down.
- I'd also like to take antioxidant vitamins and the herbs astragalus and milk thistle to help prevent a recurrence, but my doctors disagree.
- Keep taking a milk thistle supplement, it will help your liver cope with the toxic overload of all that booze. The Sun
- Milk thistle aids the liver in cleansing the blood. PCOS DIET BOOK: How you can use the nutritional approach to deal with polycystic ovary syndrome
- Milk thistle first seems to have made its appearance here on the office scene in connection with alcohol. Times, Sunday Times
- For instance, in my particular case, I use milk thistle, which is silymarin, because it sort of nurtures the hepatic cells. CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Andrew Weil Discusses `Eating Well' - April 5, 2000
