Pharmaceutical name: 英文藥名﹕ | Herba sylibi |
Botanical name: 學名﹕ | Silybum marianum (L.) Gaerth |
Pron. in Japanese: 日語發音﹕ | |
Pron. in Korean: 韓語發音﹕ | |
Pron. in Cantonese: 粵音﹕ | seoi2 fei1 gai3 |
Other Names: 別名 ﹕ | shui fei zhi 水飛雉，nai ji 奶薊，lao shu le 老鼠勒。 |
Common Name: 英文名﹕ | milk thistle |
Distribution: 產地﹕ | |
Properties (characteristics)﹕ 性味﹕ | bitter, cold. 性寒，味苦。 |
Channels (meridians) entered: 歸經﹕ | |
| Medical functions: 藥理﹕ |
Improves liver function, lactagogues (promoting the flow of breast milk),
anti depression, cholagogue (promotes bile secretion).
It can lower the value of chronic alcohol drinkers'
AST and ALT,
caused by chronic or mild acute hepatitis.
改善肝臓機能，促進胆汁分泌，抗鬱，促進
母乳分泌。能降低長期用
酒精者所引起的輕急性及次急性肝病患者血中AST 與 ALT值。 |
Actions & Indications: 主治﹕ | being used in boils and erysipelas. The extract of herb and fruit is being used in diseases of liver and spleen, gallbladder stones, jaundice and chronic cough.
功能主治 全草用於腫瘍及丹毒；果實及提取物用於肝臟病，脾臟病膽結石，黃疸和慢性咳。 |
Chemical ingredients: 化學成份﹕ | The whole herb contains flavonoid and fumaric acid. Seeds contain silybin, isosilybin, dehydrosilybin, silydianin, silychristin, silybin aggregates, cinnamic acid, myristic acid, palmitelaidic acid, arachidic acid. 全草含有黃酮類及延胡索酸；種子含水飛薊賓（silybin）
，異水飛薊賓，脫氫水飛薊賓，水飛薊寧（silydianin）
，水飛薊亭（silychristin），水飛薊賓聚合物及肉桂酸，肉豆蔻酸，棕櫚烯酸，花生酸等。 |
Dosage: 用量﹕ |
12～15ｇ。 |
Samples of formulae :處方舉例﹕ | |
Modern Research: 現代研究﹕ | |
Toxicity & Cautions: 毒素與禁忌﹕ | |