Product Description

Milk Thistle is known to be extraordinarily useful as a tonic to safeguard the liver from all types of liver disorders.  As a free-radical scavenger, it protects the liver from toxins and pollutants by helping to prevent free radical damage, and it also stimulates the production of new liver cells.  It is considered a remarkable herb for relieving temporary discomforts associated with cirrhosis, alcoholic poisoning, jaundice, fatty liver, hepatitis and viral hepatitis.  Placebo-controlled clinical studies show efficacy in reducing inflammatory aminotransferases in alcoholic liver disease.  A flavonoid complex (silymarin) stimulates liver protein creation, enabling the organ to produce new liver cells and replace the old ones damaged by hepatitis infection or other toxins.   Silymarin contains a number of active constituents called flavolignans, which are also used to help protect the liver from poisoning.  Milk thistle provides hepatocellular protection by stabilizing hepatic cell membranes.  It alters the structure of the outer cell membrane of the hepatocytes in such a way as to prevent the penetration of the liver toxins into the interior of the cell.