Milk Thistle For Liver Pain, Liver Cleansing & Liver Health

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Milk Thistle (Silybum maianum) seeds are approved in the German Commission E Monographs as a natural treatment for damaged liver, inflammatory liver pain conditions and liver diseases such as cirrhosis, hepatitis, and fatty liver disease caused by alcohol and other toxins. Milk Thistle's seeds are most prized for their medicinal action where the active phytocompound Silymarin is found to be effective in improving liver health. For this reason, milk thistle is usually found in a standardized extract form with minimum 80% Silymarin. Silymarine has strong antioxidant properties because of its ability to increase GSH, or liver glutathione. Glutathione funtions as a coenzyme in the body that works against oxidative damage to cells.

Recent clinical research in Germany shows that the seeds of milk thistle help avoid ...
... liver disease and make an excellent tonic for gall bladder & liver cleanse. Its basic functions include stabilizing and strengthening liver cell walls thus protecting against hepatotoxic agents (chemical that damage or poison liver cells), enhancing the regeneration of liver cells, scavenging free-radicals in the live by acting as a liver antioxidant, and inhibiting production of bad enzymes that might damage the liver while preventing the depletion of glutathione on liver cells, a substance which mediates cell metabolism.

Milk Thistle's benefits:
a. Support liver health functions from the abuse of alcohol and environmental pollution.
b. Help cleansing the liver & reducing pain in liver.
c. Rejuvenate the over-worked liver and protect it from future damage.

Under Evidence-based Practice Program among studies of milk thistle and chronic alcoholic liver disease, it reported significant improvement in measurement of liver function (i.e., aminotransferases, albumin, and/or malondialdehyde). One of the special qualities of milk thistle is that it cleanses and detoxes an overburdened and stagnant liver while also being able to strengthen and tonify a weak liver; thus, delivering potent medicine to clogged, excess conditions as well as weakened, deficient conditionals.

Physicians have prescribed milk thistle, one of the best herbs for liver disease, for:
a. Hepatitis treatment to keep down inflammation.
b. Cirrhosis treatment to soften the liver
c. Liver cancer to aid in liver detoxification and liver cleanse
d. Dysfunctions of the gall bladder system.

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