Milk Thistle: the natural healer of the liver — the methods of application

The main curative ingredient of milk Thistle is a complex of flavonolignans, which was named silymarin (4-5%). Its composition consists of 4 compounds, which cannot be found anywhere else — silybin ( 70%), silychristin (20%), silydianin (10%) and isosilybin (5%). Silymarin shows its useful properties only in terms of the liver presenting as if her defenses.

A huge benefit of milk Thistle for the human body not only because of silymarin. The seeds of this plant contains up to 25% of fatty oil, which according to its useful properties as good as any of the famous sea buckthorn, which is also used for protection and recovery of the liver from all sorts of problems.

Thistle oil consists of linoleic acid (up to 62% and it is also called omega-6), oleic acid (22%, also called the omega-9), palmitic acid (9%), stearic acid (4%).





Milk Thistle is also contain large variety of fat - soluble vitamins A, E, D, which themselves are powerful antioxidants that protect the body from free radicals and premature aging.

Contains macro - and micronutrients: potassium, phosphorus, calcium, magnesium, iron, zinc, selenium, iodine, silicon, etc.

Because we know that our liver is to filter the blood of waste products from our cells. It also transforms the nutrients of food into building blocks for our body using bile acids to break down proteins, fats, carbohydrates.

Work hard at it, and the man himself aggravates it work with their harmful habits. Besides more General chemicals used in agriculture, with its eternal struggle for the harvest and protection from pests and diseases. One word to cope with this increased load of different poisons the liver becomes harder.

Silymarin (a drug derived from the seeds of milk Thistle) has expressed hepatoprotective medicinal properties. Ie, protects and promotes recovery of liver cells from various destructive harmful factors poisons of different origin, toxins, viruses, radiation, alcohol, neutralization of free radicals.





The use of milk Thistle

1. Useful as an anti-oxidant that protects our body from free radicals.

2. Membrane stabilizing effect, i.e. preventing the destructive effects of free radicals on the cell wall of the liver.

3. Antihepatotoxic protecting liver cells from both internal and external toxins, poisons, even if poisoning pale toadstool toxins that can cause death.

4. The anti-inflammatory property, i.e. stopping the inflammation in the liver, if they have already begun.

5. Anti-allergic effect, helps to cope the liver cells from the "toxins" that cause all sorts of allergic reactions to food, medicines, aromatic substances.

6. Useful as stimulation of regenerative processes in the liver, a complete upgrade of its functions.

7. Antifibrotics property, i.e., stopping the process of formation of connective tissue instead of dead cells of the liver and, consequently, degeneration of the liver and cease to perform their functions ( just death).

These useful properties of silymarin from the seeds of milk Thistle allow its use for the treatment of liver disease in many patients, and for prevention of possible diseases, if a person is in areas ecologically unsuitable, poor nutrition, frequent illnesses and use of medications, alcohol, tobacco.

Folk medicine makes extensive use of milk Thistle for the treatment of cholecystitis, inflammation of bile ducts, gallstones, spleen, thyroid, varicose diseases of the legs, edema, obesity, hemorrhoids, joint disease, allergic diseases, etc.

Of milk Thistle is made known drugs Kars, Kars Fort, silibor. others, but the most efficient and cheap remains of crushed seeds, soybean meal from seeds.

Although milk Thistle has long studied, but interest in it continues unabated. We can therefore expect that there will be a new, more effective drugs that will protect and heal even better.





 

The only plant which contraindications have been identified. So you can even use children to prevent diseases of the liver and its periodic cleaning.

Applications of milk Thistle

Powder milk Thistle seed (meal, flour or milled grain) is used to reduce the level of blood sugar, blood purification, treatment of varicose veins.

Very much appreciated the milk Thistle oil, pressed from the seeds, it possesses wound healing, burns, anti-inflammatory and hepatoprotective properties. The oil is used both internally and externally, make it cold-pressed.

Milk Thistle helps with jaundice, atherosclerosis, regulates the production of cholesterol and other lipid fractions.

This biologically active substance as silymarin found in milk Thistle oil, stabilize the functioning of cell membranes and especially of the liver.

In dermatology milk Thistle oil is used in the treatment of psoriasis, vitiligo, acne, alopecia. The oil promotes the healing of wounds, including burns without scarring.

Oil milk Thistle is also used in the treatment of hemorrhoids is not complicated by bleeding, anal fissures, cervical erosion, diseases of ENT-organs, varicose veins (eat inside for strengthening blood vessels).

Thistle oil is recommended to ingest this recipe to 1 teaspoon, 3 times a day, 30 minutes before a meal. At the same time, in some cases, it is recommended to use meal — 1 teaspoon 3-4 times a day, with liver disease, etc. the Minimum period of treatment is 1 month.

In gynecological diseases, for the regulation of reproductive and endocrine spheres for men and women, Thistle oil is taken orally.

The oil is also effective in menopausal atrophic vaginitis, accompanied by itching (introduced in moisture. 3 ml. for the night, a syringe without a needle). Treatment course – 12 daily procedures.

Thistle oil is used for treatment and prophylactic purposes.

Meal of milk Thistle is simple — grind the grains into powder in a coffee grinder. Milled so the grain is used for the treatment of liver and other diseases: 1 tsp of dry powder to take 3 times a day for 25-30 minutes before eating, squeezed water. Thistle powder to put in his mouth, gently soak with water and swallow. The course of treatment with milk Thistle 40 days, then make a break for 14 days and so on until recovery, or 0.5-1 year. But, as practice shows, not all this course choice, because everyone is different and their health status is also different.

Therefore, for prevention, and for some people can be quite 1 tsp a day, say morning, for others 2 tsp., morning and evening, for the third — 3 tsp, in the morning, afternoon and evening. And the duration too — for some, the course is 20-25 days, other 30 days, for the third 40 days. This, of course, it is best to determine a doctor.

Children, the fruits of Silybum marianum (meal, milled grain), can be given in 3 years, 0.5 teaspoon (1.25 g), 2 times a day during meals, and of course, after consultation with the doctor.

A decoction of milk Thistle (seed) recipe: 30 grams of powdered seeds cook on low heat in 0,5 l of water until it boils away half the water. Drink 1 tablespoon every hour starting from 8.00 am to 20.00 PM. To take for 3 weeks, then 2 weeks to take a break, and again drink the 3 week liver diseases (hepatitis, etc.).

Alcohol tincture of milk Thistle (extract): take 50 g of powder of milk Thistle and cover it in a pint of vodka, insist 2 weeks, shaking occasionally. Take 20-25 drops with water, 30 minutes before meals 4-5 times a day.

Milk Thistle is a good antioxidant that prevents premature aging. It neutralize free radicals that damage biological structures.

Tea from milk Thistle.

Tea can be prepared from herbs and peremolotyh bean milk Thistle: take 1 teaspoon of powder, pour a glass of boiling water and insist 10-20 minutes, then strain. Tea hot drink small SIPS 1 Cup in the morning on an empty stomach, in the afternoon 30 minutes before meals and at night before bed. Recommended to drink this tea especially for varicose veins (varicose veins), etc.

The honey, harvested from plantations Thistle, a good tool to normalize the functions of liver, kidney, gastrointestinal tract, improve secretion of bile.
By the way, the seeds of milk Thistle can be bought on the market or drug store and grow it at home. Milk Thistle is not demanding and gives a good harvest. In Ukraine, it can be grown as an annual plant because it cannot tolerate temperatures below -10 degrees, but it scatters and then in early spring itself rises. Therefore, it is desirable to allocate a separate "area". published

 

 



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