milk thistle
Britishnoun
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I first read about milk thistle in your column and then I tried it.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 17, 2024
Our terror over grimy insides has also seen liquid charcoal, milk thistle, magnesium, zinc and others join the growing fight against toxins.
From The Guardian • Mar. 9, 2021
A nationwide clinical trial is testing a new treatment for amatoxin poisoning: silibinin, a drug derived from the plant milk thistle, Silybum marianum.
From Slate • Feb. 10, 2014
Other ingredients often found in energy drinks include taurine, glucuronolactone, B vitamins, ginseng, guarana, ginkgo biloba and milk thistle.
From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2011
If they have fed greedily on the blossoms of the milk thistle or the elm, it will render them incapable of working, and the hive will be stained with filth.
From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Eaton, Mary, fl. 1823-1849
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