Milk Thistle Extract

Active Substances: Flavonoids (Silybin, Silydianin, Silychristin known collectively
as Silymarin)
Standard: 80% Silymarin

Milk thistle was named Silybum by Dioscorides in 100 AD for its large 
purple thistle-like flower heads. Since ancient times, the plant was 
valued for its nutritional and medicinal properties. By the Middle Ages 
the seed of the Milk Thistle was commonly used to treat liver diseases,
 to promote the flow of bile, and as a general tonic for the stomach, 
spleen, gallbladder, female organs, and liver.

Analysis:
Determination					Results
Description:	Yellow powder			Complies
Content:	                Total Flavonoids			80%Min
Loss on Drying					5.0%Max
Sulfated Ash					1.0%Max
Solvents Residual					0.05%Max
Heavy Metals					Complies
Microbiology					Complies
Solvent						Acetone