Common Name: Blessed Thistle
Comment: Anti-tumour sesquiterpenes.
Constituents: bitter glycosides (cnicin); mucilage; flavonoids; volatile oil; alkaloids; tannins; resin; nicotinic acid.
Properties: astringent anti-haemorrhagic, antidiarrheal, anticatarrhal, antiflatulence; Antitumour.
Tincture: 1:4 @ 25%.
Purposes: (See also Disease: Signs & Symptoms)
Used In: (See Formulas)
Good General Tonic #1DC167
Mother's Milk
Parturient (Goat)
Properties:
Anti-Catarrhal
Anti-Malignancy
Astringent
Carminative
Diaphoretic
Emetic
Haemostatic
Stimulant
Tonic
Contraindication(s):
Clinical: 10 ml per 100 ml tincture.
Clinicals:
CANCER
Constituents:
| Alkaloid | s. |
| Bitter glycoside | s. Including cnicin (against bacteria). |
| Flavonoid, flavolignan | s. Silymarin. |
| Mucilage |
| Nicotinic acid |
| Resin |
| Sesquiterpene bitter | Anti-tumor activity. General formula C15H24. Cnicin (dually classified). |
| Tannin | s. |
| Volatile oil |
Materia Medica: (See Materia Medica.)
| Galactogogues | FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE |