Milk Thistle and Milk Thistle are the same plant, in addition it can also be called Milk Thistle, Mouse Tendon, Water Flying Pheasant, all just call it by a different name.
From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, milk thistle has a bitter flavor and is cool in nature. It belongs to the liver and gallbladder meridians. It has the effect of clearing heat and removing toxins, dredging the liver and inducing choleretic effects, so it has a good therapeutic effect on liver and gallbladder damp-heat, jaundice, and dystocia (pain in the area of coercion and ribs).
Silymarin also has hepatoprotective effects, and can be used in the adjuvant treatment of liver and gallbladder diseases, for example, it can be used in the treatment of acute and chronic hepatitis. Its adverse reactions and contraindications are not clear.
If you are not feeling well, please seek medical advice in time and use the medicine under the guidance of doctor’s diagnosis, not self-medication, so as not to cause damage to the organism.