It facilitates slow digestions as it helps the digestion of fats by helping the function of the liver and gallbladder.
The main components of milk thistle that give it its antioxidant and hepatoprotective properties are the flavonoids: silybin, silidianin and silicristin. The combination of all of them is called silymarin.
They are fat-soluble substances that appear abundantly in the seeds of this plant.
