# OnCo record milk-thistle-silymarin (technology). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
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<https://onco.cc/technologies/milk-thistle-silymarin/>
  a schema:MedicalTherapy ;
  onco:kind "technology" ;
  schema:identifier "milk-thistle-silymarin" ;
  schema:name "Milk thistle (silymarin)"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "Silymarin"@en, "Silibinin"@en, "Silybum marianum"@en, "Holy thistle"@en, "Mary thistle"@en ;
  schema:description "Milk thistle is a herb taken to protect the liver, and many people use it during chemotherapy for that reason. Small studies hint that it may ease some liver and nerve side effects, but none is large enough to rely on, and it can change how some medicines are handled by the body."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/technologies/milk-thistle-silymarin/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-11-04"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://www.mskcc.org/cancer-care/integrative-medicine/herbs/milk-thistle>, <https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/cam/hp/milk-thistle-pdq> ;
  onco:status "phase-2" ;
  onco:tag "complementary", "supportive-care", "evidence:insufficient" ;
  onco:related <https://onco.cc/technologies/black-cohosh/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/coenzyme-q10/> ;
  onco:sections <https://onco.cc/fronts/supportive-care/>, <https://onco.cc/fronts/chemotherapy/>, <https://onco.cc/fronts/nutrition-lifestyle/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/integrative-oncology/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/dietary-supplements-treatment-interactions/> ;
  onco:drugs <https://onco.cc/drugs/sirolimus/> ;
  onco:terms <https://onco.cc/terms/hepatotoxicity/> ;
  onco:bottlenecks <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-toxicity-qol/> .