Natural Factors - Milk Thistle Extract 80% Silymarin 250 mg. - 90 Capsules

Natural Factors Milk Thistle Extract (Silybum marianum) has been used for thousands of years as a digestive aid, but it is most well known as a superior herb for liver and gallbladder disorders. Milk thistle’s effectiveness for all sorts of liver disorders is being confirmed today through laboratory studies and extensive clinical trials. The active ingredients in milk thistle are flavonoids comprised of silybin, silydianin and silychristin - collectively known as silymarin. Natural Factors Milk Thistle Extract is indicated for liver disease associated with alcohol abuse, chronic hepatitis, and protects those working with toxic chemicals and other substances harmful to the liver.

Parts used and where grown
Milk thistle is commonly found growing wild in a variety of settings, including roadsides. The dried fruit (also called achenes) are used to produce modern herbal extracts.

Natural Factors priority is enhancing people's health.

• They offer more than 300 different formulas available exclusively at natural health stores.
• They are family-owned, Canadian-based business.
• They have produced and sold quality supplements to North Americans for more than 50 years.
• They grow their own herbs, organically and process them fresh from the fields.
• They test and standardize herbs for total quality control.
• Their science team includes medical doctors, naturopathic physicians, researchers and herbalists from around the world.
• They create new, condition-specific formulas that are clinically proven to work.
• Their laboratory facilities comply with Good Laboratory Practices and are among the finest in North America.
• They meet or exceed Canadian Government Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) guidelines and all Health Canada and FDA regulatory requirements

Factor Farms:
A quality herbal product starts with the highest quality fresh organic plant material. The efficacy of herbal products has always been affected by growing conditions, harvesting, processing and storage. At Factor Farms in beautiful Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada our quality can be guaranteed as we control the entire process from seedling to finished product.

To grow herbs organically no chemical fertilizers, herbicides, fungicides or pesticides are allowed. We use only natural substances that have been approved by the organic industry. You can be assured that the fresh herb extracts contain no traces of unwanted chemical. Even the seed and plant sources are organic.

To be organically certified, certification inspectors work closely with growers to ensure that the organic standards are adhered to. We must keep detailed records of what we use on our farm. Even after harvest, processing is regulated so that no harmful chemicals are used to manufacture the fresh herb extracts.
 
Local cultivation of medicinal herbs at Factors Farms ensures that the herbs are picked, processed, and extracted at just the right time when the active ingredients are at their peak.

Natural Factor knows that the natural habitats of many herbs are shrinking and that over-harvesting from the wild can endanger native medicinal plant populations. So organic cultivation of herbs is preferred over "wild crafting".