Specification :

Milk Thistle is a very familiar plant to the European. Every name of it has a story.Dioscorides, a first century Greek physician who served the Roman army, gave the name Silybum to a number of edible thistles. The name milk thistle refers to the white streaks along the leaf veins. In Germany where the plant is often depicted as a religious symbol associated with the Virgin Marys milk. The species name "marianum" honors the symbolic association of the plant with the Virgin Mary.In the long history, milk thistle has been recognized increasingly.Pliny the Elder, the first century Roman physician/naturalist wrote about use of the plant as avegetable.