Milk Thistle Seed - Salve Ointment (2 oz, and 50 similar items

Apply Bianca Rosa salve/ointment morning and evenings, or as directed by a health care practitioner. On a moist cotton wool pad or with the fingertips, apply to the desired area of the body. Massage onto thoroughly cleansed skin with a gentle circular motion. - Not to be used during pregnancy and lactation. Do not exceed recommended dose. - Milk Thistle Seed - Salve Ointment (2 oz, ZIN: 428062): Milk thistle is an edible herbaceous annual or biennial plant with a dense prickly flower head with purplish tubular flowers. This storied herb has been used in liver preparations since antiquity: Greek physician, Dioscorides, provides the oldest reference of its value; Theophrastus mentioned milk thistle around the 4th century; and Pliny the Elder wrote on the effects of bile flow by milk thistle, calling it "Silybum" around the 1st century, A.D. - Today, milk thistle is best known as a producer of silymarin, a flavonoid complex (silybinin, isosilybinin, silychristin, and silydianin, etc.) tha