Silybum marianum - St. Mary's Thistle, Mary Thistle, Milk Thistle
"CONSTITUENTS: -
PREPARATIONS: A strong tincture; dose, from two to twenty drops. The Homeopathic mother tincture, dose from one to twenty drops.
Therapy: Harvey, in the California Medical Journal, says the indications are so plain that a tyro can prescribe it with certainty. It is indicated where there is venous stasis, the true veins enlarged and clogged with blood. This is true of either the large or small veins. He says he cured one case, where the veins from the hips to the toes were as large and as hard and twisted as Manila rope. They could be felt through the clothing. He cured completely a varicose tumor in the popliteal space. It was about four inches long, and three inches wide. The skin of the neck and hands was discolored. There was a troublesome chronic cough with the expectoration of large quantities of offensive matter. He believed these symptoms to be associated with disease of the spleen. He had observed these colored spots in other cases, and sometimes found long continued soreness and tenderness of the joints of the feet. Carduus, in five-drop doses three or four times a day, cured all the symptoms in this case, restoring the patient to perfect health. The remedy acts slowly and must be persisted in."
(Finley Ellingwood: The American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy, 1915)