晚近,国外报道一种新型抗肝炎药物“水飞蓟素”引起临床界的普遍重视。此剂系由民间植物药菊科水飞蓟种子中提纯的一种色满酮化合物,名为Silymarin(商品名Legalon《利肝隆》)。据报道,此剂对各种实验性肝损害如:四氯化碳、D—半乳糖胺、乙烯醇、鬼笔硷、硫代乙酰胺等所致肝损害,毒蕈素α Recently, foreign reports of a new anti-hepatitis drug, silymarin, have attracted widespread attention in the clinical community. This agent is a chromanone compound purified from the seeds of the folk botanical Milk Thistle plant Silymarin (trade name Legalon “Liganlong”). It has been reported that this agent causes liver damage caused by various experimental hepatic damages such as carbon tetrachloride, D-galactosamine, vinyl alcohol, penicillin, thioacetamide, etc.