Silymarin is indicated as adjunctive therapy in the treatment of accute/chronic inflammatory diseases of the liver or hepatic cirrhosis and various liver disorders including
- Acute and chronic hepatitis
- cirrhosis
- fatty liver disease
- Infectious hepatitis
- alcohol-induced liver disease
Used for:
- Duodenal & gastric ulcer
- gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)
- pathologic GI hypersecretory conditions eg, Zollinger-Ellison syndrome.
- To prevent gastric bleeding from stress or patients receiving NSAIDs
- combination with clarithromycin or amoxicillin & clarithromycin for duodenal ulcer associated with H. pylori.