Milk Thistle Oil for Dogs: Here’s How You Can Use It

Milk Thistle Oil for Dogs – Active Ingredients of the Medicinal Plant

• The liver is responsible for breaking down metabolic waste products. Toxins, pesticides, and poisons that may be present in your dog’s food must be processed by the liver.
• Liver cells are damaged by these toxins.
• Milk thistle can support liver function. It binds free radicals and supports fat digestion.
• Even very severe liver damage can be healed with milk thistle oil. In medicine, milk thistle is sometimes actually the only effective way to save the liver, even in cases of significant damage.
• Silymarin is the active ingredient. It stabilizes the cell membrane and has a positive effect on liver cell regeneration.
• If, for example, your dog is poisoned, milk thistle oil can prevent toxins from entering the body and destroying liver cells.
• Milk thistle oil stimulates the formation of new liver cells.
• In addition, the compound silymarin has anti-inflammatory and anticarcinogenic effects.

How to Use Milk Thistle Oil for Dogs

Milk thistle oil is made from the elongated seeds of the milk thistle. Mammals have great difficulty breaking down the seed coat. Even preparing an infusion provides little benefit to the liver, since the compound silymarin is not water-soluble.

• Therefore, give your dog extracts of the plant—that is, milk thistle oil—not the seeds. You can mix this into their food.
• The treatment should be accompanied by diuretic herbs so that water-soluble substances can be excreted.
• Older animals in particular should be given milk thistle oil, as their metabolism is often impaired. Overweight animals or those with skin and coat problems also benefit from it. 
• Milk thistle oil supports bile flow.