The best way of feeding Milk Thistle Seeds?

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Last autumn my elderly gelding developed raised liver enzymes (I posted quite a bit about him during last winter)

Over the summer months his liver enzyme results have steadily improved. Not quite normal yet but definitely on the way.

The vet has suggested that he continues on Milk Thistle permanently, but which is the best way to feed:-

Whole dried plant, leaves & all (Dodson & Horrell)
Just the seed (Feedmark)
Powder (not used yet, but been told it will be absorbed better)

I'd be so grateful for some advice on this. Thanks in advance.
 
I would continue with whats working already - I use it in my collie dog who has a lot of liver damage from years of anti-inflammatories and it's imporved her liver function despite going onto more hepato-toxic drugs (she's at the stage where we keep her comfortable at the expense of her liver but she's much better on the new drugs so worth it :-) )
 
Buy the seed & grind as powdery as you can then feed 15g a day. Also look at Brewers Yeast 10g day as great source of amino acids and if you feed dandelion leaf with the milk thistle it is a great detox and helps the liver & kidney. So when the liver detoxes, it encourages the kidney to dispose of the toxins more effectively. I believe you would feed 20-30g of the leaf per day or 2/3rds of that amount if it is dandelion root. Please check my post to ensure I have the correct info and clearly I use this on my 15.2hh horse so a pony would be a lower amount, also check if the herbs can be fed long term. My understanding is that you feed milk thistle for 12weeks to allow the liver to regenerate.

Also can I recommend Global Herbs "Restore". It really perked my horse up, something about trailing eclypsia (wrong spelling) being very good...... Its about £20 for a bottle which lasted me a month but was well worth it for the results, it's a blood detox, been around for years and if you would rather buy something ready made, you can feed it long term or just do a month's course or each change of season & look at their "Old Age" supplement which combines "Restore" with a Gut balancer.

Herbs are wonderful thing!!!! Surprising what works sometimes. Good luck
 
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Thanks for the helpful advice so far; v interesting info. I'll do some investigating. Am not looking forward to the approaching winter though:-(
 
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