Milk thistle

Rayna Sharma; E Lyn Lee; Jo Barnes

doi:10.1071/HC24131

RESEARCH ARTICLE (Open Access)

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Milk thistle

Rayna Sharma ¹ , E Lyn Lee ² , Jo Barnes

¹ ^*

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¹ School of Pharmacy, University of Auckland, Auckland, PB 92019, New Zealand.

² Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

^* Correspondence to: j.barnes@auckland.ac.nz

Journal of Primary Health Care 16(3) 319-321 https://doi.org/10.1071/HC24131

Submitted: 29 August 2024 Accepted: 2 September 2024 Published: 9 September 2024

© 2024 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing on behalf of The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND)

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