Efficacy of Viscum album on essential hypertension

Viscum Album — A Possible Treatment of Cancer?

^ost V9rcoma ^ 'n mice and cell cultures. The tUrnour Ct'Ve *ract'on produced a 50% reduction in only q Slze (compared with controls) at a dose of 6?.Oon "5 ^9/Kg. An average molecular weight of n^eans an active dose of 8.3 x 10-ir> mols/g. (He also quotes a figure of 8.5 x 10-11 mols/g for the commercial preparation Iscador.) In testing the various fractions for the effects in producing tumour...

Antioxidant Activity of European Mistletoe (Viscum album)

Efficacy and Safety of Mistletoe Preparations (Viscum album) for Patients with Cancer Diseases

Background: Mistletoe is often used as a complementary approach in oncology. Despite experimental anti-tumour effects and several reviews there remains controversy about its clinical role. Patients and Methods: Potentially relevant trials were identified to perform a systematic review (databases: e.g. EMBASE, MEDLINE; hand search: e.g. bibliographies; search terms: e.g. mistletoe). To be includ...

Anti-inflammatory and antinociceptive activity of flavonoids isolated from Viscum album ssp. album.

Viscum album L. has been used in the indigenous systems of medicine for treatment of headache and some inflammatory diseases. In order to evaluate this information, antinociceptive and anti-inflammatory activities of the five flavonoids (5,7-dimethoxy naringenin or 4',6'-dimethoxy chalcononaringenin) derivatives, isolated from the ethyl acetate fraction of the extract from V. album ssp. album, ...

Antitumor and antibacterial activities of Viscum album L. grown on different host trees Farklı konakçı ağaçlarda yetişen Viscum album L.’nin antitümör ve antibakteriyel aktiviteleri

AIM: The present study aims to investigate for the first time antitumor and antibacterial activities of Viscum album L. grown on different host trees. METHODS: Two different bioassays (antitumor and antibacterial) were performed to evaluate the biological activities of European mistletoe (Viscum album L.) plants collected from 13 different host trees (Crataegus tanacetifolia, Crataegus monogyna...