Botanical Index No. 707

Mistletoe

viscum album

Medicinal Actions

Analysis pending research update.

Primary Conditions Treated

Cancer colon lung stomach Cardiopathy Childbirth Chorea Circulosis Constipation Convulsion Cough Cramp Diarrhea Dysentery Dysmenorrhea Earache Endometriosis Enuresis Epilepsy Epistaxis Fatigue Fever Gas Gastrosis Gout Headache Hemorrhoid Hepatosis High Blood Pressure Hypertony Hysteria Immunodepression Infection Inflammation Insomnia Ischiosis Leukemia Leukorrhea Low Blood Pressure Lumbago Malaria Menorrhagia Metrorrhagia Migraine Myoma Myosis Nephrosis Nervousness Neuralgia Neurosis Osteoporosis Otosis Pain Pertussis Rheumatism Sore Spasm Splenomegaly Spondylosis Sterility Tachycardia Tumor Typhoid Ulcer Ulcus cruris Uterosis Varicosis Vertigo Water Retention Womb Worm Abscess Alactea Alopecia Amenorrhea Anxiety Apoplexy Arrhythmia Arthrosis Asthma Atherosclerosis Backache Biliousness Bleeding breast

General Dosage

Don’t take it!; 1 tsp chopped leaf/cup water 1–2 ×/day; 2–6 g dry leaf, or in tea, 3 ×/day; 1–3 ml liquid extract 3 ×/day; 2–6 g powdered shoot; 1–3 ml liquid shoot extract; 10.5 ml leaf tincture; 0.5 ml tincture 3 ×/day; 40–120 ml 1:20 cold water infusion; 1 tsp in cold infusion up to 4 ×/day; steep 40 g in a liter of wine for 3 days.

Safety & Contraindications

Class 2d. Contraindicated in protein hypersensitivity and chronic progressive infections such as AIDS and tuberculosis. Do not exceed recommended dose.“Hazards and/or side effects not known for proper therapeutic dosages”. “The drug is non-toxic with peroral administration”, and perhaps orally inefficacious too. Fatalities questionably reported from children ingesting berries. Commission E reports herb permitted only for parenteral injection. Contraindications: hypersensitivity to proteins, chronic progressive infections; adverse effects: allergic and other reactions. Also reported the viscotoxins are not absorbed orally and may have necrotizing effects in higher doses. CAN cautions that mixed herbal preparations, containing mistletoe, are poisonous and can cause hepatosis and hypotension. Because of toxic constituents and uterine stimulant activity, its use in pregnancy and lactation is to be avoided. Mistletoe may interfere with anticoagulant/coagulant, antidepressant, and cardiac therapies. Side effects of injections include allergic reactions, angina, chills, circulatory problems, fever, and headache.

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