Mistletoe Cancer Natural Medical Benefits – Healthy and Fitness today will share about benefits of Mistletoe plants (English) or Mistel (Germany), in botanical language is called Viscum, included in the plant family Santalaceae. Like parasites grow lush, ride on the tree from other types. Towards Christmas, Mistletoe plant (UK) or Mistel (Germany) used as a decorative plant.
At the Druids (medieval), Mistletoe plants are considered as a healer of all diseases of plants and after a period of Christianization, the plant is taken by Christians as a symbol of Christ, the Divine Healer of all nations. Based on the myth that comes from ancient Norse (Scandinavian), narrated that the Love Goddess Freya put mistletoe on a tree between heaven and earth, and for those who pass under it shall kiss, therefore, mistletoe became the symbol of love and friendship. And for Christians, more precise Mistletoe is used as a symbol of “Healer”.
As for the content contained in Mistletoe plants are: stems and leaves contain Viscin, Viscotoxin, Phenylpropane, Flavonoide, Saponine, digital-effects such as choline, a substance antihypertensives, vitamins C, resin, mucus and other substances.
On this the 20th century, Rudolf Steiner uses extrakt of Mistletoe in the treatment of cancer because the immune system strengthen the body and improve overall. Contained substance can stimulate the body’s immunity against tumors.
In medical schools, Gerhard Madaus developed the concept and use Mistletoe for cancer and disease since 1930, many experiments carried out using extrakt Mistletoe can influence the development of cancer cells.
