mistletoe

While the poisonous berries of mistletoe, the leaves have always been used to make medicinal teas. For example, a cup of cold water placed teaspoon of dried leaves and leave for several hours. This tea is an excellent remedy for varicose veins, while the standard cooking imelinog tea leaves gets gout, rheumatism and arthritis. It is also used for heart health.In a new clinical study conducted in Serbia on 220 patients showed that the extract had doubles survival time of patients with pancreatic cancer. It turned out that in advanced cancer that has metastasized. Germany Regulatory Agency has already been approved injections of mistletoe extract as a palliative therapy for malignant tumors, therefore therapy to relieve the symptoms but not the disease itself. Patients included in the study were receiving three injections of the extract had a week from 0.01 mg to 10 mg after 22 doses. Survival is more than doubled, from 3.2 months when they did not receive the therapy mistletoe to 6.6 months when they had received the extract. In the group receiving the extract had observed only 16 cases of side effects (but doctors say that had not been the cause), while in the group that did not receive mistletoe occurred 53 unwanted side effects of treatment.She had for some time used in the treatment of various cancers. This is not the first time that had proved useful against cancer during a clinical trial. Positive results scientists found and in the treatment of breast, uterine, colon, ovarian, gastric, lung and melanoma. The best results so far have had the Swiss scientists who had received the extract from that grown on the bark of oak – this proved to be the best combination of active phytochemicals.