What are the effects of mistletoe

Medicine is a very common thing in our daily life. Different medicines can treat different diseases, and the efficacy is very different. So if you want to cure the disease quickly, the choice of medicine is very critical. Mistletoe is an uncommon medicine, but it has a good effect on treating low back and knee pain. So what are the effects of mistletoe?

Many people don’t know much about the effects and functions of mistletoe, so when choosing it, many people don’t know how to use it, and whether it is harmful to human health. Many people don’t know these.

The efficacy and function of mistletoe:

Function and indications

It nourishes the liver and kidneys, strengthens the tendons and bones, eliminates rheumatism, and stabilizes the fetus. It is used to treat soreness of the waist and knees, weakness of the tendons and bones, hemiplegia of the limbs, rheumatic pain, dizziness, restless fetus, and metrorrhagia. It is used for rheumatic pain, soreness of waist and knees, weakness of tendons and bones, metrorrhagia, bleeding during pregnancy, fetal movement disorder, and hypertension.

Sedative effect

The decoction of mistletoe has a sedative effect on the motor excitement of mice caused by caffeine, and can delay the death of mice caused by pentylenetetrazol convulsions.

Antiviral

10% decoction or infusion has an inhibitory effect on polio virus.

Antithrombotic

The decoction of mistletoe at 0.1g/ml and the aqueous phase after ether extraction at 0.13g/ml both showed significant anti-thrombotic effects in in vitro tests on rabbit blood.

Lowers blood pressure, promotes diuresis, and dilates blood vessels

Anesthetized dogs and cats were given 0.4-0.5g/kg of mistletoe decoction by oral gavage, or 0.1-0.25g/kg by intravenous injection, which both had antihypertensive and diuretic effects. It also had a dilating effect on the isolated rabbit ear blood vessels with cholesterol arteriosclerosis.

Antihypertensive effect

The ethanol extract of fresh leaves of Viscum yellow fruit was mixed with physiological saline to make a 10% solution, and injected intravenously into dogs and rabbits at 1 mL/kg, which could reduce their blood pressure by an average of 32% and maintain it for 3 minutes.

Treating Hepatitis

Mistletoe has a certain effect in treating hepatitis B. Mistletoe was used to treat 34 cases of HBsAg-positive hepatitis. Ten cases turned negative, and the HBsAg titers of the remaining 24 cases decreased to varying degrees.

Anti-tumor

The main components of Viscum ginkgo are proteins, polysaccharides, lipids and glycoproteins, which have direct cell inhibitory effects.

The above is an introduction to the effects of mistletoe. I believe that everyone should have a certain understanding of the effects of mistletoe now. However, you need to be careful when choosing this type of medicine. At the same time, pay attention to the method when using it, and through a reasonable diet in daily life, so that the effects of mistletoe can be best exerted.