Tea with Tia, Episode 7, Using Mistletoe to treat Cancer

Today's episode we will be discussing on the subject of mistletoe viscom album, or sometime called iscandor. when you think of mistletoe, what does everybody jump to and think of 1s most of the time? You think of Christmas time, mistletoe being hung above the door, and whoever walks past through it is required to get and that is true. That's what we use mistletoe for most of the time. Actually, 100% of the time, unless you're in Europe, you use the extract for other reasons. And 1s the therapeutic reason drum rolls, everybody 2s is for cancer patients. All right, well. 2s Mistletoe is actually a semi parasitic plant that grows on many types of trees, including apples, oak, pine and elm. Mistletoe extract most widely used as complementary and alternative treatments for cancer. In Europe, mistletoe extracts are commonly prescribed a prescribed drug for patients with cancer. 3s The extract is given and administered by injecting under the skin, into a vein, into a pleural cavity, or into a tumor itself, with very few side effects. Unfortunately, US FDA has not approved this modality to treat cancer 2s or any other medical conditions. That mistletoe has been found effective in other countries. So going back historically mistletoe, it was discovered by Rudolph Steiner, who developed a school of anthroposophic. I might be hammering that medicine, which essentially covers alternative healing modalities back then, you know, and it also covered modalities such as rhythmic massages, unique exercises and natural topicals. Dr. Steiner proposed using mistletoe because he claimed, like cancer, mistletoe is parasitic and eventually kills its host. 1s So as of now, you can find maybe about 1000 studies, clinical studies to show the effectiveness of misltletoe and essentially the reason why it is very effective for cancer because of the constituents that it consists of, which are alkaloids, leptin and viscotoxin. These are anti cancer properties. So they're you have it mistletoe. 2s A very effective modality used in Europe and other countries to treat cancer patients and a variety of cancer, not any particular one. I do would like to end this podcast by sharing a testimonial story that I kind of stumbled upon my research for today's podcast episode.