BACKGROUND
European mistletoe (Viscum album L) has been used parenterally for more than 80 years as an anticancer medication with significant immunomodulating action. Since 1984, clinical experience with a Viscum album extract (Viscum album Quercus Frischsaft [Qu FrF]) among HIV-positive patients
Helixor is an aqueous cold extract from fresh mistletoe, obtained from fir, pine and apple trees. A number of components with different possible effects were isolated: lectins, viscotoxins, alkaloids, etc. "Oncological therapy" and "stimulation of the bone marrow" are given as the main fields of
Iscador is being used by many patients as unconventional anticancer and immunomodulating therapy. To determine the toxicity profile and biochemical effects of Iscador Qu Spezial (Weleda AG Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany) in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive patients and healthy controls, we
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