Cancer Drug: The Other Use for Mistletoe 

 Here is a link to an interesting article on the medicinal uses of mistletoe. Recently, there has been a marked surge of homeopathic websites encouraging the use of mistletoe extract as a treatment for cancer. The original thinking on this is based on the fact that, like cancer, mistletoe is a parasitic growth that eventually kills its host. By following the “like cures like” principle, many herbalists believe that an extract of mistletoe has the potential to reduce or cure cancer in some patients. Thousands of recent in-vitro studies have indeed shown that mistletoe extracts, or rather the main constituents (namely alkaloids, lectins, and viscotoxins) actually do have anti-carcinogenic properties.