Mistletoe

Missies, guided Mistletoe Mites Mithracin Mitiade Miticides... 

Mistel,/. mistletoe, misten, v.t. manure, dung, fertiUze. Mist-jauche, /. liquid manure, dung water, -pulver, n. powdered manure specif., pou-drette. 

Tyramine is an alkaloid found, among other places, in mistletoe and ripe cheese. How would you synthesize tyramine from benzene From toluene ... 

Ribosome inactivating cytotoxic protein that irreversibly inhibits protein synthesis in cells, causing cell death. It is a solid obtained from the mistletoe plant (Viscum album). 

Olsnes, Sjur, Fiorenzo Stirpe, Kirsten Sandvig, and Alexander Pihl. "Isolation and Characterization of Viscumin, a Toxic Lectin from Viscum album L. (Mistletoe)." The Journal of Biological Chemistry 257 (1982) 13263-270. 

Sweeney, Edel C., Alexander G. Tonevitsky, Rex A. Palmer, Hidie Niwa, Uwe Pfueller, Juergen Eck, Hans Lentzen, Igor I. Agapov, and Mikhail P. Kirpichnikov. "Mistletoe Lectin I Forms a Double Trefoil Structure." FEBS Letters 431 (1998) 367-70. 

Toxic amines are common in the Lathyrus genera (vetches and sweet peas), mistletoe berries (Phorandendron spp.), and Leucaena spp. The toxic amines in Lathyrus cause degeneration of motor tracts of the spinal cord, resulting in paralysis, and even death. The condition called lathyiism was common in... 

Both true mistletoe and dwarf mistletoe are common parasites of forest tree species. The true mistletoes Phoradendron spp.) occur commonly on... 

California black oak and white fir and less often on incense cedar in the San Bernardino Mountains. No direct effects of oxidants have been noted on the mistletoe plant itself under field conditions. The true mistletoe obtains mainly water from its host and would be indirectly affected by debilitation of die host tree. The dwarf mistletoes Arceuthobium spp.) are common on ponderosa, Jeffry, and sugar pines in the San Bernardino National Forest. They depend on their host for both water and carbohydrates. Heavily infected or broomed" branches on ponderosa or Jeffrey pines severely injured by ozone often have more annual needle whorls retained than do uninfected branches on the remainder of the tree. The needles are also greener. It can be hypothesized that the infected branch is a carbohydrate sink where a pooling of carbohydrates occurs higher carbohydrate concentrations may be instrumental in either preventing or helping to repair ozone injury to needles on the broomed branches. In the long term, stresses from mistletoe and ozone are probably additive and hasten tree death. 

Walsberg, G. E. (1975). Digestive adaptations of Phainopepla nitens associated with the eating of mistletoe berries. Condor , 169-174. 

Blood vessel constriction Mistletoe (berries contain Holy or demonic - effects on... 

B17. Bussing, A., Vervecken, W, Wagner, M., Wagner, B., Pfuller, U., and Schietzel, M., Expression of mitochondrial Apo2.7 molecules and caspase-3 activation in human lymphocytes treated with the ribosome-inhibiting mistletoe lectins and the cell membrane permeabilizing viscotoxins. Cytometry 37, 133-139 (1999). 

Mistletoe Anticancer agent (scant evidence, potential toxicity)... 

Certain flavonoids are used by plants to protect them from invasion by parasites. For example, poplar (Populus spp.) cultivars produce a chemical barrier to parasitization by mistletoe (Viscum album).Resistant poplar cultivars were significantly higher in flavonols and flavones compared to susceptible cultivars. Likewise, in Streblus asper the bark and wood of trees that are resistant to the parasite Cuscuta reflexa hold higher levels of flavonoids, as well as steroids and alkaloids. 

Wollenweber, E., Wieland, A., and Haas, K., Epicuticular waxes and flavonol aglyones of the European mistletoe, Viscum album, Z. Naturforsch., 55c, 314, 2000. 

Loranthus parasiticus L. yadoriki Sieb. et Zucc. Song Ji Shang (Mistletoe) (leaf, stem) Saponins including avicularin, quercetin.40 Treat angina pectoris, cardiac arrhythmia, hypertension. Ointment to treat frostbite. 

Viscum album L. subsp. coloratum Kom. V. album L. subsp. coloratum Kom. f. rubroaurantiacum (Makino) Kitag. V. coloratum (Kom.) Nakai Hu Ji Shang (Asiatic mistletoe) (leaf, stem) Oleanolic acid, beta-amyrin, fatty acids, mesoinositol, flavoyadorinin, homoflavoyadorinin, lupeol, myristic acid, agglutinins, alkaloids, quercitol, querbrachitol, quencetine, acetylcholine, choline, histamine, tyramine, vitamins E and C.33-450 Antihypertensive, prolong the life of patients with late stage stomach cancer. 

Schmidt, D. R. and A. E. Sobota. 1988. An examination of the anti-adherence activity of cranberry juice on urinary and nonurinary bacterial isolates. Microbios 55 173-181. Gabius, H. J. and S. Gabius. 1998. Phytotherapeutic immunomodulation as a treatment modality in oncology lessons from research with mistletoe. In Lawsib, L. D. and R. Bauer (eds.). Phytomedicines of Europe, Chemistry and Biological Activity. American Chemical Society. Washington, D.C. p. 278-286. 

Principal, Environmental Health and Toxicology 325 N.E. Mistletoe Circle... 

Anthroposophists also take a unique approach to medicine. The body, they say, has three poles — cool, warm, and balancing. Illness arises from a disharmony of these poles, and we can restore the harmony with a variety of animal, mineral, and plant substances. We must take the time of day and planet constellations into consideration as we prepare these remedies, and we must never work on them between noon and three o clock in the afternoon because this is the least alive time of day. Anthroposophists frown upon vaccinations, but they approve of color therapy and a mistletoe preparation invented by Steiner. Sauerkraut they regard as a special food we require it for the health of our digestive tracts. 

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