Viscum album
Remedy of falling blood pressure and epilepsy. Lowered blood pressure with slow pulse. Chorea and epilepsy with aura rising from legs. Rheumatic pains with tearing, worse in bed. Vertigo. Used in cancer treatment adjunctively (Iscador).
Source
Prepared from the fresh leaves and berries of Viscum album (Santalaceae/Viscaceae).
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Keynote Symptoms
Blood pressure lowering — the chief physiological action. Slow pulse with hypotension. Epilepsy with aura ascending from lower limbs. Chorea — rhythmic, involuntary movements. Tearing, shooting rheumatic pains worse in bed. Vertigo with sensation of floating. Deafness. Used in anthroposophic medicine (Iscador) as a cancer adjunct.
Mind & Emotional Symptoms
Dull, heavy. Difficult comprehension. Talks incessantly. Vertigo with floating sensation.
General Symptoms
Cardiovascular and nervous system. Worse in bed, winter, cold, damp, motion. Better from open air, summer.
Physical Symptoms
Head
Vertigo with floating sensation. Heavy. Dull headache. Deafness.
Chest
Slow pulse. Low blood pressure. Hypertension (paradoxically useful in both — regulates). Palpitation. Dyspnoea. Asthma.
Extremities
Tearing, shooting rheumatic pains — worse in bed, at night. Chorea. Epileptic aura rising from feet. Sciatica. Gout.
Female Genitalia
Metrorrhagia. Uterine hemorrhage. Ovarian pain. Dysmenorrhea.
Skin
Psoriasis. Chronic eczema. Warts.
Modalities
Better From
Open air, summer
Worse From
In bed, winter, cold, damp, motion, night, turning in bed
Constitutional Type
Not strongly constitutional. Used for blood pressure regulation, epilepsy, chorea, rheumatism worse in bed.
Clinical Indications
Hypo/hypertension, epilepsy, chorea, rheumatism worse in bed, cancer adjunct (Iscador), vertigo, sciatica, uterine hemorrhage
Comparative Materia Medica
Crataegus regulates heart but is more of a tonic. Glonoinum has blood pressure surges. Rauwolfia lowers blood pressure. Bufo has epilepsy. Mygale has chorea.
Safety Information
Not well established.
Mistletoe berries are toxic — contain viscotoxins causing GI upset, bradycardia, hypotension. Leaves less toxic. Used extensively in European integrative oncology (Iscador/Helixor). Use potentised forms for self-care.
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