Mistletoe
Subtitle: the genus Viscum
By: edited by Arndt Büssing.
Contributors: Büssing, Arndt.
Series: Medicinal and aromatic plants--industrial profiles,; v. 16
Publisher: Harwood Academic; CRC Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
Subjects: Mistletoes -- Therapeutic use.; Mistletoes -- Composition.; Mistletoes -- Physiological effect.; Mistletoe.; Medicine, Herbal.; Mistletoe.; Phytotherapy.; Gui.; Gui -- Emploi en thérapeutique.; Gui -- Applications industrielles.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Preface to the Series ix; title: Preface xi; title: Contributors xiii; title: 1. Introduction: History of Mistletoe Uses 1; title: Arndt Bussing; title: 2. Viscum in the Context of its Family, Viscaceae, and its Diversity in Africa 7; title: Donald W. Kirkup, Roger M. Polhill and Delbert Wiens; title: 3. European Mistletoe: Taxonomy, Host Trees, Parts Used, Physiology 31; title: Hans Becker; title: 4. Korean Mistletoes and Other East-Asian Populations 45; title: Won-Bong Park; title: 5. Mistletoes from Argentina. Ligaria cuneifolia var. cuneifolia as a Substitute for the European Mistletoe (Viscum album L.) 61; title: Teresa B. Fernandez, Beatriz G. Varela, Carlos A. Taira, Rafael A. Ricco,; title: Alberto A. Gurni, Silvia E. Hajos, Elida M. C. Alvarez and Marcelo; title: L. Wagner; title: 6. Cultivation and Development of Viscum album L. 75; title: Hartmut Ramm, Konrad Urech, Markus Scheibler and; title: Gianfranco Grazi; title: 7. The Biotechnology of Viscum album L.: Tissue Culture, Somatic Embryogenesis and Protoplast Isolation 95; title: Spiridon Kintzios and Maria Barberaki; title: 8. Chemical Constituents of European Mistletoe (Viscum album L.) Isolation and Characterisation of the Main Relevant Ingredients:; title: Lectins, Viscotoxins, Oligo-/polysaccharides, Flavonoides, Alkaloids 101; title: Uwe Pfiiller; title: 9. Biological and Pharmacological Properties of Viscum album L. From Tissue flask to Man 123; title: Arndt Bussing; title: 10. Toxicology of Mistletoe and their Components 183; title: Gerburg M. Stein; title: 11. Adverse Effects during Therapy with Mistletoe Extracts 195; title: Gerburg M. Stein and Peter A. Berg; title: 12. Overview on Viscum album L. Products 209; title: Arndt Bussing; title: 13. Pharmaceutical Quality Control of Mistletoe Preparations 223; title: Elmar Lorch and Wilfried Troger; title: 14. Natural Versus Recombinant Mistletoe Lectin-1. Market Trends 237; title: Josef Beuth; title: 15. The Magic Potion becomes Serious: Whole Plant Extracts vs. Defined Components 247; title: Gerburg M. Stein and Michael Schietzel; title: Index 263.