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added botany section and differentiated genus types of mistletoe.
[[File:Mistel_2002.jpg|thumb|[[Wikipedia:Viscum album|Viscum album]]|alt=]]'''Mistletoe therapy''' is the therapeutic use of mistletoe (mainly [[Wikipedia:Viscum album|viscum album]]). A main field of use in [[anthroposophic medicine]] is the treatment of [[cancer]], there is also nononcological uses for example in [[Wikipedia:Rheumatic disorders|rheumatic disorders]].
=== Botany ===
Mistletoe is the general term given to the plants of the family Viscaceae which contains four genera of mistletoe:
# Arceuthobium (dwarf mistletoe)
# Phoradendron (American mistletoe)
# Viscum (mistletoe)<ref><ref>{{cite book | vauthors=((Agrios, G. N.)) | date= 2005 | chapter=Plant Pathology | title=PLANT DISEASES CAUSED BY PARASITIC HIGHER PLANTS, INVASIVE CLIMBING PLANTS, AND PARASITIC GREEN ALGAE | publisher=Elsevier | pages=705–722 | url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/B9780080473789500191 | doi=10.1016/B978-0-08-047378-9.50019-1 | isbn=9780120445653}}</ref></ref>
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American Mistletoe (Phoradendron serotinum) has a history of use in Mexican and South American traditional medicine for the treatment of cancer.<ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors=((Alonso-Castro, A. J.)), ((Juárez-Vázquez, M. del C.)), ((Domínguez, F.)), ((González-Sánchez, I.)), ((Estrada-Castillón, E.)), ((López-Toledo, G.)), ((Chávez, M.)), ((Cerbón, M. A.)), ((García-Carranca, A.)) | journal=Journal of Ethnopharmacology | title=The antitumoral effect of the American mistletoe Phoradendron serotinum (Raf.) M.C. Johnst. (Viscaceae) is associated with the release of immunity-related cytokines | volume=142 | issue=3 | pages=857–864 | date=1 August 2012 | url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378874112004175 | doi=10.1016/j.jep.2012.06.018 | access-date=13 March 2023}}</ref></ref>
<references />European Mistletoe (Viscum Album)
<br />[[File:Mistel_2002.jpg|thumb|[[Wikipedia:Viscum album|Viscum album]]|alt=]]'''Mistletoe therapy''' is the therapeutic use of mistletoe (mainly [[Wikipedia:Viscum album|viscum album]]). A main field of use in [[anthroposophic medicine]] is the treatment of [[cancer]], there is also nononcological uses for example in [[Wikipedia:Rheumatic disorders|rheumatic disorders]].
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