Use in Skin Care and Remedies

Plants develop in polarities such as light and darkness, lightness and heaviness, movement and rest. The plant's green upward-striving shoot shows its relationship to light, lightness and movement. The root, on the other hand, is turned towards darkness, heaviness and rest. Mistletoe seems to lack these polarities, having neither an upward striving shoot nor a root growing into the earth. Spherical, with poorly differentiated leaf and crown, always green and with little woodiness, its growth seems to have been arrested in the embryonic stage. Maybe this is why Goethe called mistletoe "the child amongst the plants". However, the mistletoe has its polarities, too, but in this case they are contained within the plant in the form of it's constituents viscotoxin and mistletoe lectin:

Viscotoxins act quickly, dissolve cell membranes, help the mistletoe to expand, to grow. The upward striving sprouting process is revealed here.

Mistletoe lectin on the other hand acts slowly, penetrates into the cell metabolism and inhibits it. The root forming process, the coming-to-rest is manifested here.

These polarities are also reflected in the plant parts, the "light" viscotoxin occurring particularly in the leaves and stems, the "dark" mistletoe lectin being found mainly in the berries which only adorn the plant in winter. Mistletoe is therefore harvested twice a year for preparations for cancer therapy: once in June and once in December. The juices obtained from the two mistletoe harvests have different viscotoxin and lectin contents and are processed in different ways, the opposite polarity being intensified in each case. The winter juice is whirled outwards from the center into lightness, the summer juice is added dropwise into heaviness, into the center of the winter juice vortex. The two juices are mixed to form a drug which helps the patient to order inner imbalances and thus to draw strength from his own center.

WALA mistletoe preparations are used for follow-up treatment of radiation damage, as adjunctive treatment in cancer, in osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, hypertension, senile heart and for follow-up treatment of stroke.

Mistletoe leafe extracts are a component of Dr.Hauschka Lemon Lemongrass Body Oil.