| abstract |
The invention relates to a novel non parenteral use of mistletoe (viscum) extracts, specially dry extracts, if required combined with echinacea extracts, artichoke (cynara) extracts, and/or stinging nettle (urtica) extracts, in order to produce orally administered medicaments. The invention relates in particular to the oral use of mistletoe (viscum) dry extracts, also in combination with echinacea, cynara and/or urtica extracts in order to produce medicaments for the treatment of diseases of the small intestine (disorders caused by medicaments or infections), of bone marrow (aplasia and insufficiency, for instance as result of agranulositosis caused by medicaments or radiation), of the thymus (dysfunction, aplasia or hypoplasia), the spleen (dysfunction), lymph nodes (aplasia or hypoplasia resulting from disorders caused by medicaments or radiation), for adjuvant treatment -also combined with chemopharmaceuticals- of analgesia, of liver, pancreas and kidney disorders as well as malign tumors, specially of breast, cervical, colon or prostate carcinoma. Viscum dry extracts can also be used to stimulate cellular immunity, to treat leucocytopenia, granulocytopenia, lymphocytopenia, erythrocytopenia as well as immunoglobulin deficiencies as a result of cancer, disorders characterized by a deficiency of the immune system, specially AIDS, in addition to bacterial and viral induced symptoms such as inflammatory disorders of the small intestine, the pancreas and the kidneys, hepatitis A, B and C, skin lesions (ulcus cruis), herpes simplex I and II as well as herpes zoster, and also to treat hyperlipoproteinemia with high levels of cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, triglycerides and low levels of HDL cholesterol. |