Melo, Michelle Nonato de Oliveira; Batista, João Vitor da Costa; Peñaloza, Evelyn Maribel Condori; Oliveira, Adriana Passos; Garrett, Rafael; Baumgartner, Stephan; Holandino, Carla (2023). A Scoping Review of Genus Viscum: Biological and Chemical Aspects of Alcoholic Extracts. Plants, 12(9) MDPI 10.3390/plants12091811
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The genus Viscum comprises a large number of semi-parasitic shrubs popularly known as Mistletoe. The Viscum species grow in many countries of Europe, Africa and Asia with different popular uses in ornamentation, foods and medicine. Many studies about Viscum have been done over the last years focusing on biological activities and chemical composition of the aqueous extracts, mainly related to anthroposophical medicines. However, it is known that non-aqueous preparations, as alcoholic extracts, have demonstrated different biological activities that are species-and host tree-dependent. Considering the potential of these alcoholic extracts, a scoping review was conducted using data from three online databases: PubMed, Scopus and Embase. Inclusion criteria consisted of the in vitro, in vivo, ex vivo, clinical and chemical studies of alcoholic extracts from Viscum species. The present review summarized 124 original publications about fourteen Viscum species. Viscum album, Viscum articulatum and Viscum coloratum were the main studied species. Alcoholic extracts demonstrated hypotensive, anticancer, antimicrobial, analgesic and anti-inflammatory capabilities, among other biological activities. Flavonoids, phenolic acids and terpenoids represented 48%, 24% and 11% of the total identified compounds, respectively. This review contributes to the knowledge of alcoholic preparations of the Viscum species and points out the lack of clinical studies concerning these different extracts.
Item Type: |
Journal Article (Review Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
04 Faculty of Medicine > Medical Education > Institute of Complementary and Integrative Medicine (IKIM) |
UniBE Contributor: |
Baumgartner, Stephan |
Subjects: |
600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health |
ISSN: |
2223-7747 |
Publisher: |
MDPI |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Pubmed Import |
Date Deposited: |
15 May 2023 13:44 |
Last Modified: |
16 May 2023 15:35 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.3390/plants12091811 |
PubMed ID: |
37176869 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Viscum alcoholic extract biological activity chemistry mistletoe |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/182529 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/182529 |
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