Digitalis
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extract from genus of toxic herbaceous Eurasian plants of the Scrophulaceae which yield cardiotonic digitalis glycosides; most useful species are Digitalis lanata and D. purpurea.
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- Digitalis is an example of a cardio-active or cardiotonic drug, in other words a steroid which has the ability to exert a specific and powerful action on the cardiac muscle in animals, and has been used in the treatment of heart conditions ever since its discovery in 1775.
- Digitalis is first recorded in English in a work published in 1664.
- Digitalis is very toxic and fatal with an overdose, so its potency was measured very carefully against an unusual standard, some crystals of a substance from another plant, Strophanthus gratus.
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- Foxglove Digitalis purpurea (Scrophulariaceae) One of the loveliest, most important plant species that has been introduced from Europe and naturalized in various parts of North America.
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