Scientific Name:
Digitalis lanata Ehrh. (Scrophulariaceae).
Common Names:
Grecian foxglove, Woolly foxglove.
Plant Description:
Herbaceous plant to ½ m tall, leaves simple, spirally disposed along the stem, sessile, narrowly oblanceolate, with woolly hairs. Flowers disposed along terminal racemes, tubular and pouch-like with a broad lip, light yellow mottled with brown netting, lip white. Fruit a capsule with many minute seeds.
Medicinal Use:
Plant traditionally used to treat heart problems. It contains powerful cardiac stimulants, digoxin and digitoxin, used to treat cases of congestive heart failure. Digoxin is eliminated from the body through the kidneys, whereas digitoxin is eliminated through the liver. [http://www.drugs.com/digoxin.html; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitoxin
Geographic Distribution::
Native to Eastern Europe.
· http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Digitalis_distrbution_global.png.
Medicinal/Toxic Compounds:
Digitoxin [13], digoxin. For the treatment of congestive heart failure.
Presumed Site of Biosynthesis/
Accumulation:
Whole plant.
Internet Links:
· http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitalis_lanata,
· http://www.robsplants.com/plants/DigitLanat.php, http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/749/,
· http://www.naturephoto-cz.eu/digitalis-lanata-picture-4809.html,
· http://www.learn2grow.com/plants/digitalis-lanata/.
Available @ http://uic.edu/pharmacy/MedPlTranscriptome/i_digitalis_lanata.html
Digitalis lanata Ehrh. (Scrophulariaceae).
Common Names:
Grecian foxglove, Woolly foxglove.
Plant Description:
Herbaceous plant to ½ m tall, leaves simple, spirally disposed along the stem, sessile, narrowly oblanceolate, with woolly hairs. Flowers disposed along terminal racemes, tubular and pouch-like with a broad lip, light yellow mottled with brown netting, lip white. Fruit a capsule with many minute seeds.
Medicinal Use:
Plant traditionally used to treat heart problems. It contains powerful cardiac stimulants, digoxin and digitoxin, used to treat cases of congestive heart failure. Digoxin is eliminated from the body through the kidneys, whereas digitoxin is eliminated through the liver. [http://www.drugs.com/digoxin.html; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitoxin
Geographic Distribution::
Native to Eastern Europe.
· http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Digitalis_distrbution_global.png.
Medicinal/Toxic Compounds:
Digitoxin [13], digoxin. For the treatment of congestive heart failure.
Presumed Site of Biosynthesis/
Accumulation:
Whole plant.
Internet Links:
· http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitalis_lanata,
· http://www.robsplants.com/plants/DigitLanat.php, http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/749/,
· http://www.naturephoto-cz.eu/digitalis-lanata-picture-4809.html,
· http://www.learn2grow.com/plants/digitalis-lanata/.
Available @ http://uic.edu/pharmacy/MedPlTranscriptome/i_digitalis_lanata.html
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