Botanical Index No. 1137

Wooly Digitalis, Wooly Foxglove

digitalis lanata

Medicinal Actions

Antidote, Cardiotonic, Diuretic, Myocardiocontractant, Negative Chronotropic, Positive Inotropic

Primary Conditions Treated

Poison Abscess Adenopathy Asthma Boil Burn Cancer abdomen breast colon knee lymph Cardiopathy Dropsy Edema Enterosis Epilepsy Fever Gastrosis Headache Heart High Blood Pressure Hydropsy Icterus Induration Insanity Migraine Nephrosis Neuralgia Palpitation Paralysis Scrofula Sore Throat Swelling Tumor Ulcer Water Retention Wound

General Dosage

Prescription only. Rapid digitalization dose 0.75 mg digoxin; maintenance dose 0.25–0.75 mg/day orl human.

Safety & Contraindications

Not covered. Should be classified as a drug only, requiring registration and prescription. Why repeat; use with arrhythmogenic drugs, quinidine, sympathomimetics) increases risk of arrhythmia. Long-term dosage is potentially gynecomastic. Overdoses may cause anorexia, confusion, depression, diarrhea, gastric hypertonia, hallucination, headache, psychosis, stupor, tachycardia, and vomiting. Lethal doses induce asphyxiation or heart failure. Both the leaf and pure glycosides are contraindicated in carotid sinus syndrome, first and second degree AV-block, hypercalcemia, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, hypokalemia, thoracic aortic aneurism, ventricular tachycardia, or WPW Syndrome.

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