Foxglove (Digitalis)

毛地黄属máo dì huáng shǔMaodihuangshu

Digitalis · Plant

Digitalis
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Indications
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With studies in people

Cautions

Contains cardiac glycosides; highly toxic; use only under professional supervision.

Indications

What AcuiQ’s herb catalogue lists Foxglove for. The list carries no source and is an index, not a prescription.

Heart Failure Syndrome

TCM actions

What the catalogue says Foxglove does in the terms of Chinese medicine theory. These describe the herb, not a condition.

Benefit CirculationBenefit Heart

In the literature

PubMed records whose title or abstract names Digitalis and the indication, and how many of those are indexed as studies in people. A record names the two together; it does not show that one treats the other, and most are laboratory or animal work.