Foxglove Woolly

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Foxglove woolly is one of the plants of the family called norichnikovye, in Latin the name of this plant will sound as follows: Digitalis lanata Ehrh. As for the name of the woolly foxglove family itself, in Latin it will be like this: Scrophulariaceae Juss.

Description of woolly foxglove

Woolly foxglove is a perennial herb, the height of which will fluctuate between thirty and eighty centimeters, such a plant will be endowed with a horizontal rhizome. The stems of this plant are solitary and erect, at the very base they will be slightly raised, and in the lower part such stems will already be bare. The leaves of the foxglove woolly are oblong-ovoid, usually they will also be pointed, and their length will be about six to twelve centimeters, while the width will be equal to one and a half to three and a half centimeters. The stem leaves of this plant will be lanceolate and also smaller in size. It is noteworthy that by the time the flowering begins, the basal and lower stem leaves will die off. The surface of the foxglove leaves will be bare, the upper surface is painted in green tones, while the underside is light green in color. The smell of this plant is very peculiar, but at the same time rather weak. The flowers will be painted in brown-yellow tones and they will be endowed with a spherical swollen corolla, the length of such flowers will be about twenty to thirty millimeters. Such flowers of the woolly foxglove will be on the glandular pedicels, they will form a rather long, pyramidal and multilateral dense flower race. The very axis of the inflorescence, the lobes of the calyx and the bracts of this plant are densely pubescent. The fruit of the woolly foxglove is a cone-shaped and slightly obtuse box, the length of which will be about eight to twelve millimeters. The seeds of this plant will be tetrahedral-prismatic in shape, their length will not even reach two millimeters, and the width will be equal to half a millimeter.

Flowering of this plant occurs in the period from June to July, while fruiting begins in July and lasts until September.

Description of the medicinal properties of foxglove woolly

Woolly foxglove is endowed with very valuable healing properties, while it is recommended to use the leaves of this plant for medicinal purposes. The presence of such valuable medicinal properties should be explained by the content of saponins, phytosterols, flavonoids, phenolic acids and cardiotonically inactive glycosides in the leaves of this plant. The seeds of this plant will contain lanafolein, digitalalinum verum and digitalanol glycosides.

However, it is important to remember that an overdose of cardiac glycosides will be accompanied by very specific symptoms: vomiting and nausea, ventricular fibrillation, bradycardia and fibrillation. It is noteworthy that the nausea, which most often occurs before the rhythm disturbance itself, will be a symptom of an overdose that may have occurred.

It should be noted that the digoxin-based drug will be excreted fairly quickly from the body. Already two days after taking the last dose of this drug, it will almost completely disappear from the body. It is this period that will determine the long-term possible side effects.

Preparations prepared on the basis of this plant are recommended for use in myocarditis, myodegeneration, decompensated heart defects, in attacks of paroxysmal tachycardia, as well as in heart failure, which will be associated with nephritis and hypertension.