WOOLY DIGITALIS WOOLY FOXGLOVE

WOOLY DIGITALIS, WOOLY FOXGLOVE (Digitalis lanata Ehrh.) X

Activities (Wooly Digitalis) :
Antidote (f; CRC); Cardiotonic (f; PH2; WOI); Diuretic (1; PH2); Myocardiocontractant (f; PH2); Negative Chronotropic (f; PH2); Poison (1; FNF); Positive Inotropic (f; PH2).

Indications (Wooly Digitalis) :
Abscess (f; PHR; PH2); Adenopathy (f; JLH); Asthma (f; CRC); Boil (f; PHR; PH2); Burn (f; WOI); Cancer, abdomen (f; JLH); Cancer, breast (f; JLH); Cancer, colon (f; JLH); Cancer, knee (f; JLH); Cancer, lymph (f; JLH); Cardiopathy (2; PH2); Dropsy (f; CRC; WOI); Edema (f; CRC); Enterosis (f; PH2); Epilepsy (f; CRC); Fever (f; CRC); Gastrosis (f; CRC); Headache (f; PHR; PH2); Heart (f; CRC); High Blood Pressure (f; PHR; PH2); Hydropsy (f; CRC); Icterus (f; CRC); Induration (f; CRC); Insanity (f; CRC); Migraine (f; PH2); Nephrosis (f; CRC; WOI); Neuralgia (f; CRC); Palpitation (f; CRC); Paralysis (f; PHR; PH2); Scrofula (f; CRC); Sore Throat (f; CRC); Swelling (f; JLH); Tumor (f; CRC); Ulcer (f; PHR; PH2); Water Retention (1; PH2); Wound (f; PHR; PH2; WOI).

Dosages (Wooly Digitalis) :
Prescription only (JAD). Rapid digitalization dose 0.75 mg digoxin; maintenance dose 0.25–0.75 mg/day orl human (WOI).

Contraindications, Interactions, and Side Effects (Wooly Digitalis) :
Not covered (AHP). Should be classified as a drug only, requiring registration and prescription (AEH; JAD). Why repeat; use with arrhythmogenic drugs (methylxanthines, phosphodiesterase inhibitors (including, I suppose, Viagra), quinidine, sympathomimetics) increases risk of arrhythmia (PH2). Long-term dosage is potentially gynecomastic. Overdoses may cause anorexia, confusion, depression, diarrhea, gastric hypertonia, hallucination, headache, psychosis, stupor, tachycardia, and vomiting. Lethal doses (2–3 g leaf in humans) induce asphyxiation or heart failure (PH2). 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 (PH2). Wooly foxglove packs three times the biological punch of purple foxglove. The Wealth of India states that this species is the only source of digoxin, which is ~300 times more potent than prepared purple digitalis leaf.