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Pharmacognosy 2018 American Journal of Ethnomedicine
ISSN: 2348-9502 Page 25
April 16-17, 2018
Amsterdam, Netherlands
6th Edition of International Conference on
Pharmacognosy and
Medicinal Plants
Foxglove or Digitalis purpurea is a very toxic plant used by
folklorists and herbalists, years ago to treat congested
heart failure, boils, wounds, ulcers, oedema, epilepsy and
other seizure disorders as well. Some symptoms of ingesting
Digitalis include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain,
wild hallucinations, delirium, and severe headache. The victim
may as well suffer from irregular and slow pulse, tremors
and various cerebral disturbances, especially of a visual
nature, convulsions, and deadly disturbances of the heart as
well as blurry vision. Digitalis toxic symptoms cover all parts
of the body system not just the heart because at the end of
the day all body parts are related. In homeopathy, Digitalis is
a great remedy described by Samuel Hahnemann in his book
“Materia Medica Pura” to deal with a holistic picture of the
disease where both objective and subjective symptoms are
considered. Homeopathic practitioners believe that every living
thing has got another electrical copy beside the biological one,
and it uses this electrical copy of the living plant to convey
remedies and heal the human body using the same concept.
Pharmaceutical methods of preparing the drug follows the
chemistry application of extracting the active ingredient in the
plant and conveying it orally or via injection to the heart, using
the blood as a vehicle, whereas, the homeopathic preparation
follows the physics theory when they extract the energy or the
electrical copy of the whole leaves, using the nervous system
as a vehicle to convey the remedy to all affected parts of the
body in a short period of time. This paper will discuss about the
difference between the pharmaceutical drug digoxin and the
homeopathic remedy Digitalis; both are derived from foxglove.
Foxglove: The poison and the antidote
Samira H Zaidan
Azara Beautique, UK
Samira H Zaidan, Am J Ethnomed 2018, Volume 5
DOI: 10.21767/2348-9502-C1-005