Foxglove Giant Shirley flowers

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Foxglove Giant Shirley flowers

Foxglove ( Digitalis purpurea GiantShirley ) flowers. The foxglove plant contains thepoisonous chemical digitalin. Consuming the plantcauses vomiting, hallucinations and even deathfrom disorganised pumping of the heart. In modernmedicine, drugs based on the poison are used totreat heart failure, arrhythmia (irregularheartbeat) and fibrillation (rapid, disorganisedheartbeat). The most commonly-used drugs derivedfrom the foxglove are digoxin and digitoxin. The foxglove is a common plantthroughout much of Europe and North America

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