Digitalis Purpurea in short, a summary of the digitalis

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Digitalis purpurea Titles the chapter of digitalis drugs → rich in cardioactive glycosides and saponins Digitalis purpurea and danger Forbidden in phytotherapy because it is toxic → opium of the heart
Medical admission: prescribed by doctors → the patient must be constantly monitored Genre: Digitalis

1. Digitalis purpurea:

• Digitalis purpurea subsp. Purpurea
• Digitalis purpurea subsp. Heywoodii
• Digitalis purpurea subsp. Mariana

2. Digitalis lanata→ extremely active
3. Digitalis nervosa → very powerful pharmacological virtues
4. Digitalis grandiflora, Digitalis ferruginea, Digitalis micrantha → highly toxic and thermolabile active ingredients

Digitalis purpurea: etymology of the term

• Digitalis derives from "digitas", finger (later adapted to "thimble") → allusion to the morphology of the corolla of flowers
• Digitalis lanata: the name alludes to the woolly aspect of the plant

Digitalis purpurea: botanical description

• Family: Scrophulariaceae
• Plant description: precious flower that in the past has cured so many hearts, biennial and rustic plant
• Root: large and particularly branched
• Stem: hairy
• Height: 1-2 m
• Leaves: spirally arranged, oblong oval, hairy, with a small winged petiole
• New leaves: scattered, lanceolate, sessile (upper leaves) or petiolate (lower)
• Flowers: tubular, bell-shaped and pendulous, organized in clusters
• Flower color: externally purple and internally white.
• Fruit: small sharp capsule or septicidal capsule
• Seeds: tiny seeds enclosed in the fruit
• Distribution: wooded, wild or arid areas of one hundred Europe
• Soil: loves loose soils, with a slightly acidic pH, preferably enriched with organic material

Digitalis purpurea: drug Fresh and dried leaves Digitalis purpurea: active

• Active glucosides called cardenolides (eg gytoxin, digitoxin, gitaloxigenin and gitaloxin)
• Saponin glucosides (eg Digitonoside, gitonoside (seeds), tigonoside, etc.), and digitanol-heterosides (diginoside, digifolein, etc.)
• flavonoids (eg. Luteolin)
• Caffeic acid, citric acid, ascorbic acid, p-coumaric acid (traces)

Digitalis drugs Very low therapeutic index → ​​limit between the therapeutic dose and the very thin toxic dose → extremely dangerous Digitalis purpurea: toxicity

• FUI: the leaves of Digitalis purpurea may not contain less than 0.3% cardenolide heterosides, expressed as digitoxin (dry leaves)
• 40g of fresh leaves or 10g of dried leaves can kill a man
• Amount of heterosides in fresh leaves: variable (1.6-4.8 mg)

Digitalis purpurea: activities D. purpurea And D. lanata sthey are used in the medical field for the extraction of cardiotonic active ingredients
Activities:

• cardiotonics
• negative chronotropic (bradycardic)
• positive bathmotrope
• negative dromotropic

→ improvement of cardiac function + enhancement of renal plasma flow and glomerular filtration (diuretic properties) Digitalis purpurea: uses Allopathic medicine: treatment of congestive heart changes, fibrillation and paroxysmal supra-ventricular tachycardia
Homeopathy: to combat arthritis and digestive difficulties Intoxication from Digitalis purpurea

• Arrhythmias
• Abdominal pain
• Nausea
• He retched
• Anorexia
• Gastrointestinal disorders in general
• Dizziness
• Insomnia
• Mental confusion
• Visual impairment
• Palpitations
• Syncope

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