Foxglove helps the muscles of the heart to contract, reduces the frequency of heartbeats, and lowers the amount of oxygen the heart needs to work.
Chinese foxglove root is collected in the fall.
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there are tons of medicinal plants. poppy seeds are for pain, rosemary helps srength, and feverfew is for fevers. all medicinal plants have healthy or healing properties. willow bark is a painkiller (aspiren) foxglove is a heart medicine
The herbs effectiveness in treating these ailments has not been verified by modern studies.
Willow bark (aspirin)Foxglove (digitalis)Deadly Nightshade (belladonna)St Johns Wort (hypericin)
The foxglove plant (digitalis) is a native of western Europe, west Africa, northwestern and central Asia, but not to Egypt. The ancient Egyptian language has no word for the foxglove or its medicine, indicating that it was unknown even in its medicinal form.
Antispasmodic, anticoagulant.
Anti-inflammatory.
Laxative or purgative.
Diuretic and anti-inflammatory.
Anti-inflammatory.
Anti-bacterial, astringent.