Digitalis glycosides herbal medicines

Digitalis glycosides + Herbal medicines Digoxin-like... 

See also Digitalis glycosides -i- Chinese herbal medicines , p.917 and Digitalis glycosides + Herbal medicines Ginseng , below for other herbals that can alTect the results of digoxin assays. 

Herbal medicinal traditions can be traced back to our primate forebears. Thus, parasite-infected chimpanzees make recourse to particular plants, which they evidently associate with symptomatic relief. Human cultures in general have accumulated medicinal protocols based on use of plants, major traditions including Chinese medicine and Indian Ayurvedic herbal medicine. As detailed in this book, in some instances, specific bioactive substances from medicinal plants (or derivatives of such compounds) have found application in conventional medicine. Thus, the cardiotonic cardiac glycoside sodium pump (Na+, K+-ATPase) inhibitors derived from the initial use for cardiac insufficiency of digitalis (dried leaves of the foxglove, Digitalis purpuremri). 

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