Digitalis Purpurea,India price supplier

Available in bulk Digitalis Purpurea also known as Witches' Gloves. Dead Men's Bells. Fairy's Glove. Gloves of Our Lady. Bloody Fingers. Virgin's Glove. Fairy Caps. Folk's Glove. Fairy Thimbles, (Norwegian) Revbielde, (German) Finger hut.

Part Used---Leaves

Chemical composition: Digitalis contains four important glucosides of which three arecardiac stimulants. The most powerful is Digitoxin, an extremely poisonous and cumulative drug, insoluble in water, Digitalin, which is crystalline and also insoluble in water; Digitalein, amorphous, but readily soluble in water, rendering it, therefore, capable of being administered subcutaneously, in doses so minute as rarely to exceed of a grain; Digitonin, which is a cardiac depressant, containing none of the physiological action peculiar to Digitalis, and is identical with Saponin, the chief constituent of Senega root. Other constituents are volatile oil, fatty matter, starch, gum, sugar, etc.

Uses: Increases the efficiency of the heart beat; increases urine production.Widely prescribed throughout the world for heart failure and to regulate heart beat. In most countries only the extracted pharmaceutical drugs are used, although the leaf has been shown to be less toxic and to be required in smaller doses.