Handbook of Medicinal Herbs

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with 400 mg extract 3 ×/day (equivalent of 6000 mg crude root extract = 50 mg harpagoside). Only
9 of the treated patients improved cf 1 in the placebo controls. The insignificant reduction in pain
was confined to those whose pain did not radiate to one or both legs. “There was a notable absence
of identifiable clinical, hematological, or biochemical side effects” (PHM3:1). None of these authors
commented on the presence of 3 COX-2 inhibitors as well, kaempferol, oleanolic acid, and ursolic
acid.

DIGITALIS (Digitalis purpurea L.) X

Activities (Digitalis) — Antidote (f; CRC); Antitumor (1; CRC); Cardiotonic (f; CRC); Cordial
(f; CRC); Diuretic (f; CRC); Myocardiocontractant (f; PH2); Negative Chronotropic (f; PH2);
Poison (1; CRC); Positive Inotropic (f; PH2); Sedative (f; CRC); Vasculostimulant (f; CRC).

Indications (Digitalis) — Abscess (f; PHR; PH2); Adenopathy (f; JLH); Asthma (f; CRC); Boil
(f; PHR; PH2); Burn (f; WOI); Cancer (1; CRC); Cancer, abdomen (f; JLH); Cancer, breast (f;
JLH); Cancer, colon (f; JLH); Cancer, knee (f; JLH); Cancer, lymph (f; JLH); Cardiopathy (2;
PH2); Dropsy (f; CRC; WOI); Edema (f; CRC); Enterosis (f; PH2); Epilepsy (f; CRC); Fever
(f; CRC); Gastrosis (f; CRC); Headache (f; PHR; PH2); Heart (f; CRC); High Blood Pressure
(f; PHR; PH2); Hydropsy (f; CRC); Icterus (f; CRC); Induration (f; CRC); Insanity (f; CRC);
Insomnia (f; CRC); Migraine (f; PH2); Nephrosis (f; CRC; WOI); Nervousness (f; CRC);
Neuralgia (f; CRC); Palpitation (f; CRC); Paralysis (f; PHR; PH2); Scrofula (f; CRC); Sore
Throat (f; CRC); Swelling (f; JLH); Tumor (1; CRC); Ulcer (f; PHR; PH2); Water Retention (f;
CRC); Wound (f; PHR; PH2; WOI).