The heart drug digoxin could potentially be combined with existing cancer therapies to prevent the spread of tumors, an early ...

All parts of the foxglove plant are very toxic to people and animals, so you won't want to grow them if you have kids or pets ...

In 1775, 250 years ago, William Withering, a physician practising in Birmingham, learnt of a folk remedy for dropsy involving the use of digitalis from purple foxgloves. He started to use it in his ...

One of the weeds nearly everyone recognizes is the thistle. There are numerous thistles but the ones that make the Prohibited Weed List in Minnesota are the Canada thistle and the plumeless ...

Successful test in breast cancer patients: the active agent digoxin, a cardiac medication, dissolves clusters of circulating breast cancer cells in the blood, thus reducing the risk of metastases ...

This article was originally published with the title “ William Withering and the Purple Foxglove ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 212 No. 6 (June 1965), p. 110 doi:10.1038 ...