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| Keywords: outdoor Digoxin was originally derived from foxglove leaves. In small amounts the leaves were used for centuries for treating people sick with dropsy. Dropsy is the old name for oedema, often of course, caused by heart failure. As digoxin slows and strengthens the heart beat, the severity of the heart failure was reduced. If the heart failure was reduced, and so cardiac function improved, so the dropsy would correspondingly reduce. Is it that treatments for other diseases are hidden in the created order, just awaiting discovery? Digoxin was originally derived from foxglove leaves. In small amounts the leaves were used for centuries for treating people sick with dropsy. Dropsy is the old name for oedema, often of course, caused by heart failure. As digoxin slows and strengthens the heart beat, the severity of the heart failure was reduced. If the heart failure was reduced, and so cardiac function improved, so the dropsy would correspondingly reduce. Is it that treatments for other diseases are hidden in the created order, just awaiting discovery? | ||||
