Which plant yields a chief drug used to treat serious heart diseases
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Digitalis lanata is cultivated for medicine because it makes a cardiac glycoside called digoxin.
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The term digitalis is also used for drug preparations that contain cardiac glycosides, particularly one called digoxin extracted from various plants of this genus. Foxglove has medicinal uses but can also be toxic to humans and other animals.
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